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130 YEARS AGO

Disgraceful: Most every night at a very late hour, the hoots and howls of drunken prostitutes are heard on Carson Street. They run from saloon to saloon and use language, which would shame the most depraved male outcast. Parties in the stores between Second and Third say scarcely a night passes that one or more of them do not make "Rome howl" on that block.

100 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: Come to Carson City. It is the Capital of the State of Nevada. It has the only accredited high school in the state. It is the most beautiful residence city in the state. It has the purest drinking water in the state. It has branches in every fraternity organization. It has cement sidewalks throughout the business section. It is the home of the Indian basket cult. It has had no murder trials for over 20 years.

- Carson City Promotion Association.

70 YEARS AGO

John Cobb, London fur broker-sportsman is to go to the Bonneville Salt Flats at dawn Tuesday for his assault on the world's record for the flying mile. The Railton Red Lion will need minor adjustments before it's crack at the 357.5 mile per hour record set by Capt. G.E.T. Eyston.

50 YEARS AGO

A record 60,000 students from kindergarten to college troop back to classes in the next three weeks in the largest enrollment in the state to date. Twenty six hundred teachers, 230 more than last year will be at work at the beginning of the school year.

20 YEARS AGO

A 22-ton statue made it over the border in time for Sunday's Reno dedication thanks to Nevada's effort to cut red tape. A bronze statue commemorating Basques was trucked across the border at Laredo. The statue was being held by the Mexican Ministry of Fine Art.

10 YEARS AGO

The Nevada Pharmacy Board wants a question on the ballot to determine how marijuana will be obtained and distributed to medical patients.

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