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"The Golden Elk"Entry/Object ID
2012.313.1.1Description
"The Golden Elk," June 1907 (6:7), published by The Golden Press, Los Angeles. Written by James H. Griffes (a.k.a., Luke North,) the magazine is subtitled "An Apostle of Cheerfulness," and has idiosyncratic essays on graft, hate, Christian Science and others. There are many advertisements from regional business. Griffes was from Schenectady, New York and was a reporter in Chicago and an activist with Henry George's Single Tax Movement. Contracting tuberculosis, Griffes went to Arizona and started a newspaper before migrating to San Francisco where he wife was killed by a "moral pervert," and then moving to Los Angeles and publishing "The Golden Elk" and then "Everyman." Griffes also did research for Clarence Darrow, who was a friend from Chicago, during the notorious trial of the Macnamara brothers for the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. A 1918 publication includes an obituary of Griffes and his Luke North nom-de-plume and indicating he was in his late 40s when he died of tuberculosis. With stained, creases, worn and brown wrappers and generally clean pages (one has pencil notations,) the overall condition is good.Lexicon
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