130 YEARS AGO
The Board of City Trustees, President Bender, Slater, Benton and Atherton, met yesterday. A new ordinance was passed granting permission to the City Marshal to shoot untagged dogs within the city limits. A few years ago an ordinance was passed restricting inhabitants of houses of ill fame to a certain quarter of town, but it appears that law is a dead letter. Only yesterday a citizen asked the City Trustees to invoke the law after a landlord was letting a house adjoining his to be used for immoral purposes. The Board has taken the case under advisement.
110 YEARS AGO
For some time past the Indians have put in their time gathering a small seed they call "Indian Flour." The seed grows in a week about a foot high, and although the bush is rather scrubby in appearance, it contains many pods of seed. The seed is light yellow and very fine, and has a sweet flavor not unlike millet. It is a health food sought to fit the dyspeptic stomach of the health seeker.
80 YEARS AGO
It is not the heat of the desert, but years of exposure that causes glassware in Nevada to turn to a beautiful lavender tint. The tint is believed to be caused by manganese introduced into the glass to neutralize it's natural yellowish tint. Such bottles are very highly prized by curio hunters.
50 years ago
Nevada motorists who haven't gotten around to getting 1960-61 license plates for their cars may lose the use of their wheels for a while under orders issued by highway patrol chief Bob Stenovich. Stenovich has directed his patrolmen to tow away and impound all vehicles found without current tags and registrations.
20 YEARS AGO
Carson City classrooms will have the highest number of students per teacher in the state, but have a below-the-state-average in dropouts.
10 YEARS AGO
A total of $4,685,450 in federal grants is available to assist Silver Springs property owners with hook-up costs associated with the new wastewater treatment system.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.