Looking toward the east at the Carson City Airport in 1960.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Our Blythe little friends, the flock of snowbirds of whose playful performances in the Capitol Square we have made mention, were most cruelly and wantonly set upon and attacked yesterday from charges of a double-barreled gun, right into their little community. It was from a sportsman who knew the laws of the state showing unsportsmanlike practices.
140 Years Ago
A chess club. There will be a meeting at 1 o’clock next Sunday in the Secretary of State’s office of Carson chess players to form a chess club. There are about two dozen good chess players in the city and there has been so much interest manifested in the game of late the organization of a club becomes almost a necessity.
120 Years Ago
It sounds good on paper to shout for immigration to Nevada. It is a commendable enterprise on the part of any person or corporation that undertakes the settlement of any section that transforms the desert into a bearing field.
60 Years Ago
State officials were perplexed to learn Nevada’s state seal is probably illegal. At least the one now in use doesn’t follow the law, legislative counsel bureau analyst Arthur Palmer states. The seal used during the 100-year history of Nevada to attest documents and contracts does not meet the description laid down by state law.
40 Years Ago
Clear As Mud by Gerald C. Crane, Northern Nevada Correctional Center Inmate No. 14422. (Editor’s note: Columnist Gerald C. Crane is serving a 35-year sentence for bank robbery and first-degree kidnapping. His column is neither approved nor endorsed by prison administration. His views are his own and not necessarily those of the Nevada Appeal). The column continues…
Thursday
150 Years Ago
The Chinese New Year festivities are sustained with a fervor and businesslike constancy quite interesting, though measurably monotonous. The beating of the holiday Mongolian gongs are simultaneously responsive to the explosion of the Chinese firecracker and the vast expenditure of gold-freckled, ochre-colored paper.
140 Years Ago
Aluminum has been discovered in Tuscarora. Professor Price of San Francisco returned a certificate giving in 100 parts of the ore assayed, 19.48 parts of aluminum, or nearly 30 percent metallic of the value of $799.20 per ton.
120 Years Ago
Carson seems to be better represented in San Francisco than most of the cities of the state. The boys left the warm firesides of their Nevada homes and all who have taken a hand in the big cities seem to be more than holding their own.
60 Years Ago
The design of Nevada’s Centennial Commemorative stamp was unveiled on Lincoln’s birthday in the state assembly chambers in Carson City.
40 Years Ago
A legal quirk in state law may exempt the city from paying indigent hospital bills in excess of $100,000 to Carson-Tahoe Hospital and Washoe Medical Center, according to city manager Don Hataway.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Lee Woo kept open house at his laundry yesterday, and he entertained his American friends there the best he could considering the nature of the fare and his rather slim vocabulary of English words. He treated us to a round of oriental convections and offered us a glass from any one of four drinks.
140 Years Ago
The wood thieves are out nights in strong force. The Chinese people who saw your wood know just how the land lies in the backyard and they furnish the rest of the gang with plans and specifications of the premises.
120 Years Ago
The storm that settled over this section the latter part of last week seems to be hanging on with general persistence. From the standpoint of the farmer, it is about the best thing that has happened during the year.
60 Years Ago
Virginia City, the historical town some 15 miles northeast of Carson City may be sitting on a modern-day keg of dynamite. A report in the Territorial Enterprise says there is trouble brewing in the Storey County seat. Three local citizens are requested a grand jury investigation into county affairs.
40 Years Ago
The Nevada Public Service Commission may consider prohibiting utilities from terminating power service during the winter, a commission spokeswoman said.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.