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Saturday
150 Years Ago
One more of them. Last night, a skirmish occurred at a saloon on Carson Street between an Amazonian and a male specimen of the hoodlum breed. We do not know the cause, but the female is now what you might call a double-header – her face looked like the fag end of a beef’s neck after hanging two days in a meat market. We can scarcely conceive of a case so bad as to justify a man in striking a woman even in the lowest type of the sex.
140 Years Ago
The wood drive. The Carson River is now almost completely choked with wood for miles. It lies now in the water, however, and shows signs of being soaked. The wood comes from the mountains as far as sixty or one hundred miles from here and will cost $1.50 a cord to get to Dayton. Under normal circumstances it would be 15 cents a cord.
120 Years Ago
The Appeal is in receipt of a number of anonymous letters from different points in the state charging candidates on the Republican ticket with irregularities. While they may be true, yet the fact that the letters are unsigned, consigns them to the waste basket.
80 Years Ago
Chairman A. Berning of the Ormsby county price and rationing board today received from the regional office of the price administration a plan to purchase idle tires.
40 Years Ago
The son of the suspected mastermind of a $3 million extortion plot to bomb Harvey’s Resort Hotel at Stateline insist he reluctantly notified authorities of his father’s role in the bombing last year.
20 Years Ago
No one is going to stop the Nevada Day parade, a top city leader said Thursday.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Dance at Spooner’s is tomorrow night at his station on the Lake Bigler toll road. He has gone to great expense to fix up his large house, and now not only the largest, but the finest ball room in Nevada. This is a farewell party as he is going east for a few months and wishes to see all his old friends before he goes. So, this is going to be the party of the season.
140 Years Ago
A nine-year-old son of Henry Decker fell down from Muller’s buckboard on Sunday evening and broke his left arm at the elbow. Drs. Lee and White, who attended the case, consider it a bad fracture.
120 Years Ago
For an hour and a half this evening, if weather conditions are in favorable, Carsonites will be afforded the opportunity witnessing one of the rare and interesting phenomena of the solar system, a total eclipse of the moon. For that length of time the earth’s satellite will be blacker than Carson’s streets when one of the frequent breakdowns occurs in the electric power in homes.
80 Years Ago
The Carson City board of school trustees today elected Miss Elona Vansickle to the position of teacher of Latin and social studies in the local high school for the remainder of the school year. The board also elected Mrs. M.J. Hersey as substitute teacher for the second grade.
40 Years Ago
The destructive power of multiple sclerosis on the mind of a strong intelligent person was illustrated in an incident a week ago, that resulted in a Carson City woman facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
20 Years Ago
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day was recognized for the first time in Carson City on Tuesday by a handful of people who said in a prayer and lit dangles in memory.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Cesspool. This is a dirty subject, but for that reason it must be handled. We must go after the parties to blame. This malarious slum-hole of filth, of decomposed animal and vegetable matter kept putrid by continued accession is on the east side of Carson Street and extends down on the north side of Carson Street. In fact, nearly one half of the Capitol square is surrounded by this navigable stream of liquid fever. We call on the County Commissioners to go for that cesspool and have it cleaned.
140 Years Ago
A sad affliction. Miss Lottie Pierce, a young lady highly esteemed in this city, was on Monday evening brought here by her parents from Wellington to be treated for a disturbance of the mind, superinduced by too severe study. The young lady is in the hands of Dr. Lee.
120 Years Ago
The eclipse. The eclipse of the moon came off on scheduled time as reported in the Appeal. Parties noting the change from pneumonia to typhus all agreed that the Appeal man has the facts down to a fine point. Even the new clock, lately established by the Western Union, tallied with the report to the minute and second. When it comes to calling turns or anything as easy as the moon it is no trouble, but then there is politics, and that’s different.
80 Years Ago
Jack Raabe, who came to Carson early in the year as an instructor in advanced flying at the Pathfinder, and who was the third baseman on the Pathfinder baseball team, is reported recovering from an appendectomy in San Francisco. Jack has been in the employ of Pan American recently.
40 Years Ago
The nationwide search for the Tylenol killer of seven people is continuing.
20 Years Ago
In the last major forum before early voting begins Saturday, the candidates for sheriff told Carson City Republican women on Tuesday they support a revitalized DARE drug-education program.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.