Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Saturday
145 Years Ago
A fossiliferous lie. A member of the Sazerac Lying club, on reading that newspaper paragraph which tells that a snail from the Egyptian Desert was found to be alive after having been glued for four years to a tablet in the British Museum, said there was remarkable about that. He said that once, while mining in the limestone in White Pine, he blasted out a fossil snail, which he kept for a cabinet specimen, and that one day it crawled out of the cabinet and bored itself back into the limestone where it had been impeded for thirty thousand years. The impartial reader is left to judge whether the English or the American lie is the most entitled to credence. — Reveille.
140 Years Ago
A matter of which is now greatly agitating the minds of property holders in this city, is the question as to where the public building is to be erected in case the Senate bill appropriating $100,000 passes the House of Representatives. An Appeal reporter was informed that it is not likely the government will purchase property, but it is expected the ground will be donated.
120 Years Ago
Landed at the ranch. The Dangberg traction engine made the trip to the home ranch Sunday. Good time was made considering the roads as the machine was landed at the farm by 4 o’clock. It was thought that there would be trouble when it came to crossing the bridges, but this was easily done.
80 Years Ago
Chairman Bernard C. Hurting of the Navy relief committee for Ormsby, reports that Ormsby’s quota of the five millions of dollars set as the nation’s goal is the sum of $200.
40 Years Ago
Good news for consumers on Good Friday: For the second month in a row, producer prices declined slightly in March, falling 0.1 percent.
20 Years Ago
Three of the five U.S. Marines arrested last weekend after a robbery and a fight over marijuana at a Gardnerville apartment complex remain in jail.
Sunday
145 Years Ago
We are pained to announce that Mr. John Piper, manager of the Opera House, has met with the most grievous affliction. About one week ago his wife exhibited signs of insanity, and the disease developed so rapidly that it became necessary to keep a continual watch over her actions. Mr. Piper departed for the Woodbridge asylum with the affiliated lady by the train last night. Mrs. Piper’s mother is presently confined in the same asylum to which she is being taken. — Virginia Chronicle
140 Years Ago
One hundred and fifty prisoners out at the state prison, the largest number since the institution has been running.
120 Years Ago
The paper masquerade to be given by the band is now a very much talked of concern, and the people who intend going had better be putting in some time getting ready. Everyone on the floor will have to be costumed, which will make a pretty and novel sight.
80 Years Ago
The Victory Garden Committee of Carson City held a meeting last evening and had a discussion on this year’s activities. The committee is considering offering prizes for improved lawns and the development of vegetable gardens.
40 Years Ago
Gov. Robert List has ordered top level administrators to state government to prepare “contingency plans” to cut agency budgets up to 10 percent that could lead to furloughs or reduced workloads for state employees.
20 Years Ago
Nevada’s congressional delegation and state officials predicted an uphill battle to keep nuclear waste from being stored at Yucca Mountain.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
Fire at Carlin — Mr. Pixley, manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph office in this city, states that the Carlin Hotel was destroyed by fire on Sunday night.
140 Years Ago
Tommy Beal, well known here as a baseball expert, is now playing for the Chicago Nines. He left Virginia City for the East a couple of weeks ago.
120 Years Ago
The cyanide season has commenced. The teams are now hauling tailings to the Standard cyanide plant No. 1. The No. 2 plant is kept in operation year-round; Mr. Brown having introduced a system of having the taillights run directly from the mill to the plant. — Bodie Index
80 Years Ago
33,000 Bataan defenders capitulate.
40 Years Ago
Flood waters finally receded this morning on the Carson River, but not before several homes were flooded near Genoa.
20 Years Ago
U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nevada said nothing he has been told about Afghanistan prepared him for what he saw on a trip to the war-torn country earlier this month.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1946 until his death in 2006.
