Brad Prowse

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March 12, 2008
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100 years ago in Nevada County

All Fool's Day and someone placed a dummy across the trolley tracks, forcing the car to stop.Joseph Bennellack returns from the much-overrated town of Rawhide. Fair until rain the 15th and then off-on rain until month's end.Hundreds of tons of steel have arrived for the new Narrow Gauge bridge over the Bear River. Elotia Hacker, 10, was committed to the Glen Ellen home for the feebleminded.Hatfield, the rainmaker, must produce 5 inches of rain at Crows Landing by the 15th or lose $3,000.Everything points to an early spring - rain badly needed.Miss Eugene Godat contracted ptomaine poisoning after eating catfish.In …

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