North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
The storm continues. It never rains, but it pours. It is either a feast or a famine. The snow it snoweth every day. The tangled skein of flossy crystals is woven by the fairy fingers of the winged dryads of the air. The sagebrush hideth it sagey and pungent leaves beneath the sheets and blankets of the Boreal king. The stormy petrels of the desert, the Blythe snowbirds, revel in the endless stretch of white and boundless universe.
140 Years Ago
Miss Laura Friend is fast recovering from her sickness.
120 Years Ago
Honey crop of Nevada. Cattlemen think bees rob the hay of sweetness. It is a well-known fact that Nevada produces many carloads of fine alfalfa honey. So much of it is shipped out of the state that the alfalfa growers and cattlemen are getting their heads together, arguing that all the sweetness is just so much saccharine matter taken out of their hay.
60 Years Ago
Gov. Grant Sawyer outlined a dozen pieces of possible special session legislation before 24 state lawmakers in a private session in his Capitol office, inching his plans for the purchase of a 20,000-acre state park at Lake Tahoe.
40 Years Ago
Local residents who are unable to afford the traditional Christmas dinner Dec. 25 are invited to be the guests of the Carson Nugget for a complete roast turkey or ham dinner in the coffee shop.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Pardoned. The pardoning board got together yesterday and upon hearing the case of John L. Triplett, convicted a few days ago in the Storey County District Court of the crime of Grand Larceny, (he stole frank Obdiston’s horse), granted him a full pardon. Triplett was given the pardon because he is a mere lad; the grand jury at whose hands he was indicated, all signed a petition for the pardon; he was of fair character, and his friends and relatives promised better behavior from him in the future.
140 Years Ago
The Nevada Indians want $6,000 more this year with a corresponding increase in old pants and coats.
120 Years Ago
The management of the state asylum are making preparations already for the patients Christmas festivities. On the night of Christmas Eve, a tree will be decorated, and every patient will receive something to make the heart glad.
60 Years Ago
Herbert A. Sweat, president of Sewell’s Inc., today announced the purchase of 15 acres of property to be developed for retail purchases where the Sky-Vue drive-in is presently located.
40 Years Ago
Cactus Jack’s downtown Carson City casino ran into an ironic situation when it tried to give away $4,000 in its $1,000 semi-monthly drawing. It seems that the winner is not 21 and will not be so until Jan. 21. The winner, at the time of the entry, could not produce identification and told the person taking the entry he was 21.
Friday
150 Years Ago
The sleighing was excellent yesterday, and the day being bright and sunny, many a young gentleman and lady and several who are neither young, nor gentlemen, nor ladies, improved the occasion to set out in merry fashion behind the jingling bells. So long as good sleighing season is seldom experienced here.
140 Years Ago
Edward Harris’ mine near Washoe has been jumped by four men with shotguns.
120 Years Ago
When the legislature convenes next winter, there should be a determined effort made to create and office for a state metallurgist, or someone who is capable of classifying the varied ores that are constantly being brought in. It is nearly an everyday occurrence for some prospector to bring in a class of ore that is unknown to the average prospector.
60 Years Ago
Gov. Grant Sawyer’s doctor said today the governor will have to curtail his activities until at least the first of the new year because of a virus infection.
40 Years Ago
The Nevada Supreme Court said Friday they are not about to be put in the position of deciding if persons who drive while intoxicated and then kill someone in a traffic accident should be tried for murder.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.