130 YEARS AGO
The moonlight dance takes place at Treadway's park tonight. It will be an enjoyable affair. None but persons of undoubted respectability will be admitted to the pavilion. Tickets are $1.
100 YEARS AGO
(Continued from Wednesday) The young lady speaks three languages fluently; as an accomplished musician and is well educated. It is thought that after a few week's rest and kindly attendants will restore her reason. On her trip from Tonopah the young lady became very violent and screamed and fought wildly, protesting that she was being poisoned so passengers were frightened until they learned her story.
70 YEARS AGO
Harry Chandler, famed Nevada lion hunter, increased his outstanding record for mountain lions killed this week by bagging a large male off the Goshute range. The lion made large kills of sheep on the mountain. Chandler set his pack of lion hounds on the trail for several days through the hot, dry mountains.
50 YEARS AGO
George Thompson, doing business as Pony Express Cab Co., has asked the public service commission to discontinue his per trip filing and put all his fares on a meter basis. The change will increase fees for those traveling to Stewart.
20 YEARS AGO
The Las Vegas Sun has entered into a Joint Operating Agreement with the Las Vegas Review-Journal in efforts to save Hank Greenspun's ailing paper.
10 YEARS AGO
Newcomers may not notice that a U.S. Mint operated in Carson City between 1870 and 1893, according to the Nevada Department of Museums, Library and Arts. While excavating the plaza, contractors found a set of rusty dies.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.