Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Sailor Jack’s cracked head turns out to be not a very serious hurt. He was on the street yesterday as good as new. It was his scalp and not his scull that got cracked. He has sworn off from any further acquaintance with John Barleycorn and gone to work.
140 Years Ago
The people of Genoa stand in hourly fear of a snow slide which they think is liable at any time to come down the mountain side and obliterate the city from the map of Douglas County. Several of the leading citizens have joined the few who feel that they are past praying for have moved to softer localities.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday the right kind of snowstorm visited this section. The wind piped up and the loose snow was soon piled in drifts. During the afternoon snow began to fall and continued throughout the night, while there was considerable wind with it. This means that the canyons in the mountains will be piled up with the beautiful and the farmers will have water, and plenty of it.
60 Years Ago
A measure giving the state of Nevada $1.6 million to buy 8,500 acres of Lake Tahoe land for a state park passed both legislative houses today. The proposal was scheduled to be signed into law this afternoon by Gov. Grant Sawyer.
40 Years Ago
Photo caption: Lawrence Mende of Carson City signs in at the State Archives today as part of his participation in Scout Government Day as Gary Johnson, scoutmaster of Troop 152 of Reno looks on. About 90 Boy Scouts from throughout the state were scheduled to take part in the annual Scout Government Day.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
We hope that there may never be another winter go by without the successful operation of a town ordinance, which will make the building and maintaining of sidewalks of plank or other material a mandatory requirement among property holders within the town limits.
140 Years Ago
A man in Virginia started a new saloon called the Monitor and asked Dan DeQuille to notice it. He did so but the first two letters dropped out of the heading, and it read “The Monitor loon.” The man thought that it meant that the was a fool to start in business and if Dan had not been so old, he would have jumped on.
120 Years Ago
Between Sand Springs and Eaglesville in Churchill County, a French shepherd by the name of Vermont has a claim, which if it were located in any other county in this state would be visited nearly every day by mining experts. It is a promising property and the ore assays from $12 to $20 per ton in gold, 100 ounces in silver and 20 percent in copper. The mine was located a year ago and Vermont has sunk a shaft 12 feet on the ledge which runs four to six feet in with a distance of 500 feet. Fallon-Churchill Standard.
60 Years Ago
The Carson City Chamber of Commerce is heading a drive to change a proposed land acquisition by the federal government here to purchase property for a new post office. The land in question is between Plaza and Stewart Streets.
40 Years Ago
The Nevada Highway Patrol put its new airplane into service over Nevada during the weekend and helped units on the ground nab 91 speeders. One car was found to carry narcotics and stolen weapons.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Champions of the Red Cross — Geo. B. Taylor, supreme commander of the Independent Champions of the Red Cross has just completed the organization of the encampment of the above order in this city.
140 Years Ago
Every few days somebody pretending to be very well informed makes the announcement in a newspaper, or starts the story in some club, that the parties to the Hill-Sharon divorce suit, and the innumerable side-shows attendant there on, have about agreed upon a basis of compromise. “Sharon,” they say, “is tired of all the row and wants the matter settled some way, anyway.” Sharon, without a doubt is tired, but the suit will never be compromised.
120 Years Ago
This season has been a bad one from the hunter’s point of view. Game of all classes has been scarce; where birds were found to be plentiful, they have been found lacking quality in this section the entire season. Local convictions show the need for rigid laws.
60 Years Ago
Gov. Grant Sawyer said Wednesday he felt “something very definitely should be done” to streamline the operations of the state department of education.
40 Years Ago
Bruce McCandless severed his link with the mother ship and soared on his own thousands of miles above the earth using a “Buck Rogers” jet pack to become the first 17,500-mph human satellite.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.