130 YEARS AGO
Bennett, Merrill and Carlyle, the three men who put up $2,000 a piece to race on bicycles across the continent, agreed at Reno to call it a draw, and the race ended. They say the bicycle is a noble animal for a short ride of a hundred miles, but a jaunt across the Union involves more labor than fun.
100 YEARS AGO
Alexander B. Winton, the inventor of the automobile and Charles B. Shanks, correspondent for the Cleveland Plaindealer, who left San Francisco a week ago to make the trip across the continent by motor carriage, arrived at Winnemucca last night by freight train. The trip will finish by Pullman car. Their motor carriage is stalled in the sand two miles east of Mill City - the deserts of Nevada worked the undoing of the horseless carriage.
70 YEARS AGO
Dr. Fred M. Anderson has been appointed Major in the Medical Corps, Adjutant General J. H. White announced today. Dr. Anderson will be deferred for five months because of a recent operation.
50 YEARS AGO
Air patrol over the holiday weekend was accomplished by Highway Patrol chief pilot Lew Gorley, who witnesses violations from his "Super Cub" then radios ahead to a patrol car. The plane is also equipped with a public address system and a siren.
20 YEARS AGO
The new Topaz Lake firehouse opens and will house the Topaz Lake Volunteer Fire Department.
10 YEARS AGO
Carson High School vice principal Harvie Walker retires from the district after 33 years.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.