130 YEARS AGO
Whipping Children: The Appeal has received several letters from parents complaining of a certain lady teacher ... that oversteps the bounds and punishes severely on too slight provocation. It is not in the province of a newspaper to meddle with the matter. The parents whose children need the most whipping are the ones most anxious to make a fuss about it.
120 YEARS AGO
All sorts: Young Abraham Lincoln, grandson of ex-President Lincoln, died yesterday.
70 YEARS AGO
Everett Curless: takes scoring honors during Carson City high school basketball and outscored the highly-favored Reno team, 32 to 31. The victory gave the Carson school its fifth championship title in five years with the chance at the 1940 state title ... (Everett Curless was raised in the Nevada Children's Home).
50 YEARS AGO
TV Programs (one channel-half day): Uncle Happy, Huckleberry Hound, U.S. Marshal, Maverick, The Real McCoys, Danny Thomas, Markham, Revlon Revue, Whistler, Jack Parr Show.
10 YEARS AGO
Gov. Kenny Guinn warns lawmakers that state revenues aren't growing as fast as needed and that the state must change the tax system or change how it budgets for services to Nevadans.
• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.