Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
There is a Chinese garden south of town – southwest of Blethen’s brick dwelling house – which is worth the visit. There is an old terrapin of a Chinese person there bearded and rawboned, who, they say, is a very famous and skillful gardener.
140 Years Ago
A flying bakery. Schindler’s new bake wagon is so brilliant in color that when it flies about the city it almost scares the horses on the streets. As it comes suddenly around the corner and shoots past a pedestrian, he imagines he is about to be struck by a rainbow. There never was such a highly colored bake wagon in all Nevada before.
120 Years Ago
The Grand Aggregated Episcopal Choir Minstrel Show will open at the Opera House this evening at 8 o’clock. A full house is assured, and it looks as if there will be standing room only be the time the rag is hoisted.
80 Years Ago
Americans having $2,500 or more to invest in automobiles may do so after April 27 without interference from the office of price administration. No rationing certificate will be required for purchasing cars in the $3,500 class and up.
40 Years Ago
The Board of Supervisors must decide Thursday morning who is right: attorney Ted Stokes, representing the Carson City Nugget, or deputy district attorney Dave Neilson. The issue is whether the Nugget must pay for a street to allow expansion of a parking lot.
20 Years Ago
Hundreds of visitors rocked to Saturday’s annual Walker Lake Loon Festival.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Three hundred and thirty odd pounds of Belcher crude bullion came into the Mint yesterday. Six Crown Point bricks went to London last night and six Belcher bricks will go up to the Bank of California Agency at Virginia this morning. There has been made 334 bars of bullion at the Mint since April 1.
140 Years Ago
In Virginia City the miners think it’s great sport to get up a bet between two men as to which can change their clothes first. When they come up the shaft and rush to the dressing room, they find their clothes tied in hard knots.
120 Years Ago
The Utah Legislature has passed, and the governor has signed a bill providing for the fining or imprisonment of any person under 18 found with a cigarette or tobacco in his possession.
80 Years Ago
Residents of Carson City are urged to hear commander Dwight Dexter of the United States Navy at the Carson City Civic Auditorium to tell his story about Guadalcanal. The commander has a great story to tell, and he does not pull any punches.
40 Years Ago
Buster Crabbe, an Olympic Gold medal swimmer who became the undisputed king of motion picture adventure serials during the 1930s died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 75.
20 Years Ago
Helped by a healthy incentive package from the city, a California development company announced plans to locate a 100-acre auto mall in northern Carson City.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
We are sorry to learn that controller Hobart is sick again — so severely under the weather as to be confined to his house. Hope he may be better by the time this gets around.
140 Years Ago
Nevada had a regular California day. Four kinds of weather in two hours.
120 Years Ago
Local bicycle enthusiasts held a meeting Thursday evening and formed a wheelmen’s club. J.A. Muller was elected president, J.A. Stern vice president, H.B Van Etten secretary, and W.H. Carvel treasurer. The first race will start in front of the government building thence to Shawn’s Springs, and from there to the prison, by way of Carson and then back to the place of starting.
80 Years Ago
The California highway commission has promised that the road will be open for traffic on May first over the Echo summit on U.S. 50, the Lincoln Highway, according to information received on this side of the Sierra.
40 Years Ago
Former Gov. Mike O’Callaghan returned to Carson City to urge all employers at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon to hire and use the handicapped.
20 Years Ago
The Fallon Air Show has been scrubbed this year, apparently the victim of the growing popularity of the Reno Air Races.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.