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Opera House -- Good House -- Campanini Italian Opera concert -- for this night only -- Very good indeed -- Special train from Carson brought about 60 to attend concert & returned -- Ran with old Deacon Parkinson awhile -- after the show -- Bed 1 -- Thermometer 8 above zero --

Cold Weather $42 "Pogonip" My first Insurance Statement of acct

Saturday Jan 7

Same -- clear -- Below 20 all day -- I was not feeling well from having caught cold in the theater last evening -- PM about town some -- Made up my statement of account with Ins Co, & sent it with check for $42 by mail this evening -- This is my first statement -- Also wrote wife -- Evening about town wearing my big overcoat -- Bed at 12 -- 8 above zero --

Sunday Jan 8

"Pogonip" hazed the air most of the day -- Shoshone Indian word, meanning frozen fog, such as gave the White Pine pioneers so much fatal pneumonia -- air full of fine floating, sleety frost particles, glinting in the sun -- light and collecting on tree twigs, bushes, horse hair and human beard -- coldest fog in the world, and not often found on the Comstock -- The thermometer this morning at 7 oclock stood

Exempt to Install [rest covered by newspaper clippings] Below zero

at or a little above zero, and was not above 10 during the day -- dropping below zero during the evening -- coldest of the season so far -- PM I attended regular