Identifier: lureofpastpresen00brya (find matches)
Title: The lure of the past, the present and future
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bryan, George W., ca. 1844
Subjects: Bryan, William Evermont Women Urbanization Real estate development Agriculture
Publisher: Los Angeles, E.G. Newton company, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in the fact that one of hercitizens can so far forget his mother that he will contendthat a woman ought to work more hours in a day thana man. Shame on Frank Miller, the hotel man. for hisactions in working women more than eight hours a dayin violation of a State law. And no matter how thesupreme court of the State decides. Miller has no excusefor his unlawful methods, and his actions will be anobject of scorn and censure to all fair-minded people. As we came from Riverside to Fullerton we saw thou-sands of acres of English walnut trees and the largestwe have ever seen. On many the branches extend fromthe body of the tree twenty feet either way while the topis cone shaped with dense foliage. In these valleys aregrown apricots, olives, loquats, grapes, alfalfa, oats, barleyand sugar beets and ornamental trees, shrubs consistingin part of roses, honeysuckles, poppies, palms, Chinaberry trees, pepper trees and magnolias. Wonderful inthe endless variety of its products. And now we invite
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THE PRESENT AND FUTURE 113 you to take a little side trip with us; we will not be gonelong, about thirteen hours and a half. We will leave Los Angeles at 8 a. m. and return at9:30 p. m. Of course we could return sooner, but thereare a few things at Mt. Lowe that we must see after oldSol goes to sleep out in the briny deep and before heshows his face above the eastern mountain. It would besuperflous to give a detailed account of the trip from LosAngeles to the summit of Mt. Lowe, six thousand onehundred feet above sea level. A mere outline mustsuffice and will answer our purpose, which is to showyou some of the beautiful scenery of valleys and moun-tains, nowhere so harmoniously blended as in SouthernCalifornia. In making this trip you will pass the countyhospital on the right with its great buildings like a cityset on a hill, you will cross the trestle over the ArroyoSeco high above the tree tops, you will pass the ostrichfarm, a place made beautiful by semi-tropical plants; onthis fa

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