Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
On Spear Street, just around the corner above Carson, crowds of lads meet daily to play at leapfrog and other jumping games. On the sidewalk, up against Mason & Chamberlin’s store, sit the audience — the street inspectors and curb-stone rangers. We merely mention this to inform those who want to see an assemblage of enterprising citizens hard at work, hour in and hour out, watching a squad of schoolboys at their play of where they may go to witness that interesting and instructive sight.
140 Years Ago
A lot of men have been indicted in Humboldt County for a too free use of their branding irons.
120 Years Ago
The club house of the Capitol Hunting and Fishing Club is now situated on an island as the lake has washed out the sand bank between the tule fields and the main lake.
60 Years Ago
The snow-crested summit of a towering Sierra peak yesterday claimed the lives of 81 vacation-bound Californians who were believed to have died instantly in Nevada’s worst airline tragedy. A crew of four also perished in the crash of a Paradise Airlines Constellation, bringing the death toll to 85. There were no survivors in the crash on the remote Daggett Pass just south of Genoa Peak.
40 Years Ago
Chris Schaller, who served as an aide and political adviser to three Nevada governors and a U.S. Senator, died Monday night in a Reno hospital. He was 48. Schaller, who wrote a column called “Observations” for the Nevada Appeal, had worked for a public relations firm in Reno in recent years.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Cocks and pullets: Chas. E. Laughton, very good with his quill at the railroad, lives in the new settlement of the V&T workshops and has a lot of fancy chickens. The cock is the finest ever seen in these parts. He also offers fancy eggs for sale or hatching.
140 Years Ago
Ambrotypes, etc.: Mr. Peterson, the photographer, has extraordinary facilities for taking perfect tintypes, and is producing them at very low prices.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: March comes in like a lamb.
Prof. H.H. Howe has developed a severe case of La Grippe and is a very sick man.
110 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Buick 1914, A Dream Come True… so much quality, so much energy… prices ranging from $1,050 to $2,135. C.O.D. Garage, Minden.”
100 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The Bank Saloon. Meyer & Sanger Props, South Carson Street, Carson. Finest wines, liquors and cigars, sharp beer on draught. Private card rooms. Free lunch at the bar.”
Monday
150 Years Ago
A projected park: The Corbett Brothers have undertaken some preliminary work on their projected park. They are engaged in fencing on the grounds of the park and have ordered 1,000 trees that will set out on the grounds as soon as spring is far enough advanced. We expect to see that entire quarter of Carson thickly dotted with substantial cottages.
140 Years Ago
In brief: A Reno snowshoer alleges that he saw 500 frozen rabbits in the Sierra Valley. A man should be careful about making such wild statements.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Now that two of the Appeal compositors are learning to play the violin Peter Jackson, the office cat, refuses to sleep in the building.
110 Years Ago
Night prowler: George Kinney of the Railroad Commission Force filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office and said he would not be responsible for what happened to the prowler who attempted to break into his home on West Proctor Street.
100 Years Ago
All sorts: Snowslides are of daily occurrence at Lundy, Mono County, Calif. No damage has been done. The snow at the mine is nine to 11 feet deep, and in town three feet.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
St. Patrick’s celebration: Counsellor T.H. Healy has been chosen by his compatriots of the Emerald Isle and their American descendants in Virginia City to the honorable and flattering office of poet on St. Patrick’s Day. His theme will be the grandeur and glory of the “Old Country.”
140 Years Ago
Sutro tunnel: It is reported that the recent discoveries of rich gold west of Mount Davidson are stimulating people connected with the Sutro Tunnel Company to push the main tunnel through the mountain.
130 Years Ago
Burned out: The Brunswick home of Johnny Crow burned to the ground. The family were all asleep when the fire broke out. Johnny awakened the rest, threw open the doors and windows and assisted the younger children out. D.A. Bender and A. Murphy are collecting clothes for the family. Crow being out of work, the family is quite destitute.
110 Years Ago
At the Grand: The Grand will present a headliner in vaudeville never before equaled in trained animals – a traveled, equine wonder. The horse with a humorous brain can add, subtract, multiply and divide, pick out and distinguishes colors and flags, makes correct change from the cash register; laughs, gaps, yawns, flirts, plays ball, tells time on anyone’s watch, acts like a sick horse, shows where pain is, plays dead, actually holds his breath and poses like a statuary. Prices 10 and 20 cents.
100 Years Ago
Run over: W.R. Bradley, an old and respected resident of Reno, was injured by being run over by a hay wagon. Five ribs were broken, and there were several scalp wounds. It is feared the old gentleman will not recover.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.