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130 YEARS AGO

A strange feline: A prominent man in the town has a four-year-old cat who can do many tricks. It can open the door by jumping up and taking hold of the knob, then swinging backward and forward a few times when the door suddenly springs back and with the aid of its hind feet is enabled to push the door open. This is witnessed almost every day. (Bodie Free Press)

120 YEARS AGO

Oil in Nevada: The mining outlook according to Dan De Quille - Salt, petroleum and natural gas are associated in most places throughout the world. A professor had made the origin of petroleum a study and arrived at the conclusion that oil is a kind of insect and it is of the oil produced by the decomposition and fermentation of the fatty bodies of insects. (Continued on Thursday)

70 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: "Carson Theater, 'Sergeant York' with Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Joan Leslie."

30 YEARS AGO

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to tax dealers for the tips from 21, craps, roulette and other gaming tables and has made an offer to dealers in Reno, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas: "Report 100 percent of your tips and we promise not to audit any of your previous tax returns."

10 YEARS AGO

Bob Crowell leads the school board as President, replacing Norm Scoggin. One of the priorities he would like to address is reduction of the ratio of students to teachers.

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