Past Pages Jan. 4

130 YEARS AGO

The Chinese New Year is regulated by the moon's phases and may happen between Feb. 15 and March 17. The Chinese men are expected to pay their debts on that day, have feasts and shoot off millions of firecrackers.

120 YEARS AGO

Smash the record: A little brown horse attached to a buckboard, was endeavoring to smash the record or the vehicle by losing all the sweat and stray breath he could gather, using various macadamized crossing as a spring board to beat the icicles out of a canvas tent that was tied on to the hind end of the barouche. Reaching the prison road he turned the breeching to the setting sun and was warming his feet on a hot box.

70 YEARS AGO

Hollywood Roundup: Warner Brothers reports its first mock air raid a success when sirens sent 3000 employees hurrying to four air raid centers. Only a few knew that this was a test. When the warning sounded Bette Davis, James Cagney, Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyman were on set working and followed other employees into the designated shelter.

50 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: "Carson Theater - 'Where the Boys Are' with Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, and Yvette Mimieus."

30 YEARS AGO

First Baby of 1982: Diane Macall was born Friday at Carson Tahoe Hospital. Jeanette and father, Peter, are the winners of the Carson City Merchants' 29th annual First Baby Contest of 1982.

10 YEARS AGO

Kenneth T. Furlong has announced his intention to run for sheriff. The 44-year old Nevada Division of Investigation detective and retired Air Force special agent said, "I feel good at the end of the day, and I am enthusiastic to go back to work in the morning."

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