Saturday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: Dr. Sharp had a rainbow formed on his side and shoulder by the kick of a double-barrel shot-gun, both barrels of which have a habit of going off at once.
Sheriff Swift has had the County jail thoroughly cleaned and ventilated, for the reception of the indicted convicts, who will be brought to town for trial.
The skating rink will be open to the public at the usual hours in the afternoon and evening.
140 Years Ago
Clairvoyant: A New Jersey widow couldn’t earn six dollars a week at the wash-tub. Then she became a clairvoyant, and her income increased to sixty. In short, a man begrudges the quarter that pays for washing his shirts, while he will give a dollar to stick his nose into the other world before the show begins.
120 Years Ago
Undertakers: Carson is already the unhappy possessor of three undertaking establishments, and now a fourth man has given notice of his intended advent. Competition is the life of trade — on the dead.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Grand Theater, The Cinema of the Century! Comprising more than 12,500 people, including 50 principal characters, cost of over a million dollars and is the world’s greatest motion picture: ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,’ A Rex Ingram Production. Admission, including tax — Matinee, 2:15 p.m., 35 cents and $1.10 Evening.”
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “O. K. Fuller, Manager, Registered Mortician, Mrs. Chas. S. Crosby, ‘Crosby Funeral Service,’ Carson City, Nevada, Phone 50. Calls answered promptly at all hours. Serving Ormsby, Storey, Douglas and Lyon Counties, Lady Attendant.”
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Ironwood Stadium Cinema 8, 1760 U.S. Highway 395, Minden,’K-Pax’ with Kevin Spacy and Jeff Bridges; ‘Thir13en Ghosts,’ F. Murray Abraham and Tony Shalhoub and Walt Disney pictures ‘Monsters, Inc.’”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: The wagon that burned four miles from Genoa on the Angora road, belonged to Murphy of Aurora, and was freighted with gasoline, liquor and flour for that place. Loss--$2,000.
Mint House: This hotel has passed into the hands of D. H. Pine, formerly of Reno. He will render the Mint one of the most popular hotels in the city.
140 Years Ago
Precaution: Smallpox has made its appearance in San Francisco and the disease may travel in this direction during the winter. The Appeal would suggest to those who have not been vaccinated to have the operation performed now.
120 Years Ago
Proclamation: “In conformity with established custom and in accordance with religious sentiment, I hereby proclaim and designate Thursday, the 28
th day of November, 1901 as Thanksgiving Day…” Reinhold Sadler, Governor.
100 Years Ago
Busy Sunday: The concrete highway between Carson and Reno was kept busy. During the day parties came through this city in a string, many going to the lake in large numbers and visiting Carson Valley points. At least 2,000 cars passed over the road—No accidents reported.
70 Years Ago
Yerington girls: Girls who dashed madly to greet the army fliers forced down in Smith Valley are now in a dither and not over the handsome pilots. The girls are awaiting the federal action for defacing government property. Most girls would have sought the pilots’ autograph, but Yerington girls reversed the process and in the finest of female inline writing engraved their names and addresses on the plane. Some think the girls will face court while others think that marriage may result. (Mason Valley News)
20 Years Ago
Harvesting Hope: An event celebrating those who have survived cancer is a benefit for Carson-Tahoe Hospital’s proposed Cancer Center. Twenty-one men, women and children ages 6 to 75 years of age will be modeling. Carson-Tahoe Hospital is an organization dedicated to raising funds for the proposed cancer center. (Adams House)
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Salt Lake: There was some excitement at Salt Lake caused by the city authorities closing up the saloons who refused to pay for the city licenses. The owners were arrested and the saloons shut up. Application has been made to the District Judge for an injunction. Decision is pending.
140 Years Ago
In brief: Dr. Lee’s son, Frank, had the bone of his right arm broken. He is a plucky little fellow and bears suffering like a veteran soldier.
Detective Hume was in the city watching the Board of Pardons. He doesn’t like to have stagecoach robbers for whose capture he had lost many a night’s rest pardoned.
120 Years Ago
All sorts: Zack Taylor, the all-round sport passed through this city for San Francisco from Tonopah. He says the camp is a hummer.
An attempt was made to destroy the town of Tonopah by fire. Four fires were going at the same time but were extinguished before any great damage was done.
100 Years Ago
Radium, hailed by the medical profession as a cure for cancerous disease, is a failure according to Sir Thomas Parkinson. It is dangerous because of its burning effect, and it aggravates, instead of curing the disease. Leading surgeons have discarded it in favor of X-rays.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theatre—‘When Ladies Meet,’ with Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson with Herbert Marshall, and Spring Byington. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard…
20 Years Ago
Birding event: Fifty locals gathered at the Silver Saddle Ranch for Lahontan Audubon Society’s bird watch. The area has a variety of birds, including kingfishers, kestrels, flickers, woodpeckers, raptors, rough-legged hawks, and the great blue herons.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
