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Wednesday
150 Years Ago
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church: The Episcopal Church in Carson, as reconstructed, the interior of the building and an accurate description of the manner and beauties of its internal structure and its donors are on inspection by a member of the building committee.
140 Years Ago
Telegraphic brevies: General Grant is so far recovered as to not require a physician.
Mrs. Mackay will be sponsor with Charles Gounod at the reception of Mademoiselle Emma Nevada, the American prima donna, into the Catholic Church.
130 Years Ago
A benefit: The ball to be given at Wiggins Hall, Empire by Dan Grey and Jim Reid for the benefit of the Crow family should be a well-attended affair. Tickets are 50 cents.
110 Years Ago
More autos: According to statistics compiled by the Oakland Street Department, there are 187 more automobiles in Oakland than there are horses.
100 Years Ago
Truckee dam: Forty mules were purchased to be used for work on the dam in the Truckee Canal. The present force must be increased by one-third. Rock workers are needed. (Wadsworth Dispatch)
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Fatal accident: J.B. Overton, superintendent of the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Works, gives us the particulars of an accident which resulted in the death of Herman Eike. He was coming down from the Inlet where the water runs from the flume to the piping at about one and a half miles from the Lake View House, on snowshoes, when one of his shoes slipping away from him, he went after it and in doing so loosened a bank of snow which slid down and buried him deep beneath its surface. His companion was not within reach of the slide and escaped to the Toll House. He returned within an hour to find young Eike dead under three feet of snow.
140 Years Ago
All sorts: A fine vein of hot water has been struck in the Savage Mine.
The weather cock placed on the capitol flagstaff disappeared and is supposed to have blown off by the big wind.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The dispatches state that Jack the Ripper is now an inmate of a London asylum.
110 Years Ago
Broken jaw: Richard Rippingham had a misfortune in Tonopah 10 days ago when he fell from a scaffold. He broke his jawbone, dislocated his shoulder and lacerated his ear. After examining him in Carson he was sent to the hospital in Reno.
100 Years Ago
All sorts: Dr. Lee tied his horse to the fence near the club house at Washoe lake. The horse ran away, and the doctor’s rig was pretty well demoralized.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Spasms: The roads between here and Genoa have been in such a wretched plight this winter that there has been a very small corps of rheumatics and other cripples at Walley’s Hot Springs Hotel. People with swelled joints are preferring to put up with inadequate home baths.
140 Years Ago
New government building: The site of the new capital building ought to be somewhere in the south end of Carson to help balance the town. The Mint, the post office and the railroad shops are at the north end, and property is higher in consequence. People who come from abroad to transact business in the new building would have to traverse the town. If the building were at the south end near the railroad depot, they would only come in contact with a small portion of the population.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Dickey Jose (Richard Jose) has retired from the state with the accent on the “tired.”
110 Years Ago
Birth: In Carson City a son was born to the wife of Donald Maclean. Both mother and child are doing well.
100 Years Ago
All sorts: Sardines are said to have caused cases of ptomaine poisoning in Reno when two ladies nearly lost their lives.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.