Past Pages Oct. 24

130 years ago

There is altogether too much wind and chin in the campaign. When a public meeting is called and four or five speakers are turned loose on the crowd the last two or three speakers are obliged to talk to a small crowd, because the proceedings have become so tiresome that the audience has become worn thin in spots. Each orator, of course, labors under the impression that he is the best and most interesting speaker in the State. The less wind and chin, the better.

100 years ago

Sheriff Farrel and Washoe County are having a hard time trying to land Racervich, alias Thompson, who Farrel went to Mexico to secure and bring back to Reno to face a charge of murder. Ferrel, facing a $400 board bill, thought he had it ironed out, but the accused as employed an attorney and is fighting extradition.

70 years ago

Swelling the big attendance at the Nevada Day celebration and indicating the interest of the younger generation in their state and in preparation for its defense and of the nation is the assured participation of twenty troops of Boy Scouts from the Nevada Area Council, each with its respective troop colors and insignia, which together will be massed at the head of an entire division composed of young men.

50 years ago

The familiar black cat trademark with orange and black colors will have its 48th birthday this Halloween throughout the J. W. Copeland Lumber company chain. The chain started at the Fenton yard when a cat had a litter of kittens. The idea caught on and became the logo for the chain (Copeland Lumber was in the Orange building on Stewart Street for a number of years). Copeland Lumber started in Fenton and Meridian, Idaho, in 1912.

20 years ago

Nevada's 200-plus state agencies have asked for a 71 percent increase over current allocations or $2.8 billion in increases in budgets.

10 years ago

It's going to be breezy, and then maybe downright stormy for Nevada Day.

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