Ghost Town Home to Retired Couple in Rhyolite Nevada
In Rhyolite Nevada once bustling with 18 000 residents a retired Methodist minister and his wife live in the old railroad station. They keep relics from the boom era and rent five bedrooms to sightseers while remembering the town that flourished after the 1903 Bullfrog strike and vanished after the 1911 money panic.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Montezuma
H. H. Heisler
Heisler
Heislers
Gaezan
John S. Cook & Co. Bank
H. D
L. D. Porter
Gen. Merchandise
Stine
Sidor
Amargoso
Completion Seen for State Fair Coliseum in 1957 Expo
The new 400000 Coliseum at the State Fair, 200 by 280 feet with a 200 by 85 arena, will seat about 4000 for events and 7500 for stage shows. Open class livestock judging and a Quarter Horse show will occupy the 1957 fair alongside a traffic-conducive concourse. Also notes Sahhon Airport in Timerick Ireland became the first duty free airport in 1947.
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Fair Board
Edwin Schultz
Sahhon
Timerick
Ireland
Local Biz Owners List Long Careers in Sidney Area
OLee, co owner of Moon Cafe and City Cab since Oct 15 1956, runs Harlan's Bakery since Apr 6 1956, and works as a Coca Cola Bottling Co salesman in Sidney since Oct 1956. The trio highlights a diverse local business landscape.
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Moon Cafe
City Cab
Harlan’s Bakery
Coca- Cola Bottling Co
Sidney
Summer books take you far across worlds this season
New York writer reviews travel through fiction and non fiction. The piece highlights titles by Theodor Plievier Louis L Amour Louisa Revell Brian Glanville Rose Macaulay Gerald Durrell Graham McInnes Prawer Jhabvala John Masters Beatriz Eyster and others. It frames novels as tickets to places from Berlin to Alaska to India and mentions settings from Florence to Troy to Corfu.
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W. G. Rogers
Associated Press Arts
NEW York (Ap
Chateaubriand
Atala
Alhambra
Washington Irving
Stendhal
Italy
Melville
South Pacific Isles
Hardy
Wessex
Charlotte Bronte
Haworth
Yorkshire
Thomas Wolfe
Joseph Conrad
Gilbert’ Highet
Catullis
Vergil
Berlin
Theodor Plievier
Stalingrad
Moscow
Sitka
Louis L' Amour
Alaska
Rome
Louisa Revell
Arno
Brian Glanville
Florence
Towers
Trebizond
Rose Macaulay
Troy
Istanbul
Antioch
Jerusalem
Gerald Durrell
Corfu
India
Graham ‘McInnes
Angela Thirkell
Rudyard
Kipling
Prawer Jhabvala
New Delhi
Particu
Lar
John Masters
Cambridge
Eng
Wales
Punjab
Americas
Warren Eyster
Mexico
Eros
Beatriz
Novel Notes Link Girl, Buenos Aires and Canada in Readings
A critique highlights a teen girl in Guido’s tale with Buenos Aires and Canada appearing unexpectedly in two novels. Joyce Marshall sets Lovers and Strangers in Toronto while Vera Henry’s A Lucky Number follows Mother Tippett near Detroit with gentle cross border journeys.
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Guido
Buenos Aires
Canada
Joyce Marshall
Toronto
Vera Henry
Mother Tippett
Detroit
Coun
Hole in Lima street saves boy as car backs out
In Lima Ohio a large street hole acted as a life saver when a car backing from a driveway squeezed a 3 year old boy into the void. The child Douglas Weber suffered only minor bruises from the incident.
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Lima
Ohio
Douglas Weber
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Corad, Neb
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Steve
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Lloyd Harlan
Jim Brumfield
James Lee Brumfield
North Platte
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Sidney Flooring & Supply CO
Fairmont
Mest
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piRmo
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