Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
145 Years Ago
On Monday afternoon a serious railroad accident happened in Empire. A train loaded with wood had started, and one of the upright posts being out, wood began to fall off. The engineer was signaled to stop and did so suddenly that a brakeman named John McMann was thrown from the train and struck by the car causing a compound fracture to the thigh. Doctors White and Davison were called to the injured man.
140 Years Ago
Miss Babcock wishes to have it well known that the kindergarten school will open on Monday morning at 9 o’clock. She is also anxious to have all the pupils promptly on hand at that hour.
120 Years Ago
Bicycle Race. The bicycle race between members of the band and athletic club will take place at the racetrack Sunday, the 22nd. The boys are practicing faithfully and as there is a good deal of rivalry between them, the race promises to be very exciting.
80 Years Ago
Gov. E.P. Carville said today, he will shortly name a committee to plan for the control of Japanese, both alien and American-born, who come to this state under government evacuation.
40 Years Ago
Snow depths shattered records by as much as 55 inches in the Sierra Nevada this year, the U.S. Soil Conservation Service said Tuesday.
20 Years Ago
A world traveler, sports journalist and champion swimmer, Diana Nyad attributed much of her life’s success to the Fort Lauderdale public library.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
The Plaza — McTarnahan is getting the Plaza beautifully leveled off. He has been scraping at it for a week past with three teams, and ought by this time to have it nearly finished.
140 Years Ago
Election tomorrow evening for officers of the reform club for the ensuing six months at the club rooms. It is expected that there will be full attendance of the members, and that a lively election will be the result.
120 Years Ago
A number of sheep shearers arrived on last evening’s train. They will shear a lot of sheep at the springs during the next week.
80 Years Ago
Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox today that a naval recruiting training station and technical school will be established in the Lake Tahoe area. The school will be established on the northwest side of Tahoe and originally have the capacity of 20,000 students.
40 Years Ago
Storey County commissioners have suspended their seven-member planning commission and building inspector.
20 Years Ago
Covered in tattoos and bearded, Gary James admission he is more at home on the back of a Harley-Davidson than anywhere else in the universe. James is in charge of taking care of Krystal Steadman’s memorial at the top of Spooner Summit.
Friday
145 Years Ago
Our city prisoners are now at work on Carson Street, under the superintendence of policeman Butts. There were only three out there yesterday. Four have been so employed. We understand that it is the intention of our authorities to make all prisoners work who are physically able to do so. Our readers are probably aware that this authority was granted by an act of our last legislature.
140 Years Ago
An Indian was run over and killed by one of the local trains yesterday near Franktown. Yesterday’s weather was decidedly weatherish. It was a cold, cloudy, mean sort of a day, and we haven’t much patience with a man who wouldn’t grumble at it.
120 Years Ago
The young man who rooms on Carson Street should be sure to pull down his curtains before retiring or his audience will increase to such an extent as to block the sidewalk.
80 Years Ago
Over 4,000 books have been collected in the victory book campaign, state director E.C.D. marriage announced today in Carson City.
40 Years Ago
Things that go bump in the night, by Chris Schaller. So why am I, on the eve of Easter, kneeling in the living room floor at the house in Minden owned by Gerry and Cathy?
20 Years Ago
Not the best players in the world, not a toughened-up Augusta National could stop Tiger Wood’s march to Masters history.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
