[7] In 1909 Mosteller, identified as the Sentinel's managing editor, said the newspaper would begin a daily edition in June, which would compete with the Hollywood Citizen.
"[8] In 1909, the Sentinel office was the scene of a fist fight occasioned by the refusal of editor Herbert F. Clark to print the poetry of W.D.
"By so doing," wrote the Alma (Michigan) Record, "he will have control of the newspaper business in a town of 7,000 people only 10 miles from Los Angeles.
"[10] The Hollywood Inquirer was owned and published by Herschel Spencer Lander until 1914,[11] when he sold out and moved to Paradise Valley, California.
Donaldson bought the Inquirer in 1918 from Douglas Edwards and changed the style, format and name "to conform with the ideals that had proven highly successful under his direction at Oak Park, Illinois."
[28] The first edition of the Hollywood Citizen appeared as a four-page, six-column weekly on Sunday, April 23, 1905, measuring 16 by 22 inches.
"[30] It was established by Ezekial Dunton Taylor (1842–1917), a veteran newspaperman originally from Ohio, who came to Los Angeles in 1902, and his son-in-law, W.C. Parcher.
[44] Sontag Company filed suit against the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and others, contending it was damaged by union pickets at its Hollywood drug store.
[45] A Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order against the union prohibiting it from picketing 166 companies that continued their advertising in the struck newspaper.
[47] Superior Judge Emmet Wilson, however, ruled that six guild members he had cited for contempt of court must stand trial.
The Los Angeles Times identified him as "a federal parolee with a long felony record and no previous newspaper experience."
[36] The Hollywood newspaper changed its name to Los Angeles Evening Citizen News in March 1970[60] and attempted to gain readers by switching its editorial policy from conservative to liberal.
[36][59] At one point in August 1970 a finance firm that was owed about half a million dollars sent in a team of security guards to take possession of the Citizen-News building.
[59] The next morning, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Richard Horton, the publisher, assembled a small army of 300 employes, lawyers and hangers-on and at 6 a.m. the following day launched a counterattack.
They smashed several large plate glass windows and hustled — with the help of local police — the finance company guards out the door.
On the same day its publishing company, Graphic Production Corp., filed a petition in bankruptcy court for an arrangement to pay its debts.
The end meant there were only two daily newspapers published within the Los Angeles city limits, other than trade papers for the motion picture industry.
[73] The Palmer Building Corporation in 1921 was erecting a three-story structure at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cosmo Street for a new plant, at an investment of $250,000.
The offices were said to be "equipped with automatic Associated Press electric typewriters, financial tape machines, [and] teletypes for the City News Service.
"[78] Other amenities were Goss multiple-unit press with a capacity of 72,000 sixteen-page papers an hour, the latest in stereotyping, composing, engraving and photographic appurtenances, north-facing skylights, shower baths, lounges and sound-absorbing desks.
[78]In 2006 the 75-year-old building "underwent a million-dollar renovation to cater to the tastes of tenants in the media and entertainment industries," according to the Los Angeles Times.