Buildings along the north side of Taylor Street between B and A streets in Virginia City.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson City Brewery, King Street, Carson City. Wagner and Klein, proprietors. The very best quality of lager beer. Made anywhere on the Pacific Coast or elsewhere. Orders promptly attended to. The saloon is constantly supplied with the finest brands of wines, liquors and cigars. Give us a call.”
140 Years Ago
Local notes: The champion roller skater of the world is shortly to give an exhibition at the Opera House rink.
At Glenbrook J. Randolph nearly severed his wrist while trimming trees for Captain Prey.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Each inmate of the state prison will receive a bouquet of flowers on Easter. There will also be special music for the benefit of the prisoners.
The deposit on the roof of the Mint has been gathered up and will be treated to recover the gold that has gone up the chimney by evaporating and settling on the roof.
A mouse in the Grandstand at the Bay District races almost frightened 1,400 women into fits the other day. The stand was cleared, and the racing almost came to a standstill. Several of the fair damsels wanted their entrance money back.
70 Years Ago
Marble tourney: Local winners were Timothy Wheeler, Gleason school; Bruce Glover, Fremont school; and John Felesina, Corbett school. C division winners were Dean Ross, Gleason school; Gary Butti, Fremont school; and James Harvey, Corbett School…
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Silver Spur, ‘Jackpot Headquarters,’ Special — complete dinner $1.20 — potted Swiss steak, soup, salad, veg, whipped potatoes, hot rolls, butter, coffee, ice cream or sherbert.”
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Uncle Horace Vesey: The gentlemen from Glenbrook was in town dressed in his Summer suit of heavy English molton cloth. He remarked that he had doffed his Winter suit of furs. He left for the Lake in the evening, wrapped in two fox and seven buffalo robes.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: Eight tramps were taken in and then told to move on. They went to Reno.
Among the fashionable dances taught in London are the Boston Slough, the New York Pump Handle, and The English Straight.
130 Years Ago
The Disease of Nagging: A physician writes in the North American Review that nagging is a disease. Women are addicted to it more than men. Women are assured that they could say what they pleased without having to fight and never acquired the habit of restraining it.
70 Years Ago
High school to elect student officers: Candidates for Carson High School student body officers are George Allison, Tom Pardini and Allan Shamberger for President; Bill Newton and Janet Osborn for vice president…
60 Years Ago
Swimming program offered: An aquatics program for girls in grades three through six is being offered by the Carson City recreation department at the Frontier Motel. Vance Lippencott, owner of the motel, has donated the pool to more than forty participants in the program. There is no charge.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Warm Springs Road: The proprietors of the Warm Springs Hotel are greatly improving the road between their hotel and this city. They have plowed beside the road and are scraping in dirt upon its hardest and more uneven places. Two horses and a scraper are being used for this work.
140 Years Ago
The tenth census of the United States: Nevada has 32,233 persons engaged in regular occupations – 4,180 in agricultural work, 10,373 in professional and personal service, 4,449 in trade and 13,231 in manufacturing. In mines there are 6,647 men, railroads 990, and steamboats 32. Nationalities in Nevada are English 3,484, Irish 2688, German 1,623, and Swedish 374…
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The Salvation Army is already making quite an impression on the sin-calloused city of Carson.
Miss Annie Londonderry, the young woman who is making a tour of the world on a bicycle, was seriously hurt near Stockton by running into a barbed wire fence.
70 Years Ago
Photo caption: Now available at most Carson grocery stores are application blanks for official Civil Defense identification tags. At a cost of 30 cents each, the metal tags are recommended for every child and adult to facilitate identification in case of mishap or disaster.
60 Years Ago
Senators, Bobcats: Terry Graham and either Rick Squires or Don Altringer will be the starting pitchers tomorrow when Carson City high school’s Senators host White Pine in a Northern “AA” Conference baseball doubleheader. The Senators are unbeaten in four conference games and will be favored to sweep both games from a White Pine team that have yet to win in five outings this season.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
The U. S. Mint in San Francisco has begun coining the new twenty-cent pieces. They will make their appearance here soon.
140 Years Ago
Dog poisoned: Miss Clapp’s dog Brutus, one of the largest dogs in the State and the most savage, was poisoned by some meat thrown over the fence. Some years ago, Brutus was matched to fight a grizzly bear, and got his picture in the Police Gazette.
130 Years Ago
A serious accident: Josie Duffy’s little girl was playing around the yard when John Meder’s youngest son fired a pea rifle at her the ball hitting her just above the right eye, penetrating the brain. Dr. Lee has failed to locate the ball. The sight of the eye is thought to have been destroyed, and the little one’s life is considered in danger.
70 Years Ago
Mills Park water: Mills Park will have drinking water for the first time. A two-inch pipe installed last fall will carry water to the highway roadside park. It has been connected to the Carson Water Co. pipeline to bring drinkable water into the park. It was previously brought from the V & T water supply, but the water was not approved by the State Board of health for drinking purposes. A road has been built along the south side of the park to give access to the camping sites cleared last year by the Federation of Service Clubs. Plans are also being made to sink a well in the park for additional water and particularly for the proposed swimming pool.
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater: ‘Bedtime Story’ with Marlon Brando, David Niven and Shirley Jones.”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.