Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
145 years ago
John Quincy Adams Moore, Esq., is doing full credit to his aristocratic names by having a fit of the real, genuine, old fashioned gout. He sits cocked. Up in state, his invalid foot carefully cushioned on a pillow, his head resting on the back of an easy chair and himself in a condition of amiability only equalized by the pious resignation with which he accepts his aches and pains. He has our condolences and sympathy.
140 years ago
Another epidemic of frightful accidents has begun on the Comstock.
120 years ago
Last evening genial Frank Boskowitz arrived in this city. Frank is always full of good stories and has plenty of them. It might be well to mention that on Thanksgiving Day he made the orphans at the home happy with his annual donation. Frank never forgets the orphans.
80 years ago
U.S. Declares War on Japan. The White House announced about 3,000 casualties in the Japanese air raid on Hawaii yesterday. The casualties were equally divided between dead and injured. The early report on losses at Pearl Harbor included “one old battleship” and a destroyer.
60 years ago
The President of Sierra Pacific Power Company today told newsmen the northwestern part of the state would have a supply of piped-in natural gas within two years.
20 years ago
A cover story in a national publication is something many small Nevada towns would die for. But Battle Mountain doesn’t like being named “the armpit of America” by the Washington Post.
Thursday
145 years ago
Dimes by the barrel full are being coined and sacked at the Carson Mint.
140 years ago
A few nights since several Chinese burglars attempted to practice their various calling in Chinatown by boring through a two-foot adobe wall into a wooden safe containing several hundred dollars. Just as they were about getting into the safe their unsuspecting countrymen was awakened by the noise made by the unskilled thieves, and gave an alarm. The burglars took to their heels and have not since attempted to reap the rewards of their labors.
120 years ago
Indians held a rabbit drive yesterday north of this city. From the amount of ammunition discharged there is not likely to be a rabbit left in this section. Several of the citizens who engaged in the Spanish-American war thought that the town was under bombardment.
80 years ago
Sheriff Harold Brooks and his emergency groups request the close cooperation of the public in a practice blackout of Carson City in the near future, as well as any emergency that may arise. Until further notice the emergency alarm will be given in Carson City by ringing the fire bell rapidly.
60 years ago
Gov. Grant Sawyer today made public the text of a letter he has sent to all Mayors, Chairmen of County Commissions, and State Senators throughout Nevada regarding the National Fallout Shelter Survey and Marking Program, soon to get underway in this state.
20 years ago
At least two Carson City supervisors voiced support for voters to decide whether or not the city should sell or preserve the Carson City Fairgrounds.
Friday
145 years ago
Among the Firemen. There are three things from the meddling with which no outsider ever escapes without miscomfiture: One is a row between a man and wife; another is a hornet’s nest; and the other is a dispute between firemen, or between fire company and somebody else — as a municipal government, for example.
140 years ago
All the children’s savings banks are being broken open to help Santa Claus out.
120 years ago
Some careless boy fired a rifle ball through the window at Mrs. Furlong’s home. The shot passed near the lady as it penetrated a piece of cloth she held in her hand.
80 years ago
Carson City had no blackout last night, but the residents experienced a night without street lights and with no illuminated signs advertising public buildings or business places. Absence of lights on the Capitol dome removed the city’s principal object of identification at night from a distance from either the air or the ground.
60 years ago
A state Highway Department foreman in Virginia City was killed yesterday morning when his snow plow-equipped truck tumbled over an embankment into Cedar Canyon three miles north of town resulting in the death of 45-year old Frank Bogle.
20 years ago
Reconstructing a railway isn’t cheap. The cost of running the line from Gold Hill to Deer Run Road is estimated at $24.4 million. The Gold Hill Historical Society is putting a dent in that estimate by running the line one quarter mile from the Gold Hill Depot to the Overman Pit.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
