Students at Stewart Indian School Leaning sewing in about 1900.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Daring stage robbery: No little excitement was felt here over the news that Dyer’s Reno stage had been stopped by robbers when they were a short distance north of Washoe City near the Tamarac mill. Its passengers and Wells Fargo & Co’s treasure box was robbed of their money and valuables.
140 Years Ago
Princess Winnemucca: Mrs. Sarah W. Hopkins, the princess, daughter of old Winnemucca, the King of Piutes [sic], will lecture at the Opera House. She is a fluent speaker, and feeling a great interest in her race talks straight from her heart. She will show up the psalm-singing policy that has controlled the Indian reservation business and tell how the Indian ring is run. No one should fail to hear this talented and peculiar woman.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Candidates are cropping up as thick as blackberries on both sides of the fence.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — ‘The Naked Jungle,’ with Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker; cartoon and news.”
60 Years Ago
Last rites: Michael C. Schaff, 17, Carson City High School student, will be held at the Latter-Day Saints Church on Silver Sage. Schaff died Sept. 7 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
Advertisement: “For sale! A good house with four hard finished rooms, two lots of ground and an excellent well of water. Apply to C.H. Maish, auctioneer.”
140 Years Ago
Open winter predicted: The Digger Indians near Nevada City predict an open winter, the sign of it being the failure of the acorn crop. They say the Great Spirit never neglects to provide plenty of food when the season is to be a severe one. The braves and squaws are putting in their time now panning out a little gold to buy enough food, whisky and tobacco to last them till the robins come again.
130 Years Ago
Superstitious subscriber: This subscriber found a spider in his paper and wants to know if it is to be considered a bad omen. Nothing of the kind. The spider was merely looking over the columns of the paper to see what merchant was advertising so that it could spin its web across the store door and be free from disturbance. (Greenville Banner)
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “For fine photography, Fendrich Studios.”
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Now showing at the Carson Theater, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden and Natalie Wood in ‘Gypsy.’
Friday
155 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Great Medical Discovery” – Mrs. J. W. Wilson, No. 23, South C St., next door to the Enterprise Office, is sole agent for the state of Nevada for J.W. Mack’s New Zealand Adhesive Plaster. Speedy and certain care for all rheumatic complaints, gout, lumbago neuralgia, tender and weak joints... For sale at N. 26 South C St., Virginia (City).”
140 Years Ago
Wayside Notes: A great deal of work is being done by the Central Pacific on the snow sheds up in the mountains. The company is now getting ready for a rough winter.
The Appeal is authorized to state that C.N. Noteware is not an applicant for the superintendency of the Orphans’ Home and under no circumstances would he accept it.
130 Years Ago
Swarms: Six swarms of bees have taken possession at Mason Valley Sanders’ school house. The fall term has been postponed until a later date, possibly Sept. 24 or Oct. 1.
70 Years Ago
Birth to the Bernings: A son weighing 7 pounds 12 ½ ounces was born in Carson City. He has been named Duane Eugene Berning, Jr.
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: Miss Mildred Bray is shown taking part in a simultaneous conference call with Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. The first lady urged Miss Bray and 50 other women to push voter registration and get-the-vote-out drives.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.