North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Right now, even in these very dull times, there is more work for builders — more especially carpenters — in Carson than any time in many months. The erection of dwelling house in east Carson is what furnishes the most of this employment.
140 Years Ago
Wadsworth has a ghost that swings a blue lantern and gives all the signals known to railroad men.
120 Years Ago
The water at Empire receded yesterday and it was found that little damage was done.
60 Years Ago
Wednesday afternoon TV listings: 12 o’ clock 2 Hour of Stars. 3-5 News. 4 Make a Deal. 8 High Noon. 13 Seven Keys. 12:30 3 Bachelor Father. 4 Doctors. 5-8 As the World Turns. 13 Father Knows Best.
40 Years Ago
To help celebrate her birthday, Marie Wolf, 59, filed to run for the office of mayor Friday.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
The rock and sand repairs put at the intersection of Carson and Second streets by the Board of County Commissioners have made 30 or 40 yards of the best piece of single-track road in town. We didn’t believe it would, but it has. Now let’s have more of this rock foundation and sand surface on Carson Street.
140 Years Ago
The “E Clampsus Vitus” (sic) has broken out in Sierraville; Jewett Adams says that quite a number of people are down with it.
120 Years Ago
The wet weather caused some inconvenience to the V.&T. yesterday. A land slide at the Vivian cut threw several hundred tons of lost dirt onto the rails and the result was that all passengers and mail had to be transferred around the slide. A crew of 20 men were sent to the scene where a night and day force will be kept hustling the dirt out for the way.
60 Years Ago
The State Welfare Board turned down two appeals Tuesday submitted by welfare aid recipients who sought additional money for medical care. The board also heard children’s home director John Aberasturi outline the growth plans of his state institution through the next few years.
40 Years Ago
Stunned by the loss of a major murder case, the state Attorney General’s Office says it has learned its lesson in dealing with state prison inmates. Midway in the murder trial of inmate Patrick Price last week, deputy attorney general Brian Hutchins threw in the towel when the chief prosecution witness, another convict, recanted his previous testimony that he saw Price commit the crime.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Dan Kitzmeyer, who is to be found always in the front rank of those who go in for improvement, is having a cottage put up for himself by Charley Jones on the west side of Curry Street, midway of the block between Second and Third streets. A neat and elegant dwelling, it will be when Charley has completed it with a veranda in front and put on some touches of his own.
140 Years Ago
The Silver State is very much put out because that Byrne has been removed from his position of treasurer of the U.S. Mint of this city. Byrne has for many years past had an incumbent position under Mr. Crawford, and at the same time been pronounced a Democrat.
120 Years Ago
Carson has not received sufficient moisture at the last storm, so nature turned loose another bucket full or two yesterday. After a high wind of all night, the clouds opened and again the umbrella fiend is in his glory. Even the farmers are crying quit as they have all the moisture that they need at the present time.
60 Years Ago
Sixty-nine boys gathered today in the Capitol chamber to be sworn into the state’s top public offices as Nevada celebrated its 26th annual Boy Scout Day.
40 Years Ago
The fundraising efforts to collect money for 4-year-old Dylan Wiggins, a victim of leukemia, have been dramatically successful.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.