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LA  REINA   LOS  ANGELES  IN  THREE  CENTURIES


























































          Senora  Clotilda  de  la  Guerra de  Sepulveda,  representative  of  the  type  of  Spanish  families  which
                 owned the  great  ranchos  on which  much  of  Los  Angeles  is  now  built
             But  by  the  time  Cleveland  had  offered  to  restore  Queen  Liliuokalani  to  the
         throne  of  Hawaii  and  Coxey's  Army  had  reached  Washington  a  well-known  magazine
         writer  predicted  that  the  "twentieth  century  will  not  be  far  advanced  when  Los
         Angeles  will  be  the  commercial  capital  of  the  West."  Among  his  reasons  he  gave
         the  following
             "If you  visit  Los  Angeles  you  do  not  find  that  everybody  is  trying  to  pull  every-
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