130 years ago
Will Rusticate. R. M. Huston, one of the suspended Mint employees, will go to California in a few days to rusticate until full operations are resumed at the Mint. The suspension of forty-eight employees of the Mint will take at least $7,000 per month out of the tills of local traders.
110 years ago
Two Indians, who have been employed in cleaning a ditch at Paradise failed to turn up for supper last Saturday. A search was instituted and the Indians were found together, one dead and the other unable to help himself. At the side of the Indians was a wild parsnip, showing where the bulb had been cut from the roots. The two had eaten the wild parsnip.
70 years ago
The Carson High Senior Class has started this week to work on the play "Here Comes Charlie." The play is about a hillbilly girl who falls in love with her adopted father. To go into more detail would spoil the play. By Reporter Jack Brennan, Carson High School Notes.
50 years ago
A new look of silver and blue will take to the state's capitol building with a $22,000 face lift by the department of buildings and grounds. The blue will not be Nevada's blue, but "more of an ice blue" according to Ed Krause, buildings and grounds superintendent.
20 Years Ago
The NBC show "Unsolved Mysteries" is focusing on the re-creation of the 1982 murder of Terri McClure and the subsequent investigation by the Carson City Sheriff's Department.
10 Years Ago
John Wayne Bobbitt missed his 700-guest 32nd birthday party at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch and his boss suspects he may have skipped bail.
- Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.