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120 Years Ago

All sorts: There was a lively scrapping match yesterday between Dr. Guion and John Sweeny over a horse race.

100 Years Ago

What this city needs ... is a chamber of commerce or an organization of that sort. This paper is in receipt of letters from other parts of the county asking for information concerning Carson City and inquiring about the business inducements that can be found here.

70 Years Ago

Officers were elected and new members of Pi Beta Phi were received by initiation at the last monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Kerwin Foley. Mrs. J. L. Harvey, Miss Grace Bordewich, and Miss Margaret Crosby were hostesses.

50 Years Ago

Consideration will be given by Carson City trustees for possible purchase of the Carson Water Co. Mayor Turner Houston reports that the board has been contacted about purchase of the water company and is interested.

20 Years Ago

University of Nevada regents approved a $4 per credit fee increase Ð the first fee hike since 1983. The action will boost the undergraduate per-credit hour fee from $36 to $40.

10 Years Ago

Carson City will provide transit services to Carson City residents who are disabled, senior residents, and state welfare recipients and the general public. Ormsby requested and received a $2 increase raising the city's ride subsidy to $6.

• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.