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Los ^Angeles — -from a Bungalow Qourt
The text under these headlines often has a peculiar flavour, sometimes reminiscent of the Ruthless Rhymes, Under 11 Tragedy Bride " was the following :
This picture is believed by the police to be that of the girl who was to have married the victim to-day when a gangland bullet snuffed out his life and left her waiting at the altar.
In another place :
' Petting,' as a testing of the love responses and a necessary preliminary to marriage, was vested with legitimacy to-day in concluding seminar sessions of the World Sunday School Convention.
Elsewhere :
His skull fractured and his head severely lacerated from the effects of having a five-gallon water-bottle fall on his head as he attempted to climb up the water-cooler at his home, Richard O'Brien, four years old, was to-day near death at the San Pedro General Hospital.
As a writer in Blackwood has pointed out ... if one crosses the street at some unmarked spot and is run down by a car the newspapers* comment will probably be : " Another pop-eyed jay walker hits death. " Seen through the eyes of the newspapers, Los Angeles was a curious phenomenon. A grim battle in the streets between bootleggers, during which over a hundred shots were fired, was honoured by an inch and a half, but a tragic and drunken love-affair between a butcher's boy and a wealthy man's wife occupied the front pages for weeks. Aimee McPherson, the hot-gospeller, was always appearing in the headlines, accused of participating in a land swindle : accused by her mother of perjury to the police : accused of bribing justice : reunited to her mother, who was accused in turn of what is called * heart balm,' otherwise breach of promise to marry : touring in Europe to convert London and to investigate the " vice-haunts of Paris,,, with a Bible in her hands. There
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