100 years ago: Classified for sale advertisements included a side board, china closet, dining room table, typewriter desks, a new heating stove, single and double beds, small tables, kitchen tables and “few other articles at a bargain” from K.M. Murray, “Phone Durango 278.”

75 years ago: Spring began to show in Durango as farmers and residential gardeners noticed snow was melting on Smelter Mountain.

50 years ago: A nationwide survey showed that people wanted advertising in newspapers more than in any other medium.

25 years ago: A drunken man was found passed out on the bags of fertilizer in the parking lot of South City Market. Police took him to detox.

Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.