Sunday
150 Years Ago
Grand Chinese Dinner: Sam Wau, a Chinese person, had a grand dinner for his friends at the house occupied by Arnold Friend who has a photographic gallery. Everything seemed to be according to the highest order of the culinary art. Among the invited guests were H. M. Yerington, Superintendent of the V. & T. R. R.; Judge Lewis, of the Supreme Court…. During the repast, the invited were treated to a fusillade of Chinese crackers, the method the Chinese have of honoring their guests. Wine was quaffed to the assembled guests or to their Celestial friends, we are unable to say.
140 Years Ago
Hank Monk: Tourists traveling on Hank’s stage from Carson to the lake was incessantly plied with questions about subjects familiar to him. Hank, equal to the emergency in his drawling style, answered all the lady’s interrogations. She noted down everything told to her. She confidentially stated that she would write a book when she returned home. Hank received a letter from the lady, dated Greenwood, Mississippi advising him that the book entitled, “Tahoe or Life in California” is finished. She has asked him to act as agent in this city. She states that all the information that she received from Hank is in her work. Monk accepted. Yet, he has received no subscribers.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Archie Hancock, fourteen years old, died in Virginia City. His death was brought about by an overindulgence in nuts.
120 Years Ago
Avoided quarantine: A woman boarded the west bound passenger train. She was heavily veiled. But you could see her face was broken out with smallpox or pimples. She contracted the smallpox disease in Reno. Her previous place of lodging has been thoroughly fumigated.
70 Years Ago
Shower for Darlene Ireland: A baby shower was held at the home of Jack Smoot for Darlene Ireland. Assisting with arrangements, was Mrs. Dolores Lane. Games were played and refreshments served. Invited were, Mesdames Wilma McKenzie, Esther Lane, Lucille Birney, Ethel Nichols, Irma Johnson, Edith Van Ness, Bernice Rhodes, Mary Morris, Nellie Laird, Edith Fritsch, Helen Pispisa…
20 Years Ago
Photo caption: Jeff Ackerman, former publisher of the Nevada Appeal, receives an award from John Tatro, a board member of the Boys & Girls Club of Western Nevada. Ackerman received two awards. The marketing award for helping the club raise nearly $100,000 and a special award for his service to the club.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Spring coming: A man with a large load of Cottonwood trees passed through town on his way to the Orphan’s Home. We understand that Theodore A. Hale, father-in-law to the institution, contemplates the purchase and setting out of a large quantity of shade trees. The Home, already the best institution in the State, will be much improved by the addition of a thousand trees.
140 Years Ago
In brief: Steps should be taken to keep the mob of half-grown boys from blocking the entrance to the Opera House whenever a performance takes place.
130 Years Ago
Telegrams: Sarah Bernhardt is suffering from nervous prostration. Her engagements at St. Paul and Minneapolis have been canceled.
Jules Verns predicts the invention of a “telephote,” which will enable people at the distance of thousands of miles to see one another.
120 Years Ago
All sorts: The local prospectors are resting these days. The snow has forced them to do their assessment work by a red-hot stove.
70 Years Ago
Alaska statehood: President Truman said that Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney may try to get the Senate to reconsider its action in sending the Alaskan statehood bill back to committee.
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The Shrine Circus — Livestock Events Center — General Admission Adults $10, Child $8, Reserved seats $12, Box seats $14 on sale at the Kerak Shrine Center, 4935 Energy Way, Reno.”
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
New York Bakery: Peter Cavanaugh will settle permanently in Carson. We visited his bakery and found a large number of crackers ready for shipment. He has made arrangements with the Virginia and Gold Hill merchants to supply them with crackers at San Francisco prices. Newly baked crackers should be worth more than the tough, stale ones, from the Bay.
140 Years Ago
Edison lamps: Edison will soon be making them in New York at the rate of a thousand a day. His object is to light the interior of buildings. He is also experimenting at Menlo Park with an electric railway three miles long — progress is favorable.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: At Danville, Iowa, Mrs. Houton has given birth to a girl child with one body, but four well developed hands and four legs. The child can move all of its limbs.
120 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Chicago in less than three days. From San Francisco 10 a.m. Chicago, Union Pacific & Northwestern Line – Double drawing-room, sleeping cars, buffet, smoking and library cars, with barber. Dining Cars-meals a la carte. Daily tourist car service… The best of everything, R. R. Ritchie.”
70 Years Ago
Dance Sunday: There will be a dance at the servicemen’s center in the Heroes Memorial Hall on Sunday. The affair will be sponsored by the Do-Carettes Cootiette Club of Carson City.
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Ironwood Stadium Cinema 8, 1760 US Highway 395, Minden, NV— ‘40 Days & 40 Nights,’ ‘Queen of the Damned,’ Walt Disney’s ‘Return to Neverland,’ ‘Hart’s War’ and ‘Big Fat Liar.’”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
