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Some choice selections from the pages of the Los Angeles Evening Herald in 1914.

Via the California Digital Newspaper Collection at my local library.

==March 21, 1914==

[[File:LAH 19140321 0001.pdf]]

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Page 1:

"Orange Day - Covina Girls Pelting People On L.A. Streets with Oranges"

==April 2, 1914==


[[File:LAH_19140402_0003.pdf]]

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Wow, check out these ads on page 3.

==May 5, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19140515_0001.pdf]]

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Page 1 Headline: Zapata At Gates of Mexico City.

And a really messed up story about a 45 year old pervert, Philip Kilfoil, impregnating a 14-year-old child, Lillian Palmer, who gave birth to a child, and many articles recounting the drama of Lillian's court testimony. Lillian and her mother Julia were both present. The description is so tragic.

==June 20, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19140620_0015.pdf]]

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"Make Oranges Pay For Your Acre!"

This advertisement in the lower left corner gives a sense of what life was like in Pomona, California at the time. Pomona was fast becoming famous for its citrus groves, and Southern California farmland was being snatched up and sold like hotcakes.

==August 25, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19140825_0005.pdf]]

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"Many Women Voters Turn Out In Pomona"

==September 23, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19140923_0009.pdf]]

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"Record Enrollment at Pomona College" - over 500 students!

==October 7, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19141007_0010.pdf]]

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To state, for the record: this depiction of a Native American is a horrible, racist image.

The text of the article to the left is curious - it features a commentary on the upcoming Braves-Athletics World Series from Giants pitcher Christy Matthewson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Mathewson

This would be like Clayton Kershaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Kershaw writing an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Marlins will beat the Rangers. WUT??

===Federal League and Pacific Coast League===

If one zooms into the scores table, one can find a reference to the Federal League, a very short-lived league that competed to be a "third major league" in competition with the National and American Leagues, from 1913 to 1915. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_League

You can also find two references to the Pacific Coast League, a west coast league formed in 1902. Despite the fact that the Pacific Coast League was (according to Wikipedia) a double-A league, its game results and standings are listed alongside the "three" major leagues: the National League, the American League, and the Federal League.

===Pomona Football===

Don't miss the mention of the Pomona football team in the bottom left! High hopes! Stay tuned!

==October 10, 1914==

The sports page again: October 10, reporting on attendance at the first World Series Game.

[[File:LAH_19141010_0019.pdf]]

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==November 23, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19141123_0001.pdf]]

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==November 26, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19141126_0001.pdf]]

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==November 27, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19141127_0054.pdf]]

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==December 21, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19141221_0013.pdf]]

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[[File:LAH_19141221_0014.pdf]]

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==December 23, 1914==

[[File:LAH_19141223_0017.pdf]]

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John D. Rockefeller gives a gift of $150,000 to Pomona College. Several articles from the front page question whether the money is "tainted" oil money. Rockefeller and Pomona College both insist the money is "not tainted".



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