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Saturday
155 Years Ago
Official reports from the Washington Chronicle show passengers arriving in the U.S. during the quarter ending with June shows and extraordinary increase. The whole number is 177,582, of whom nearly 660,000 were females.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes. Bear in mind that if you do not register you cannot vote. There is talk of sending Nevada’s crack rifle team to the New Orleans Exposition.
120 Years Ago
About 4 o’clock yesterday morning burglars broke into the merchandise store of Lawson & McTigue at Silver City. They affected an entrance through the back warehouse, breaking through two and a half feet of stone and brick to get into the store. They then broke into the office, put pure nitroglycerin in fluid state into the keyhole of the safe and blew it open. The familiarity displayed showed it was the work of experts. — Chronicle
60 Years Ago
A little miracle occurred very early Wednesday morning in Carson-Tahoe Hospital. A 16-year-old California boy, arrested following a car wreck, was confined in the hospital late Tuesday. The attending physician assured the juvenile probation office that the boy did not need to be guarded because he could not possibly walk. A short time thereafter, the boy crawled out the window and disappeared. He has not been seen since.
40 Years Ago
The NHP has three high-performance Mustang LX model cars on order. Currently the California Highway Patrol has 400 Mustangs on the road and the cars can be found chasing traffic violators in Georgia, Tennessee, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Connecticut.
Sunday
155 Years Ago
Treasure City. To-day the water of Allapah is pumped in the reservoir of this city raised nearly 1,800 feet. It reaches the highest altitude to which any water is forced on this globe — nearly 10,000 feet above the sea. A grant celebration in honor of the enterprise has occupied our citizens today, and tonight a dinner and ball will be given to Colonel Head, the superintendent.
140 Years Ago
On Sunday afternoon the officers found a Paiute Indian lying in the street in Chinatown almost cut to pieces. It looked as if a number of lumbermen had held a chopping bee upon him. All these showed where the Chinese person had plied the industrious hatchet. The officers made the usual inquiries, but the Chinese appeared to be about as much surprised as anybody. Some appeared awfully sorry. As soon as the Indians got wind of it, they came and took away the remains and, in the evening, a number of them got up old shotguns and were on a war footing. They vowed they would win out Chinesetown and are now in council on how to do it.
120 Years Ago
Ever since Nevada had an existence her people have been noted for their love of fair play. In the early days when the pioneer was hewing out the rough foundations of the Commonwealth, there was an honest scorn in the breast of every man for underhanded work or trickery of any description. Traitors were despised, men how resorted to trickery in business were tabooed and the gamble who dealt marked cards or turned them from the bottom was generally shot.
60 Years Ago
High state officials are investigating the case of an ex-convict who may have been the anonymous source of heavy criticism last week against the Nevada prison.
40 Years Ago
Leering, staring, sexual jokes and innuendo and other more serious forms of sexual harassment “are intolerable in the Bryan administration,” the governor has told the agency heads.
Tuesday
155 Years Ago
Last triumph of woman’s rights. In the good time coming, when women have all their rights, announcements like the following will be frequent: “Died, in the 35th year of his age, Mr. John Smith, husband of Hon. Jane Smith, at her residence, in Meriden, this morning at 6 o’clock. Mr. Smith was a meek and quite husband, beloved for the glances of cultivated and trained nature. He excelled in the domestic virtues; as a cook he was surpassed by few; as a nurse he was equaled by none.”
140 Years Ago
Because Sitting Bull has learned to eat with a knife and a fork his Indian associates consider him a dude.
120 Years Ago
Coronado tamales. Nash Coronado has opened his tamale parlors at the Briggs House where the toothsome evening dish will be served. The tamales are the best in this section and are made from the original receipt as was used when the tamales first became famous in this section.
60 Years Ago
The Carson City Chamber of Commerce board of directors voted 7-5 this morning to oppose a proposed room tax in Carson City. Twelve of 15 directors attended the breakfast meeting.
40 Years Ago
Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Noel Manoukian, looking worn from a day of hearing oral arguments, interrupted an interview with a reporter to answer calls from his campaign manager, then his wife. He tells them he should be done soon.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.