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Invitation to Hadassah officers installation brunch, June 14, 1965, and newspaper clippings about the event
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Hadassah installs, publication and date unknown; LV Hadassah chapter installs slate, Las Vegas Sun, date unknown
Newspaper clippings, Water firm drills well on North 5th, Las Vegas Review-Journal, circa October 1939
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Actual newspaper article reporting the completion of a well on North Fifth Street, opposite the Las Vegas Ranch. The well was to supplement water supplied by the Las Vegas creek and a spring to the ranch for domestic and dairy purposes.
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Newspaper clipping, Where I stand, Las Vegas Sun, May 9, 1953
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Archival Collection
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Editorial from the Las Vegas Sun. Unlike a noble French merchant, who sacrificed greatly to give the people of Marseilles good water, the water company is trying to bleed all the money they can out of the situation before surrendering it to the water district. "80-11" written in red pencil. Date stamp from E.C.R.
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Newspaper article, Pioneer worked Union Pacific for life, Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 23, 1973
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper article about Orien Stevens who worked on railroad for 48 years, from 1925 to 1973. The article discusses his retirement, positions he was able to hold, and work environment.
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Newspaper article, Aunt Donnie a Resident Here Since Early '30s, Las Vegas Sun, February 12, 1965
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper article featuring Donnie Ensley. "Aunt Donnie" Ensley was 84 at the time the article was written and came to Las Vegas in 1931. She and her husband, Jake, operated a cafe on First St.
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Newspaper clipping, Vegas urged to resume water ration, Reno Evening Gazette, April 21, 1954
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Archival Collection
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The article includes the Las Vegas Valley Water District's proposal to drill two new wells to augment the water supply and the Union Pacific Railroad's request that the Las Vegas city commissioners reinstate water rationing. The piece of paper to which the newspaper clipping is attached has a dated stamp from the law department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
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