North Carson Street looking northeast in the 1950s.
Saturday
155 Years Ago
A brutal fight occurred last evening, about 8 o’clock, between two drunken Irishmen on the street near the Theatre Hall, opposite Judge Whitman’s house. One of the men was struck in the face by the other man’s fist, when the party first struck picked up a stone nearly as big as one man’s head and hurled it at the other, striking him in the face and knocking him senseless. His face was terribly bruised, and judging from appearances, the bones of the nose and jaw must have been badly jarred. Sheriff Swift being informed of the fight, proceeded to the spot and took the two into custody.
140 Years Ago
The discovery that the revised edition of the Bible does not mention the town of Reno, is causing a great falling off in the sales in Washoe County.
120 Years Ago
For some weeks past Mr. Eustice Furlong, Miss Edna Wople and Miss Alexander, from the University of California have been camped in South American Canyon (Pershing County), searching the extensive lime formation outcropping there for the fossil remains of extinct vertebrae sea animals, some as big as 30 feet.
80 Years Ago
The nation’s 10 major automobile companies today were preparing for their first passenger car production since February 1942.
60 Years Ago
Terry Graham, an all-around at Carson City High School, will sign a professional baseball contract with the Minnesota Twins this evening, the Appeal learned today. Graham batted .518 in 16 regular season baseball games last spring. He was the club leader in batting, home runs, and runs batted in.
Sunday
155 Years Ago
The Silver Stars will be out this afternoon for practice on their grounds. This will be the last game which they will play here prior to going to San Francisco. They will appear in uniform at 4 o’clock. Go and see ‘em.
140 Years Ago
The Appeal feels convinced that the Barrett circus is by all odds the biggest show on earth. They have the woman who allows herself to be hugged by serpents, the man who turns triple somersaults from a bicycle on a tight rope and horses that jump through fiery hoops no bigger than a horse collar.
120 Years Ago
The state well. Yesterday, the formation at the state well changed from sand to heavy clay. The drilling was slow and not very much progress was made. The well was down 160 feet with 10 inch casing. The driving is a pretty slow process, as the quick sands that have formed about the pipe seem to hold pretty fast. All kinds of predictions are made concerning the well.
80 Years Ago
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshal has promised a speedy knockout of the Japanese with a force of firepower and men more overwhelming than that which defeated German, it was revealed today.
60 Years Ago
More than 100 reservations have been made to date for the Chamber of Commerce 20th anniversary dinner Thursday at the Carson Hot Springs, Mary Louise Raymond, chamber manager, said today.
Tuesday
155 Years Ago
The Silver Star Baseball Club will start this evening for San Francisco to fulfill their engagement to play the Eagles for the championship. There are several first class players among the nine; and we shall expect to hear good reports from them. We will be appraised of the results by telegraph.
140 Years Ago
About half the population of Carson got up yesterday morning at 4 o’clock to see the circus train come in.
120 Years Ago
A daily mail service has been established between Las Vegas, Beatty and Bullfrog. The mail contractor is Lawrence Kendall of Salt Lake. Kendall expects to reduce the time of delivery to 28 hours.
80 Years Ago
An organization meeting of the proposed Carson City Chamber of Commerce will be held tonight. It has been planned that only those who have pledged membership will vote.
60 Years Ago
The Northern Nevada Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous will hold its regular meeting at Pythian Hall, Virginia Street and Fourth, Reno on Saturday. Guest speaker will be Clancy I. of West Hollywood, Calif.
Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.