Past Pages for December 9 to 12, 2023

Saturday

150 years ago...

A party of the boys went west, yesterday afternoon, to King’s Canyon in search of snow bound quail and other game. They were very successful, bagging seventeen quail, eight or ten jackass rabbits and three genuine, so called, English snipe. The hut was through snow up to the waist.

140 years ago…

Capt. Todman’s new boat will have a free lunch table abaft the smokestack.

120 years ago...

Threshers cleaned up 8,000 bushels of wheat and 10,200 bushels of barley in Mason Valley this season.

60 years ago…

Gino Barzie, manager of Frank Sinatra Jr., was standing by his telephone this afternoon, waiting for a hoped-for call from the armed men who kidnapped the 19-year-old singer. Barzie hoped he could act as an agent between the kidnappers and Frank Sinatra Sr.

40 years ago…

The Bureau of Land Management says it collected $3.3 million on the sale of 237 acres of public lands in Clark County and part of the receipts will be used to buy environmentally sensitive acres at Lake Tahoe.

Sunday

150 years ago...

There were no arrests to shock the nerves of the sensitive news reporter and his sympathetic readers yesterday. It was a good time to sit round the Sheriff’s hospitable box-stove and swap fanciful fabrications with the confiding talkers who gather there; and this is how we learned that John Newhouse had been over to Reno and there apprehended a fugitive from the credit side of a boarding house and made him shuck out his ill-hoarded pocket change in liquidation of his repudiated indebtedness.

140 years ago…

John Booth, publisher of the Reveille, and his wife, have become great grandfather and great grandmother. This is a great amount of greatness to be thrust upon one man suddenly, but it is about all the greatness newspaper men inherent. Old John has received several congratulatory letter from mummies in the Egyptian catacombs. — Bodie Free Press

120 years ago…

It isn’t often that George Meyers deliberately cuts his old friends, but such a thing happened the other day. Some twenty-five years ago Mr. Meyers planted a couple of locust trees on the south side of his store. He watched them grow to the largest trees of the kind in Carson and regarded them as friends through all seasons. During the last storm the largest tree near the porch blew loose and George had it cut down. Nearly two cords of wood were cut from it. Mr. Meyers figures that there is another pioneer gone.

60 years ago…

Flights ought to be good enough this year to gladden the heart and soul of most duck call tootling nimrods who participate and enjoy waterfowl hunting. Nevada’s 1963 duck and goose season opens Friday.

40 years ago…

(Photo Caption) Carson City Mayor Harold Jacobsen stood in the rain at the Legislative Mall Saturday morning to personally welcome each race rally car team to Carson City. About 60 cars with drivers and co-drivers lined up there to start the timed competition.

Tuesday

150 years ago...

An extension of your protracted snowstorm made itself manifest last evening. A continuation of sleighing seems probable.

140 years ago…

The wild geese are very plenty, but they carefully avoid familiarities with the hunter. Quail are quite sociable, and grouse somewhat exclusive.

120 years ago...

The meeting of the subscribers to the stock of the new bank has been held, and the officers elected. First was the name and the title of “The Nye and Ormsby County Bank,” was adopted.

60 years ago…

A proposal by councilman Robert Rigler that north Roop street be made a through street was unanimously passed by the Carson City Council this week. Police Marshall Bob Humphrey told the council he agreed with Rigler that it would be a good idea to make north Roop a through street now before an accident.

40 years ago…

Kingsbury Grade is scheduled to be closed to the public traffic today for the Carson City International Pro Rally.

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