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Tag: Whittier News history 1918

  • Oil Industry

“The Well is the Greatest in the State of California, and Thought by Some to be Unequalled Anywhere in America Today”: Some Early History of Montebello to 1930, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 17, 2025
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  • Biographies

“With Vision to Plan, With Courage to Start and With Ability to Complete”: Sharing Some History of George B. Chaffey With the Ovitt Family Community Library, Ontario

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 18, 2024April 19, 2024
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  • Oil Industry

Transformation in the Teens Postview, “In This Lucky Incident There Was a Degree of Poetic Justice”: An Account of the Discovery of Oil at the Temple Lease, Montebello Oil Field, 28 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 22, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“If a Free Ballot Is Worth Fighting For, It Is Worth Using”: A Letter from the National Prohibition Amendment California Ratification Committee Before the State Primary Election of 27 August 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 27, 2021
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