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120 Years Ago
All sorts: Harry Rice, the engineer, has returned to Carson after 47 smash-ups on the Carson and Colorado Railroad.
100 Years Ago
Pension rate is raised Š Conferees on the widows pension reached an agreement by adopting the bill. It increased from $8 to $12 per month the pensions of widows of soldiers of the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: "Carson Theater, Friday, April 15 'Sergeant Murphy' with Ronald Reagan and Mary McGuire Š from Kentucky's blue-grass came Sergeant Murphy to carry the Star and Stripes to new glory! Second Chapter of 'Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars'"
50 Years Ago
Advertisement: "Congratulations Paul Lauqier on your second office building on V & T Square built by Sture Svensson, building contractor."
20 Years Ago
Carson City home builders may call a halt to all construction. "Whenever we start yelling 'water shortage' around here, the home builders always get hit, but commercial and industrial building goes unchecked," according to Western Nevada Builder's Association president Dwight Millard. Half of the 419 permits were handed out in January.
10 Years Ago
Nevada legislators to receive new laptops to replace the two year old models. The old laptops purchased for 42 Assembly members and 21 Senators won't handle the work of the 1999 session.
• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
All sorts: Harry Rice, the engineer, has returned to Carson after 47 smash-ups on the Carson and Colorado Railroad.
100 Years Ago
Pension rate is raised Š Conferees on the widows pension reached an agreement by adopting the bill. It increased from $8 to $12 per month the pensions of widows of soldiers of the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: "Carson Theater, Friday, April 15 'Sergeant Murphy' with Ronald Reagan and Mary McGuire Š from Kentucky's blue-grass came Sergeant Murphy to carry the Star and Stripes to new glory! Second Chapter of 'Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars'"
50 Years Ago
Advertisement: "Congratulations Paul Lauqier on your second office building on V & T Square built by Sture Svensson, building contractor."
20 Years Ago
Carson City home builders may call a halt to all construction. "Whenever we start yelling 'water shortage' around here, the home builders always get hit, but commercial and industrial building goes unchecked," according to Western Nevada Builder's Association president Dwight Millard. Half of the 419 permits were handed out in January.
10 Years Ago
Nevada legislators to receive new laptops to replace the two year old models. The old laptops purchased for 42 Assembly members and 21 Senators won't handle the work of the 1999 session.
• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
