Past pages April 21

130 YEARS AGO

On Sunday morning the noisy nuisance "Whistling Dick," and a respectable gentleman, both drunk as lords, with arms affectionately wound around each other, were reeling down Carson street, rendering themselves the cynosure of all eyes. Drunk as he was, Dick looked like he was ashamed of his company.

100 YEARS AGO

Harry Edwards has lost a valuable hunting dog to the dog poisoner. This morning half a dozen other dogs were found dead of poisoning. Jim Denning lost one, as did Thurman Roberts with another lying dead near the railroad depot. The deliberate indiscriminate killing of animals is not only cowardly but criminal.

70 YEARS AGO

Duane Folz's essay "What I Owe to America," and "What America Gives to Me," was the winner of the statewide senior high school American Legion Auxiliary of Nevada patriotic essay contest.

50 YEARS AGO

The Carson City council is going to replace the dog catcher with Eleanor Bartels. She is a licensed professional handler of the American Kennel Club.

20 YEARS AGO

A psychologist whose wife was fired from the state prison system for proposing an old west theme park style brothel in Silver City says the idea is a good one, and his wife shouldn't be fired.

10 YEARS AGO

Carson City officials unveiled a plan for Fuji Park which divides the area nearly in half for commercial development and a park.

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