130 YEARS AGO
Our should-be fellow citizen Mr. Thos. Millard, after being in this country twenty-five years took out his naturalization papers yesterday. Glad of it, old gentleman; we congratulate the commonweath.
100 YEARS AGO
Captain Cox of the State Police received a call from Mercer County that H.H. McIver and R.E. Stuck are in jail after having "soaked" the editor of the Carson City News and other members of the newspaper fraternity on some sort of advertising scheme. They are accused of the crime of forgery.
70 YEARS AGO
Years ago in a photographer's place a placard:
We Maintain.
Man's a Fool.
When It's Hot.
He Wants It Cool.
When It's Cool.
He Wants It Hot.
Always Wanting
What Is Not.
So We Maintain.
Man's A Fool.
Persons who have kind words about the weather, ordinarily are few and far between.
50 YEARS AGO
At the Carson Theater: Last Train from Gun Hill with Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn. Thursday through Friday: Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
20 YEARS AGO
Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev., said her primary goal as governor would be to protect the interests of rural Nevada from political domination of the state by populous Clark County.
10 YEARS AGO
After months of uncertainty, some tenants of the Silver City Mall have decided to relocate and not wait to see if the property has been sold.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.