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Editor's note • Every Saturday, Tribune columnist Robert Kirby pulls out long-forgotten pieces of history to give readers a quarter-century glimpse of life, crime and misadventure in Utah this week in 1916, 1941, 1966 and 1991 — showing just how much we've changed, and how much we haven't. Recognize a relative or have a story to share? Visit Facebook.com/DisturbingHistory or email rkirby@sltrib.com.

Nov. 19-25

1916

• While hunting rabbits at Fairfield, Bolgon Bloomfield, 17, Salt Lake City, manages to shoot himself in the shoulder with a shotgun, the butt of which he was using to beat a wounded rabbit to death. Unless complications set in, Bloomfield is expected to live.

• Navy Lt. R.C. Lee, of Salt Lake City, is transferred to the battleship U.S.S. Arizona.

• Ogden City is mulling over the idea of including a woman on the school board.

• SLCPD raids three roadhouses in the early morning hours, seizing alcohol and arresting 30 people, including the owners — F.C. Blankenship, Scott Cunningham, and Charles "Chick" Rasmussen.

• SLC Mayor W. Mont Ferry submits an ordinance that would allow the chief of police to censor motion pictures, theatrical performances, dancing exhibitions, and other forms of public entertainment.

• Mrs. Amy Helen Hill is bound over for trial in the first-degree murder of local attorney Ross M. Bonny. On Nov. 9, Mrs. Hill shot Bonny in the face in his office on the 10th floor of the Kearns Building for refusing to marry her. She was convicted of manslaughter but pardoned in 1917.

• The Salt Lake Hotel Association wants to prohibit newsboys from shouting in the business district between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m.

• Nationally recognized Christian evangelist W.E. Beiderwolf speaks in Auerbach square on the Second Coming of Christ. During the sermon, he vehemently denies calling The Salt Lake Tribune "a dirty rag."

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1941

• Utah will purchase 17 new automobiles for the highway patrol. Patrolmen will also receive five automobiles turned back to the state under the policy of having all employees except the governor and highway patrolmen use their own autos on state business.

• Utah Attorney General Grover A. Giles tells the health commission to stop placing prostitutes suffering from venereal disease in the State Hospital in Provo, which is only for patients with mental disorders.

• Price City reports its first auto fatality in seven years, when Mrs. Jesse E. Pitts, 21, is killed in an accident at Carbon Avenue and 400 South.

• The SLC commission allows City Detective G. C. Bray to accept a $25 reward for the capture of Army deserter Clarence H. Petty.

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1966

• A five-car pileup kills three people on Highway 91 south of Lehi, raising the annual traffic death toll to 293, just two fewer than the all-time record of 29. Dead are Henry Havilla, 28, and his wife, Shirley, 27, and their nephew, Todd Skinner, 8. Wendell B. Skinner, 27, dies the following day.

• Joan Wooley, 6, 1295 Nocturne Drive, SLC, is struck in the buttock by a bullet fired from the direction of the Rose Park Golf Course, a block to the north. Fortunately, the bullet is spent and causes only a bruise.

• The parents of Lee R. Seifert, 20, 1812 S. State, receive news that he has been wounded in action in Vietnam.

• Utah Gov. Cal Rampton asks the 37th Legislature for $150,000 to hire 25 more UHP troopers.

• While fleeing from Salt Lake County sheriff's deputies, Linda Thomas, 16, crashes her car and suffers injuries requiring the amputation of both legs.

• Norbest turkeys cost 37 cents per pound. "Winchester Cathedral," by the New Vaudeville Band hits the top of the charts.

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1991

• Sam Kastansis, a suspect in the slaying of his family, is released from the Salt Lake County Jail pending charges. He has to borrow 25 cents from Tribune reporter Stephen Hunt in order to call for a ride. He — Kastansis, not Hunt — is later acquitted.

• California tourist Steven Matthews leaves Utah with a .25-caliber bullet in the face. He was shot five days earlier outside the Marriott Hotel by a homeless man who mistook him for someone who had torn down his shanty several months before.

• A toxic cloud of sulfur dioxide leaks from Thatcher Chemical, 1900 W. 1400 South, and covers a west Salt Lake City neighborhood, sending 400 to the hospital.