Looking toward the east at the Carson City Airport in 1960.
Saturday
150 Years Ago
Epizootic Hominorum: Mr. N.D. Chamberlin is just recovering from an attack of it; Mr. Turner, the shoemaker is suffering from an attack of it; and “Do” Pierce owns to having a tussle with that disease. We have no doubt that all this sickness is caused by the long prevailing winds of this more than usually windy spring. The deleterious effects of these winds are felt all over the Pacific coast; and under their influence men, animals and all vegetable matter are shriveled, shrunken and sent to the infirmary.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: James Cunningham was fined $12.50 in the police court for opium smoking.
The Boskowitz Bros. were in town. They look like two jacks of clubs.
130 Years Ago
Went crazy: Joe Pommentelle of Pizen Switch, the man who left a note to his wife saying he intended to kill himself, has since been found in a tunnel two miles from the Switch and insane. He is now confined in jail at Pizen.
70 Years Ago
Stewart school graduation: Nineteen seniors of Stewart High School and 21 members of the five-year Navajo program will be part of the graduation ceremonies at Stewart High School. Diploma presentation will be made by Burton Ladd, superintendent of the agency. Laura Jean Bliss will make the valedictory address and Rev. Ward will give the benediction.
Members of the senior graduating class and Leota Alma Barney, Laura Jean Bliss, Lorieta Brown, William Brown, William Couchum, Virginia Dick, Frederick Ferrell…
60 Years Ago
Baseball champions: The Senators, won their first diamond title in school history as baseball champions of the Northern “AA” Conference. Thanks go to the strong right arm of Hank Roske, the loud bat of Terry Graham and the healthy lungs of coach Roy Kidder. They battled from behind to defeat Wooster 5-4.
Sunday
150 Years Ago
Prize Fight: Bing Williams and Jim Chatham will have a prize fight at the mill in an unknown location. “Everything about town in the shape of a vehicle is engaged for tomorrow. Not even a riding horse is to be had at any figure. Wagons loaded with rope, stakes, etc. left town this morning for a locality which is known to insiders…” Admission at the gate will be $2.50. (Chronicle)
140 Years Ago
Crowded house: “Peck’s Bad Boy!” and “The Great Goat Scene” were laughed at according to the Denver Daily News. Laugh and be happy is the advice given by “Peck’s Bad Boy.” It is two hours of genuine fun, holds its own and has crowded houses every season.
130 Years Ago
Invites prospectors: The Belmont Courier invites prospectors to the Toiyabe mountains in Nye and Lander counties. Gold bearing lodes can be found in those ranges.
70 Years Ago
Atomic tests suit: Martha Sheahan of Las Vegas filed a suit for $75,000 in damages against the Atomic Energy Commission charging radiation exposure from the atomic test in 1953 caused cancer on the left side of her face below the eye. Efforts have been made for several months to reach an AEC settlement without success.
60 Years Ago
TV programs (in part): Yogi Bear, Flintstones, To Tell the Truth, Man from UNCLE, Andy Griffith, Lucy Show, Danny Thomas, Hitchcock, Johnny Carson.
Monday
150 Years Ago
Prize Fight — The Battle: The Bing Williams and Jim Chatham fight was held at Geiger Grade. Every old hack, van and cart has been pressed into service with fifteen hundred persons on the ground — a motley assemblage of all ages and colors. Bad men with wicked eyes and bad whisky breaths predominate. Many have been bankrupted by the toll gate swindle. The keeper of the gate charged all double teams $1.25 to pass over the road. First round – Very quick sparring Chatham strikes Williams, Williams returns, gets in change and both fall. The fight continues for one hour and twelve minutes. At Round 53 Bing Williams bites Jim Chatham in the arm – and loses the battle.
140 Years Ago
A fine stock ranch: The Marsh and Stinson Ranch formerly belonged to S. S. Buckland, an old pioneer, who sold it to Mr. Stinson. It is one of the finest ranches on the Carson River. Mr. Marsh has driven all of is cattle to the ranch, and will start in the business of raising stock.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The spectacle seller who goes about inviting ladies to sit on his lap is regarded as crazy.
The wheel craze increases daily in Carson. A lover now is expected to present his affianced with a wheel instead of jewelry.
70 Years Ago
Uranium found in Carson: A second uranium strike with paying ore has been reported found near Stewart Street southeast of Carson City by Mel Colgrove. His sample ore showed a uranium content of .25 making it worth $45 a ton.
60 Years Ago
Mercury: Atomic Energy Commission scientists were reviewing tests given to 21 Nevadans who drank milk containing radioactive iodine. The April test in Nevada released a small amount of radioactivity into the atmosphere. No one’s health was endangered. Tests on cattle and milk have been conducted throughout Nevada. Most radioactive iodine was discovered near Winnemucca, 170 miles northeast of Reno.
Tuesday
150 Years Ago
An eastern circus coming: Brien’s great menagerie and circus is on its way across the continent and will arrive in Virginia City. The circus portion includes forty star performers, with a host of auxiliaries, sixty-two trained steeds, three circus rings and the menagerie includes thirty-nine cages of wild animals, sea lions, trained ostriches, two giraffes, four elephants, etc.
140 Years Ago
Jumped a grave yard: A lot of miners in Smith’s Valley have jumped a grave yard, claiming it as mineral land because some stage robbers are buried there. They had several thousands of dollars buried on their persons. If anybody ever got buried in this country with any gold on their clothes, there was a different race of coroners at large then, than have developed lately.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: There was an enterprising Georgia editor who, while his office was being consumed by fire, caught the hot lead from the melting type, molded it into buckshot and went gunning for delinquent subscribers. (Atlanta Constitution)
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Sky-Vue Drive in Theatre, ‘Down Three Dark Streets’ with Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman. A suspense-filled nail-biter! Also, ‘Capt. Smith and Pocohontas’ with Tony Dexter and Judy Lawrence. Cartoon.”
60 Years Ago
Advertisement: “Carson Theater — Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful sex mystery…’Marnie’ with ‘Tippi’ Hedrin and Sean Connery.”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.