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Editor's note • Every Saturday, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby pulls out long-forgotten pieces of history to give readers a glimpse of life, crime and misadventure in Utah that week in 1917, 1942, 1967 and 1992 — showing just how much we've changed, and how much we haven't. Recognize a relative or have a story to share? Visit Facebook.com/DisturbingHistory or email rkirby@sltrib.com.

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1917

Feb. 4 • Following a fire that killed Mrs. Rhoda B. Wright, Cache County Deputy Will K. Robbins discovers $92 in the rubble of her home. Mrs. Wright, who had a terror of being buried as a pauper, apparently hid the money for her funeral. The funds are turned over to the LDS Relief Society, who are preparing the body for burial.

Feb. 5 • As tensions increase with Germany over U-boat attacks on American ships, all officers of the Utah National Guard are placed on alert awaiting orders to mobilize.

Feb. 6 • When she's barred from viewing the body of her husband, who was hit by a train in Bingham last week, Mrs. Uno Becklund, shoots herself in the stomach. She survives.

Feb. 7 • Caught in the act of holding up another man at 160 Pierpont St. in SLC, George Ingraham, 44, fires 10 shots at Patrolman A.L. Thorpe, all of which miss. Thorpe fires five shots in return, hitting Ingraham in the hand. Following the fusillade, Ingraham is arrested and taken to jail by way of the hospital.

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1942

Feb. 5 • Under the direction of Utah Gov. Herbert B. Maw, the state begins a salvage program called "Slap the Jap With Scrap." Next week, children will be given free admission to a matinee upon presentation of a piece of scrap medal.

Feb. 6 • Salt Lake Police are desperate to find an unidentified man who over the past five weeks has held up six women after they get off the bus at Yale Avenue and 900 East.

• After waiting two months for word of her son who was serving on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, the mother of Alva D. Walton receives a telegram that he was killed during the attack.

Feb. 10 • In Bingham, Chris Milonas, 52, is hit and killed by an ore train.

Also this week • "Hellzapoppin'" starring Olsen and Johnson begins running at the Centre Theater. Bacon costs 17 cents a pound. Woody Herman's "Blues in the Night" tops the charts.

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1967

Feb. 6 • Ogden Patrolman Robert J. Schwitzer enters a burning home at 571 N. Grammercy Ave. and rescues a small girl trapped in her bedroom by the flames.

• More than a year after losing their beloved cat in Kanosh while moving to Salt Lake City from California, the Rosvall family receives a letter that Tami has been found alive and well and is ready for pickup.

• A mountain above Fort Douglas is named Mount Wire in honor of former SLC Detective Lester F. Wire, who invented the electric traffic semaphore. Wire died in 1958.

Feb. 10 • The new price of gasoline — 32.9 cents per gallon — is denounced by the Utah Association of Petroleum Retailers, who insist that they will have to charge 33.5 cents per gallon in order to make a profit.

Also this week • Bacon sells for 59 cents a pound. "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees is STILL at the top of the charts, followed closely by "Georgy Girl" by The Seekers.

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1992

Feb. 9 • Siouxsie and the Banshees perform at Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah.

Feb. 10 • Jon T. Wetzel, 40, of Layton, is charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 20, 1985, cold case homicide of his wife, Sharol. He is later convicted.

• In Alexandria, Va., the trial begins in the case of Provo fertility doctor Cecil B. Jacobson, who is accused of fathering up to 75 children by using his own sperm instead of a sperm bank to impregnate his patients. He is later convicted.

Also this week • Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco star in "Medicine Man." At the top of the music charts is "I'm Too Sexy," by Right Said Fred.