Past Pages for Thursday, May 12, 2016

150 Years Ago

Benefit to a sufferer. Mr. Riley Armstrong is engaged in the praiseworthy employment of soliciting subscribers to a benefit to be given at Silver City for the benefit of Mr. J. F. Angell, one of the sufferers by the late fire in that place.

130 Years Ago

The art of snubbing. Politeness has been defined by the highest authorities based on the consideration for the feelings of others. It has become one of the amusements of the fashionable society. At a charity ball a noted belle of the “upper crust” came face to face with a faultlessly dressed gentleman of whom she purchased her French shoes. The gentleman fumbled in his pocket for a pencil to ask her to dance, but the belle flanked him by saying: “I presume you wish to collect your bill, it seems rather urgent to present it here, but I will call papa and have it settled.”

110 Years Ago

White Pine News. Houlder Hudgins has purchased stock of the White Pine News Company and is now the president of the company as well as editor of the paper.

Several Mergenthaler linotype machines were saved from ruin in the San Francisco fire by burying the most delicate parts of the mechanism.

70 Years Ago

Birth. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Austin at the Washoe General hospital in Reno. No name has been chosen for the new arrival.

50 Years Ago

Working artists. The Nevada Artists Association sponsored an annual May Festival of Art in Reno. Noreen Humphreys and Corday Gustafson, Carson City artists, are represented in the juried show. Mrs. Gustafson received an honorable mention for her oil painting. Mrs. Humphreys had “Geometric Maze,” and “Cathedral” a wire sculpture on display.

20 Years Ago

Wanted posters. Wanted poster of deadbeat parents were issued for four men and one woman whose late child support payments top $124,000. One thousand of the posters are being distributed to coincide with Mother’s Day.

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