130 Years Ago
Rats. The Appeal office is a favorite rendezvous of these rodent pests, owing to the succulent roller rims and palatable paste which abounds in this newspaperdom. The compositors set a trap to catch them, but no sooner does the gleeful typo hear the click of the fallen trap and make a break for the same with murderous intent discernible in his eye, than the old rat laughs, opens the trap from the inside and escapes to its relatives, where it relates what poor rat catchers the Morning Appeal compositors are.
110 Years Ago
All sorts: Governor Boyle was about town yesterday. Miss Amy Meder returned to San Francisco Monday night. That "Lucky Strike" tobacco at Friend's is taking the town.
70 Years Ago
German troops occupied Czech provinces as a Hitler protectorate, and imposed an eight o'clock p.m. curfew in Prague in fear of an outburst of popular hatred. Thousands of Czechs gathered in the streets, booing and hissing the Nazis, singing the Czech anthem.
50 Years Ago
Advertisement: "Carson Theater " "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" with Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and Robert Donat"
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: "The Movies: "Dream a Little Dream," "Rainman" with Dustin Hoffman"
10 Years Ago
Virginia City will be painting the town green for St. Patrick's Day in a tradition that dates back to the 1950s.
- Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.