Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Medical vapor baths: Mr. H. Fulstone of the King Street Cordwainery (shoemaker), has purchased the right from Dr. Munro to use his vapor bath process; and he is now prepared to furnish these famous restorative baths to whomsoever may call upon him. There is no doubt of the beneficial character of these baths.
140 Years Ago
Advertisement: “For sale. Improved real estate. Block of ground and fine residence - $2,700. Two lots, hard finished house - $700. Mix lots, small house - $500. One lot, small house - $200. Terms on all above reasonable. J.D. Kearney.”
130 Years Ago
Who killed the Borden’s? Lizzie Borden and her sister will leave no stone unturned to discover who the murderers of their parents are. The hunt is already on and will continue.
120 Years Ago
Thieves: The work train of the railroad company pulled in and left the caboose on the track west of the hotel and did some switching in the yard. They were not gone long, but when they returned, they found that someone had gone through the car and stolen clothing, provisions, and everything in sight. There is no clue to the thieves. (Independent)
70 Years Ago
Rooms needed: An overcrowded holiday weekend is foreseen this week as the usual Fourth of July holiday visitors swarm into western Nevada. Anyone with a room to rent is asked by the Chamber of Commerce to list it. Hotels and motels are already sold out, and it will be necessary for private rooms to be secured to care for guests who will visit Carson.
30 Years Ago
Pony Express Pavilion: Neighbors have been complaining about too much noise coming from the new pavilion. The “Three Dog Night” concert at Mills Park was too loud, but some say the city needs more entertainment acts to boost nightlife.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Colonel Curry: The Colonel means to make his town an adequate and appropriate showing of its jollifying sense on the gellorious “day we celebrate.” He has built the highest building in the state, and he means that it shall be christened accordingly to its bigness.
140 Years Ago
Flour gold: The Salt Lake Tribune says the new system for saving the flour gold on Snake River works well and is cheaply operated. Four-fifths of the gold is caught near the upper end of the fabric, while at the lower end hardly any is found. These machines are producing about $100 in gold per day.
130 Years Ago
The poor farm: The Carson Poor Farm deserves more credit than it receives. The present manager, Mr. Carney and his wife, have proved themselves and command the esteem of all the unfortunate. The rooms are light, pleasant and clean. The crops at the farm are in a thriving condition although there is no fruit. It is no child’s play to successfully run an establishment where the sick, poor, and comparatively wretched are compelled to seek a home in old age. The people of Ormsby may congratulate themselves that in no more capable hands could the home be placed.
120 Years Ago
Local news: A couple of runaways livened Carson Street. The prison wagon and the sewing machine rig started in opposite directions and several Carsonites nearly twisted their heads off in the endeavor to see the ends of the street at the same time.
70 Years Ago
Kit Carson Riding Club: Members of the Kit Carson Riding Club enjoyed a breakfast ride to Herlax ranch. President Jack Bartlett has announced a moonlight ride and steak fry at Tuffly’s Flat. Over 20 plan to make the ride.
30 Years Ago
First Lady remembered: Pat Nixon’s life is remembered two years after her husband resigned in disgrace from the presidency, she was voted Good Housekeeping magazine’s “most admired women in the world.” Her popularity stemmed from the fact that she stood by her man through decades of political crises.
Monday
150 Years Ago
A clever dog: The dog was a very finely drawn, beautifully feathered and splendidly bred double nose setter; and the eager and knowing way with which he performed was as good as a circus. If his owner’s mathematics are as thoroughbred as his dog, he ought to succeed at arithmetic we know of.
140 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Ormsby House, Carson City, Sharp Brothers - Proprietors. This hotel is the most pleasant and conveniently located, for the traveling public, being near the state capitol. Accommodations first class. Rates: $2, $2.50, and $3 per day. Lake Tahoe stages arrive and depart from this house.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The Ole Parish informs the Times-Review that the locality that he resides in north of Tuscarora is overrun with grasshoppers, crickets and squirrels, which bid fair to devastate the country.
120 Years Ago
Local news: The Wadsworth Dispatch claims that Olinghouse chickens are hump-backed from lugging gold nuggets in their crops.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive-In Theatre, ‘Red River’ with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift and ‘Medal of Honor,’ the story of ‘Joseph C. Rodriguez’ featuring Larry Craine.”
30 Years Ago
Riverboat casino: Harrah’s said it would run a riverboat casino as part of an entertainment complex. The casino entertainment division of The Promus Companies Inc. said its investment in the Missouri project will be approximately $82 million. It will be on a 71-acre track in Maryland Heights.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Curry’s ball band: Curry has taken it upon himself to surpass anything that has ever been done in Nevada or anywhere on the pacific coast in the scope and magnitude and utter boundlessness of a Fourth of July Ball. It is a matter of course that he is not going to endeavor to go fill that great hall with harmony by the puny pipings of a penny whistle, nor the weak and ineffectual squeakings of any isolated or half strung catgut, nor by any debilitated or broken winded accordions or jingling piano.
140 Years Ago
Born: Carson City, June 26, to the wife of George R. Dobbs, a son—ten pounds.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Frank Bell has finished putting up a new telephone line between Carson and Virginia (City). It goes by way of American Flat.
120 Years Ago
The difference: A complaint has been made to the effect that the new postage stamps with the face of George Washington is unattractive, unbecoming and a libel upon the father of our country—not his. For instance, those who receive a dunning letter or a refusal of offer of marriage, will not only condemn the stamp, but the whole letter.
70 Years Ago
Want to be 103? Miss Jennie Long, who celebrated her 103rd birthday, has a three-point formula for living to a ripe old age: Never work, don’t get married and be the youngest child in the family so you’ll be spoiled.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Wallace Theatres—'Jurassic Park,’ ‘Cliffhanger,’ ‘Life with Mikey,’ ‘Dave,’ and ‘Once Upon a Forest.’”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.