Past Pages Jan. 10

130 YEARS AGO

Epizotic: H. L. Perkins, an old-timer in Idaho, writes to Doc Benton that there is scarcely a horse in his section that isn't troubled with pink-eye. The disease seems to be tending westward and as it proceeds in this direction the severity lessens.

120 YEARS AGO

Queen Jumbo: One of the elephants at the park in San Francisco was suffering from the grip [sic]. Treatment was two gallon doses of whiskey and quinine, and huge mustard plasters tied on her sides. She recovered.

70 YEARS AGO

Biggest stories of 1941: Nevada's preparation following the war declaration - blackout tests, air raid warnings, pre-war defense preparations. Development of the multi-million dollar magnesium industry at Boulder Dam, Las Vegas and Luning. Announcement of $13 million Lemmon Valley airbase and bases set for Fallon, Carson Valley and Austin.

30 YEARS AGO

Sammy Davis Jr. performs for inmates at the Medium Security Prison. Davis danced, joked and impersonated his way through a one-hour performance before an audience of about 600 inmates from the medium security and women's prisons.

10 YEARS AGO

Anthrax vaccine is available in an emergency if anthrax strikes another American. Patients may receive an experimental treatment culled from the blood of soldiers who received the anthrax vaccine. This immune globulin is being added to the nation's bioterrorism treatment stockpile.

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