Woman attorney argues for chiropractor convicted of practicing without a license

Soda water quenches thirst of overheated Angelinos

Construction is booming in The Palms; bank will open

These mustachioed men

(well, most of them have facial hair)

will probe consolidation of L.A. city and county

Consolidation of the city and county of Los Angeles will be considered by the charter revision committee before the work of making a new charter is begun . . . .

The members who have been named are:

• Mayor A.C. Harper.
• City Auditor W.C. Mushet.
• City Attorney L.R. Hewitt.
• Chairman J.A. Anderson of the Board of Public Works.
• Councilmen Wallace, Blanchard and Healy.
• W.H. Frost of the Voters’ League.
• W.C. Mendenhall, William Mead and
  W. B. Mathews of the Chamber of Commerce.
• John Murray and T.D. Fennessy of the Central Labor Council.
• Percy W. Weidner and Oscar C. Morgan of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
• W.J. Washburn and C.D. Willard of the Municipal League.
• John E. Fishburn of the Clearing House.

. . . Members of the Municipal League have suggested the advisability of adopting the alphabetical form of [municipal] election tickets, as recently adopted in Alameda, . . . .

This method of preparing election ballots is new on the Pacific Coast, although it has been in use in some of the eastern cities for some time. It eliminates the names of political parties on the ballots and simply places the names of the candidates for each office in alphabetical order.

The chief object in this is to prevent the blind voting of straight tickets without a knowledge of the men whose names appear thereon. . . .

That the city should be given full power to control its street railroads, regardless of state interference, is the opinion of some; but such a provision will probably never be adopted, as it would allow a few politicians to do away with the limit on the lives of franchises and give them away almost free to corporations. . . .

J.A. Anderson . . . has suggested [provisions] . . . to permit an annexed district to govern itself in many matters.

This is necessary, he states, . . . for the city to annex San Pedro, or any other port that it may desire, as government of such distant district in every way would be almost impossible. . . .

Los Angeles Daily Times, July 3, 1907

WET STORY IN DRY FIGURES

One Hundred Thousand Glasses of Sparkling Soda Tossed Down Parched Throats Every 24 Hours in Summer Months;
Women Chief Patrons of Fountains and Like ‘Mixtures’

Frenzied thirst is quenched in Los Angeles, on a hot day like yesterday, with $10,000 worth of soda water, which means the consumption of 100,000 glasses of liquid coolness.

At 300 fountains, the effervescing fluid is sweetened and savored with syrup and fruits for patrons. On an oppressive day the consumption is doubled.

A conservative estimate of the yearly proceeds from cool drinks is $1 million, according to several retail corporations. . . .

[Said a soda fountain manager:]

“It’s a feverish, restless thirst that makes people seek the soda fountains.

“In the afternoon a mob confronts the man behind the ‘gun.’ If he can siphon nine kinds of mineral water out of the same bottle with one hand and mix drinks with the other, he makes good.

“It’s a good-natured crowd, however, that waits on him. . . .

“The fearful thirst of the gay soubrette is the worst with

“The men saunter in with their tongues hanging out, so to speak. They generally have reached the point of evaporation before a nice, cold drink restores them to normal condition.” . . .

In this city there are 34 soda and confectionery establishments and 113 drug stores where soda is sold, as well as a number of large fountains in department stores.

Fosgate’s Mission Soda Fountain, "the largest in the world."

(Postcard photo taken about 1906; the Mission Cafe was at 440 S. Broadway, with A.G. Rees as the manager and C.E. Rees as the "prop."
The other side of this card advertised
"Chicken Dinner Served Tonight 40c)

BANK WILL OPEN AT PALMS MONDAY

Business Will Be Conducted in I.C. Butler Block for Present

PALMS, Aug. 9 — Beginning Monday morning, Palms will have a bank.

Business will be opened then in temporary quarters in the I.C. Butler block. Permanent quarters will be arranged as speedily as possible.

The Woodman building is progressing nicely. The walls are ready for the second-floor joists. They are rushing it to completion with all possible speed.

Mr. Nordbloom’s brick building is almost ready for the roof.

There are now employed more than 50 workmen on the new buildings that are being erected in The Palms.

H.J. Neithart and Mrs. Mortenson have purchased from E. Lafarge a block of six lots on Fifth Street.

Click here to see the present location of the Palms post office on a modern map. The Palms was originally situated just south of what is today the I-10 Freeway.

Arguing her case with the keenness and self-possession of any of her male colleagues and proving that she is quite able to take care of herself in a battle of wit or logic, pretty Miss Philalethra Michelsen, attorney and counselor at law, appeared Saturday morning before Superior Judge Smith. . . .

Miss Michelsen comes from a long line of Danish artists and

He client is [chiropractic] Dr. C.D. Greenall, who was recently fined $100 by Justice Selph for practicing without a license. . . .

The chiropractors, aided by the naturopaths, who are closely aligned with them in

They claim that three of the subjects in the required examination (toxicology, bacteriology and diagnoses) are altogether unnecessary for practitioners who do not use drugs. . . .