Past Pages April 12

130 YEARS AGO

During the past week a good many stories have been floating about concerning the Home. It was erroneously reported than when Mr. Mills learned the Legislative Committee was coming to inspect the place he was obliged to telegraph San Francisco to get clothes made to make inmates presentable. The Olcovich Brothers said it took two weeks (by letter).

100 YEARS AGO

A Smithsonian Institute scientist barely escaped death south of Searchlight near spirit mountain recently. He had been part of a party of three searching for arrowheads near spirit mountain when he lost track of his companions, wandering without food or water for two days.

70 YEARS AGO

Out of the mud in a corner of vast Fort Douglas, Utah, has risen a group of ivory-painted frame buildings through which all Nevada, Utah and Southern Idaho youths drafted under the selective service must pass.

50 YEARS AGO

Reports are a Democratic deal is in the making to see that Attorney General Roger Foley will get a federal judge seat, taking him out of the governor's race in 1962.

20 YEARS AGO

Forty-six modular buildings opened Monday as temporary classrooms at Carson City High School.

10 YEARS AGO

A Carson City veteran of three wars was awarded the Purple Heart Monday for injuries sustained in the Vietnam War in 1968. U.S. Army Col. Francis E. Payne, 77, didn't get the award 33 years ago because of an oversight.

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