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| Illustration from a Broadway Department Store advertisement, Los Angeles Express, January 2, 1905
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From the Los Angeles Express, January 11, 1905
FLINT IS ELECTED TO SUCCEED BARD
Los Angeles Man Chosen on the First Joint Ballot
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Frank P. Flint, United States Senator-Elect
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SACRAMENTO, Jan 11 — Frank P. Flint of Los Angeles was today elected to succeed Senator [Thomas R.] Bard, on first ballot, in joint session of the Senate and Assembly.
The vote was as follows: Senate — Flint, 36; Theodore A. Bell, 4. Assembly — Flint, 75; Theodore A. Bell, 4. Total — Flint, 111; Bell, 8.
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Frank P. Flint was born in North Reading, Mass., July 15, 1862. In 1869 his parents moved to San Francisco, where he was educated in the public schools.
In 1886 he moved to Orange, then [situated] in Los Angeles County. In 1888 he was appointed to a clerkship in the United States marshal’s office in Los Angeles. . . .
Mr. Flint was married in Los Angeles February 25, 1890, to Miss Katherine J. Bloss. They have two children, Katherine Flint, 13 years of age, and William Flint, 11 years of age, and live in East Los Angeles. . . .
Like Senator Bard, he affiliates with the Presbyterian Church, and he is a trustee of Occidental College, a director and vice-president of the Los Angeles National Bank and a director in the Equitable Savings Bank.
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SACRAMENTO — Los Angelans are in possession of this fog-racked and ill-smelling state capital, and for at least 24 hours the city will not be large enough to hold the jubilant Southland boomers who have been in the lead of Frank P. Flint’s senatorial contest since the Legislature convened ten days ago. . . .
After the joint session adjourned, the Capitol corridors rang with the exultant hurrahs of the southerners. Led by Leo V. Youngworth and W.P. Jeffries, Governor Pardee, Lieut-Gov. Alden Anderson, Walter F. Parker, Charles Hardy of San Diego and Abraham Bent of San Francisco were carried on the shoulders of the triumphant Los Angelans.
Tonight Sacramento will realize that there are living powers south of the Tehachapi. . . .
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From the Los Angeles Express, January 13, 1905
WELCOME FOR FLINT
Senator-Elect Receives Ovation on Arrival in Los Angeles
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. . . Senator Flint looked the picture of health and happiness as, smiling and bowing to the plaudits of several hundred admirers, he stepped from the second section of the Coast Line Limited today.
Mrs. Flint, accompanied by her children and the new senator’s mother, boarded the train at Burbank, the meeting being one that will long be remembered by the few who witnessed. . . .
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San Diego will have a naval station at an early day, and Wilmington harbor will not be neglected, if the new senator’s efforts can bring about this result. . . .
Mr. Flint regards the safekeeping of the forest reserves as one of the problems that will require his attention in Washington, . . . being convinced that only a few such fires as that on Mt. Lowe recently will seriously endanger the water supply of Southern California. . . .
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RECEPTION FOR NEW SENATOR
When Senator-Elect Flint enters the directors’ room at the Chamber of Commerce building
[4th and Broadway] at 8 o’clock this evening, he probably will imagine that he has stepped into one of Southern California’s far-famed carnation and poinsettia gardens, embowered with flags. . . .
While the decorators were . . . arranging the carriage which was to conduct the senator elect from the Arcade station to his home, the crowd in front of the building grew enthusiastic, and cheer after cheer rent the air for Southern California’s new senator.
Women are cordially invited to attend the reception this evening . . . . [Arend’s orchestra will play. Refreshments will include] bowls of the Chamber of Commerce punch, which has grown famous throughout the United States and is now styled Wiggins’ punch [after Frank Wiggins, chamber secretary who was in charge of the California exhibits at the World’s Fair in St. Louis].
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From the Los Angeles Express, January 31, 1904
DRAW FIRE OF LIQUOR MEN
Local liquor interests, it is alleged, took a slap at [their] . . . arch enemy, the Prohibition Party, last evening by perpetrating a bit of vandalism . . . [,] throwing two gallons of red paint over the large billboard at the corner of Lardo and Aliso streets [an intersection now destroyed by the Santa Ana Freeway near the L.A. River]. . . .
Signs of this kind have been erected all over the city, and the police are now watching them for further exhibitions of vandalism. The signs were erected by popular subscription among the prohibitionists and are under the direct supervision of the California Voice, the local Prohibition organ. . . .
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From the Los Angeles Express, January 13, 1905
PROTEST AGAINST A CHANGE
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Since the proposition of certain citizens to change the name of Buena Vista Street to that of Broadway, a storm has gathered which today threatened to wreck the City Hall, jar loose the pavements and rattle the ribs of every skyscraper in town.
Native Sons, Native Daughters, the Pioneer Society, art commissioners, the G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic], Spanish–American societies and settlers, pro bono publico and several others have raised their voices in an indignant protest . . .
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Change the picturesque title of this last-century thoroughfare! Wipe away another precious and revered landmark! . . . Allow the tenderfoot to walk comfortshod over the precedent of ages! Never! Thrice never!
And it is safe to wager that even the present City Council never will have the courage to call down that storm by taking liberties with the sacred name of Buena Vista Street.
[Buena Vista Street is now known as North Broadway.]
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