130 YEARS AGO
Juan, the little Spanish boy who was taken from his foster mother because of mistreatment could not be received by the Sisters at Virginia, and he was placed at the orphan's home here. Albert Wirz, the little Austin orphan, who was possessed by the peculiar hallucination of being a fisherman on San Francisco Bay, is under treatment by Dr. Fox, who says his strange behavior was caused by Scarlet Fever.
100 YEARS AGO
A fitting climax for the dedication of the new athletic field by Clarence Mackay will be highlighted by a game of rugby football between Stanford and the University of Nevada.
70 YEARS AGO
Keys Found: Three keys on string found. Call at the Appeal office, identify and pay for ad.
50 YEARS AGO
Northern Nevada junior 4-H members are in the second day of a state 4-H camp out at Lake Tahoe. Louis Gardella, Washoe county agricultural extension
agent and director of the camp, says the event has 450 members.
20 YEARS AGO
A fight between two inmates ended with a blast of bird shot from a guard. The inmates were treated and released from a prison infirmary according to Warden Pete Demosthenes.
10 YEARS AGO
Homeseeker's.com, Inc., a Minden firm, links home buyers with home sellers on the Internet.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.