Newmans's Directory and Guide of Los Angeles and Vicinity: A Handbook for Strangers and Residents

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T. Newman Publ., 1903 - 106 pages

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Page 58 - Merchandise and all mailable matter not included in the three preceding classes, which is so prepared for mailing as to be easily withdrawn from the wrapper and examined.
Page 50 - Mission street and Mission street to the center of the crossing of Mission and Ninth streets; thence in a southerly and easterly direction along the center line of Ninth street to the center of the crossing of Ninth and Minna streets; thence in a northerly and easterly direction along the center line of Minna street to Sixth street; thence in a southerly and easterly direction along the center line of Sixth street to the center of the crossing of...
Page 49 - Angeles river; thence easterly along the center line of Macy street to the center line of Mission road; thence northeasterly along the center line of Mission road to the center line of Griffin avenue; thence southeasterly along the center...
Page 8 - Angeles; 2, to learn what persons need charitable aid; 3, to engage societies and individuals to take care of them ; 4, to prevent fraud and the giving of injudicious aid; 5, to reclaim from pauperism, by encouraging thrift, self-dependence, industry and better modes of life, through friendly sympathy and advice...
Page 54 - ... cents; newspapers and other printed matter, per 2 ounces, 1 cent. Commercial papers: Packets not in excess of 10 ounces, 5 cents; packets in excess of 10 ounces, for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof, 1 cent.
Page 37 - ... every month of the year, is of importance. For such, and for all who are suffering from the nervous prostration of overwork, there is probably no better climate to be found. It is a climate in which the drain upon vitality is, with any proper manner of living, less than the gain.
Page 51 - First streets; thence easterly along the center line of First street to the center of the Los Angeles River; thence southerly along the center of the Los Angeles River to the center line...
Page 54 - Packets not in excess of 10 ounces. ........ 5 cents Packets in excess of 10 ounces, for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof 1 cent Samples of merchandise — Packets not in excess...
Page 54 - The rates for letters are, for the half ounce or fraction thereof, and those for newspapers for 2 ounces or fraction thereof. To Great Britain and Ireland, France, Spain, all parts of Germany, including Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Turkey (European and Asiatic), Egypt, letters 5 cents: newspapers 1 cent for each 2 ounces or fraction thereof. To Australia, letters, via San Francisco...
Page 49 - Buffalo river to the center line of Main street; thence northerly along the center line of Main street to the intersection of the center lines of Main street...

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