Past Pages for January 25 to 28, 2025


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Saturday

147 Years Ago

How he got out of it: The boys have a standing catch for strangers and the uninitiated on the drop curtain at the Carson Theater. The painting represents a scene just east of Boca, on the Central Pacific Railroad, a train of cars crossing the stream; a Washoe Indian, his wife and two children (one of the latter led by the wife and the other, an infant, strapped upon her back), standing on a point of rock over the Truckee looking at the passing train…

145 Years Ago

The diamond field: The baseball match between the Hard Hitters and Ball Biffers came off at the Overland grounds for $2.50 a side and the championship. The Biffers were composed of larger boys than the Hitters and so the former played with six against the latter’s nine.

An exciting game: The Biffers going first to the bat hammered out three runs. Master Clark at second base was hit in the stomach by a ball and taken home. The Hitters on going to the bat got into a dispute for half an hour. Young Wagner was accorded first place by threatening to annihilate the balance if his wishes were not acceded to. Master Downer knocked a ball through Jone’s front window amid loud cheers from both clubs. A new ball was purchased at the store for $1.25.

Pleasing incidents: An old woman with a market wagon from Washoe Valley attempted to drive through the game. A hit landed on her nose and knocked her off the wagon and the horse ran away and scattered $10 worth of butter, eggs, etc. along the road. Jones arrived on the scene and demanded pay for his window ($1.50), which was paid. Billy Thompson’s mother snatched her hopeful from third base and lugged him home by the ear.

Individual scores: Downer made a net right field hit which knocked over two children. Musgrove smashed four bay windows, Butts knocked off a county commissioner’s hat, Lufkins started two runaways, and the damaged is $800, and Purcell knocked a set of false teeth from a pedestrian’s jaw.

The Ball Biffers won.

135 Years Ago

All sorts: Red-hot jokes and home production are at the Opera House.

70 Years Ago

Entertaining troops: The Las Vegas Review, featuring the nation’s top radio and television talent will make a 21-day tour of isolated European and North African bases to entertain more than 40,000 American troops.

60 Years Ago

Advertisement: “Carson Theater — ‘Kisses for my President with Fred MacMuray and Polly Bergen. Coming soon, a technicolor techno drama, ‘Zulu’ with Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsen and James Booth.”


Sunday

154 Years Ago

Theatrical: Mr. Joseph Proctor will re-open the Carson Theater with an entire new company and some of the best talent on the coast.

145 Years Ago

Lew, the Rattler, and Hank Monk: Lew, a minstrel man, is in town as the advance agent of a combination of variety artists from Baldwin’s Theater. He can tell a story better than any man alive. When he gets down to the Ormsby House stove and begins to spin a yarn a crowd gathers, like flies about a molasses barrel. Hank Monk sits on one side and Gilhooley on the other waiting to pounce on the joke as soon as it shows up. Hank indulges in one of those chuckles that reaches down to his boots, while Gillhooley throws his head back and roars like a wild ass braying in the wilderness. He sits in the midst as solemn as an undertaker and the instant the last laugh dies starts in again for the next three minutes.

135 Years Ago

All sorts: There is a sea of ice between here and Empire. A snow storm is predicted the latter part of the week. The ice is a foot thick on the track between here and Reno and will have to be removed by pick and shovel.

All the mines are shut down in Virginia City except the Sierra Nevada – Cause, no wood.

Dr. Lee went to the State Prison to attend to several persons with la grippe.

115 Years Ago

New program at the Lake theater: The Lake Theater will give a fine assortment of pictures, “King’s protégé,” “Wartime Sweetheart,” “Leopold Queen,” and the biograph pictures of the “Children’s Friend.”

60 Years Ago

Classified ad for rent: “Apartment completely furnished. Couples only. $90 a month, including water & garbage (W. Ann Street). Attractive furnished 1 bedroom apartments. Small home and trailer space available, adults, bachelors, no children, no pets.


Monday

154 Years Ago

Fire! The community was startled by the cry of “Fire?” Flames were issuing from the rear of Abraham’s saloon on Carson Street. The Warren and Curry engines went to the rescue and water was delayed. It seemed that the entire block would be burned but by prompt action it was averted. Abraham’s was not insured. The loss is slight as all the liquors were saved. Citizens be on the alert — caused by an incendiary.

145 Years Ago

Snow birds: Carson is overrun with snow birds and robins, and their presence brightens the gloomy stormy days. It is hoped that some wise instinct guided their flight to some warm nook before the opening of this fierce onslaught of the forces of Jack Frost.

135 Years Ago

All sorts: Lyman Frisbie, he of the crockery optic, desires to say that he is momentarily expecting to be seriously sick and looks forward to a long and close confinement.

115 Years Ago

Bogus certificates: The Secret Service headquarters says to be on the lookout for $1 silver certificates. The bogus paper is made to resemble the issue of 1899. They are easily detected by a white patch on General Grant’s nose and the misspelling of the work “United” which appears as “Unisted [sic].”

60 Years Ago

Pay raise: The Nevada Legislature was asked to appropriate $1.13 million during the next two fiscal years for pay raises for classified employees. The pay hike would give state workers a general 8.4 per cent increase to bring salaries in line with private business and other states.


Tuesday

154 Years Ago

Petti(coat) thief: Some thief robbed a clothes line in the lower portion of the city of a large number of female envelops and wearing apparel.

145 Years Ago

Leap year ball: The gentleman at whose house the ladies of the leap year ball met a few nights since has gone to San Francisco. He will be treated for deafness. He sent a dispatch to his wife to the effect that the doctor feared the malady would be permanent.

135 Years Ago

Snow blockades: The following gentlemen came down from Virginia (City) in a four-horse sleigh: Ed. F. Murphy, W. H. Zwisler and Ed Lewison of San Francisco… The California gentlemen were victims of the wreck caused by the snow blockades. They were without food for 36 hours and finally walked to Virginia (City) to get some food. The sleigh will be driven back today.

115 Years Ago

Fish die at Washoe Lake: The Lake is covered with ice. Many of the catfish and perch have crowded into the sloughs and tule fields and have been frozen solid, as the ice has reached the bottom of the sloughs. Washoe Lake is frozen to the depth of 18 inches, and it is possible to drive a team across the Lake from any point.

60 Years Ago

Advertisement: “Carson Theater—‘First Man in the Moon,’ The most astounding of H. G. Wells adventures is the motion picture miracle of Dynamation with Edward Judd and Martha Hyer.”

Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.