Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Painting: The painters are doing a lively business, and we notice many private dwellings budding out, looking as good as new having been subjected to the brush.
140 Years Ago
Fish dying at lake: Campers and town folks who have been fishing in Donner Lake, said that the chub is again dying off and are washed ashore. The trout also die, but they sink. This beautiful resort will become depopulated if it continues.
120 Years Ago
Hopping this way: While Sheriff McCormack and Hans Jepsen were prospecting on the summit at the head of the James Canyon, they ran into a half a mile long and fully a thousand to the yard of locust – heading toward Jacks and Carson Valley.
100 Years Ago
License plates, color change: With motor vehicle registrations exceeding those last year by 1,500, it is probable that the 15,000 mark will be reached in 1923, according to Secretary of State Brodigan. The colors for next year are yellow lettering on black background.
70 Year ago
Photo caption: Teaming up to fight cancer Fred E.L. Ginzaton, director of Stanford University’s microwave laboratory and Dr. Henry S. Kaplan, head of the radiology department have perfected six-million-volt linear electron accelerator to shoot x-rays at deep-seated cancer tissue. Rays will penetrate healthy tissues without injury.
30 Years Ago
Go bananas: A Disney movie will be shown at the Carson City Community Center. This week’s movie, “Herbie Goes Bananas.” – Cost $1 for both children and adults.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
A new rig: Colonel A. Curry was on the street with a new rig in common parlance called a “buckboard.” The thing has a heavy strap fastened on the board or bed of the vehicle and whether it is intended for a legitimate calling, or some cunningly devised underground railway machine, we are at a loss to decide.
140 Years Ago
A salubrious climate: Eight patients from the Reno Insane Asylum have been discharged by Dr. Dawson. If our insane continues to improve at that rate, we shall have no need of an Insane Asylum in Reno.
120 Years Ago
A bum’s resort: The little Southern Pacific Park near the depot in Reno is a pretty spot but has become a lounging place for hobos, who flock there as thick as skippers in cheese.
100 Years Ago
Pioneer Day movies: C.A. Ambrose has returned from the bay area where he had been showing his motion picture dealing with pioneer days in this state. The film is now in the form of a continuous story.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater—Academy Award Winner—Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, ‘The African Queen.’ In breathtaking technicolor filmed in the wilds of the Belgian Congo.”
30 Years Ago
Books! Books! “The Backyard Traveler” by Richard Moreno, published by the Carson City Children’s Museum is not all about keno. He details 54 outings in Northern Nevada—historic homes, silver and gold mines of the Comstock Lode, and the wild horses of Palomino Valley…
Friday
150 Years Ago
A good crop: The field of wheat growing inside of the orphan’s home enclosure presents a handsome appearance. When considered that the growth is a volunteer crop, it becomes more remarkable. It will yield nearly double to the acre and Mr. Webb, the superintendent, estimates that there will be enough wheat raised to furnish the orphan’s home with flour for eight months.
140 Years Ago
Fire on the lake: A disastrous accident happened to the photographer, Mr. Wood, at Lake Tahoe. He was crossing the lake and had his boat attached to the steamer Governor Stanford. Sparks from the steamer set fire to his boat destroying the camera and a number of views. Loss is $400.
120 Years Ago
Como to the front: A saloon was opened in the camp and the first night’s receipts were $80. A boarding house has been erected at Como-Eureka and a number of men put to work on the mine.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Wood, Coal & Feed Yard. When you want coal that burns and leaves no clinkers. Phone 1511. We will supply your wants. John Rubkf, Carson, Nevada.”
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Little League Baseball—Reds vs. Blues, 7:30 H.S. field, no admission —Broderick’s Bar, 507 N. Carson.”
30 Years Ago
Nuke waste: Citizens Against Nuclear Waste in Nevada is starting its membership drive in Carson City and will have a public information booth in the Home Arts building at the fair.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
