140 Years Ago
Died: Lottie M., daughter of George and Mary C. Fleming, aged six years. It has been but a few days since Mr. and Mrs. Fleming followed their elder daughter to the grave. That direful, dreaded scourge, the scarlet fever, was the cause.
130 Years Ago
Steamboat deposits: An expedition lead by Eugene Ricksecker of the United States government to make a topographical survey of Steamboat Springs was attracted by the discovery that cinnabar was slowly being deposited by chemical action. This is the only place in the world where the process is still going on ...
110 Years Ago
Discovery: Joe Muller, a guard at the prison, went to hunt an escaped life termer and found him hidden in the trunk of a petrified mastodon. It is Mr. Consindine’s idea to place the mastodons around as ornaments and has already stationed half a dozen around the yard. When an eastern visitor comes to the prison and sees half a heard of gigantic mastodons on guard, he is impressed. The animals are worth $100,000 each (Churchill Standard).
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Thanksgiving Day dinner — $1.50, oyster soup, pear and cottage cheese, curly celery, ripe olives, roast young Fallon turkey, buttered celery dressing, candied yams, creamed corn, Parker house rolls, hot mince pie, pumpkin pie, coffee, tea, milk, sherbet, Jell-O — Senator Café.”
50 Years Ago
Telephone: Long distance rates to be slashed for a three-minute station-to-station call. The all-day Sunday rate, now $1.75, would be reduced to $1.00; Saturday calls, now $2.25, will be $1.50; calls after 8 p.m. each day now costing $1.75 would cost $1 ...
15 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Wallace Theatres in Carson City: ‘The World is Not Enough,’ ‘Anywhere But Here,’ ‘Toy Story 2,’ ‘Pokémon,’ The Bachelor ...’”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
