Saturday
150 Years Ago
Terrible tragedy: In San Francisco a young man named Laurentz Jacobson, aged twenty-six shot a young girl named Rachael McDonald, age fourteen years, and then blew his own brains out. The young man had become attached to the girl and she appeared to be displeased with his advances. The young lady is said to have been very beautiful; of a sweet and modest disposition; always light and joyous, and beloved by all who knew her.
140 Years Ago
Skipped town: A gentlemanly young man, a steward in one of the first class hotels, borrowed small sums of money from his acquaintances. Then he left for parts unknown. The young man’s address is unknown.
130 Years Ago
Skating: We are to have a skating rink conducted on scientific principles this winter. Mr. W. M. Lynch of the Mint will manage it during his leisure hours.
100 Years Ago
Two deaths: Mrs. Henry Fulstone has died from influenza at the Fulstone home farm. A son of George Fulstone is also reported dead and the entire family is stricken.
70 Years Ago
Photo caption: Holiday throng Jams Carson—Estimates by the state highway recently were done in Carson City November 1 for the 1948 celebration (of Admission Day). A portion of that crowd is shown as the parade rounded its way down Carson street. John Nulty, who took this picture, had his camera on top of the Page hotel.
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Cinema 50 Discount Theater, all seats all shows, all days $1.50—‘A Night at the Roxbury,’ ’The Parent Trap,’ and ‘Armageddon.’”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Roads: The road between Carson City, Warm Springs and Empire is being put in good shape thanks to Colonel Curry. He has taken it in hand now, and in thirty days will have one of the finest thoroughfares leading out of Carson.
140 Years Ago
Accident: The eleven-year old son of Mrs. Cross fell off the eastern bound train near Golconda. He was not missed until the train reached Battle Mountain, where she and her remaining son stopped over to find him. He had fallen off the passenger train and was found at Stone House by a passenger on the train who saw his lifeless body. The boy was unconscious and stimulants were administered to him. He was taken to Winnemucca where his mother joined him. His head is so badly injured that his recovery is doubtful.
130 YearS Ago
Sad: During the last few days an old lady had been stopping at the Ormsby House. Her listless manner attracted the attention of all observing inmates of the house. She came here from a great distance to seed the pardon of her son at the State Prison. Her mission proved fruitless as her son was not pardoned. The broken-hearted mother returned home never realizing the fact that her son committed a crime and cannot be pardoned. It is sad that a pleading mother must be turned away.
100 Years Ago
Influenza: Ed Ryan, one of the community’s most respected and best thought of citizens, passed away, another victim of the dreaded influenza. He was taken ill following the death of his daughter and from the first his case was regarded as serious. He was a native of Iowa where he was born forty-seven years ago. He moved to Goldfield and in 1908 was appointed State Mine Inspector by Governor Dickerson. He leaves his wife, mother, two sisters, and brother. (The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 through December 1920) was known as the Spanish flu and was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic.)
70 Years ago
Photo caption: With arms spread as wide as his happy smile President Harry S. Truman acknowledges the ovation as he left his Kansas City, Mo., headquarters. Thousands of cheering people jammed the streets to acclaim the victory of their most famous citizen who had won the Presidency.
20 Years Ago
Barbara Horton Mighels: Ninety-year old Mighels died more than three months after her husband of 56 years, Harry. She met and married Harry Mighels whose family founded the Nevada Appeal. The pair met at a dinner party in 1942 at Stoddard and Mighels Grandmother Nellies home when Harry worked for the Carson Brewery as a salesman selling Tahoe Beer.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Runaway Match: A young couple, failing to obtain consent of the parents of the young woman, who was of lawful age to judge for herself, went to Genoa and got married. The report says there were two lovers of the lady—one acceptable to the parents, and the other was the winning one.
140 Years Ago
Hurt by a runaway: A runaway horse knocked down a Chinese man’s basket leaving him with his face bleeding from the forehead, and presenting a pitiable spectacle. Dr. White who was in the area raised him up and found that he was more stunned than seriously hurt. Mr. Tibbetts and Mr. Pearson came with a wagon and gave him a lift homeward to his vegetable ranch. Matt Rinckel’s “Gideon Blue” came along for the injured man. He had been struck so bad that he was unaware that he was hurt before any knowledge of his danger had come to him. So after he had been helped into the wagon, his frog eye not forgetting a wistful glance at his meagre plunder, consisting of two empty baskets, a pole and an ancient pipe of briarwood.
130 Years Ago
Born: On Sunday, November 10th, a boy was born to the wife of Mr. George Gillson. May the lad grow to be as good as his awful Dad.
100 Years Ago
Influenza: Mrs. Leete M. Blanchard answered the final summons, the result of an attack of influenza that later turned into pneumonia. Mrs. Blanchard was born and raised in Carson City, educated in the local schools and popular among her girlfriends.
70 Years Ago
Lucius Beebe: Traveling around the country in an ornate private railroad car, Beebe’s visit to this Comstock Lode country recalls the fabulous days of the silver kings. His “Gold Coast” caboose is the first modern private car to be routed through Reno since 1932. Beebe’s home on rails is he biggest ever built. It measures 82 feet and weighs 75 tons, has two bedrooms, three baths, a dining salon, servants’ quarters, and a communications system. The drawing room has crystal chandeliers, orange draperies, brocaded couches, and a marble fireplace with a China cat lounging behind a brass guard.
20 Years Ago
New Governor: Kenny Guinn became Nevada’s first Republican governor in 16 years. “I’ve never run an election campaign before, as opposed to my opponent who had run four races in less than seven years,” Guinn told the Association Press. “I had to start at the grass roots level.”
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan and Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.