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Historical Clippings Book (HC-12) (520 pages)

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‘between a dog and a bear cub were ad_ vertised to take place.
‘
_ The only mention of a church is from a copy of an old Catholic Register: ‘“‘The
_ Omega Church is attended every threemonths,”’ Services were most likely held
in the school house or at some private
home, as there is no mention of a church
in the town by the Nevada. City
newspapers of that time.
In 1858 Omega, nicknamed Delirium
Tremens, with whiskey in the saloons at
1234 cents
a glass or one-dollar a gallon —
bring your own jug — had the dubious
honor of being the first town in the
‘Washington Mining District to take care
_ of it’s inebriated citizens, when an old log
' house was converted into a jail.
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Washington-that Paradise on the Yuba-was always proud
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ago-Washingron is having a grand homecoming
1982,
July 15,
* Left toright-George A. Grissel, flag boy, John bane
of its mountain culture in spite of a rough and te a
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