Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
145 years ago
“The blow-out at the North Carson Hoisting works, yesterday, was a very enjoyable affair. Several of our prominent citizens with their ladies were present at a sumptuous feast. The ladies and gentlemen descended to the 100-foot level, and inspected the work. Salutes were fired in in honor of the occasion.
140 years ago
The Silver State says: “Reports were received here yesterday of Indian troubles at Kings’s River, near the Oregon line. Charley McDeid, who runs the Idaho stage from here (Winnemucca) to Willow Creek, says that passengers in the stage were very much alarmed, and some of them, just in from the East, talked about coming back into town.” Colonel Bernard, commanding the post at McDermitt has sent a detachment of Calvary, some 22 men, under the command of Lieutenant Pitcher, to Kings River.
120 years ago
Reno has 311 telephone subscribers and the manager predicts that the number will be increased to 350 within the next two months.
80 years ago
The rainfall in Carson City yesterday afternoon and last night amounted to 59 hundredths of an inch, according to measurements taken at the highway department’s weather station this morning.
50 years ago
Don Rickles, Mr. Warmth Himself, is playing through July 8 at the King’s Castle, Incline Village.
20 years ago
While Carson City residents can see freeway structures from the road, nothing quite compares with reaching out and making contact with some of its concrete. Braving wind and cool summer temperatures, about 75 residents gathered Tuesday to walk the freeway corridor.
Thursday
145 years ago
“Heap Labbity.” — Reese River valley is fairly swarming with rabbits, and it will not be long till we shall hear bitter complaints of the ruin of crops by these long-eared pests. Before the passage of the law for the destruction of these obnoxious animals, the coyotes kept the rabbits within bounds. Since the passage of the said law, a war of extermination has been waged against the coyotes, and unless the slaughter is topped, it will be found necessary to import coyotes to destroy the rabbits.
140 years ago
The past two or three days have been decidedly hotter than anything felt so far this summer. There is no use giving the figures recorded by the thermometer, for those who sweat and suffer will charge the instrument with a decided under valuation of the suns rays. Such figures as 102 in the shade only convent an abstract idea of the burning of the back of a man’s neck on Carson street and the hours of restless agony he spends at night trying to entice a cool draught of air into his room.
120 years ago
The first copy of the Tonapah (sic) Bonanza that came from the press will be presented to Mrs. J.L. Butler, one of the discoverers of the camp.
80 years ago
Members of the Nevada state council of defense are meeting at the capital today. At the forenoon session timely talks were make by Governor E. P. Carville and Adjutant General J.H. White. Hugh Shamberger, state director, is presiding over the business session this afternoon.
50 years ago
Carson’s Silver Spurs, the local entry in the Northern Nevada Stan Musial League, swept both ends of a Sunday double-header at Carson High’s McElroy Field.
20 years ago
The state of Nevada filed suit Wednesday in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging recently issued federal radiation standards for a possible high level nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain.
Friday
145 years ago
The Anti-Asiatic Circle in Carson make proclamation that they have unanimously resolved that they “will not, either directly or indirectly, patronize any hotel, boardinghouse, restaurant, saloon or laundry that will keep China help.”
140 years ago
A Damphool Club has been started in Reno. Two newspapers are at work day and night printing certificates.
120 years ago
Tomorrow, and the Carnival is here. Everything seems to be in readiness for the occasion, which from all indications will be the greatest week of fun ever given the people of Nevada. The Capitol pavilion, as the Queen’s throne is known by, is nearly finished, while the dancing floor in the Capitol square for the Mardi Gras festivities is nearly completed.
80 years ago
Defense officials said they anticipate a slump in war production during the next three months because of the shortage of vital materials and machine tools. To offset the decline the government has asked the automobile manufacturers to make further cuts in the production of 1942 models.
50 years ago
Recipes that date back to 1730, updated with modern measurements and modern preparation procedures, are available in a new book called “You Can Can” authored by a Long Valley, Nev., native. The book has 39 chapters and over 2,600 recipes for the homemaker.
20 years ago
Drought conditions are forcing an emergency round of of more than 1,000 wild horses in Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management said recently.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.