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Shell Game, Part Thirteen: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, July-December 1874

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  • Posted on October 28, 2025
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“The Value of Our National Birth-right to Every American Citizen”: Independence Day Commemorations in Greater Los Angeles, 1854-1855

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  • Posted on July 4, 2025July 4, 2025
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 21-22 January 1873

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  • Posted on January 21, 2025
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 14 October 1875

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  • Posted on October 14, 2024
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Take It To The Bank With a Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Los Angeles Check, 20 October 1876

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  • Posted on October 20, 2023
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“All of Us Will Once Again Live in Harmony . . . Let’s Discard All Feelings of Pain From the Past”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Four

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  • Posted on August 26, 2023August 26, 2023
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“Her General Character is Bad . . . I Would Not Give Her Credit Under Oath”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Three

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  • Posted on August 25, 2023
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“There Needs to be Unity in This Town So That There Can Be Security”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Two

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  • Posted on August 24, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“I Hope That All Good Citizens Will Consider it Their Duty to Calm Public Opinion”: The Killing of Antonio Ruiz by Deputy Constable William W. Jenkins, Los Angeles, 19 July 1856, Part Two

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  • Posted on July 23, 2023
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“The Grandest Display Ever Made In This City”: A Democratic Party Mass Meeting, Los Angeles, 22 October 1868

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  • Posted on October 24, 2020December 30, 2020
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