Looking toward the east at the Carson City Airport in 1960.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Suffrage: A bill has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature for a change in the constitution to allow woman suffrage. The fate of the measure is doubtful.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: Walnut trees are thriving in Storey County. One of the trees has produced about a pint of nuts this year.
The praying crank, who was such a nuisance in this city, has turned up in Hawthorne. He tried to pray on the editor of the Bulletin and was chased out of town by dogs.
130 Years Ago
Dr. Cavell: Dr. W.H. Cavell from San Francisco comes to Carson very highly recommended. He graduated with highest honors from the San Francisco Dental College and is thoroughly posted in all the latest fads in his profession such as gold crowns, bridge work. According to Dr. Southworth, our retiring dentist, Dr. Cavell intends making Carson his home.
70 Years Ago
New York wins opening game: Pinch hitter Dusty Rhodes hit a 10th inning home run with two teammates on base to give the New York Giants a 5 to 2 victory over the Cleveland Indians in the first game of the world series.
60 Years Ago
Candy Dance: Genoa will be bursting with activity when its Candy Dance will once again be held. The event includes a baked ham dinner, dancing to the music of a Reno orchestra and the sale of homemade candy. Charge is $2 per person.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
Attempt to break out of Ormsby jail: Pat Hurley, charged with highway robbery, made an attempt to break jail. Deputy Sheriff Butler made an inspection of Hurley’s cell and found him in the backroom. Hurley had made considerable progress in an effort to get into the street by sawing off the bars of iron and removing a portion of the door to make a space for exit about a foot square.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: The Appeal is in receipt of an apple from Calvert of the Toll House. It measures 15 inches round and looks like a summer squash. It was raised at the Toll House and is called the “Calvert Seedling.”
130 Years Ago
Typhoid: Chris Dangberg and five children are sick with typhoid fever. Miss May, the eldest daughter, died and several others of the family are seriously ill. Four of the ranch hands are also down with the fever. The disease comes from using impure water.
70 Years Ago
Grandma has triplets (Connecticut): Mrs. Edward Schlemmer, a 41-year-old grandmother, gave birth to triplets. She has 15 children, and the triplets make 18. Schlemmer, a $56-a-week machinist, pondered the housing problem, and she and her husband are planning additions to their five-room house.
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — The year’s most talked about role! Cliff Robertson in ‘PT 109.’”
Friday
155 Years Ago
Railroad signals: A recent invention spoken of by railroad men is the facility and economy in signaling trains that includes both a night and day signal. The night signals consist in sliding glass globes, three in number which are successively made to cover the flame, giving a white light, indicating “all right,” the blue light for “caution;” and the red light, to “stop.” The day signals are white, blue and red boards, folding like a knife-blade and readily lifted to a horizontal position by a very simple and ingenious device of pulleys... (New York Tribune)
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: “Vote early. Vote sensibly. Keep your temper. Don’t kick if you get left. Today threatens to be very lively and interesting.”
The Enterprise alluded to the Appeal as a “fly sheet.” The Enterprise is safe from ever being alluded to as “fly.”
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Tramps are thick in Virginia City.
Wisconsin reports it impossible to get enough coal-shovelers at $3 a day, yet the country is full of tramps.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive-in Theatre — The West’s Most Notorious Outlaw! ‘The Great Jesse James, Raid,’ with Wieland Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal and Wallace Ford. Second feature, ‘Sins of Jezebel’ with Paulette Goddard and John Hoyt.”
60 Years Ago
The Nevada Day Grand Ball with governor and Grant Sawyer: The Centennial Costume Grand Ball will be held on Friday, Oct. 30, the evening before the date in which the 36th state will officially become 100 years of age. Distinguished citizens from throughout the state will celebrate the occasion by dancing in 1864 costumes and taking part in the stately measures of the grand march that will feature “The Ball of the Century” -- to be held in the Carson City Armory.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.