Past Pages

130 YEARS AGO

The aspirations of the petty thieves are not so high as they have taken the meat hooks from John Rosser and empty whiskey barrels from the Ormsby House yard. In the old days they would have simply rolled a drunk. We are ashamed of the demoralized character of our petty thieves and we would like them to improve, if they have no greater ambition.

100 YEARS AGO

The Appeal is in receipt of a highway map from the National Transportation Association, which shows north, central and southern highways. The central highway passes through Carson City, up Kings Canyon to Lake Tahoe.

70 YEARS AGO

Forty-seven-year-old Babe Ruth is in the hospital suffering from pneumonia. He is described as a very sick man.

50 YEARS AGO

Nevada Appeal reporter Bill Thorpe successfully identifies an amnesia victim. The woman had suffered a complete loss of memory at a local club following a personal tragedy.

20 YEARS AGO

Nevada Gaming Pioneer Harvey Gross' old ranch north of Genoa is back on the market, this time for $27 million.

10 YEARS AGO

Alan Marraige moves the home his grandfather built 67 years ago at Proctor and Stewart streets to a lot on in South Carson.

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