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Saturday
145 Years Ago
It is estimated that there are 2,000 men out of work in Virginia City and Gold Hill.
140 Years Ago
The Board of Pardons met yesterday. George R. Hurtchinson, the Reno dentist who came to Carson and hacked up his wife with a carving knife, was denied on a unanimous vote. In the matter of the application for commutation of the death sentence of Charles Westly Homer, convicted of murder, the board denied on unanimous vote.
120 Years Ago
The first boat to anchor at the Quartette Mining Company mill site on the Colorado river arrived on the 19th of March, loaded with about twenty-five tons of freight, chiefly lumber, as the company is erecting a board and sleeping house for the mill men. The board arrived safely after an eight-day trip from the Needles over the waves of the Colorado — DeLamar Lode.
80 Years Ago
Anglers of Carson City are advised to read the offer of George Meyers, elsewhere in this issue, of a free fly rod to the person catching the largest fish in Ormsby waters within a specified period.
40 Years Ago
Carson City employees will work 39-hour weeks starting July 1 so the city can have a balanced budget.
20 Years Ago
Running late, Jesus Ramirez had just enough time to read Carson High School’s announcements in English before translating them into Spanish over a school wide broadcast.
Sunday
145 Years Ago
The snowstorm of yesterday afternoon was an ignominious failure. A few more such impotent spurts and we shall begin to think the present winter a fiasco.
140 Years Ago
Big snow. There is eight feet of snow on the mountain at the north end of Lake Tahoe. It is expected that the season for woodsmen and loggers in that vicinity will be a month later than usual.
120 Years Ago
Carson has felt the pangs of jealousy of late, and especially when the riverside sent a fill fledged locomobile to this city. The machine traversed the streets with an ease that made every citizen realize that the time has arrived when the staid horse and the family carry-all would have to go away back. Now Carson is on the map.
80 Years Ago
The 258 population at the state prison want to get out and get a crack at the Japs, Warden Richard Sheehan has reported. Of the 258, 148 are of military age, but under present regulations anyone who has been in prison cannot serve in the armed forces.
40 Years Ago
It was a time for applause, a time for laughter and even for a few tears Friday night as the 13th annual Community Awards were presented in Carson City.
20 Years Ago
The number of Nevadans getting cash welfare grants climbed to 34,161 in March — 56 percent higher than the total last September — according to a State Welfare Division report Tuesday.
Tuesday
145 Years Ago
The number of employees in the Sutro tunnel has been greatly decreased. The Chronicle of last evening says that this reduction will necessitate the stopping of a number of the machine drills and will greatly diminish the average daily progress made in the tunnel.
140 Years Ago
More Chinese people. On Sunday, several hundred fresh Chinese people arrived in this city and will be distributed among the several wood camps in this vicinity.
120 Years Ago
Word comes in from Coleville, about fifty miles south of this city, that a fine strike of gold bearing rock has been made. I.W. Geary, manager of the Golden Gate Mining company has sent word to this city that the company has hit the ledge at the new workings.
80 Years Ago
The rationing board of Ormsby county at their regular meeting yesterday had favorable action on two requests. The Shell Oil Co. Inc. was granted a certificate for two retread tires and two inner tubes. Ralph E. Leland, a contractor, was awarded one truck tire and tube.
40 Years Ago
Forty years after the famed bombing run on Tokyo, surviving members of Doolittle’s Raiders met behind closed doors to call the roll and toast with silver goblets “those who have gone.”
20 Years Ago
Clowns, balloons, and a team of Clydesdales will be on hand for free rides at the Governor’s Mansion Saturday in conjunction with a free immunization clinic.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
