130 YEARS AGO
The advertising business has become a chronic one to newspaper men. We all advocate advertising as the oil on the wheels of business, but not the begging Yankee dodges which have become prominent to newspapermen as a sore finger.
100 YEARS AGO
One hundred little orphans and their adult guardians filed to cars on the V& T this morning to the Bower's Mansion. This trip is an annual outing of the home, thanks to General Manager Yerington of the V. & T., who gives a special every year for a picnic at the mansion. Two cars were taken over on the local this morning and a special engine was sent over this evening to pick them up. The children had free run of the mansion and baths, the proffer of manager Henry Bray.
70 YEARS AGO
Charlotte Scrivan arrived yesterday form Reno, coming to Elko to visit friends. As she got off the train she dropped her handbag, which contained her money and return ticket. Picked up by a man, he scuttled away with it. Armed with a description, Elko officers located him and found he had put a big rock in the purse and threw it in the river. Officers compelled the man to disrobe and locate it in the river, which he did in the mud in the cold water. The fellow, named Horace Little, gave the "found" purse back minus $5 and the return ticket.
50 YEARS AGO
The State of Nevada has frozen four airplanes at Tucson, Ariz., for possible use as fire-fighting here according to state forester George Zappettini. The planes, three Beechcrafts and an Army trainer, are being held to discover costs on conversion.
20 YEARS AGO
The University of Nevada has come under fire by state officials for research for the U.S. Department of Energy for the Nuclear Waste Site at Yucca Mountain.
10 YEARS AGO
Pebbles last wild ride at the Mustang Ranch, a jaunt by the brothel's 30-year general manager on horseback through the parking lot, capped the closing of the business by the Federal Government today.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.