Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
The north wind has come upon us. It is simply dreadful. It blows away out of the air all that which makes life and leaves the atmosphere a windy desert. Vegetation is checked; all animal life is chilled and shriveled. The sun might shine with all its brightness for a whole year round, and this horrid wind would neutralize all its efforts.
140 Years Ago
The citizens of Carson are taking very little interest in the Fourth of July while Genoa is getting up a big celebration. Are the patriots all dead in this section?
120 Years Ago
The Carnival Committees have opened up headquarters at the building opposite of the Criterion, and an immense stringer is across the street at that point. This is the first banner to mark the glad time that is ahead for the people.
50 Years Ago
The Carson Middle School has been renamed Grace Bordewich School, in honor of Miss Bordewich’s more than 30 years of teaching in the Carson City School District.
40 Years Ago
At the movies: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Streets of Fire, Once Upon a Time in America and Beat Street.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
The red men’s picnic. If that Providence which causes the dew to descend alike upon the improved and unimproved red and white men, will only ordain as beautiful a day today as yesterday. As much awakened among our Improved Red Brethren as we think it is, this day will be marked for all time to come as one of the happiest and most hilarious at Bower’s Farm.
140 Years Ago
There was quite a number of little side shows in the Austin Convention, accounts of which were not published in the Bourbon newspapers. The introduction of Sen. Fair’s name was made to beat D.E. McCarthy, the proprietor of the Chronicle. Major Garrod led the opposing forces and when asked to withdraw Fair, refused.
120 Years Ago
Yesterday the Appeal’s new benzine buggy made its trial trip to the seaport of Empire and back, part of the way. The machine looked like it might make the trip for a short spurt like that and put the news machine in the shade. The Appeal man grabbed the wheel of the dingus that starts the works and put his foot on the break. At the word “Go,” he turned on the starter and the machine backed up against the office and caved in the door but rebounded and by turning the doflicker the other way, it started along the road and began to tear up the ground in good shape. (Continued)
50 Years Ago
Photo caption: Jan G. Benson, general superintendent of the Carson City Railroad Association, signs honorary membership papers in an agreement with John Patrick Allen, in exchange for the only charter ever granted by the Nevada Legislature to run a model railroad in Nevada. The charter was granted to the “Nevada and Pacific Railroad Company.”
40 Years Ago
Convicted sex slayer Gerald Gallego was ordered by a jury today to be put to death by lethal injection.
Friday
150 Years Ago
The circus is coming! Letter received yesterday from Mr. Harry Larkyus, agent for John Wilson’s “Palace Amphitheater Circus,” informs us that the entertainment will shortly come to Carson. Wilson is one of our oldest and most enterprising Pacific coast showmen.
140 Years Ago
For some years past the morning Appeal and the Territorial Enterprise have been contending before the people for the position of meteorological director of the Pacific coast.
120 Years Ago
(Appeal benzine machine continued) About the time we got off to give the power a chance, the machine turned a summersault in the sage brush and sent the Appeal man and his companion circling in the air. We hit the sand about 10 yards away and the machine began converting and tearing up more ground. When it came around where we were, we got on again all right and kept on. (Continued)
50 Years Ago
Photo caption: Carson City Chamber of Commerce director Leona Wood prepared to join Dr. Alan D. Hathaway, in driving a car across the U.S. on the original Lincoln Highway route to commemorate a similar journey sponsored by Ford 50 years ago.
40 Years Ago
Nevada’s utility consumer advocate attacked utilities and hurt their financial health, Sierra Pacific Power Co. charges.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.