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120 YEARS AGO

Yesterday the wife of George McLaughlin of the Mint, presented her husband with twins, a boy and a girl. The boy weighed 7 pounds and the girl 7 1/2. All hands are doing well.

100 YEARS AGO

Yesterday the Appeal interviewed Mr. John Sparks relative to his ideas of the Gubernatorial Mansion. "Well," he said, "such a bill puts me in a delicate position. If it passes, I think that every Governor elected to occupy it should pay a rental of $500 a year until it will be p aid for."

70 YEARS AGO

James Quinlan Raycraft, 22 years old, dies at his home in Gardnerville after a long illness. He is a cousin of Hubert Raycraft, Ormsby County (Carson City) Assemblyman and belongs to a family well known in Carson and Gardnerville. He was born in Genoa June 16, 1910, and graduated from Gardnerville High School in 1928. Surviving is mother, Mrs. Annie Raycraft, brother Homer of Gardnerville and sister Mrs. Fred Helwinkel of Minden and brother T.W. Raycraft, San Luis Obispo.

50 YEARS AGO

Plans of the Nevada Day Committee to take the old V&T train out of the roundhouse and put it on display on East Caroline Street are beginning to shape up, says W.E. Dunfield, secretary, Chamber of Commerce.

20 YEARS GO

Donald Sevrance, a psychologist with the Carson Mental Health Clinic and columnist for the Nevada Appeal will speak of "Developing Self-Confidence Through Direct Decision Making" to the monthly meeting of the American Society for Training and Development at Reno.

10 YEARS AGO

Mark Twain portrayed by McAvoy Layne at the Brewery Arts Center; he is the wild humorist of the Pacific Slope as he presents "humor for the intellectual stomach."

Bill Dolan, a Carson City resident, has been writing this column for the Nevada Appeal since 1947.