North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Saturday
155 Years Ago
Married: Daniel G. Kitzmeyer and Maggie Laux by Rev. R.N. Hurd all of Carson City. A generous supply of cake and numerous bottles of champagne accompanied the above notice. The printers testified their appreciation by Laux-datory speeches in relation to the bride, and complimentary to the bridegroom.
140 Years Ago
Wayside notes: The Enterprise alluded to the Appeal as a “fly sheet.” The Enterprise is safe from ever being alluded to as a “fly.”
130 Years Ago
Tramps: A tramp in Nevada City robbed and assaulted Mrs. R.R. Williams. Her husband followed the tramp to Sweetland, found him in bed and shot him dead.
70 Years Ago
Cricket temperature: The temperature of a cricket can be counted by its chirps. In degrees Fahrenheit it is roughly equal to the number of cricket chirps per minute.
60 Years Ago
Appeals TV guide: “Huckleberry Hound,” “Yogi Bear,” “Beaver,” “Flintstones,” “Maverick,” “To Tell the Truth,” “Andy Griffith,” “Lucy,” “Ben Casey,” “Steve Allen” …
Sunday
155 Years Ago
Laying the first rail on the Carson and Virginia R.R. — We got up at a painfully early hour yesterday morning for the purpose of being on hand to witness the ceremony of laying the first rail and driving the first spike of other Carson and Virginia Railroad; but we were doomed to disappointment; for Yerington and Ike James were in such a fearful hurry that they had got all through the ceremony when we go on the ground at 7 o’clock. Yerington showed up with a silver spike and described the proceedings in his eloquent manner. We went home and ate a very early breakfast; since when we have learned that the first locomotive had been placed upon the track. This begins to look like business.
140 Years Ago
To the editor of the Appeal. At last, I am admonished by the flight of time that if I keep the promise to write to you at all, I must do it now, but for I fear you will almost wish you had not asked a letter from me, it will be so tedious. On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 27, Gov. Kinkhead and I, with a party of friends, left San Francisco for Sitka, Alaska. (The letter continues for a full page). Very truly yours, Lizzie H. Kinkhead.
120 Years Ago
“The depths to which the Republicans will go during a political campaign are immeasurable. They spare neither men nor facts. The falsifying of records, making bare faced statements foreign to the from the truth and like methods of befuddling the real issues are characteristic with this party, the lover of trusts and the oppressor of the people.”
60 Years Ago
Lt. Gov. Paul Laxalt told a Reno luncheon audience today, “We in Nevada desperately want to be left alone.” Laxalt, the Republican senate candidate, added, “We don’t want Washington meddling in our own affairs… we don’t want Washington to tell us what kind of state government we should have in Nevada.”
40 Years Ago
It was a familiar face who stepped up to the podium Sunday to collect this year’s grand champion honors at the seventh annual Whistle-Off in Mills Park. Roy Thorenson of Calgary, Canada, walked away with soggy shoes and his fourth grand championship.
Tuesday
155 Years Ago
The rumor that the Glenbrook house has been destroyed by fire is without foundation in fact. The timber on the mountains between here and the lake has been on fire for some days, and we suppose that the light caused thereby gave rise to the said rumor.
140 Years Ago
The above picture (not here) is a fac simile (sic) of private Cheney’s 500-yard score made use for the inter-state match. He made 11 consecutive bullseyes at 500 yards but of course only 10 counted. George Thaxter says that Cheney, if he had equal facilities for practice with the rest of the shooting team, would be the best shot in the world.
120 Years Ago
“The Republican party poses as a friend of labor when not on record. The Republican party is a part of promise, always claiming great credit but always performing little. Its attitude on labor is a most forceful argument against the party’s claim for performance.”
60 Years Ago
Ormsby County pioneers were honored at a tree planting ceremony this morning on the grounds of the State Printing Office directly east of the Capitol. Ed Peterson, representing Ormsby Pioneers, accepted the honors. He was born here April 9, 1874, and was an employee of the Virginia-Truckee Railroad. Gov. Grant Sawyer planted the tree and gave a brief talk.
40 Years Ago
A power outage today shortly after 10 a.m. left about half of Sierra Pacific’s customers in Northern Nevada without electricity. The outage may have been part of a massive power outage that affected much of the northwest U.S.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.