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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. 26-Dec. 2

1916

• Salt Lake City Police Chief Parley White announces the arrest of more 200 people on Commercial (now Regent) Street, 125 of whom are jailed — the women on charges of prostitution and keeping disorderly houses, and the men on vagrancy and acting as "macquerceaux" (pimps). Eight trips of the patrol wagon are required to remove all the confiscated liquor.

• Police report the body of a child, prematurely born, is discovered in a wastepaper can near 200 S. Main.

• Mrs. Christina Hallen, 65, is struck and fatally injured by an automobile driven by Dr. R.W. Ashley, Salt Lake City health commissioner.

• The body of an infant, believed stillborn, is found on the sidewalk at 600 West and Fourth South streets. Police are attempting to determine parentage.

• Wilford Olsen parks his automobile in front of 180 E. South Temple, leaving his bulldog to guard it. When he returns a short time later, robes, an overcoat and the watchdog are missing.

• Catastrophe descends on Salt Lake homes at 11 a.m. when the machinery and Utah Coke and Gas plant fail before Thanksgiving dinner is done. Restaurants are soon overwhelmed by hundreds of customers.

• SLC patrolmen are instructed to replace the leather cords on their billy clubs with red cords, the sergeants with blue. When asked why, the police chief says, "For art's sake."

1941

• First-degree murder charges are filed against ex-Civilian Conservation Corps worker Vae Monroe Fenley, 18, for the murder of Washington County farmer Royal Hunt, 39. Fenley says robbery was the motive. Convicted and sentenced to death, he is later paroled in April 1959.

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Miss Daisy W. Wilkin postmaster of Magna, effective Dec. 1.

• A monkey escapes from its owner in Salt Lake City. He gets into two quarts of milk on the porch of E.S. Ertmann, 2426 Green St., chases a large dog off another porch and then takes to the rooftops when neighbors try to capture him. The police are called, but are unable to catch the monkey.

• While crossing 600 East near 2450 South, Glen Brewster, 5, is struck by an automobile and hurled 31 feet, suffering only moderate injuries.

• Salt Lake City Mayor Ab Jenkins declares Dec. 1 the start of "Optimist Week." The Salt Lake City Optimist Club will appeal to the citizenry for more confidence, cooperation, and cheerfulness in meeting the problems of the world today. Meanwhile, a Japanese fleet approaches Hawaii from the north.

• Two pounds of hamburger costs 33 cents. Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo-choo" tops the music charts.

1966

• In Murray, "a horse of a different odor" named Pegs is pulled out of a collapsed septic tank after struggling for two hours.

• Movie-goers at the Redwood Drive-In, 3700 S. Redwood Road, are watching "The Professionals," starring Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster, when the top of the screen bursts into flames. Firefighters respond and extinguish the flames. About 20 cars stayed to watch the new show.

• An unidentified man brandishes a knife and robs Mrs. Eva King of 50 cents as she leaves the west gate of Temple Square.

• The Salt Lake School Board of Education offices at 440 E. 100 South catch fire, causing $50,000 in damage. No student records are destroyed.

• "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is playing at the Arcade and Plaza theaters. Kenner's Easy-Bake Oven Set sells for $9.66, lightbulbs not included.

1991

• John G. Padilla, 39, is arraigned for automobile homicide in the death of off-duty Salt Lake City officer Rick C. Bruno the previous week. Bruno was parked at a stop sign on Wasatch Boulevard at 8900 South; Padilla failed to negotiate a turn and crashed into him.

• John D. Connor, 16, pleads guilty to the May 13 murder of Roy David Dunsmore, 17, in a field near Rose Park.

• In Price, Jack Eldon Jensen, 25, attempts to beat a train to a crossing near 100 West and 100 South by running. He doesn't make it.

• Searchers locate the helmet, gloves and coat of pilot Eric Farley, 31, Orem, who disappeared over Utah Lake on November 26.

• "Black or White" by Michael Jackson is the No. 1 single.