Photo provided Tallac pier is advertised in this undated historical photo.
Wednesday
155 Years Ago
Happy New Year! New Year’s Day was as beautiful as sunshine, and a bracing air could make it. The usual greetings were exchanged; and the good old custom of calling and guzzling and gormandizing was duly observed. Quite a large party went to Wallace’s Rink and spent the afternoon on skates. It was an excellent beginning to “A Happy New Year!”
140 Years Ago
The cold wave: The cold snap appears to have lost most of its vitality. People are enabled to sleep nights without warm bricks and bottles of hot water.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Babies in Ohio are being born with teeth. Nature is evidently preparing to fight the beef trust.
From Jan. 1, 1890, the flags on the Capitol foretelling the weather, will be hoisted about noon, and they will indicate the weather from noon one day until noon the next.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Discover uranium — P.R.R. Geiger Counter, Television & Radio Supply C., 498 Market St., San Francisco, Calif.”
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: Carson Band at Disneyland — Carson City’s High School Band marched in Walt Disney’s Parade of Toys during a day at Disneyland, Dec. 31. Following the parade through Frontierland, down Main Street to Town Square and past Disneyland’s giant Christmas tree, band members toured the Magic Kingdom.
Thursday
155 Years Ago
All sorts: Col. Curry expects to get the Mint to work this week — and if he expects to, he will. Two men got considerably injured near the Mound House by being thrown from a dump car on the V&T R.R.
Lance Nightingill has gone up to Virginia (City) to seek medical aid from his growing infirmities. We hope to see our old friend back here.
140 Years Ago
A complicated case: Ms. Emma Hall was tried on a charge of larceny. It appeared in the trial she admitted leaving the bagnio and, in her hurry, she got some of the witnesses’ clothes mixed up with her own. At trial the jury stood 10 to one for conviction.
130 Years Ago
Climatic effect of full lakes: The filling up of Pyramid Lake, Winnemucca Lake, Humboldt and Walker Lakes, and the upper and lower “sinks” or lakes of the Carson, will spread their waters over great areas of flat ground giving a vast surface for evaporation. It may be said that an unusual amount of water pumped up into the air next summer may give Lander, Eureka and Nye counties another taste of their old-time cloudbursts. (Dan DeQuille)
70 Years Ago
Beebe and Clegg: The February issue of Holiday Magazine will feature an article by Lucius Beebe. Beebe lives in Virginia City and writes that the Silver State is so vast there are fewer than 1 ½ inhabitants for each of Nevada’s 110,340 square miles. Nevada has a landscape with rivers that run to no sea, endless sage, and unusual geologic formations. Nevada has escaped the density of industrial population and retained the tradition of its yesterday.
60 Years Ago
Warden seeks ‘freedom’: Jack Fogliani, warden of the Nevada State Prison, has asked to eliminate the restriction which requires him and his family to live at the maximum-security compound at the state prison.
Friday
155 Years Ago
Mint officers and employees in part: A. Curry, superintendent and treasurer: F.D. Hetrich, assayer and acting melter and refiner; George Atwood, assistant assayer; E.W. Staley, acting coiner; G.G. Lyon, chief clerk; H.J. Peters, treasurer’s clerk… T.R. Hofer, copying clerk; W.J. Cowan, captain of watch; William Lynch, porter.
140 Years Ago
New Years Day and Leap Year: New Years Day was observed in Carson and was about the jolliest event that the city enjoyed for years. The day was a remarkably pleasant one, clear and balmy as spring, and the plan of allowing gentleman to keep an open house that they might receive the ladies was entered into with such spirit by the society people of the city that the thing was even more of a success than its most sanguine advocates indicated.
The gentlemen received great praise for their culinary accomplishments. Chris Batterman’s pound cake at the state prison was something grand. T.C. Pickney’s jelly was the subject of much comment on account of its flavor and delicacy. Leonard’s lobster salad and General Parkers biscuit astonished all partakers and James Crawford’s cookies, seasoned with persimmons were flooded with praise and attention…
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Skating on Washoe Lake will be in order, as the lake is said to be frozen a foot thick some distance from shore.
The dome of the Capitol looks very bad as the paint is commencing to wash off showing the red, and blue streaks which existed before the white was put on.
70 Years Ago
Russia: Russia will share knowledge of atomic industrial power with the rest of the world. A report on Soviet operation of atomic-powered industrial plans will be made public before a United Nations sponsored conference on peaceful use of the atom.
60 Years Ago
Robert List: Robert F. List has been appointed as a deputy district attorney by Ormsby County District Attorney Ted Stokes. List will act as legal advisor to the Carson-Tahoe Hospital and the Ormsby County schools.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.