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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 4 June 1874

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  • Posted on June 4, 2026June 5, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part One

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  • Posted on May 21, 2026May 22, 2026
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Reading Between the Lines With Grape Expectations in a Letter from Henry J. Yarrow to Joseph F. Vorbe, Los Angeles, 5 March 1870

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  • Posted on March 5, 2026
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 20 March 1875

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  • Posted on March 20, 2025March 21, 2025
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“One of the Strangest of our Experiences”: Read All About It with a Visit to Chinatown, Los Angeles Herald, 6 August 1874

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  • Posted on August 7, 2024August 8, 2024
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 29-30 July 1874

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  • Posted on July 29, 2024July 31, 2024
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 28 July 1874

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  • Posted on July 30, 2023July 31, 2023
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 2 June 1874

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  • Posted on June 2, 2021
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Read All About It in “The Los Angeles Express,” 8 August 1874

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  • Posted on August 8, 2020December 30, 2020
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Read All About Drilling for Black Gold: An Oil Field in the Suburbs of Los Angeles in “Scientific American” Magazine, 17 July 1897

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  • Posted on July 17, 2020December 30, 2020
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