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Editor's note • Every Saturday, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby pulls out long-forgotten pieces of history to give readers a glimpse of life, crime and misadventure in Utah that week in 1917, 1942, 1967 and 1992 — 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.

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1917

Feb. 11 • In Springville, Frank Jarvis finds a young female inmate from the State Hospital in Provo sitting in his sled. The unconscious girl is lightly clad in the freezing cold, and apparently escaped from the hospital believing that a man was coming there to beat her. She survives.

• In Milford, best friends get drunk and fall to fighting and stabbing each other with knives on the road between Frisco and Newhouse. Both barely survive.

• Three bags of gold valued at $3,000 that were stolen yesterday from the Tourist Bar, 59 W. 300 South, reappear on the bar's back step early in the morning. Nothing is missing.

Feb. 12 • In what may be Utah's first drive-by shooting, two unidentified women speed past the Nelson Café, 15 W. 200 South, and fire a bullet through the front window, which barely misses cook Edward Brown.

Feb. 14 • The Murphy Candy Company is warned by Salt Lake Assistant County Attorney H.D. Moyle to stop using an emblem of the U.S. Flag on the wrappers of its "all-day suckers."

Also this week • In the city court of John F. Tobin, 25 sidewalk-spitters are fined $2 apiece.

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1942

Feb. 12 • Ogden's two policewomen protest having their salaries cut from $165 to $125 per month. The two veteran policewomen point out the unfairness of being paid less than even the most untrained male officers. Salaries of the women were cut after the city commission refused to support a recommendation from the police chief that the services of policewomen were no longer required.

Feb. 14 • Figures obtained at state game checkpoints revealed that it took Utah duck hunters 9.1 shells for every 1.7 ducks killed last fall, but they spent more for gasoline than ammunition.

Feb. 15 • All Utah men between that ages of 20 and 44 are required to register for the draft by 9 p.m.

Also this week • "Blues in the Night" starring Priscilla Lane and Lloyd Nolan begins showing at the Capitol Theatre. Pork liver costs 19 cents a pound at O.P. Skaggs. Sugar is rationed.

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1967

Feb. 12 • An avalanche in the mountains above East Mill Creek claims the lives of Bills brothers Thomas, 14, and Richard, 15. A third boy manages to survive and alert authorities.

• Conjoined twin girls born to Mr. and Mrs. David Mangleson yesterday are successfully separated by University of Utah surgeons. They were connected in the umbilical area and shared the large bowel in common. Both are expected to survive.

Feb. 14 • Two SLC businessmen are burned to death when their sports cart skids on an icy Highway 36 a mile south of Mills Junction, in Tooele Valley, and slams head-on into a 1-ton truck.

Feb. 16 • A 21-year-old inmate of the Tooele County jail escapes, only to knock on the door of the Salt Lake County jail three and a half hours later, demanding to be arrested for escape.

Feb. 17 • Salt Lake County public service nurses who gave notice Jan. 19 resign today. The 30 nurses protested inequality in salaries, insufficient mileage allowance, and a heavy workload.

Also this week • "The Night of the Generals" starring Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole opens. "Kind of a Drag" by The Buckinghams hits the top of the charts.

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1992

Feb. 12 • An avalanche at the top of Gold Basin area of the La Sal Mountains southeast of Moab kills four of six experienced backcountry skiers. The two survivors ski to Moab to summon aid.

• The family of slain polygamist leader Rulon Allred is awarded $52.2 million in the wrongful-death suit against acquitted killer Rena Chynoweth. After her acquittal, Chynoweth admitted to the March 1979 murder in her book, "The Blood Covenant."

Feb. 13 • According to a national study released in Washington, D.C., Utah ranks last in the number of schools offering its low-income students federally funded breakfasts.