Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
There are, we regret to say, some dishonest persons dwelling amongst us. This unpleasant truth becomes apparent when we say that on Saturday night someone, undeterred by the spirit of the dire foul threat once uttered by the great Bombastes, reached his pilfering fingers through a hole in the sash of the door of Mr. D.C. Turner’s shop and filched a pair of boots. We look for the return without further notice.
140 Years Ago
Warden Bell believes that ninety percent of the inmates of our state prison have become criminals through drink.
120 Years Ago
For once the train arrived on time yesterday. It contained the president of the United States. Carson was all ready for him and when he showed the face which the artists and cartoonists and photographers have made famous, there was a resounding roar from the throats of several thousand people.
70 Years Ago
Sunday’s big Kids Fishing Derby at the county farm is all over but for a final tally of the fish caught. Preliminary surveys show that close to 450 fish were taken by 282 youthful anglers. Some of the trout caught weighed close to two pounds.
30 Years Ago
Carson City schools may have to cinch its belts one more notch despite a conservative 1993-94 budget.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
The theater was fairly filled last night — not crowded, but an average audience; and the two plays presented were done cleverly enough; but “Carson a Hundred Years Hence” is most too venerable to be laughed at; and “Charlotte Russe” and “Martha Bland” are not the sort of characters that playgoers go to see.
140 Years Ago
Spiritualism continues to be the leading amusement in Carson society circles. Some wonderful “manifestations” are said to have been given recently.
120 Years Ago
The first irrigation system to be constructed by the government under the new law passed by congress will be constructed in (near) Nevada. Lake Tahoe will be famed at the point where it empties into the Truckee River. The dam will be more than 20 feet high, and the level of the lake will be raised fully 10 feet. The estimated area of the body of water is more than 300 square miles.
70 Years Ago
Plans by a chamber of commerce committee to move the old V.&T. train to a public site on Washington St. adjacent to the former V&T depot ran into another snag last night when the Masonic lodge, now owning the depot, went on record opposing the closing of the street.
30 Years Ago
Construction on what will be the new fire department headquarters began Thursday with the men who made it happen breaking the ground in front of city officials.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
Improved order red men — Officers and members of Paiute Tribe NO. 1. I.O.R.M., are hereby notified to meet at their Wigwam this (Thursday) evening. The presence of every member is desired as business of importance will come before the councils. By order of H.J. Peters, Sachem.
140 Years Ago
A woman killed in Candelaria. The True Fissure gives an account of the killing of Jenny McDonald, a woman of the town in Candelaria, by Edward Rafferty. The assassin fired through the window from a Springfield rifle and shot the woman through the temples as she lay on a bed. Rafferty is in jail. Two other men are suspected of being implicated in the murder and Rafferty lays it to a man named Richardson.
120 Years Ago
Deputy fish commissioner E.W. Hunt came down from Tahoe Monday. He brought with him one of the finest trout ever taken from Lake Tahoe which was presented to president Roosevelt as he passed through here Monday morning. The trout was of the Mackinaw variety and weighed a full 20 pounds.
70 Years Ago
Photo caption – Shaking earth, rattling windows at Bishop, 200 miles distant, this ninth atom blast of current series at Yucca Flat, is rated one of the most powerful. Picture was made at instant of detonation from Mt. Charleston, 65 airline miles from test site.
30 Years Ago
This year’s Fourth of July celebration in Carson City will have one notable exception — the parade that has entertained the public for the past two decades. The fireworks will be presented, underwritten by the Nevada Community Federal Credit Union, and the “Fun Run” will also take place.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.