Past Pages

130 Years Ago

Busted. The tier whose lair used to be in the rear of the Ormsby billiard room, has departed and gone to where the woodbine twineth. It is stated that several of the members of the Legislative Committee on Public Morals made it decidedly warm for a number of the local faro games and that when they left here they carried their immoral gains to the homes of their moral constituencies. Whether they divided or not the knowing ones fail to relate.

110 Years Ago

A Landmark Gone. The original home of Adolph Sutro, the great tunnel projector, burned at Dayton. The house was located in what is now Chinatown at Dayton. Mr. Sutro built the place in 1869, and it was in this house that most of his plans for the great tunnel were drawn.

70 Years Ago

Personal items: Mr. and Mrs. Martin Weisser of Silver City are the proud parents of a baby boy born at Mrs. Litton's nursing home.

50 Years Ago

Irish Shenanigans. The annual St. Patrick's day "Irish Shenanigans" will be staged at the Civic auditorium. The ladies of the St. Theresa's parish under the direction of Mrs. Omer Wolf will be the best yet.

20 Years Ago

Grapes and other fresh fruits imported from Chile were removed from store shelves as the extent and source of cyanide poisoning was in question.

10 Years Ago

Nevada gas prices leaped 6 cents in the month of March for an average of $1.15 per gallon.

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