130 YEARS AGO
Lew the Rattler and Hank Monk: When they get down by the Ormsby House and begin to spin yarns, a crowd immediately gathers ... like flies about molasses, Hank on one side and Gilhooley on the other, watching to pounce on the point of the joke the instant it shows up - Hank, splutters chuckles and Gilhooley throws his head back, opens his jaw like the lid of a coffee pot, and roars like a wild ass.
120 YEARS AGO
All sorts: Jake Klein sent a keg of beer to the (printer's) Devil of the Appeal office ... but shortly after the arrival of the keg, the boy disappeared.
70 YEARS AGO
Seen, thought or heard, by ETC: Watch Carson grow and spread out ... proof is seen on both sides of Carson Street leading north ... new homes on the northwestern outskirts, along the extended West Robinson Street, on South Carson Street and along the prison road.
50 YEARS AGO
Dinner with Ike: President Eisenhower left for California where he will make his first major 1960 political speech.
20 YEARS AGO
The Nevada Health Division begins a statewide radon survey to determine if the gas poses a danger for lung cancer.
10 YEARS AGO
Photo caption: Nick Nicosia of Carson City and Lloyd Pendergraft of Reno plan to launch a weekly news magazine, The Territorial Enterprise. The men bought the paper, which originally began in 1858.
• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.