Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
145 years ago
An Anti-Chinese demonstration, including speeches, songs and a torchlight procession took place in Virginia City last evening.
120 years ago
The Carnival celebration and Street Fair to come off in Carson during the first week of July will in no way interfere with the shrill scream of the American Eagle on the Eastern slope of Mount Davidson. Grand Marshal and President of the Day will be William Sharon. James G. Fair will present the State of Nevada with three Protestant Orphan Asylums. John McDonnell will throw gold bricks at the Miner’s Union. A float is being arranged by the Police Department – representing the gun fights between Miles Finlan and Dave Crosby. The parade will be followed by a street fight between rival hose companies of the Comstock.
100 years ago
Dangerous Practice. On several occasions lately children have been noted driving automobiles. Several near accidents have been reported and it was more luck than science that someone was not hurt. Last evening a little 11-year-old was driving down a close-in street. She wished to warn that she was about to turn on a cross street. Out went her left hand — but she made a quick turn to the right. There is a state law and a city ordinance regulating age of driving.
80 years ago
George Clemons of Ely was cited by Deputy Sheriff Floyd Copen yesterday for operating a motor vehicle with Montana plates while being employed in Nevada. —
Ely Times.
50 years ago
After the longest halt in U.S. nuclear testing in almost a decade, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated what it described as a low yield atom bomb under the Nevada desert today. The shot had a force equal to the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
20 years ago
Nevada lawmakers form both parties in both houses complained bitterly as the special session ended just after midnight Thursday about the pervasive influence of lobbyists.
Sunday
145 years ago
The Royal Illusionists will appear at the Carson Theater tonight. There will be legerdemain and illusion of the most mysterious kind. The press notices say they surpass the Davenport Brothers in their performance. They invite the most careful investigations. Admission one dollar. Seats can be secured without an extra charge.
140 years ago
No matter how high the esteem may in in which a woman holds her husband she will never trust him to pick out wall paper.
120 years ago
A Chance for Firemen. The intrepid members of the Warren Engine Company are out to help the celebration along in a very unique way. They are ready to send six men to the front as water fighters. They will get at the end of 200 feet of hose and let six other men form any fire company on the coast take another 200 feet of hose and a nozzle, and get in and battle with the water as a weapon for a purse, gate receipts or glory.
80 years ago
Every man in the state of Nevada who has attained the 21st anniversary of the day of his birth subsequent to October 16, 1940, and before midnight July 1, 1941–with a few exceptions—must register with his local selective service board on July 1, State Director Jay H. White, said.
50 years ago
“It won’t be long now,” James Dunn said, “before we can handle all that Carson City sends down the pipe.” Dunn is superintendent of the Carson City Sewage Treatment Plant. He was commenting on work at the plant to expand capacity.
20 years ago
Mike and Peggy Spearks, owners of the Cormack-Jones house, will feature their home on Sunday’s Carson City Garden Tour sponsored by the Nevada Landmarks Society.
Tuesday
145 years ago
City Payments in Silver. Most of the tax collected for city purposes is received in small amounts, so small that it necessitates the receiving in silver. Consequently there is very little if any gold coin in the City Treasury.
140 years ago
Yesterday morning Alexander Goyette, a Frenchman living in Virginia, was shaking dice at a saloon with some friends when he suddenly drew a six shooter and opened fire. Joe Lafraignaire, a friend of his, was killed instantly with a shot through the body. A second and third shot injured two other men. Then he shot himself, probably fatally.
120 years ago
Thursday, July 4th — The usual national salute will be fired at sunrise. Commencing at 8 a.m. the Tennis Tournament will be played. At 9:30 a.m. a salute will be fired by order of the Grand Marshal which will be the signal for the forming of the Fourth of July parade.
80 years ago
A telegram received from the Mono Lake Business Mens’ Association this forenoon announced the opening of the Tioga Pass road for through traffic to the Yosemite today.
50 years ago
Musicians from Langley AFB near Washington, D.C. in Virginia, will visit Carson City today and give a 2 p.m. concert on the Capital mall.
20 years ago
In the wake of problems at Stewart Indian School Museum, state officials as well as members of the Indian community are considering moving stewardship from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Nevada State Museum.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
