Downtown Carson during the Nevada Day Parade in about 1950.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Happy heavenly birthday to Bill Dolan, former Past Pages editor born April 2, 1923.
Circus is coming: Montgomery Queen’s grand combination show — circus and menagerie — is about to start for the season’s tour in June. It includes wild birds and beasts, the elephant, the double humped dromedaries, the white peacocks, the ostrich, Bengal tiger and the lions and clubs…
140 Years Ago
Miss Nevada’s costume: The following description of Miss Nevada’s costume as she appeared in “Lakme” is printed for the benefit of the ladies. The dress is a curious arrangement of garments and scarfs. There are two gown-like garments with no sleeves, the under one of plain white silk, and an over one of white Indian tissue with satin stripes. These are worn over flesh colored tights with no petticoats or undergarments. Over the two silk slips a large red silk scarf is wound with the most exquisite broad border in gold and silver threads. The chains, jewels, armlets and anklets are all of heavy gold, embossed with Indian workmanship. A kind of crown of gold studded with jewels and edged with gold sequins sits upon her head.
130 Years Ago
Wheelman: In San Francisco the wheelmen are trying the experiment or riding down the hills of San Francisco on bicycles. As a result, the coroners have applied to the supervisor for an annex to the morgue.
70 Years Ago
Easter egg hunt: Grounds of the state Capitol will be taken over by local youngsters celebrating Easter with an Easter egg hunt.
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater, ‘Love Has Many Faces’ with Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson and Hugh O’Brian. Love has many faces on the beach at Acapulco where the jet-set love themselves to pieces.”
Thursday
150 Years Ago
April fools’ jokes: They were not very plentiful. If they were, they kept themselves very quiet.
140 Years Ago
Vegetables: Fulton Market, Sacramento will forward prepaid the following goods. Orders to be $1 at least: Asparagus 6 cents per pound, lettuce 12 cents per dozen, green onion (12 in bunch), 2 cents; new potatoes 6 cents per pound, tomatoes 15 cents per pound…
130 Years Ago
The Donner monument: The last log remaining of the Donner cabins was the foundation log of the Murphy Cabin. Forty-six years after it was placed in position by the snow-bound emigrants, it was taken up and portions of the wood have been placed in 5,000 vials which will be sold at $1 each. The proceeds will be devoted to the erection of a suitable monument to the Donner Party, to be built at the site of the cabins, near Donner Lake.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Car Corral — We’re not April Foolin.’ Your car dollar stretches at the car corral, 1953 Pontiac Catalina, $1,875; 1951 Chevrolet, Powerglide $895; 1951 Hudson Coup $715; 1947 Studebaker Sedan, loaded $295…”
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: Big one for John: Carson City High School’s John Gamble crosses home plate behind Reggie Carlsen after walloping a 340-foot home run the six innings of the game against Sparks…
Friday
150 Years Ago
Old Frisbie corner: The bar room is being remodeled. Lyman Frisbie, the artist with the sheepskin fiddle, will preside over the destinies of the new saloon in the capacity of proprietor.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: The condemned murderers in Reno have such a lack of confidence in the sheriff that they hang murderers themselves rather than trust the official with the job.
130 Years Ago
Mystery at Lovelock: Lovelock is excited over the finding of a female infant back of the Emmons hotel and under a hotel wash house. It had been dead for a week or more. She had been killed after birth as the head seemed to have been crushed in with some heavy instrument.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — ‘Frontier Gal’ with Yvonne DeCarlo, Rod Cameron and Andy Devine.”
60 Years Ago
Current best sellers (compiled by Publisher’s Weekly). Fiction “Herzog,” Bellow; “Hurry Sundown,” Gilden; “The Man,” Wallace; “Funeral in Berlin,” Deighton; “Up The Down Staircase,” Kaufman.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.