130 YEARS AGO
Movable houses: W. H. Corbett is making some small houses, built in sections that can be moved from place to place and hold four people. They are intended for use of men working on the railroad ... they are low in price and made from light material, easily carried by men.
Temperance work: Gilhooly put a rubber frog in the drawer of George Bryson ... when he opened the drawer, the frog expanded suddenly and leaped out ... The young man nearly fainted ... and discovered he had the premonitory symptoms of "delirium tremors." He now stands conspicuously on the roll of the Reform Club ...
120 YEARS AGO
Special election: Let everyone who has the comfort and safety of our school children at heart, vote for the necessary repairs to make the Central School building what it should be ... (it didn't pass).
70 YEARS AGO
Seen, Heard or Thought by E.T.C.: A thousand warplanes a day ... staggers the imagination, and to give pause to any conquest-mad dictator who might consider the United States of America as a country with an abundance of rich prizes to attract invasion ... The Fords say they can turn out that number (of planes). And historians of the future will date the airplane industry's big development from May 1940, when one Adolf Hitler away over in Europe - across the Atlantic ocean - frightened the people of the U.S. into air mindedness on a colossal scale.
50 YEARS AGO
Advertisement: Save! Mercury is now priced below the lowest-priced Impala or Fury V-8! Mercury list price $2,531, Impala $2,697, Fury $2,694 for V-8 sedans. Pozzi Motor Co., since 1923 your Ford Dealer, 515 S. Carson Street.
20 YEARS AGO
Photo caption: Brandon Nelson presented a poem, "A Rose is a Rose Forever" to teacher Grace Bordewich at Grace Bordewich Elementary School while students Ann Marie Hurt and Dustin Miller hold the portrait of Bordewich.
10 YEARS AGO
Dairy Queen opens with franchise owners Steve and Kathy Boeche. "... the whole range of DQ treats can be had without crossing county lines ..."
• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.