130 years ago
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad employees here, having made up a purse of $408.25 in aid of the yellow fever sufferers, that amount was telegraphed yesterday to the Howard Association in Memphis. This amount, handsome as it is, would have been doubled or more, if it had not been that the late failure of a stock broker here crippled the men in a very serious manner.
110 years ago
The G.O.P. is torn by internal dissension. The tension on the minds of the self constituted managers of the Republican Party, particularly those in Reno, for the past 46 hours, has been so great that a number of cases bordering on collapse seemed inevitable. Those prominent in the party could be seen in groups of two and three with heads close together and their faces indicating the consideration of knotty problems in the political situation.
70 years ago
The publicity committee for the Admission Day celebration (Nevada Day) did a little advertising yesterday through enthusiastic co-operation by the Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Misses Bernice White and Elma Gottschalk and Mesdames Jean Smith, June Meginness, Thomas C. Wilson and Stewart McKenzie dressed in costumes of the early 1860s and visited the Study Club meeting at the O. E. Benham home and gave members a view of the styles of the Nevada territorial days.
50 years ago
A speech made at a national meeting of salesmen was the feature Monday at the Lions Club. Charles Bucheister was named chairman of the annual Lions calendar with Leonard Winkleman, Arthur Kean, Dave Miles and Ed Block. The calendar is a yearly Lions fund raising event.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.