Past Pages

Wednesday
145 years ago
A fellow citizen who is well entitled to have a very respectful hearing complained to our reporter yesterday that the dogs in the pound in the rear of the County building make such an infernal uproar nights an days as to cause tired Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep, to be banished form tired humanity and to make the heaven-sent gift of patience cease to be a virtue. The pound should be removed far away from the center of our Capitoline enlightenment.
140 years ago
It is a common thing for families who patronize Chinese wash houses to send children for the clothes and frequently a little girl will be deputized. A few nights since some parties passing a wash house in the rear of the Mint saw a little girl enter the house with a basket of clothes. The door closed and a few minutes later they heard the child screaming. Parents should never send a young child to a Chinese wash house.
120 years ago
At present Tonopah can boast of 85 tents and wooden buildings.
80 years ago
The first blackout in the history of Nevada will be held in Reno in the very near future. Reno has been selected for the initial blackout because of its large population.
50 years ago
Somewhere in Nevada, there is a person going around in circles, counter-clockwise, his right arm flexing in a straight line away from his body, his head at a slight tilt (and body likewise) as if he was unable to straighten up. Those are the people that will participate in the first ever International Challenge 12-hours Enduro Race at the Tahoe-Carson Speedway, 2,232 times around the oval.
20 years ago
A failed attempt last year to bring a decrepit 150-year-old windmill back to its former glory, father and son Red and Tom Metcalf think they finally have it wired.
Thursday
145 years ago
Yesterday morning, at Mrs. Pierce’s lodging house, in the Rinkel brick building on Carson between Telegraph and Spear streets, a lad who was sent to awaken him, found a man named Charles D. Strickland dead in his bed. Evidences were at hand that he had committed suicide by taking laudanum.
140 years ago
Gillian landed a trout at the Mexican dam yesterday weighing four pounds and three ounces.
120 years ago
Horrible Death. Just as we were doing to press about 10 last night a terrible explosion was heard on a hill east of town. The attention of the entire town was attracted to the spot, and investigation shows that a man has been blown to fragments by a box of giant powder, pieces of the body being found all over the hill and in the town. The man was a Pete Copeland. He had threatened to commit suicide during the early evening, and evidently sat upon a box of giant and then applied the match. — Bonanza.
80 years ago
William Orten is supervision construction of a climb-proof fence enclosing most of the ground on the state museum block on the north side of the building. The fence will protect the museum’s outside exhibits, including civil war days ammunition wagons, railroad locomotive, ore cars, etc.
50 years ago
Representatives from local teachers’ groups around Nevada will meet here Tuesday to discuss the effect of the President’s wage and salary freeze on the state’s 6,000 teachers.
20 years ago
Former President Bill Clinton said the country should consider alternatives to burying nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Friday
145 years ago
Mr. George W. Kitzmeyer returned on Friday morning form his Eastern journeying. The weather on the other side hasn’t agreed with him. He comes back here as lean as a snake. He don’t want any more East wind, East heat, East water and East sight seeing in his’n for some centuries to come. While in the east he bout a large assortment of first rate furniture which will be here in a week or so.
140 years ago
Dick Rule has been appointed Fish Commissioner of Arizona. As there is not a fish in the whole territory or ever likely to be, Rule’s labors are very light.
120 years ago
Farewell Dance. Friday evening the farewell dance given to the teachers of Empire will take place. All of the young lady teachers of Empire who teach in the different districts of the State, are home on vacation, and will leave for their different schools next week.
80 years ago
Ryland Cunningham, boy of 8 or 9 years old, fell from a tree a couple days ago and had the misfortune of fracturing both wrists. He is getting along as well as could be expected.
50 years ago
The number of highway traffic violators who fail to appear in court in Douglas County has resulted in a crackdown by law enforcement officials and issuance of bench warrants for the arrest of the offenders.
20 years ago
An air tanker en route to a wildfire lost an engine Saturday and was forced to drop 3,000 gallons of retardant over David Walley’s Resort and Hot Springs south of Genoa.

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