Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Sierra Seminary (Hannah Clapp’s school): Roll of honor for the month ending November: Mary Bragg, Sarah Bragg, Hattie Verrill, Theresa Tufly, Fannie Elstner, Ada Holmes, Mollie Holmes, Eddie Allen, Eddie Yerington, Vernon Little.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: Wood thieves are quite brisk and numerous.
John May of Cherry Creek was stopped by footpads and robbed of $320.
Mr. Sweeney has named his saloon the “Ozark.” This is the Arabic for “Fountain in the Desert.”
120 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sacramento hay yard. Dealers in the best of hay, grain and feed. Hay delivered by the bale or ton. Stabling for 100 horses. Wood for sale. Petersen & Springmeyer.”
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive-In Theatre — ‘Second Chance’ with Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell. Second feature ‘The Half Breed’ with Robert Young and Janis Carter. Cartoon – news.”
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — Now showing, ‘A Distant Trumpet’ with Troy Donohue and Suzanne Pleshette.”
Thursday
155 Years Ago
Merchants book slates: Mr. John G. Fox received some pocket slates made by the Silicate Slate Company of New York. These slates have a surface one can write on with a pencil and the marks can be washed off. There are 10 tablets in a book and are convenient for reporters and businessmen.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: In opium joints and hashish houses, tea and water adulterated with aconite is used to heighten the effect of the drug on the nerves and brain — the same excitement used by the New England witches. (New York Sun)
120 Years Ago
Thanksgiving: Every resident of Nevada who sits down to Thanksgiving dinner has a right to feel that he lives in a state where people have more than ordinary reasons for being filled with a decided feeling of thankfulness and that Nevada has progressed by leaps and bounds. Under the circumstances we can all eat our Thanksgiving dinner with good grace.
70 Years Ago
Help wanted: Lady needed immediately for three weeks typing work for $1.44 per hour. Just be able to operate IBM electric typewriter. Call 1080 or apply at the State Personnel Department, Carson City.
For rent: New two-bedroom home in George Meyers Subdivision. $75 per month. Phone 136.
60 Years Ago
A first for Carson: Carson City residents will have the first issue of the Sunday Nevada Appeal — a 16-page section of features, photos, and late local, national, and international news. Carson City is growing — and so is the Nevada Appeal.
Friday
155 Years Ago
The first V&T. R.R. passenger car came from Virginia (City) bringing a large party of passengers that included Mr. Sharon, Mr. Grim, Judge Rising, the county commissioners of Storey and others who were on a trial trip that had been through the tunnels and cuts.
The car is very neat and is calculated to accommodate about 30 passengers with seven double seats on each side and single seats at the forward end. Excitement was caused by this arrival and heightened by the coming of the new first-class locomotives “Carson” and “Virginia.” The “Carson” is a very handsome engine, and she was appropriately decorated with American flags.
140 Years Ago
More light for travelers: One of the uses proposed is to put a second locomotive headlight illuminator placed on the rear of the engineer’s cab, throwing a flood of light over the train. It can be turned to the right or the left and made to illuminate the station grounds when the train is at a standstill. This would be a grand improvement which the traveling public will appreciate.
120 Years Ago
The kinescope: Local talent, Miss Heidenreich and Miss Winrod sang the illustrated songs, and both were recalled, showing that their efforts and voices are appreciated. The moving pictures are among the best shown in Carson City, not only the subjects, but the fine quality of the films. The following interesting programs have been arranged: Coaching party, Tintrim Coast, Ireland; The Ballet Master’s dream, Irish Market Place, Rube and the Incandescent, An Elopement up to date and Patrick Street, Ireland…
70 Years Ago
Serves in Germany: Army Cpl. John W. Borda, son of Mrs. Gorgonia Borda of Gardnerville, is playing on the headquarters company football team while serving with the first infantry division’s 26th regiment in Germany.
60 Years Ago
Need clerks for tax work: The Internal Revenue Service in Reno needs temporary clerks to assist in processing federal tax returns. The positions pay $1.63 and $1.77 an hour. A written test is required.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.