120 years ago

The Editor of the White Pine News moralizes that when a new town is growing, all the men can drink at the same bar but need five separate churches to accommodate those creeds. This potentially shows that religion is divided where sin is united and the match is unequaled.

100 years ago

This afternoon Chairman Davis of the Publicity Committee forwarded five tons of mining specimens to the International Exposition at Madison Square Gardens.

70 years ago

Grocery meat markets are closed by a strike in Reno and Sparks. Other markets, unaffected by the strike, closed butcher shops in sympathy of the strike.

50 years ago

"Pomp and Circumstance" will open the Stewart Indian School eighth grade promotion program Friday. Forty students will follow a program of "Reach for A Star" with the colors pink and blue being used. The class flower is the chrysanthemum.

20 years ago

Tom Fettic announces another bid for the ward 2 seat for the board of supervisors.

10 years ago

Carson City will not have a hospital district. A district would expand the boundaries of the hospital and would include commissioners from Lyon and Douglas Counties.



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