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130 years ago

A pleasant affair. On Tuesday evening the Carson Guards were received at the Virginia Depot by the Emmett Guards, with full ranks, and escorted into the city, where they marched through the principal streets, after which they were escorted to Captain Young's restaurant for their dinner. Our soldiers express themselves thoroughly delighted with the pleasant treatment they received.

110 years ago

Still fighting. At about 4 o'clock this morning a small body of rebels attacked the camp of the Third Artillery from the swamp near Paomboan, a mile and a half west of Malolos. Two privates were killed and a lieutenant and two others were wounded. With the coming of daylight, the American forces scoured the district, driving the rebels northward and killing several of them. A private in the Montana regiment was wounded.

70 years ago

Ely, beyond question, is Nevada's greatest badger fightin' town. Both Ely papers Friday gave a lot of publicity to the fight scheduled between "Copper King," White Pine County's badger, and "Gus" a German dachshund. A block on Aultman Street will be roped off for the bout.

50 years ago

(Photo caption) Committeemen in charge of the biggest Basque Festival ever staged in the United States are picture for the event in Reno in June. Seated from left is John Ascuaga, Robert Laxalt, and Peter Echeverria. Standing is John Laxalt, Joe Micheo, and Dominic Gasche.

20 Years Ago

Nevada merchants sold $868 million in February, up 6.3 percent from the prior year. For the first eight months of the fiscal year, sales were up 14.25 percent.

10 Years Ago

The Tahoe-Reno Industrial park in Storey County, one of the largest in the world at 102,000 acres has new tenants lining up, say developers.

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