From the March 11, 1933, issue

GREAT LION OF LA BREA

Bigger by a fourth than the proudest lion that walks the veldt today were the tallest of the great lions of California a hundred thousand years ago. Rivaled in size only by the short-faced bears whose bones have been found with theirs in the La Brea tar-pits, they could confidently assert their first rights even over the terrible sabre-tooth cats that snarled against them in large numbers.