Looking toward the east at the Carson City Airport in 1960.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Roll of honor: The following names appear upon the “Roll of Honor” of the public school for the month of October: Grammer Department: Virginia Chedic, Edward A. Leagrave, Olive Swift, Maggie Sprague, Walter Chedic, Frank Sears, Natylie Dow, Mollie McCarty, Cora Heslop, Ida Hawthorne, Anna Caffell. The number of pupils enrolled the present quarter is 140. Charles J. Hamlin, principal.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: A rich strike is reported near the summit of Mount Davidson, and Kerman’s divining-rodman has reached the ledge he was after.
120 Years Ago
The kinescope: The new moving picture show that is being conducted by the band boys opened for business. The house was packed and was worth the price. The moving pictures representing the life of Napoleon is one of the finest shown in this city, and the singing of the illustrated songs by Miss Stone were well received. An excellent program will be rendered this evening and those who remained at home awaiting the decision of the critics can go and be sure of an enjoyable hour.
70 Years
Classified ads: Will care for children by day or week $1.50 per day in my home. Lots of toys. Excellent references.
60 Years Ago
Cassius Clay giggles: Champion Cassius Clay is laughing at the boxing writers and other so-called experts who have installed challenger Sonny Liston as the favorite for their heavyweight championship bout next week. Clay who prefers the name Muhammad Ali, insisted he will have the last laugh.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
Advertisement: “A.B. Driesback, wholesale and retail dealer in groceries, provision, wines and ground feed; crockery, tinware, hardware and bolt blasting and sporting powder…”
140 Years Ago
Couldn’t find her: A gentleman in the northern part of the city missed his wife, after looking for her for about an hour. He asked one of the boys where their mother was, and they said, “up on the roof.” His wife had gone up on the roof to catch an escaped canary, and while she was up there, her husband had put the stepladder away.
120 Years Ago
Some ‘doins: Matinee at the Kinescope Saturday.
Al Karge was in from the Indian School and reports that things are bustling at that camp.
People who love good, real, rolling musical comedy will enjoy the dainty “Show Girl” this evening.
Dick Jose (famous countertenor of Virginia City) is in the east and will turn to San Francisco in a few weeks. He proposes to take his high-class concert company early in the new year.
70 Years Ago
Sticky: A 400-hundred-pound gulf mobile and Ohio railroad safe was stolen. The only thing inside was a gallon container of glue.
60 Years Ago
Nuns get modern garb: A leading European cardinal urged that nuns get rid of outdated practices, saying the robes of many “are a cause of ridicule in the street.”
Friday
155 Years Ago
The latest news: Henry C. McCreary, a promising young lawyer and a resident if this city, died this morning of scarlet fever after two days illness. His young son was carried off by the same disease.
140 Years Ago
Died: In Austin, Nov. 12, 1884, Sadie Carol, infant daughter of J.W. and Sadie Maddrill, aged one year, six months and 18 days.
120 Years Ago
A suit: Recovery of $1,500 in damages from the N.C.O. railway company by which he was formerly employed has been commenced by M.G.M., a brakeman residing in Reno, Mr. Myrtle. He was injured on the 6th of October while making up a train in the Reno yards, his right hand was crushed between two cars.
70 Years Ago
Artist receives honor: Nancy Bordewich, an exhibits preparer at the Nevada State Museum, returned to Carson with honors she received after participation in the San Francisco women’s artist exhibition at the Museum of Art, receiving recognition was her oil painting, “Figures.”
60 Years Ago
False teeth exports rise (by Kay Sanders): A pair of used false teeth were placed in the Coventry Cross Thrift Shop in Gardnerville with a sign reading, “If they fit, we’ll give them to you.” A California man wrote and requested the teeth. He enclosed a dollar bill with the letter and a note for “The Thrift Shop with a Heart.” The shop also has a horse jawbone and a used crap table.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.