Past Pages for April 16

130 YEARS AGO

Temperance War at Glenbrook. Captain Pray, the indefatigable temperance advocate, has forceably prevented some of the residents of Glenbrook from indulging in their regular horns on board the steamboat run by Captain Avery. There has been great excitement in Genoa over the affair. Captain Pray is convinced that unless whisky drinking is stopped in Glenbrook, the town will be altogether given over to the service of Satan.

100 YEARS AGO

Did Phillips evaporate? Deputy Sheriff Thompson has been on a blind trail for the missing prisoner Phillips in Lyon County. Dick Randall is putting in a condensing plant to prevent the next prisoner from going up in smoke, or in steam.

70 YEARS AGO

Miss Sade J. Grant has been confined to her home by illness the past few days.

50 YEARS AGO

Chairman Overton Brooks of the House Space Committee said he would demand a speed-up of the U.S. Space Program.

20 YEARS AGO

Lt. Col. Jim Gibbons flew through dense smoke and heavy fire to give American television viewers their first close look at the damaged well gushing oil into the Persian Gulf. Thursday he said he won a nomination for the distinguished flying cross and other medals of honor.

10 YEARS AGO

Las Vegas is ranked sixth in U.S. auto thefts by the FBI.

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