Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Growth of the town: Farmer Treadway has decided to offer for sale and building purposes, a portion of his land fronting on Minnesota Street, north of the Dorsey residence. Land in this town is worth $1,000 an acre.
140 Years Ago
Water at Candelaria: The Piute’s pack snow into town from the hills and sell it to the Chinese who find this cheaper than buying water.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: George H. Meyers the downtown grocer, has moved his family into the residence formerly occupied by C.K. Parker.
110 Years Ago
City dump clean up: Recommended actions include – having a couple employed for a time and that all the burnable rubbish be taken into piles and some semblance of order maintained. Also suggested that every property holder in the city take action to make the place more sanitary by burning rubbish, separating old tin cans and scrap iron into piles and that all dead animals be taken to other quarters far outside the city limits or else buried or burned.
70 Years Ago
Larrups Lion: Jimmy Durante entered a cage and yanked a lion’s tail and wise cracked that “The only thing between them lions was my name,” after Shelley Winters, standing outside the case in the role of a lion tamer told him, “if you love me, go in there and fight those lions.” Insurers wouldn’t cover Durante for this stunt, but they did cover the lions.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
May Day: May Day was sunny but chilly. The ground was white with snow in the morning.
140 Years Ago
Perpetual motion: A Chinese person on King Street is getting up a machine which will go all the time. It is difficult to describe it, but it is a board balanced in the middle, as boys play teeter. A miniature car runs on a double track and when it gets to the end of the board it is instantly thrown back past the center by a strong spring and the board tips up again, allowing constant motion. The apparatus Ah Fung has in operation has been running uninterruptedly for three months. (Bodie Free Press)
130 Years Ago
Remarkable accident: Angelo McKelvey was walking up Sierra Street opposite the Golden Eagle Hotel when he heard the band playing. He turned around suddenly and fell down Barnes’ well head foremost. The well is 30 feet deep and stone curbed. It had two feet of water when McKelvey fell in. The young man reached the bottom of the well and climbed up the rope. He wasn’t hurt. Angelo is the son of Rev. Chas. McKelvey pastor of the M.E. Church here at one time. (Journal)
110 Years Ago
Masque ball: If rumors are to be believed, there will be a gorgeous array of imported and home product costumes ever assembled. You can dance or not. You will get your money’s worth in enjoyment. Two members of the supreme court of largest avoirdupois, it is stated, will appear as the Gold Dust Twins; Peary Ellis will represent Pear’s Soap and George Bartlett as a bartlett pear; Emmet Boyle will represent the biblical character of Job in his most distressing affliction; Henry Keyser will appear as Keyser Wilhelm…. Admission is 50 cents.
70 Years Ago
Beta Sigma Phi: Installation of officers of the Epsilon chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met at the home of Mrs. Robert Adams. Mrs. Adams installed the following: Mrs. William Morgan, president; Miss Kay Van Sickle, vice-president; Mrs. Duane Berning, recording secretary; Mrs. William Davis, treasurer; Mrs. Albert Ternau, extension officer, and Mrs. William Berning, alternate…
Friday
150 Years Ago
Decoration Day: At an adjourning of the union soldiers and sailors of the rebellion meeting held at the County Building, the various committees were appointed. After passing a resolution all union soldiers and sailors of the Union Army and Navy of the late rebellion were asked to join with and assist in observing Decoration Day.
140 Years Ago
In brief: The box factory has opened and is running full force.
The young daughter of Geo. T. Davis is quite low with typhoid fever.
Henry Dube, a Frenchman, sentenced to 10 years in the state prison, from Lander County, considered the outlook Dube-ious.
130 Years Ago
Suicide: W.E. Hagen ends his career. Parties in the vicinity of the Arlington Hotel heard a noise at the hotel. Upon investigation it was discovered that W.E. Hazen who has been in Carson for some time as examiner for the U.S. Department, had shot himself in the right temple with a Smith and Wesson 38 caliber 5-shooter.
110 Years Ago
Death: Miss Josephine O’Hara died from a blood clot in her heart. The deceased was 21 years of age and one of the most popular young ladies in Reno. She was employed as a stenographer in the office of the Continental Casualty Company.
70 Years Ago
Camp Mercury: The Atomic Energy Commission has announced the American Engineering and Manufacturing Co. of El Cerrito, Calif., as the apparent low bidder on a steam generating plant to be built at the Nevada proving grounds. The firm entered a bid of $45,000 which was $22,800 less than the estimated cost.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.