Article from the 1906 December 19 edition of the Los Angeles Evening News reports that General Harrison Otis, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, is recovering from illness. The article mentions several comments General Otis made regarding...
Mayors election; Political campaigns; Political candidates; Los Angeles Times (Firm); Fraud; Surveys; Political cartoons
Article from the 1906 November 30 edition of the Los Angeles Express reports that the Los Angeles Times was behind the fraudulent postcard ballots used in the Express voter survey.
Article from the 1909 April 29 edition of the Anaheim Gazette quotes an article from the Los Angeles Graphic regarding growing dissatisfaction with Walter Parker's leadership of the Republican party.
Article from the 1902 January 3 edition of the Pasadena News reports the opening of a new hospital in Pasadena. Included in the article are descriptions of the operating room, emergency room, patient rooms, and architecture.
Article from the 1906 June 14 edition of the Los Angeles Evening News comments on a French article that states that surgeons routinely perform unnecessary and often dangerous surgeries.
Article clipped from the 1891 July 27 edition of the Los Angeles Times reports that the Whittier State School is open and receiving students. The article also reports on the buildings and facilities at the school.
Reformatories; Ione (Calif.); Prisons; Contractors; Contracts; California State Prison at San Quentin; Quarries and quarrying; Building; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Dams
An article from the 1890 March 23 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that a number of bonds for contract work and supply contracts for the front entrance building at the State Prison at San Quentin were received and approved by the...
Jails; San Francisco (Calif.); Reformatories; Politicians; Prisoners; Children; Sheriffs; Women prisoners; Women; Schools; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Military; Prisons; Baseball; Gambling; Sewerage
An article from the 1891 November 24 edition of the San Francisco Examiner reports that the industrial school in San Francisco will become a county jail. The article goes on to discuss the prohibition of baseball game betting and the need to...
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Schools; Children; Church services; Teachers; Books; Education Curricula; Education
An article from the 1891 December 31 edition of the Riverside Free Press reports that Dr. Lindley, superintendent of the reform school in Whittier, presented an account of the work done under his charge at the school. The article goes on to report...
Court decisions and opinions; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Investigations; Judges; School board members; Politicians; Salaries; Expenditures, Public; Contracts; Business Enterprises; Furniture;...
An article from the 1892 January 13 edition of the Los Angeles Times discloses the document containing findings from Professor J. M. Guinn's investigation of the books and records of the reform school in Whittier. The article also provides an...
Jury; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Newspapers; Political cartoons; Expenditures, Public; Salaries; Business enterprises; Contracts; Investigations; Judges; Financial statements
An article from the 1892 January 17 edition of the Los Angeles Times comments on Professor J. M. Guinn's report on the investigation of the reform school in Whittier. Guinn's report includes some of the school's expenditures. The article includes...
Investigations; Public prosecutors; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Attorney; Lawyers; Trusts and trustees; Tableware; Travel; Financial statements
An article from the 1892 January 20 edition of the Los Angeles Times reports on the expenses incurred by the individuals who traveled to the east coast. The article goes on to list the tableware costs of the reform school in Whittier.
Reformatories; Juvenile delinquents; Politicians; Schools; Children; Trusts and trustees; Farms; Buildings; Crime; Industrial arts; Baseball; Church services
An article from the 1892 January 26 edition of the Chicago Herald describes the reformatory in Eldora, Iowa. The article contains illustrations of the reformatory.
Women; Children; Juvenile delinquents; Parents; Letters; San Francisco (Calif.); Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Death
An article from the 1892 April 3 edition of the Los Angeles Times reports on maternal love and stories of boys living at the reform school in Whittier and their mothers. The article contains an illustration.
Police; Children; Buildings; Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; San Francisco (Calif.); Chinatowns
An article from the 1892 April 5 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Emma Wacker was found in a Chinese den by the police and will probably be sent to the reform school in Whittier. The article contains illustrations.
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Children; Campbell, Fred M.; Industrial arts; Education; Letters; Schools; Educators; Winship, Albert E. (Albert Edward), 1845-1933
An article from the 1892 April 7 edition of the Whittier Register reports that Fred M. Campbell visited the reform school in Whittier. The article includes letters from boys who previously and currently live at the school. It also reports that...
An article from the 1892 April edition of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on the construction of the Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane. It describes the property and proposed buildings. The article contains an illustration of the asylum.
Whittier (Calif.); Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.); Reformatories; Children; Churches; Church services; Schools; Letters
An article from the 1892 April 28 edition of the Whittier Register reports that Reverend Thos. Armstrong conducted Sunday chapel services at the reform school in Whittier. The article also includes a letter from J. W. Anderson, state...
