Due to the predicted incoming storm, lack of parking and road conditions the powers that be have decided for the safety of the Brotherhood the Demotion Dinner will be postponed until next Saturday, January 21st, as SST has moved theirs until February 4th. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause but feel in the…
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by Marion Goldmanreproduced from the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Summer 1978. PDF True she was a woman of easy virtue. Yet hundreds in this city have had cause to bless her name for her many acts of kindness and charity. That woman probably had more real, warm friends in this community than any other (1).…
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Home of the Julia C Bulette 1864 in Virginia City By Dzhek Karawakow reprinted without permission fromFlatlander II, Volume XLIII, Number 11November 2022 – 6027 When World War II arrived, Nevada’s Virginia City was not much more than a ghost town. The mines had largely dried up and any production of gold and silver was…
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Hosted by our modest Humbug Travisty and his lovely Widder Sheilla StranskyThey graciously invite you to attend the 70th Annual Nevada Day BallSaturday Oct. 22nd!!! Located at the E Clampus Vitus Building, 34 North B Street, in rustic Virginia City, NV. 89440. Doors will open promptly at 5:02 pm till ??? So come on up…
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The Jumbo (West Comstock) Monument and the American City Monument are both rebuilt and located on Comstock Mining Company property just south west of Gold Hill. Comstock Mining has generously supported us by allowing the placement of the monuments on their property and donating two large boulders for their bases. To get to the monuments head…
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by Bob Thomasson 17 November 2020 There were 4 air shafts more or less evenly spaced along the Sutro Tunnel route, numbered Air Shaft 1 through 4, starting from the tunnel portal. Another air shaft, called simply Air Shaft, was constructed 2,225 feet from the portal, between the portal and Air Shaft 1. This unnumbered…
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Noble Grand Humbug Travisty Stransky presents Julia C. Bulette #1864 June Doin’s Friday, June 24 – Saturday, June 26, 6027 (2022 CE) Redshirts $55 – PBCs $75 – Retreads $95(anyone who admits to being a retread deserves this) NO PREPAY! Schedule:FRIDAY, JUNE 24 – Camping at Humbug Flats site begins (same place as last year):…
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Doors / bar open at 10:07 a.m.PBCs surrendered to the Grand Imperturbable Hangman “Roofied” Tom Gonzales at 11:03 a.m.Dinner courtesy of the Roisterous Iscutis Wes Francis, Sr., at 5:08 p.m. $50 red shirts$70 PBCs 55 years and older$80 PBCs 45 – 54 years old$90 PBCs 40 – 44 years old$100 PBCs 39 or younger, PLUS…
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