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Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Payday: The V&T Railroad Company will pay off the employees of the Carson division and all the boys will have coin for the payment of old debts and coin to spend. Of course, this railroad and the bank are going to ruin the country according to politicians, but somehow it keeps and pays a good many men who leave their coin in town.
135 Years Ago
A necessary adjunct: The Appeal is now equipped in the matter of transportation. The office is supplied with two bicycles and a tandem tricycle. The carrier in the morning distributes his papers on a bicycle. The printers, when they go to lunch, mount the silent wheel and skim like swallows along the street. The Appeal was the first to introduce the bicycle in connection with its business in the state.
120 Years Ago
New book for Nevada author: “The Inevitable,” a book dealing with the Negro problem is a powerful novel dealing with the problem of miscegenation and is the story of a vain, heartless white woman who marries a handsome quadrone. The author, Phillip Verrill Mighels, has written the greatest book on the Negro published since the days of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
100 Years Ago
Darkness: At Tonopah winds put the town into blackness that was not restored to service until Saturday. The wind threw a 6,600-volt line into the street lighting circuit that is carried on 1,700 volts. As a result, 100 streetlamps cost the company $100 to replace.
70 Years Ago
Newspapers: The nation’s habit of reading newspapers has taken a healthy stride in the advent of radio and television according to the Publishers Association. Newspaper reading is the only regular activity which showed no change after the advent of TV according to the association.
30 Years Ago
New school: Fremont Elementary is nearing completion and will open after the first of the year. The school will have climate control and will eventually have a playground, better parking, and a computer lab.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Recorder’s office: S.D. King is building a new house on the extreme corner of the block on Plaza and Proctor streets that he intends to use as an office and to keep the records of the County Recorder in. The new building is on the extreme corner of the block and in case of fire could be easily protected, or the papers saved by removal.
135 Years Ago
All sorts: Mr. Spooner drove over a hundred head of horses and mules through Carson. The man who stole Ed Reynolds Sunday clothes, has been seen leading a prayer meeting and wearing them.
120 Years Ago
Local news: A mild case of smallpox is reported in Reno. Reno liverymen are complaining that the horses are nearly all sick with pinkeye.
100 Years Ago
Born: Rev. J.L. Harvey was advised by Mrs. Harvey that she gave birth to a son. According to advisees in Sacramento, both are doing well.
70 Years Ago
State Museum: The Nevada State Museum had a busy October with a total of 13,100 visitors in relation to last year’s 10,971 and has maintained a steady increase. It is estimated that an additional 4,000 visitors came through the museum on Admission Day.
30 Years Ago
Photo caption: Andrew Martinez, 19-year-old University of California, Berkeley, strolls around campus nude recently – except for a backpack, shoes, and a strategically placed bandana. Martinez says he shucks his shorts as a means of free expression. But university spokeswoman Pat McBroom said Martinez was being placed on interim suspension while his case is being reviewed.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Sickness in town: There seems to be bad spirit in the atmosphere to a malady which our doctors say is pleuropneumonia. Among the afflicted is Dr. Mooklar, who however, is doing well and expects to be out again in a day or so. Mr. Hochholzer is also confined to bed with pneumonia.
135 Years Ago
A friendly warning: A leading state official was lying drunk in the Station House and became a subject of general comment down the street. He was taken there in a fit of delirium tremens. He owes it not to disgrace his trust and disappoint well-wishers by such acts. He does it not only to himself but to the men who labored for him in the campaign, to give a good account of his stewardship.
120 Years Ago
Fire: A fire at the Ambrosetti Dairy, near the flume, was caused by a candle. Mr. Ambrosetti went to feed his animals and took a lighted candle with him. He left it on a beam and a pigeon that was started by the flickering light flew into it and threw the lighted candle which went into the hay. In spite of the efforts made by the frightened man, the fire grew out of control.
100 Years Ago
Carson High School “Jazz” newspaper: Penmanship class – Members of the penmanship class received pins for getting the first twenty-five drills OK. There are 20 in the class and all but two received pins.
70 Years Ago
Barn Theater Touring Company: The PTA and AAUW are bringing the Barn Theater Touring Company’s production of “Raggedy Ann and Andy” to Carson. This is a laugh filled play and will have three performances to be given in the high school gymnasium. This is the same company that brought “The Wizard of Oz.”
30 Years Ago
Pharmacies join: Gilbert Pharmacy and Lee’s Pharmacy in Carson City and Hawthorne have jointed United Drugs. They will benefit from the cooperative’s database of more than 350 drug stores in 10 states.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.