Past Pages for Thursday, June 30, 2016

150 years ago

A naturalist says: Last summer, while walking in my park, I observed a green woodpecker alight on the ground some 50 paces before me, look around to see if he was observed, then lie down and simulate death by stretching out himself motionless, and hanging his tongue out as far as possible. He would occasionally pull in his bill. He had selected a place near an ant-hill. The ants, thinking him dead, would cover his tongue to devour him; when it was black with ants, he would swallow them, and repeat his trick, until his maw could hold no more.

130 years ago

Monday night between 12 and 1 o’clock Marlette and Folsom’s sawmill at Incline, Lake Tahoe, was discovered in flames. Every possible means for exhausting the fire taken, but everything was consumed, with the exception of the chain cable which was saved by covering it with dirt. The fire is attributed to the work of an incendiary.

100 years ago

Recruiting station: A recruiting station for the United States Army has been opened in the Circe building. Commencing with tomorrow morning the station will be open from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Colonel Day, L.F. A Damson and C.N. Clark will be in charge.

70 years ago

With a top flight dance band scheduled and prizes to be given away, final plans for the 20-30 Club sponsored dance this Saturday night are complete, Bill Jones, chairman, announced last night. The dance will feature an eight-piece dance band.

50 years ago

The Nevada Highway death toll went to 93 on Friday with the addition of an Esmeralda County death from a May 14 accident. The toll was 79 one year ago and 85 on this date in 1964, Nevada’s record death year.

30 years ago

Mayor Dan Flammer was released from Washoe Medical Center in Reno following a quadruple bypass surgery June 17. Although the mayor seems to be doing very well according to his wife, Dottie, it will be three weeks before when he will be allowed back to work.

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