North E Street near Virginia City Railroad Depot, probably late 19th century.
Saturday, September 17, 2022
150 years ago
New Warehouse: The timber for the construction of this new building is delivered quickly on the ground and many men are working to frame the heavy beams. Iron is in place on the new road through town and the connection is complete and ready for rolling stock.
140 years ago
The Footprints: John Mackay is planning to work in the prehistoric mine at the expense of tunneling into the side of the state prison quarry so that the line of footprints can be removed and the soil so rich in archaeological treasures can be further explored. background. He has sent a man to estimate the cost.
130 years ago
Thief: Charles Slingerland exchanged gunfire in Hot Springs. But he never touched the thief. The only way to avoid robberies is to keep a shotgun handy and shoot anyone you see in the yard at night.
100 years ago
Dat-So-La-Lee, famous Indian basket weaver, and her husband have returned to Carson from Lake Tahoe.
70 years ago
New Music Teacher: Northwestern University summer graduate AA Saliman has taken over as music instructor at Carson City Schools according to Superintendent Donald Robertson.
30 years ago
Photo Caption: Brenda Baxter, children’s librarian at the Carson City Public Library, sings to preschoolers during “story time” at the library. Story time is held Tuesday through Friday for children ages 3-5.
Sunday
150 years ago
Pueblo Moral: At night we are greeted with music from full bands in ballrooms and dance halls. This expense can only be allowed at mining download times. Thirty or forty cantinas, several tigers and their allied prey animals, two dance houses, and four or five marching bands, all blaring. Carson must be spiritedly, if not strictly, religiously moral. Carson is universally known to be the most moral town this side of the Sierras.
140 years ago
A message from the past (in part):
(Dedicated to those whose manual labor has accomplished so much in the interest of science by the recent archaeological discoveries at the state prison)
In that abode of crime, where night and day,
Men brood over secret sins and wasted lives…
But to him, at last a marvel was revealed,
A rock-bound volume from an unknown era
was opened by a hand bloodied by crime,
And science leaned in to scan the open page
That had been hidden in that secret way,
While worlds were being born, and the planets had turned grey.
Before the mastodon or tracked the bear
To give him battle in his cavernous lair.
130 years ago
Married: In Sacramento, California, September 1892, Fred F. Knobloch and Miss Emma N. Kinney, both of Empire. Miss Kinney is the daughter of William Kinney, a prominent Empire silversmith and butcher. She married Mr. Knoblock, who runs a rival meat market.
100 years ago
The Carson Social Club dance in celebration of the opening of the new highway from Carson to Reno will be held at Armory Hall. The room has been thoroughly cleaned and broken glass has been replaced. Reno’s celebrated Tony Orchestra has been hired and various instruments have been added to the usual number of musicians. Music by Tony’s Orchestra – Admission: Men, $1.10; ladies, free.
70 years ago
Austin Publisher: Jock Taylor, editor and publisher of the Reese River Reveille in Austin, the oldest newspaper in the state, was a visitor. Taylor worked at the Appeal and Chronicle from 1945 to 1949 and enjoyed seeing old friends.
30 years ago
Publicity: “Meadowdale Theatres, Meadowdale Center Shopping Center, Hwy. 395. Now plays Clint Eastwood in ‘Unforgiven’ and Robert Redford in ‘Sneakers.'”
Monday
150 years ago
Exchequer Mill: The railway platform contains two battery mortars for L. Chalmers, superintendent of the Exchequer Mill in Monitor. This mine is owned by an English company, and they have spent a lot of money on its development.
140 years ago
In short: The Indians are coming in with their pinions.
130 years ago
All kinds: Frank Bishop who sold liquor to an Indian in Reno has been sentenced
to 16 months in jail.
100 years ago
Squirrel Wrecks Dodge: During a hunting trip near Highland Lakes, Gardnerville’s Henry Cordes reports that a squirrel stole an electrical part from his Dodge car, and he was forced to walk 40 miles for help. Fearing that someone would steal his car, Mr. Cordes removed a small part of the switch and hid it under a pile of rocks. While Mr. Cordes was out hunting, a squirrel got under the rocks and took the little thing to its underground abode. For several hours trying to get to the bottom of the squirrel’s dwelling, without success, Cordes set out on foot to a house in Carson Valley, a distance of 45 miles (Gardnerville Record-Courier).
70 years ago
Publicity: “Carson Theatre— ‘Tembo’ with Howard Hill and another movie, “Wild Animals. See this for sure.”
30 years ago
Buzzing: Many of the local residents complained about the upgraded planes at the Reno air races. Airport manager Bob Thomas said: “We’re doing everything we can, but we can’t go looking for them.” Thomas plans to forward complaints from local residents to the Federal Aviation Administration office in Reno.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.