{"id":639,"date":"2026-02-14T19:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:11","slug":"madera-s-soiled-doves-happy-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-s-soiled-doves-happy-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera\u2019s \u2018Soiled Doves\u2019 \u2014 Happy Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"639\" class=\"elementor elementor-639\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6937ffc2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6937ffc2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37a837d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37a837d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Prostitution was a fact of life in Madera from its early beginnings. The town had barely been founded when entrepreneurs of the world\u2019s oldest profession descended upon the little village, and by the turn of the century the illicit traffic in human flesh was an embarrassment to most of the \u201claw-abiding\u201d folks.<\/p><p>Although occasionally a saloon or hotel east of the tracks provided the \u201cladies of the night\u201d with a place to conduct business, most of the dens of iniquity existed on the west side of town. By 1900, no less than five houses of ill fame occupied the entire block between 4th, 5th, F, and G streets.<\/p><p>The proliferation of Madera\u2019s \u201cred light\u201d businesses did not mean that there were not attempts to stamp them out. Indeed, there were, and these efforts to clean up the town reached a crescendo while John Barnett was Madera\u2019s Marshal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prostitution was a fact of life in Madera from its early beginnings. The town had barely been founded when entrepreneurs of the world\u2019s oldest profession descended upon the little village, and by the turn of the century the illicit traffic in human flesh was an embarrassment to most of the \u201claw-abiding\u201d folks. Although occasionally a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44163,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/44163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}