130 YEARS AGO
A Plain Duty: During the past week the State has been greatly agitated over the disclosures made regarding the Orphan's Home. These reports may be falsehoods, women with the object of displacing current management. If the statements of witnesses are true, then it is the plain duty of the Board to order an investigation.
100 YEARS AGO
The testing of the gambling law is to be given a thorough test in Winnemucca while at Fallon indictments are against two citizens for carrying on a game. This morning the case of Frank P. Morrison and W. C. Wilson of Lovelock was called.
70 YEARS AGO
Assemblyman C. D. Baker, captain in the United States army engineer reserves from Las Vegas has been called to active duty and will be sent to Honolulu, Hawaii.
50 YEARS AGO
The best amateur news picture will earn someone $5 and the title of "Amateur News Photographer of the Week" in a new contest by the Nevada Appeal.
20 YEARS AGO
A crowd of 300 greets Nevada Air Guardsmen as five RF4C Phantom II Jets land at Reno. Of those returning from Iraq was Assembly-man James Gibbons.
10 YEARS AGO
Myrtle Hogan turns 104 years young.
• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
