"Girl Star Gumshoer" and "First Woman Bond and Warrant Clerk Champion of Peace"

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Another post in honor of Women's History Month: two newspaper clippings from the Call 1913 and 1914,  featuring the erstwhile fairer sex. "Blind Pig" is slang for a business that illegally sells alcohol--in this case, the term refers to Greek coffee houses. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a brief entry; the Wikipedia entry for "Speakeasy" elaborates.

These are from the SFPD records that we are currently processing, but they're not from the "California Books" scrapbooks featured last month. We'll leave you hanging for a little while to wonder what additional SFPD scrapbooks we have in store...

                                                                                           
Images from San Francisco Police Department Records (SFH 61), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.