150 Years Ago
An act to provide revenue poem (in part):
Poor Bill! Tho’ust had a stormy time
A time of grief and woe,
In your passage thro’ this Upper House
Ere you could be let go.
For seventy-two successive days
I’ve seen your pleasant face;
I’ve amended, re-amended you,
And still you kept your place.
And now, old friend, go, go your ways,
I’ve done with you at last;
You now can work on your own hook —
Take care. Don’t be too fast.
(Journal Clerk, Carson City, March 27, 1867)
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Canada has sent 30 armed vessels to hunt American fisherman. James Lee shot his wife five times at his ranch near San Francisco. Sen. Jones is about to put the squatters out on his Southern California property.
110 Years Ago
Bingham located: An Arctic whaler recently ran across a wild looking man on an iceberg waving with an oil can. It was probably one of the Bingham boys who had returned from the North Pole, where he had been lubricating the axis of the earth.
70 Years Ago
Rare wolverine specimen: A southern wolverine was donated to the Nevada State Museum. Donor was William M. Maule of Minden. The animal had been trapped in 1909-10 by Walter Thorneberg in the lower Blue Lakes region above Markleeville.
50 Years Ago
Servicemen news: Hospitalman Michael A. Bodamer, USNR, is in Da Nang Vietnam serving as a member of “A” Battery. Fireman apprentice Michael D. Shinn, USN, has reported for duty at the Naval Support Activity in Da Nang, Vietnam.
20 Years Ago
Top weekend movies: “Liar, Liar,” “Selena,” “Return of the Jedi,” Jungle 2 Jungle,” “Private Parts,” “Donnie Brasco,” “Sling Blade,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” and “The English Patient.”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
