Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
145 Years Ago
The momentous, not to say monotonous question as to whether there shall be prescribed certain defined metes and bounds within its city wherein the Frail Sisterhood shall be cribbed, cabined, and confined will come up for discussion and conclusive action before their Honors the Board of Trustees this evening.
140 Years Ago
On Friday, during the Democratic primaries, Empire manifested more of a metropolitan spirit than any other town in the state. Whiskey was freely dispensed, which resulted in numerous drunks and an ugly cutting affray. John Conway and – Wall, two men employed at the Santiago Mill got into a political row, and the former was cut in the neck, cheek and across the breast with a dull jackknife.
120 Years Ago
The news of the strike of another rich body of ore in Tonopah has been confirmed. A private dispatch was received in this city yesterday which stated that the strike on the Mizpah extension consisted of a twenty-foot ledge of low-grade ore, but that it resembles the Fraction ore.
80 Years Ago
R.L. Douglass, collector of Internal Revenue Service, announced yesterday that an intensive drive will be made shortly for delinquents under the federal motor vehicle use tax stamp regulations.
40 Years Ago
Carson City authorities responding early today to an alarm at a shopping center, surrounded the area and made a search of the building. They soon found the intruder. It was a pet hamster, thought to have escaped from a nearby variety store.
20 Years Ago
The Carson City Senior Citizens Center on Tuesday received a $33,275 grant to purchase a new delivery vehicle for the Meals on Wheels program.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Empire: The city presents a lively appearance; the town being filled with river drivers who have been engaged in driving wood on the river.
140 Years Ago
In brief: The boarding and lodging house of the Vivian mill was burned along with 150 cords of wood.
The public schools are well under way with 460 scholars. Parents are groaning at the demand for new books.
130 Years Ago
Riverside club: A new club has been formed in Reno, with a capital stock of $10,000. By sending a committee of architects to the Washoe Lake “Lodge” they can get an insight into a few comfortable conveniences in connection with a club of merit.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Grand Theatre—A Pistol Shot Rang Out! Mary’s frenzied shriek rang through the court room – A sudden hush fell over the spectators… ‘In the Name of the Law.’” One show each night 25 and 35 cents.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater—Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, and Thelma Ritter in ‘The Model and the Marriage Broker.’ An excellent comedy you will love.”
30 Years Ago
Photo caption: Jeff Mauppins, Doc Beaudette and Mike Winder put up a new window at Murdock’s downtown. The front window has been covered in plywood since it was broken out for the third time in a row.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Grant and Wilson Club: The Club meets every Saturday evening in the District Court room in the Court House building. Sojourning radical Republicans in good standing are invited to call, and repentant sinners who wish to enroll their names with honest men, and to vote for the hero and statesman, are treated like the Prodigal Son, only we aren’t going to kill calf in November.
140 Years Ago
Small feet woman: Chinatown has been set all agog by the arrival within their midst of a “small feet woman.” There are perhaps not a dozen on the coast. This woman’s feet are scarcely three inches long. When she walks, she is as graceful as a ship in heavy sea without a rudder. “Small feet women” belong to the high caste in China.
130 Years Ago
Telegraphic news: Four new cases of cholera with two deaths in Liverpool. A general alarm is felt all over England.
Lizzie Borden has been held to appear before the Grand Jury for the murder of her father and stepmother.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The utmost a cigarette can do. When we tell you that there is no other cigarette at Chesterfield’s price which contains such fine Turkish and Domestic tobaccos, we state the fact. It’s true… Chesterfield Cigarettes…”
70 Years Ago
Sunny Acres 4-H dinner: Sunny Acres held its 5th annual 4-H club dinner. R.F.I. Raymond Herdsman award was presented to Earl Boice and Dennis Smith. Entertainment included dance numbers taught to children at the home during the summer by Vaughn dancing, and tumblers from six-year-olds directed by Betty Ihfe. A minstrel show directed by Robert Hahne, starring Leroy Francel as interlocuter and Paul Luchetti, Richard Fletcher, Lester Tibbs, and Jack Vaughn, assisted by the boy’s intermediate chorus.
30 Years Ago
Hearts of gold: Four Fallon farms will be harvesting “Hearts of Gold” cantaloupe in time for the Labor Day festival. The drought has forced many Fallon farmers out of the cantaloupe growing business. This year Workman’s Farms, Lattins’ Berry Farms and Norman Frey are among those growing the melon which should ensure a bountiful supply.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Telegrams: San Francisco rejoiced, in an informal way, over the admission of California into the Union—as yesterday was the anniversary of such admissions.
140 Years Ago
A nine-dollar fight: Mose Catlin and William Stewart had a dispute over a paltry debt of nine dollars. Catlin was beaten about the head badly.
130 Years Ago
Mistaken identity: Cal Knapp’s place had been burglarized and $50 taken from the bureau. The officers started out and finally arrested a man in the Capitol lodging house on suspicion. He gave his name as R.D. McEntyre and found him to be a Justice of the Peace from Soda Springs, Esmeralda County, and a delegate to the Republican convention at Reno. After he had shown his credentials and proxies, he was released. The real thief is still at large.
100 Years Ago
Auto Increase in state: An increase in motor vehicle registrations of 1,676 so far this year over corresponding period of 1921 was reported by secretary of state George Brodigan.
70 Years Ago
Statistics: Marriages and divorces during August brought in $2,920, Geraldine Lamb reported. Her office issued 336 marriage licenses and filed 40 divorce suits. The county receives $5 for each marriage license and $31 on each divorce filed and carried to completion.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Your primary choice for computers. 386/33SX, w/2mb RAM, VGA Color Monitor, 106mb Hard Drive, 1.2 or 1.44 Floppy Drive, 101 Keyboard, Mouse, Windows 3.1, DOS 5.0 and a Dot-matrix printer – Only $1,250… Computer Design Center, 1532 Highway 395, Gardnerville-Stratton Center…”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
