The weekly ''Culver City Call'' was the first newspaper published in

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. The paper was founded in 1913 by S.C. Perrine, who was also secretary of the Culver City

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. In 1916 Perrine sold the ''Journal'' and ''The Coast Press'' to W.E. Woodbury and L.E. Taylor, who installed a $6,000 print shop in the Field Building on

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to print the two newspapers. The ''Call'' was purchased in the same year by W.E. McLernon, who had worked for the ''

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'' and the '' Los Angeles Express.'' McLernon died of acute

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in Los Angeles on June 23, 1917, leaving ownership of the paper to his wife, Katherine, and C.W. Roach became editor. Mrs. McLernon then sold the newspaper. H.P. Bee was the next

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and

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contracted to purchase the newspaper in 1924, but the sheriff " turned me out," as he put it.George Garrigues, ''He Usually Lived With a Female,'' pps 34, 39

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