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  • A group of people watch firemen put out a fire at the Avon Hotel rooms on May 8, 1938. Photo courtesy of San Juan County Historical Society
    A group of people watch firemen put out a fire at the Avon Hotel rooms on May 8, 1938. Photo courtesy of San Juan County Historical Society
  • Way Back!
    Way Back!
125 YEARS AGO From the May 6, 1899 edition of the Silverton Standard: SLUGGING MATCH AT 12TH AND GREENE. At an amateur slugging match on the corner of Greene and 12th streets, Sunday night, one of the parties got a clip that put him to sleep for about 10 minutes. Upon returning to consciousness the man seemed to be laboring under the impression that he had been trying to…

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