Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Epizootic: Horses may be seen here and there affected and when they cough, expectorate freely, and run at the nose. The stage horses of Ladd & Billings are affected by the disease. They are still running the stage, however.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: Old Treadway still holds his homestead. It is hard to get tread in matters of reality.
The police courtroom will be removed to the north side of the Arlington.
The town is rapidly getting rid of the most undesirable elements that hang out.
130 Years Ago
Lyman Frisbie: Lyman Frisbie of Livington’s left to visit friends in Stockton, taking his steel gray glass eye with him. A telegram was sent to the Stockton police notifying them of Lyman’s intentions to visit the windmill city so extra deputies will be sworn in.
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Rex Theater in Minden. ‘Kazan,’ the greatest James Oliver Curwood story of Jane Novak and Kazana the Wonder Dog…”
70 Years Ago
Russia mourns: Moscow’s millions came to see the body of Josef Stalin awaiting the greatest funeral in Russian history. Georgi Malenkov has been appointed chairman of the soviet council of ministers and premier and becomes Stalin’s successor.
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Jezebel’s Road House, Join us for: Sunday brunch, lunch, country night every Wednesday night-live music, country dance lessons, dinner, and dancing. ‘The hottest hot spot-on Hot Springs Road,’ Jezebel’s Road House, 150 Hot Springs Road.”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
No more: The drawing of a compact entered into between the various proprietors of faro games in Carson is to refrain from dealing their games on Sunday. May we hope that the gamblers of the other counties of the state will see fit to emulate the very worthy example set by their Carson brethren.
140 Years Ago
Portable electric light: The Portable Electric Light Company of Boston has been at work perfecting an electric light which is being rapidly introduced into private houses. It occupies the space of only five square inches, weighs but five pounds, and can be carried with case.
130 Years Ago
War in Pine Nut: Ed Stevenson has placer claims in Buckeye and has had Tom and Dick Raycraft arrested, but the Raycrafts say that their claims were jumped.
110 Years Ago
New warden: D.S. Dickerson took charge of the state prison as warden after the resignation of George Cowing. The management of the prison is one of the most ticklish jobs in Nevada.
70 Years Ago
Children’s party: Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi held a rush party at the home of Mrs. Melvin Woodgate. Women came as their favorite nursery rhyme character, and children’s games were played. At the close of the evening refreshments were served to Mesdames Roy Elston, Duane Berning, Donald Crosby, Wallace Hesse, Henry Hesse, Lester Groth, William Morgan, Melvin Woodgate, Albert Turneau, Jack Salonski, Blake Fendrich, William Berning, Pete Pierini, Roy Marke, Jud Flicker, Vern Cunningham, and Miss Kay Van Sickle. (Note: In 1953 married women were always listed in the newspaper under their husband’s name.)
30 Years Ago
Horses: Western Shoshone Indian leaders announced that they will drive horses owned by Mary and Carrie Dann onto federally managed property in Eureka County. In the BLM roundup 269 horses owned by the Danns, two Indian sisters, were rounded up. They have fought ongoing legal battles against the BLM since 1974. They maintain that the Treaty of Ruby Valley of 1863 guarantees them the right to about one-third of Nevada.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Miners: The Pioche miners are so lazy, that when they yawn, they dislocate their jaws.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: Those wishing views of their residence taken will do well to go give their orders to Thom, the landscape photographer, who is here taking views of all our public buildings.
130 Years Ago
Whirligig of time: Messrs. Bray and Martin, county commissioners, announced that the Appeal was not wearing the party collar to suit them, and it had to be disciplined so they refused to grant the Appeal a printing contract, even though their bid was the lowest. The Appeal then did some disciplining of the county commissioners, and Mr. Martin retired from public life at the next primary. The Appeal has a habit of countering when struck and believes in the idea that when a man attempts to walk on it, it will do all in its power to make him remove his shoes before he begins the pedestrian exercise.
110 Years Ago
Early Easter: For 1913 Easter Sunday will happen on March 23. Eastern bonnets will blossom earlier this year than they have since 1856 and earlier than they will burst into bloom for another century. The rule of fixing the date of Easter was that it was the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. Tables computed by mathematicians have not been carried far enough to show how long it will be before Easter falls on so early a date, but it will not occur again until sometime after 2020. (This year, Easter is Sunday, April 9.)
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Win A $50 Savings Bond. Free! Name Carson City’s NEW drive-in theatre. Contest ends March 31, 1953 — Hurry! Here’s money in the bank! Fuel for your savings account! Cash in hand! We want you to name our new drive-in theatre, opening about May 1, 1953, just north of town…” (This was the Sky-Vue Drive in theater, owned by Cecil Perrin and others.)
30 Years Ago
Advertisement: “El Charro Avitia — Authentic Mexican Food, special menu items, spicy Cajun’s blackened halibut $12. Served with rice, beans, lettuce, tomato, and guacamole. Nightly fun. Well tequila drinks only $1.50, dancing ‘til dawn, western night and karaoke…”
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
New V.&T. R.R. machine and car shops: The Virginia and Truckee Railroad machine and car shops have between fifty and sixty men at work. There would be more if building materials could be supplied faster. The southern wall of the structure is up to the top of the windows, fifteen or sixteen feet, and the walls all round are growing rapidly.
140 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Exchange Hotel and Restaurant, opposite the Railroad Depot, E. Walker, proprietor. Board, per week... $5. Board and room, per week from $7 to $9.”
130 Years Ago
All sorts: It is proposed to move the Capitol of California from Sacramento to San Jose.
Several girls at the Indian School were taken with severe cramps after eating a bulb, probably the wild onion. Dr. Lee is caring for them.
110 Years Ago
Will celebrate: Sparks has announced that it will hold a celebration on the 4th of July and wants everyone to stand in. Reno will probably engage a circus to show in that town in order to knock the celebration.
70 Years Ago
Social security: William Royle, manager of the social security office says that nine out of ten persons are now covered by the social security program. “The social security card is like an insurance policy,” he said. “It is the key to your social security account. If no number or an incorrect number is reported, the employee doesn’t receive credit for his wages and is deprived of unemployment compensation, credit on his old age survivor retirement or death benefits.”
30 Years Ago
Illegal raffle: A 46-year-old man was arrested for theft in connection with a raffle he conducted to raise funds for a now-deceased young Reno girl who needed a bone marrow transplant. The thief, Earl Wallace Pridemore, was also arrested on a warrant charging him with eight counts of writing forged checks…
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.