Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Wednesday
145 Years Ago
Gone: Mr. D.M. Riordan and his bride left on the stage for their home at Bodie. Their many friends wished them much happiness and prosperity.
140 Years Ago
Warmly received: Three German emigrant women arrived in Carson. When they reached the depot, the Faderlanders were surrounded by hotel staff and stage partners. They could speak no English and the “solicitors” were equally ignorant of the German language. The stage driver insisted on taking them to Genoa. In the midst of the confusion one of our prominent citizens who speaks German came to the rescue.
130 Years Ago
A stricken town: The typhoid-malaria epidemic continues at Lovelock. A list of deaths from the disease is enlarged almost daily. Sixteen cases are reported. A seepage from stagnant sloughs is ascribed the cause. (Silver State)
110 Years Ago
New bill at Grand: “Man’s Greed for Gold,” “The Redskin’s Mercy,” “The Heart of Valeska,” and “Two Souls with but One Single Thought.”
70 Years Ago
Phone tolls rise: Charges for some long-distance calls went up adding about $65 million a year to telephone customer costs. The increase applies to overtime, night and Sunday rates for interstate and distance calls. Charges for daytime calls of three minutes or less were not charged.
20 Years Ago
Gold prices: OPECs production cut, unpredictable stock market and optimism are leading investors to snap up gold. The highest rise in more than seven years brought the price of gold up to $400 an ounce.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
All sorts: There is a dangerous hole in the plank sidewalk opposite the Mint. If it is not soon mended somebody will come to grief.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: A drunken fellow known as “Grizzly Dan” is becoming a nuisance in town.
130 Years Ago
Irish Day: It was Irish Day at the Fair. There was a row about the hoisting of the flag of Erin.
110 Years Ago
Native garb: The most pronounced slit skirt we have yet noticed on the streets of Carson is worn by the old Chinese woman in native garb.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive-In – ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier.’ The greatest adventure story of our time starring Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick and ‘Beaver Valley,’ a Walt Disney special cartoon.”
20 Years Ago
Advertisement: The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company presents Adler and Ross in a hilarious comedy, ‘The Pajama Game,’ Carson City Community Center; $14 general, $12 students…”
Friday
145 Years Ago
Might be improved: That circlet of gas burners in the ceiling of our new theater is the only cheap, slimpsy looking thing about the establishment. It does not shed the brilliant light that we need. Manager Preddy, if you will get a first-class unburner for our Opera House, we will forever hold our peace.
140 Years Ago
Property: A piece of property here with improvements for which $5,000 was asked less than five years ago was sold for $1,100. But if one or two bonanzas should be struck on the Comstock, that property will sell at the old figures again within a year.
130 Years Ago
Solo: Grant Luper left for Oakland. He played the cornet in the band during the fair and offered a farewell solo causing everybody to stop and listen.
110 Years Ago
Surprise: August J. Holmes, who is employed in the research branch of the chemistry department and the University of Nevada and Miss Emma Frisch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frisch of Reno were married a week ago Saturday.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Cupcakes, devil’s food or silver cream cupcakes, topped with our homemade candy assorted icings, are a real treat… try them today. Rauhut’s Bakery Truck, phone 11-W or see Kelly & Lindsay.”
20 Years Ago
Hungry bear: Wildlife officials are trying to keep a hungry bear from making an appearance in David Letterman’s cabin in Montana. Letterman recounted how he woke up in the morning to find a bear in his kitchen.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.