Past Pages Feb. 6

130 YEARS AGO

A few leaves from the Diary of Jimson Weed. Editor of the Appeal: The people of Storey county are getting tired of reading the proceedings of the Carson circus, commonly known as the Legislature. If we had a chance to furnish the cocktails and toddies absorbed by that show, however, we might be able to "stand the racket" as well as you Carsonites.

100 YEARS AGO

The Cincinatti Inquirer has the finest, warmest roast for Reno of any paper that has taken up the divorce matter in many moons. "There are about a hundred attorneys in Reno and all of them have to make their living from divorces."

70 YEARS AGO

Bodies of eight flyers were found near Ragged Top Mountain, some 20 miles from Lovelock after an Army B-17 Flying Fortress enroute from Sacramento to Denver slammed into the hillside. CCC workers are enroute to the crash scene.

20 YEARS AGO

Under Senate Bill SB235, sandstone blocks salvaged from the old V&T Railroad shop would stay in Nevada, not wind up in California's Napa Valley. The bill would appropriate $100,000 to help get the stones.

10 YEARS AGO

Gov. Kenny Guinn said conservation and construction of new power plants are the only way Nevada will escape California's fate. Guinn said the power crisis is the most serious issue he's had to work on in 38 years.

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