Past Pages

by Sue Ballew

130 Years Ago

Mrs. Mackey is the most popular American lady that ever lived in Paris. Her magnificent residence, near the Arc de Triomphe, is the wonder of the French capital. Her reception to General Grant was the grandest offering of the kind ever given in France.

110 Years Ago

Owsley has opened a new restaurant in the south of his saloon and called it "The Swell" " a pretty name. The place is fitted with a number of private boxes for parties " the fittings are the best that taste and money can provide.

70 Years Ago

Max Baer, the former heavyweight champion is under contract to work for a series of western pictures which will not interfere with his ring career. He has appeared in "The Prize Fighter and the Lady," with Myrna Loy.

50 Years Ago

Crowell to head Cal-Val-Ta Shrine which serves Carson City, Carson Valley and South Lake Tahoe. Officers named were Wm. J Crowell, president; Forest Hall 1st vice president; Mike Wagner, 2nd vice-president; Mel Woodgate, secretary.

20 Years Ago

The 1989 Legislature should avoid "Bullfrog county" plan errors for getting maximum amount of federal money should a nuclear dump be built.

10 Years Ago

Photo caption: Nevada Appeal photographer Rick Gunn trudges up the west slope of the Sierra from the Placerville while retracing the steps of Snowshoe Thompson.

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