Past Pages Aug. 24

130 YEARS AGO

The other day a merchant met a friend on the street in Genoa. The friend had been a customer for years and asked the merchant if he was still in business, because he hadn't seen him advertise. He apologized for not putting up his fall order, because he'd gone with another merchant up the street. The merchant had lost thousands with a little false economy.

100 YEARS AGO

A man or a group of men has about ruined the fishing on the Carson river from the Lloyd bridge to the Brunswick dam. For the past two weeks fish have been noted floating belly up. They had been dynamited, destroying many years of work.

70 YEARS AGO

Tom Pardini said today that the old Circe building on the east side of Carson street immediately north of the Sweetland building will be completed in time for Cash Mercantile to open by the first of October. The chain sells clothing.

50 YEARS AGO

The Nevada traffic toll reaches 129 deaths after two were killed in a head-on collision on a rain-slick U. S. Highway 95.

20 YEARS AGO

Faced with budget constraints, city officials drop the ice rink from the Mills Park Events Center project.

10 YEARS AGO

Lack of food and water on the upper Virginia Range is driving Storey County wild horses into the valleys.

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