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120 years ago

The Wallick Company last evening gave a very unique performance. It is a blood and thunder drama, with live horses, bowie knives and six shooters and with a thread of romance running through it that comes in with good effect. The audience was delighted with the performance and the applause was hearty and continuous.

100 years ago

The Carson Mud Hens will go to Gardnerville on tomorrow where they will play a game of ball with the Gardnerville Bruisers.

70 years ago

James G. Scrugham, Nevada's congressman, has filed for a fourth term. Scrugham is an aggressive man in congress and the record he has made is such as to make his re-election practically a certainty.

50 years ago

License plate sales are still lagging according to Ormsby Assessor Lester V. Smith. To date 1,235 plates have been issued for pleasure cars. That is half the number issued last year, he said. Smith expects a long line at the deadline July 31.

20 years ago

Carson City attorney Norm Herring was appointed on Friday to monitor conditions at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center to ensure adequate levels of staffing at the prison.

10 years ago

In one of the largest condemnation cases, Lucky Stores, Inc., is claiming NDOT owes them $2.1 million in rent paid to M & T Inc., owners of the Carson City Square Shopping Center.

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