Past Pages for July 31 to August 3, 2021

Saturday
150 Years Ago
Woe to the man who will not smile over a cradle, or weep over a tomb.
140 Years Ago
Moonlight party: A Moonlight party will be held for the benefit of the Circulating Library from 9 o’clock p.m. to 1 o’clock a.m. to good music at Treadways Park. Admission one dollar for gentlemen and fifty cents each for ladies.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Pot hunters are breaking the law--shooting ducks at Washoe.
Six young toughs ranging in age from 15 to 20 have been arrested near San Jose for highway robbery.
100 Years Ago
Virginia City: Virginia City has seventeen soft drink emporiums. Superintendent Jones of the Anti-Saloon League preached a sermon in one of the Carson churches Sunday and said Carson City was known as the driest place in the state. Hope his statement won’t discourage Captain Donnelley and Mayor Gray in their contemplated raid on alleged bootleggers.
60 Years Ago
Circus: The 15^th annual Kerak Temple Shrine Circus will be held for four days at Mackay Stadium. The Polack Bros. will include wild animals, high acts, acrobats, tumblers, clown numbers and costumed spectacles. Pat Anthony and his lions and tigers, Besalou elephants, Captain Schreiber’s chimpanzee, Lipizzaner horses, and Jim Douglass’ Canine Express will be there.
20 Years Ago
Photo caption: Charles M. Russell’s work, ‘A Disputed Trail,’ sold for $2.1 million at a Reno auction. Total sales at the event reached $13 million.
Sunday
145 years ago
Found Dead. Mr. Pratt of the Carson Valley News, who was in the city yesterday, informs us that the dead body of a man was found by some haymakers yesterday near the old Clayton ranch in Douglas County. It is supposed to be the body of a man named Grady, notwithstanding the fact that a body which was suppose to be Grady’s was found sometime since on the Carson near Empire.
140 years ago
A Rope of Woman’s Hair. The Pioche Record gives some additional facts relative to the Mountain Meadow massacre. It says: In his detail of Indian horrors that came under his notices, Mr. Marley, the New Mexico Indian killer, stated that he gave an Indian a half a dollar for a hair rope ten feet in length and about the size of his little finger. He questioned the Indian who told him the rope was made form the hair of women and girls slain in the Mountain Meadow massacre.
120 years ago
About the warmest town in Nevada seems to be Rioville, Lincoln county, where the thermometer at midnight on the 19th stood at 105, while during the day it has reached 120. This is probably the hottest weather Nevada has experienced since it was inhabited by white people.
80 years ago
Carson City nearly got in a position a few days ago, to claim an international champion. It was this way: Earl Corbett of the Nevada Capitol city, competing in the shoot sponsored by the Pacific International Trap Association in Portland, scored 99 out of a possible 100 shots in the match the first day, and 97 out of 100 the second. The winner was Rance Niles of Portland, who beat Earl by one point.
50 years ago
John S. Miller, 29, editor of the Ely Daily, has been named editor of the Carson City Nevada Appeal, Appeal General Manager Jack D. King has announced. Miller has been with the Ely paper for the past two years.
20 years ago
Witnesses to a fatal accident on Lake Tahoe’s Highway 28 say they waited in frustration Monday night as their 911 cell-phone calls were routed to Sacramento police. The dispatcher frantically tried to get help from Truckee, but the officers were sent to Mt. Rose instead.
Tuesday
145 years ago
The Carson and Glenbrook mail carrying has been let to one Anderson Arnot, we see. Who in the devil is Anderson Arnot? And what is he doing with this long-established mail route? The ways of the General Post Office are mysterious, and to the ordinary mind past finding out.
140 years ago
Domestic Troubles. Clem Berry, the town crier, was arrested yesterday for beating his wife. Clem was married but a few weeks ago and the trouble grew out of conflicting styles of baking a hoecake. Mrs. B. Wanted the Alabama way and Clem insisted on the Louisiana plan. The trial has been deferred until Judge Cary gets back from the lake.
120 years ago
Tonapah (sic) The Discoverer Talks of the Rich Camp. Mr. Butler, the discoverer of the now famous Tonapah mines, is stopping for a few days in this city. When asked about the late rich find made by Roy Sunderland, Mr. Butler said: “Although it is reported that Mr. Sunderland has uncovered very rich ore in the ground outside my holdings, I hardly think it likely.”
80 years ago
The office of production management today placed pig iron under full rationing control in order to insure adequate supplies of iron and steel for defense.
50 years ago
Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin blasted off safely from the moon today after three days of historic lunar exploration. As the bug-like Falcon blazed into the lunar sky, Scott and Irwin started a tape of the Air Force song: “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder.”
20 years ago
About 50 ranchers and state’s rights activists picketed a livestock auction in Fallon Tuesday, protesting a Federal government’s seizure of cattle from two ranchers accused of trespassing on public lands.

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