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 From the "Inyo Independent" of April 11, 1890 |
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 How to prolong life after middle age. |
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 A Judge of Tobacco |
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 Proposed aqueduct from Owens Valley to Salt Wells Valley |
 Carson & Colorado Time Table |
 Hood's Sarsaparilla - 100 doses for $1 |
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 Lake View Hotel - Keeler, CA |
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 Thomas & Hill - General Mechanbise - Big Pine, Inyo County, CA |
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 Giles Creosozone for the destruction of vermin & parasites |
 From the "Inyo Independent" of December 21, 1872 |
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Wagon road from Owens Great Lake to the Kern River |
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 From the "Inyo Independent" of January 5, 1889 |
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 Isaac Hitchcock opens gold/copper mine in the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, CA |
 From the "Inyo Independent" of July 9, 1887 |
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 Walter James Sr. breaks leg from standing up in wagon near the Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, CA. |
 From the "Inyo Independent" of July 17, 1896 |
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 The origin of barber poles. |
 From the "Inyo Independent" of June 20, 1874 |
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 Apache Chief, Quatcheakelo, surrenders at Camp Verde, AZ |
 Fatal accident in Cerro Gordo - T. Kenney falls to death from bucket. |
 From the "Inyo Independent" of November 1, 1924 |
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 Get out and VOTE |
 George W. Naylor - Independence, CA |
 For Sale - Fisk Cord Tires |
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 Turkeys Estrayed - Notify Mr.s C.D. Asher |
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 From the "Daily Alta California" of November 29, 1866 |
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 From the "Daily Alta California" of September 3, 1859 |
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 Daily Alta California - November 1866 "A Letter from the Owens River Country" |
 Daily Alta California - November 1859 "Report of the Military Expedition from Fort Tejon to Owens Lake" |
 Owens Lake Steam Navigation Company |
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 Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria |
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 Bell-Ans for Indigestion |
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 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of July 7, 1928 |
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 Frank Chrysler and "Sparky" (golden trout) have pictures in the Los Angeles Times |
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 Bishop Theater - Now Playing Finnigan's Ball, This is Yosemite, The Mountain Lion The Divine Woman Ramona The Law of the Range |
 Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires Petersons Service Station |
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 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of August 22, 1925 |
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 Another Toll Road - Mr. A. T. Smith |
 Bishop Suitatorium |
 Predicting earthquakes using the height of Mt. Whitney. Someday a road will be constructed to Hunter Flat (Whitney Portal) and Hunter's Falls (Whitney Portal Falls). |
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 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of April 7, 1917 |
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 Eight Million Germans in the United States - What to do with them. |
 100 Steel nets to catch submarines ordered |
 W. L. Douglas - Shoes that hold their shape. |
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 Leece & Watterson Inc., Bishop CA |
 Hazard & Parker, Bishop, CA |
  Darwin now a great silver lead camp. |
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 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of December 4, 1926 |
Shell products available at the following dealers. |
 Southern Pacific trains derails near Cartago in Owens Valley due to track washout. Train engineer killed. |
 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of May 7, 1927 |
 Robert A. Evans of Lone Pine hikes to Hunters' Flats, Ibex Park and the summit of Mt. Whitney. |
 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of May 7, 1927 |
 Lone Pine trio given credit for the first ascent of Mt. Whitney. John Lucas, Charles D. Begole, and A. H. Johnson on August 18, 1873. |
 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of May 14, 1927 |
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 Robert Evans has proof of Mt. Whitney climb. |
 SPNG dismembers Bishop Indian lying on the tracks near Mina. |
 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of May 21, 1921 |
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 Story of the states - The State of Georgia |
 Inyo Marble Works begins new operations. |
 Hotel Butler, Big Pine, Electric Laundry. |
 Interstate Telegraph Company - Automatic Telephone |
 From the "Big Pine Citizen" of December 27, 1924 |
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 Resinol ointment |
 Howd'y Folks! 1925 is on the way. |
 Keeler Sierra Talc plant serves the nation. Longest overhead tram in the nation. Inyo Marble Company. Keeler N.S.P. |
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Further Reading |
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Owens Valley Sheep - Alfred R. Giraud | |
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Bob Swandt - High Sierra Cowboy and MWPT Packer | |
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Pearsonville | |
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Life in Owens Valley - Rena "Beth" Moore-Smith |
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Olancha Remembered |
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Bob White & Tunnel Airfield |
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