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by Trent Dolan
March 23, 2008, 4:01 AM

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120 years ago

Hawthorne physicians vaccinate Chinamen and Indians at two bits each and charge white men five dollars for a similar service.

100 years ago

A newspaper editor was arrested in New Jersey the other day for throwing money away. The sudden acquisition of the lucre Ð it couldn't have been acquired any other way Ð must have made the poor fellow insane.

70 years ago

(Venice, CA) Fred W. Martin is the city jail's most habitual inhabitant. He was brought in Sunday for the 189th time in two years. The charge was drunkenness, the same as usual. This time police found him rolling on the beach, pretending he was a porpoise.

50 years ago

Gov. Charles Russell disclosed today that he is attending a hearing before the Senate interior and insular affairs committee to discuss a long range mining program. He will report on the depressed mining industry on behalf of two other western state governors.

20 years ago

Lawyers representing nearby property owners are seeking an injunction to prevent a mine from opening in Storey County due to environmental concerns of cyanide leaching.

10 years ago

Minden-based NDS software has the second most real estate listings on the internet.



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