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Nevada City Nugget - 100 Years of Nevada County (PH 15-1)(1951) (145 pages)
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Page: of 145
EMMA NEVADA, COUNTY NATIVE,
WON GREAT MUSICAL HONORS
Emma Wixom Nevada, daughter of a doctor,
was born in 1862 at Alpha.
Her first public appearance was made at the.
Baptist Church in Nevada City. Being too small
to be seen if standing on the platform, she was
placed on a chair with the American Flag draped.
about her and she sang “The Star Spangled
Banner.” ;
She studied at Vienna, and made her debut on
the stage of Her Majesty’s Theatre at Amina on
May 17, 1880. She sang in all the great cities of
Italy. : '
On October 16, 1884 she sang in the production
of Mackenzie’s “Rose of Sharon” with great success, the soprano music having been written expressly for her.
She married Dr. Raymond Palmer at Paris on
Oct. 1, 1885. She then returned to America on an
extended concert tour and reappeared in England
for the revival of “Mireille” on April 29, 1887
She then sang in Holland, Germany, Russia, Italy.
Portugal and Spain.
With a voice of moderate power she excelled
both in coloratura parts and in those where pathos
was required. Her medallion as Amina, in com-.
pany with those of Pasta and Malibran, wa;
placed on the statue of Bellini at Naples.
NORTH SAN JUAN «
North San Juan, originally San Juan, but
changed to avoid confusion from the San Juans
of the southland, during whichthe height of the
hydraulic days, was the third largest city in
Nevada county. Today the community, rich in history, slumbers peacefully, and awaits the return of
water and hydraulicking, except for its annual
weekend in June, when the town jumps to its
its merry Cherry Carnival and Festival.
Nathaniel Harrison discovered the diggings that
started the village in January,1853. The Grizzly
Ditch company brought water to the community,
but the real boom got under way-in the spring of
1854 when the Middle Yuba canal brought a
plentiful supply of water to the town.
THERE’S NO PRICE TAG
ON THE
MOST VALUABLE THING WE SELL
Nobody has ever been able to put a price tag
on Dependability. It is, however, an allimportant intangible that is a part of every
transaction in this store. It is, perhaps, the
most~valuable thing we sell.
We Give S & H Green Stamps
G & PRESCRIPTION
PHARMACY
George Halstead
Nevada City Phone 80 217 Broad
One Hundred Years of Nevada County — 1851 — May 18 —1951
—Nevada County Historical Society
Emma Nevada
JIM WEBSTER :
Jim Webster, a miner of Timbuctoo and Washington who had indifferent luck hunting for
gold in the earth, started looking for it on the
persons of other men, and became the most
notorious of the early highwaymen of Nevada
county.
During a dispute over a claim at Timbuctoo he
shot and killed three men. He was finally captured in 1856 and tossed in the county calaboose.
He escaped during the fall, and while the sheriff’s
posse was searching for him two groups mistook each other for the bandit and his confederates, and opened fire on each other. Sheriff
W. W. Wright and one deputy were killed.
Phone 1073 J
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Page One Hundred Thirty-Five.