California Odd Fellows

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    Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.
    —Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
    Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

    Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
    For fellows whom it hurts to think.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)