Looking west from William Street at the Dutch Mill restaurant, corner of William and Carson streets in the 1950s or '60s.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
All sorts: The hairless horse is coming to Virginia City. Will his nakedness favor Carson with a visit?
140 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Opera House, Sam C. Mott, manager, one night only! First appearance in Carson of Lew Johnson’s original Tennessee ‘Jubilee & Plantation Singers.’”
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Old “Blue,” the artistic polisher of footwear had located his stand at the Ormsby House, where he is prepared to do business. He throws in a war reminiscence with every shine.
110 Years Ago
Quietly married: Clarence Ambrose of Empire and Miss Alma Johns of Carson departed to Reno to attend the presentation of “Peg O’ My Heart.” On Saturday they took out a license at the county clerk’s office and were quietly married. They returned to Empire, where the happy groom is employed and where they will make their future home.
70 Years Ago
Women’s’ role in civil defense: Assistant director of the state civil defense, in cooperation with Washoe County and Reno reported on scenarios such as mass care of evacuated Californians in case of a Pacific Coast attack. The state office estimates that Nevada and Arizona would receive most of the evacuees.
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Powder and pipe: If our fellow citizens will smoke briarwood pipes and will carry their gun powder and their smoking tobacco loose in their pockets, the chances are they will fare as Richard Roe did. He filled his pipe, lit the tobacco and away she went — up straight — or there’d been no nose on him. Now he smokes, in melancholy pensiveness, a clay pipe, three for a quarter.
140 Years Ago
Earning first money (San Francisco Chronicle): An article compiled a long list of the prominent citizens who recollect how they earned an honest dollar. The following list is the Appeal’s version. Governor Adams, teaching school in Vermont; ex-congressman Woodburn, skinning grizzlies in Placer County; Hon. C.C. Powning, confidential adviser to President Lincoln; Senator John Dennis, mixing Greek fire and dynamite for the Fenians; H.M. Yerington, making slate frames (for conventions); D.E. McCarthy, singing as a chorister boy in San Francisco…
130 Years Ago
Cat: There is a freak in the way of a cat at Pineville. It is the property of George O’Neil and may be seen any day sitting on the planer flume waiting for a fish to swim along, then the cat jumps, catches the fish and carries it away for a meal.
110 Years Ago
Stewart Indians win: A crowd of baseball fans gathered at Valley Park for a good game between the first team of Virginia City and the students of the Carson Indian School. Comstockers were outclassed, finally ending by a score of 14 to 4 in favor of the Indians.
70 Years Ago
Nugget advertisement: “75th anniversary, prices rolled back to 1939: Spaghetti and meat sauce 29 cents, ranch style beef stew 39 cents, tender swiss steak 59 cents, coffee 5 cents a cup. Strike it rich at the Nugget. Home of more jackpots! Carson City, Nev.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Bovine invention: Warren Wasson’s invention is a contrivance to protect the young trees about the square against the rubbing of itchy bovines. Each tree is armed on every side by pointed spikes just high enough to spike a cow in the belly and just sharp enough to lift her hide and hair together.
140 Years Ago
In brief: Patrick Keating of Reno, who served four years during the civil war and was seriously wounded, has received from the Pension Bureau the full amount of his back pension $1,500.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The march composed by John Meder and played at the Nevada Day exercises by the exposition band, made a decided hit with the music lovers of San Francisco.
The biggest load ever hauled on a day in Carson was hauled by Harry Martin and Bill Kaiser. It consisted of a house.
110 Years Ago
Demonstrating Studebakers: Otto Steinheimer of the Reno firm of Steinheimer Bros., state agents for the popular Studebaker, is over from Reno showing some prospective road burners the 1914 Studebaker automobile is the very one they want. Otto is a demonstrator and seldom misses landing a purchaser who really want an auto.
70 Years Ago
Pat Allen to Ireland: Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Allen and son Roland will make a trip to Ireland. They plan to travel by car to New York then by ship to Eire. They plan to stop first in Longford, where Allen was born.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.