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Wednesday
145 Years Ago
It is fun to see a big girl play ball. She is conspicuously interesting at the bat. The bat is generally a great big board; and she holds it up with both hands; and when she sees the ball a coming, she just fires the bat at it with all her might and then runs as if she were afraid a cow were doing to toss her over the first fence.
140 Years Ago
The Fourth at the Lake. There will be a Fourth of July celebration at Glenbrook. There will be an excursion around the lake, a picnic at Emerald Bay, and a ball at Glenbrook to wind up the day.
120 Years Ago
Among the successful graduates at the Nevada State University several young people came from Carson. Among the forty young people that received the sheepskin, five came from this city.
80 Years Ago
Ruby J. Newton, state coordinator of protective services of the state council of civil defense, announces that starting early next week air raid wardens will call at homes in Carson City for the purpose of collecting data needed for complete home protection records. The checked card will show if equipment for handling incendiary bombs has been assembled; if precautionary steps have been taken for the attic or top story; if a refuge or blackout room has been prepared; and if special precautions requested by the warden have been taken.
40 Years Ago
Only a few years ago rustling was so widespread on Nevada’s wide-open spaces that ranchers demanded the state “do something” about it. The state agriculture department adopted tough new inspection regulations. They were effective to the point ranchers now want them repealed because they cost more than they are worth.
20 Years Ago
Differences over operations may lead county officials to change the management policy for the Dayton rodeo grounds.
Thursday
145 Years Ago
Tourist season at the lake. Of course Hank Monk is to be the chief engineer of the stage line. A trip to the lake under any other driver’s administration would be simply the play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. Monk is to the Benton Stage line what Beecher is to Plymouth Church; what Brigham Young is to the Mormons; what Barnum is to the show business…
140 Years Ago
Hank Monk as a listener. Yesterday afternoon while Hank Monk was sitting in front of the Ormsby House, in a semi-comatose condition, a stranger evidently from the East, drew up a chair and asked if he knew Hank Monk. The Easterner, glad to find a listener that he hasn’t been able to find the whole trip out here, started in to tell the story, just as Mark Twain had written it, of how he drove Horace Greeley across the Sierras. By the time he had concluded the threadbare yard he turned to look at Hank and found him fast asleep. Charley Sharp explained to the Easterner that the man he was talking to was indeed Hank Monk. He explained to the man that he was indeed lucky as Hank had heard the story so many times, he had killed several men for repeating it to him, and in each instance the judge has acquitted him on the grounds of justifiable homicide.
120 Years Ago
Pure ice. The ice season has opened and parties, or families desiring the pure article should see Doc Benton and make a contract for the warm weather. He cut a house off of the pure article, pure from dirt and as clear as a crystal.
80 Years Ago
The Victory Garden committee wants all residents of Ormsby county to know that their gardens are eligible for entry in the contest of prizes announced earlier. There is no intention of limiting entries to gardens in Carson City.
40 Years Ago
Russ Howard is refusing to be a pessimist about mosquitos, at least until complaints begins coming into the Carson City Public Works Department.
20 Years Ago
Marching with signs proclaiming messages such as “Mrs. White rules” and shouting, “We will fight for Greenberg and White,” nearly 200 Dayton High School students demonstrated in favor of their school’s administrators Thursday morning.
Friday
145 Years Ago
The new steamer Niagara is something unprecedented in the way of passenger boats. Her Master and owner is Cap’n Avery. She is commodious, fast, and elegant in all respects. She has been overhauled from stem to stern and put in shop-shape and Bristol fashion. Among other attractions, Cap’n Avery is going to have his boat sail to music. Then anybody who wants to dance, can dance until he is tired.
140 Years Ago
Our climate. The weather again assumed an unpleasant November peculiarity. We may just as well make up our minds, right here, not to have any summer in 1882. It reminds us of the Irishman on shipboard, falling to get hold of an alumnae, remarked, “Be jathers, we’ll have to take the weather as it comes.’
120 Years Ago
Surprise party. On Friday evening last about 8:30 the Holstein ranch was invaded by a crowd of young people, giving a surprise party to Ethel Davis. The merry making lasted until near midnight.
80 Years Ago
Homes of German and Italian aliens in Seattle and Spokane were raided yesterday by federal bureau of investigation agents who seized firearms, cameras and shortwave radios and took three Italians and two Germans into custody.
40 Years Ago
The Fallon Naval Air Station wants to withdraw about 300 square mills of public land and designate another 5,000 square miles as supersonic operations area in Churchill and Lander counties.
20 Years Ago
Joe Montana will be the keynote speaker at the 34th annual Governor’s Dinner.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
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