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120 years ago Merchants in Susanville must have been pleased with the holiday shopping rush as the paper reported “quite …
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120 years ago The more things change, the more they stay the same. One hundred years ago, a Lassen County …
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120 years ago The following product was being advertised: “Ladies, if you desire a transparent, clear and fresh complexion, use …
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120 years ago For a considerable time, E.V. Spencer had been diligently, though quietly, working on a plan for building …
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120 years ago Since the Audubon Society and public sentiment have decreed that stuffed birds were not appropriate ornaments for …
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96 years ago One hundred cases of Spanish influenza were reported in Susanville. Four deaths were the result of the …
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97 years ago The Lassen Grain and Milling Company began flour production with a capacity of 50 barrels of flour …
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122 years ago Susanville residents met at the Rest Room on Main Street to discuss the possibilities of opening a …
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122 years ago George Nellson, of Adin, broke his back when he was thrown into a fence while riding one …
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120 years ago A tall muscular stranger with dark hair, a sandy complexion and a two-inch scar in the middle …
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96 years ago A forest fire burned more than 500 acres near the Pit River, located around Nubieber, and threatened …
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30 years ago Lassen County’s oldest cultural event, The Bear Dance, was held for the first time at its new …
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120 years ago Women of Susanville were reminded the art of preparing cool, delicious iced beverages was one in which …
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120 years ago Sounding like a spokesperson for modern-day Republicans, railroad magnate Eramus Gest complained to the California State Board …
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120 years ago The people of Clairville, located at the terminus of the Sierra Valley Railroad in Plumas County, felt …
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130 years ago An examination of the swarms of locusts that descended on the Honey Lake Valley were found to …
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120 years ago Susanville women were advised to pay their own carfare when others would pay theirs under similar circumstances. …
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