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130 YEARS AGO

Miss Millie-Christine, the double-headed nightingale, and Count Rosebud and Baron Littlefinger gave receptions at Moore & Parker's Theater. The double-headed woman is, without question, the most wonderful natural production of this or any other age. Miss Millie Christine possesses a fine command of four different languages; each head speaking four different languages; each head speaking a different one at the same time.

100 YEARS AGO

Two important events stand out in reports from Tonopah from people that journeyed from there: One is the huge assays obtained from one lease of the Owney Dougherty and the other is that women have caught the fever and are successful in their efforts to find treasure ore.

70 YEARS AGO

It has been satisfactorily proven that no enemy plane can reach the munitions base at Hawthorne, reports the Hawthorne Independent. Army practice raids coming from the Owens Valley to attempt to destroy the ammunitions depot were headed off by opposing allied forces from Porterfield.

50 YEARS AGO

The Rev. A. G. Shriver told members of the Carson City Masonic Fellowship club about his early days in Nevada as a "Sky Pilot." Shriver helped organize Sunday schools and churches in Northern Nevada when he first came to the state.

20 YEARS AGO

Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal seeks to overturn a state gaming decision to place him in the "Black Book."

10 YEARS AGO

Forty Scarselli Elementary School fourth-graders visit the Nevada Supreme Court, swinging in leather chairs, posturing at the appellant's table and playing mock clerk.

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