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Editor's note • Every Saturday, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby pulls out long-forgotten pieces o f history to give readers a glimpse of life, crime and misadventure in Utah that 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.

1917

Jan. 7 • Salt Lake County Sheriff John C. Corless calls in extra deputies and posts guards at Garfield, Magna, Bingham and other "dry" points in the county in preparation for the Greek New Year on Jan. 12.

Jan. 8 • Salt Lake City announces it will soon use phonograph music to accelerate the exhilaration of ice skating at Liberty Park.

• A. Hobbs, 45, a laborer, begins beating his wife at 2435 S. 500 East. Other family members get involved. When the police arrive, Hobbs is wrapped in clothesline and ready for delivery.

Jan. 9 • Utah County Sheriff Henry East tells the commission that he can no longer afford to feed jail inmates on 40 cents a day. The commission raises the rate to 55 cents.

Jan. 11 • In Ogden, Utah Power and Light employee Harry Drew appears in court to plead guilty to an assault charge. He explains that he was fed up with boys throwing snowballs at him while he was working on lines attached to the top of a pole, so he beaned one of them with a glass insulator. Drew is released on a suspended sentence.

Jan. 12 • The Ogden Packing and Provision company installs a pig scraper capable of scraping the hair from 3,000 dead hogs every 12 hours.

Also this week • The top song is "O'Brien is Tryin' to Learn to Talk Hawaiian," by Horace Wright.

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1942

Jan. 7 • Physicians who conducted 10,600 Selective Service exams in Utah say the No. 1 reason (20 percent of the total) that people are declared unfit for military service is bad teeth. Defective eyesight is second, at 13 percent.

Jan. 11 • Virginia Nell, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nell, Centerville, is struck by a car and mortally injured while coasting (sledding) on Chase's Lane.

Jan. 12 • Every Salt Lake home will receive a visit from their block warden, assigning residents a job to do in the event of an enemy air raid or other extreme calamity.

• State Highway Patrol Supt. P.L. Dow warns citizens that the 50 mph speed limit between Salt Lake and Provo will be strictly enforced.

• In St. George, Vae Monroe Fenley, 17, is sentenced to death for the Nov. 4 murder of a Washington County rancher.

Also this week • "The Corsican Brothers," starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., is the new movie to see. "Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)" by Woody Herman nears the top of the charts.

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1967

Jan. 8 • Salt Lake police fire 15 tear gas grenades into Bret's Café, 1069 S. 200 West, attempting to capture a pair of burglars. One escapes, the other is captured.

Jan. 9 • Kane County Sheriff Lanard Johnson captures two suspects in the burglary of an Orderville store, the first when he slips on ice while fleeing, and the second after a 100 mph pursuit that ends in the suspect's vehicle leaving the road, shearing off a juniper tree and rolling over.

Jan. 11 • Former Weber County Sheriff LeRoy Hadley is found guilty of second-degree perjury before a grand jury in the case of a prisoner who reportedly paid $450 for an early release.

Jan. 13 • Dee's drive-in hamburgers cost 13 cents on Friday the 13th.

Also this week • "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" by The Royal Guardsmen reaches the No. 1 spot on the charts.

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1992

Jan. 7 • West Valley City announces it is fine-tuning its controversial PhotoCop program and will soon integrate it into its court system. The fine-tuning comes as a result of public outcry over PhotoCop, which photographs violators and sends summonses in the mail.

• AT&T announces the arrival of the most convenient camera phone yet. It's the size of an answering machine, weighs 6 pounds, and costs $1,500.

Jan. 8 • Food is rushed to more than 200 Navajos stranded by winter storms near Navajo Mountain. Supplies for their animals will have to wait for delivery, either by helicopter or after the roads have dried.

• Police finally ID the skeletal remains found Sept. 21, 1991 by chukar hunters in a steep ravine on Ensign Peak. The body is identified as Tamera Jean Seyfried, 39, who had disappeared from her sister's home in Grantsville.

Jan. 9 • Anja White, 15, is shot to death in the Sandy home she shared with her father and brothers. Her older brother Ed is arrested and charged with the crime. In 1993, he's sentenced to a one-to-15-year term.

Jan. 13 • Upset at being served decaf at the Olympus Care Center several years before, a 33-year-old man returns and sets fire to the place — three days in a row. He is arrested and charged.

Also this week • "The Last Boy Scout," starring Bruce Willis opens at local theaters. "All For Love" by Color Me Badd is pushing to the top of the charts.