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June 1909
Men and boys swimming in the large tank behind the Sierra-Nevada brewery on Prospect Hill — often naked and using foul language — are upsetting women passersby.
President Taft unveils a monument at Gettysburg.
Aged Stephen Walworf died when his team ran off, throwing him to the ground.
Weather fair on the first, unsettled mid-month, them warming until cooler at month's end.
Memorial Day was celebrated with tributes paid to the dead and the decorating of graves.
President Taft presents the Wright brothers with a medal for their work with the aeroplane.
Instead of a turntable at Truckee for the new giant engines, the Southern Pacific Railroad will use a balloon track of almost a mile circumference.
Labor unrest sends five companies of militia to McCloud — Italian laborers there demand 25 cents more a day pay.
Someone shot a horse and some cows belonging to Job Slater of North San Juan.
Lt. General MacArthur is retired, along with his rank. The new ranking officer of the Army is Major General Wood.
The greatest miners union picnic in 10 years was held in Chicago Park — nearly 1,500 present.
Henry Rogers fell from the bridge at Rome powerhouse and drowned.
Mrs. Malmgren accidentally swallowed carbolic acid, thinking it medicine. Her mouth and throat are badly burned.
John Kilroy passed away at the Cylmo sanitarium on Main Street — Bright's disease.
Nevada County's 1,500 hunting licenses are about to expire.
Miss Alma Bell, formerly of Grass Valley, is in the Auburn jail for shooting to death Joseph Armes, who had broken up with her.
The SP may make Colfax a terminal point. Company is said to be buying all the property there it can be for expansion.
An auto drove into the river near Knights Landing, drowning four women aboard.
Nevada City's Class of 1909 graduates: Florence Andrews, Retta Arbogast, William Englebright, Ruth Grimes, Ray Hansen, Frank Nilon, Henry Searls, Joyce Lobner, Edith Morgan, Margerite Shan, Ethel Scrafe, Gerald Wallace, Stevens Williams and Bressirgham Ford.
The yellow peril was hotly discussed in New York — it's claimed Oriental labor is a menace.
The Brunswick begins sinking a shaft into new ground.
A 60 HP, seven-passenger Thomas Flyer took a party to Alleghany in three hours!
One hundred dead from an earthquake in France.
The building on the corner of Mill and Main was threatened by a mysterious fire. Quick work by Protection Hose Company saved it.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of Charles Scarfe for exceeding the 8 mph speed limit and running over a dog.
In a game with a Sacramento team, the Grass Valley White Sox lose, 4-1.
Taft urges income taxes on corporations — 2 percent suggested.
Morris and Fox begin an automobile service today between Nevada City and Alleghany using a Thomas Flyer. One-day round trip, $15.
Suffragette H. P. Belmont, speaking in New York, said women would get the vote in four months if they would just agree not to marry.
Specimen ore weighing 1,000 pounds and worth $50,000 is taken from the 16-to-1.
Big vaudeville show tomorrow — six great acts, 15 cents.
The Grass Valley class of ‘09: James Crase, Ethel Crase, Angelo Harris, Kathleen Mulligan, Percy Lord, Viola Jones, Alvin Doivge, Agnes Mulligan, Victor Heidrich, Alva Phillips, Elmer Hawkins and Carl Milenz.
More than 40 men quit the Idaho-Maryland mine — haven't been paid in over a month.
Idaho-Maryland miners return to work — wages paid.
Farmers in Pleasant and Penn valleys post their land off limits to hunters for three years — claim they want to give game a chance to propagate.
The Thomas Flyer had a breakdown, and a four-horse stage had to bring in the passengers.
A heavy earthquake shook up the sister cities and almost created a panic.
Dr. Tickell operated on the 8-year old daughter of M. S. Bernard — found a cherry pit in her exploded appendix. She is in precarious condition.
A long highwayman robbed the Downieville stage Wells-Fargo box.
Civil War veteran George Grimes badly injured when he had a fainting spell and fell on the sidewalk.
Shotgun shells go up in price — black powder shells 55 cents a box, smokeless shells 65 cents.
Grass Valley's Fighting Dick Hyland knocked out Leach Cross in the 41st round in Colma.
Men and boys swimming in the large tank behind the Sierra-Nevada brewery on Prospect Hill — often naked and using foul language — are upsetting women passersby.
President Taft unveils a monument at Gettysburg.
Aged Stephen Walworf died when his team ran off, throwing him to the ground.
Weather fair on the first, unsettled mid-month, them warming until cooler at month's end.
Memorial Day was celebrated with tributes paid to the dead and the decorating of graves.
President Taft presents the Wright brothers with a medal for their work with the aeroplane.
Instead of a turntable at Truckee for the new giant engines, the Southern Pacific Railroad will use a balloon track of almost a mile circumference.
Labor unrest sends five companies of militia to McCloud — Italian laborers there demand 25 cents more a day pay.
Someone shot a horse and some cows belonging to Job Slater of North San Juan.
Lt. General MacArthur is retired, along with his rank. The new ranking officer of the Army is Major General Wood.
The greatest miners union picnic in 10 years was held in Chicago Park — nearly 1,500 present.
Henry Rogers fell from the bridge at Rome powerhouse and drowned.
Mrs. Malmgren accidentally swallowed carbolic acid, thinking it medicine. Her mouth and throat are badly burned.
John Kilroy passed away at the Cylmo sanitarium on Main Street — Bright's disease.
Nevada County's 1,500 hunting licenses are about to expire.
Miss Alma Bell, formerly of Grass Valley, is in the Auburn jail for shooting to death Joseph Armes, who had broken up with her.
The SP may make Colfax a terminal point. Company is said to be buying all the property there it can be for expansion.
An auto drove into the river near Knights Landing, drowning four women aboard.
Nevada City's Class of 1909 graduates: Florence Andrews, Retta Arbogast, William Englebright, Ruth Grimes, Ray Hansen, Frank Nilon, Henry Searls, Joyce Lobner, Edith Morgan, Margerite Shan, Ethel Scrafe, Gerald Wallace, Stevens Williams and Bressirgham Ford.
The yellow peril was hotly discussed in New York — it's claimed Oriental labor is a menace.
The Brunswick begins sinking a shaft into new ground.
A 60 HP, seven-passenger Thomas Flyer took a party to Alleghany in three hours!
One hundred dead from an earthquake in France.
The building on the corner of Mill and Main was threatened by a mysterious fire. Quick work by Protection Hose Company saved it.
A warrant was issued for the arrest of Charles Scarfe for exceeding the 8 mph speed limit and running over a dog.
In a game with a Sacramento team, the Grass Valley White Sox lose, 4-1.
Taft urges income taxes on corporations — 2 percent suggested.
Morris and Fox begin an automobile service today between Nevada City and Alleghany using a Thomas Flyer. One-day round trip, $15.
Suffragette H. P. Belmont, speaking in New York, said women would get the vote in four months if they would just agree not to marry.
Specimen ore weighing 1,000 pounds and worth $50,000 is taken from the 16-to-1.
Big vaudeville show tomorrow — six great acts, 15 cents.
The Grass Valley class of ‘09: James Crase, Ethel Crase, Angelo Harris, Kathleen Mulligan, Percy Lord, Viola Jones, Alvin Doivge, Agnes Mulligan, Victor Heidrich, Alva Phillips, Elmer Hawkins and Carl Milenz.
More than 40 men quit the Idaho-Maryland mine — haven't been paid in over a month.
Idaho-Maryland miners return to work — wages paid.
Farmers in Pleasant and Penn valleys post their land off limits to hunters for three years — claim they want to give game a chance to propagate.
The Thomas Flyer had a breakdown, and a four-horse stage had to bring in the passengers.
A heavy earthquake shook up the sister cities and almost created a panic.
Dr. Tickell operated on the 8-year old daughter of M. S. Bernard — found a cherry pit in her exploded appendix. She is in precarious condition.
A long highwayman robbed the Downieville stage Wells-Fargo box.
Civil War veteran George Grimes badly injured when he had a fainting spell and fell on the sidewalk.
Shotgun shells go up in price — black powder shells 55 cents a box, smokeless shells 65 cents.
Grass Valley's Fighting Dick Hyland knocked out Leach Cross in the 41st round in Colma.
