Carson-Tahoe Hospital's first campus in 1955. A fire in 1968 destroyed the building, and the infirmary at Stewart was called into play. Construc tion for this building in 1949 topped out at $80,000.
Wednesday
150 Years Ago
Railroad accident: A train loaded with wood started out without one of the upright posts and wood began to fall off. The engineer was asked to stop and did so suddenly that the breakman named John McManus was thrown from the train and struck by a car. His thigh was fractured. Drs. White and Davison were called, and they set the fractured thigh making every effort to save it. There are strong hopes that his leg can be saved.
140 Years Ago
Mysterious disappearance: Henry Vansickle, a 20-year rancher in Carson Valley is missing. He left home to deliver a wagonload of farm produce. Hundreds of Indians are out scouring the sagebrush for him. He employed a good many of them grubbing sagebrush, and they thought a great deal of him.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: Nelly Bly, the lady journalist, has proven herself as good a matchmaker as she is a writer. The man she has married is a 70-year-old millionaire.
It is now claimed that a tell letter gave the detectives an important clew [sic] in the Mint shortage.
The war between the Chronicle and Enterprise is over, and the ink slingers have laid off for repairs.
70 Years Ago
Polio vaccine: 239 children received the first polio vaccine. They included first and second graders from Carson, Stewart, Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Zephyr Cove. There will be no makeup shots for those who did not have a signed parental request slip or those who were absent. The second shot of the series will be given one month from the first and a booster shot will be due in about seven months.
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: King-size bunny – Phil Roventini presents a six-foot stuffed Easter bunny to 20-30 President John Brooks. The king-sized toy will be one of three grand prizes awarded at the 20-30 club’s annual Easter egg hunt on the Capitol lawn. Youngsters seven years of age and under are invited to participate…
Thursday
150 Years Ago
Dr. Davison reports: A man just from the east is sick with the measles at Franktown. He also reports a case of scarlet fever in our county hospital.
140 Years Ago
Local notes: Born in this city April 12, 1885, to the wife of Harry Millard, a daughter.
The little daughter of Thomas Dodson died the other day from bleeding of the nose at Austin.
130 Years Ago
The unicycle: E.N. Higley, a Boston inventor, has produced a unicycle weighing only 54 pounds that can be successfully ridden in a circle and guided at will without falling. The wheel is made of aluminum and stands about seven feet high.
70 Years Ago
Benefit drive-in movie: A benefit movie for the Chamber of Commerce new office will be given at the Sky-Vue drive-in theater, owners George Gessler and Cecil Perrin announced. Admission for everyone over 12 will be 50 cents. The major gift will be a $179.95 Westinghouse systematic electric clothes dryer, donated by Electric Service Co. and Carson chamber members. The two feature films “She Couldn’t Say No.” starring Jean Simmons and Robert Mitchem and “The Sea Around Us” will be shown.
60 Years Ago
Photo caption: We call it jazz – Todd Russell, Carson City High School student body president talks about music with Jazzman Turk Murphy, who brought his group to the high school to play for the assembly.
Friday
150 Years Ago
Old glory still there: Mr. William Eassie mounted the Capitol building and pulled aloft the nation’s flag, in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the first battles which led to the Declaration of Independence, and the achievement of our liberties through the War of the Revolution.
140 Years Ago
Mint: Secretary Manning telegraphed from Washington to close down the Mint until further orders.
130 Years Ago
All sorts: The actual Mint shortage is $75,499,075.
70 Years Ago
Advertisement: “The Pine Cone, ‘Just good food.’”
60 Years Ago
Virginia City facelifting: More than 50 junior high school students from Millbrae, Calif., will arrive to explore the history of Virginia City. They also plan to take a paint brush and shovel in hand to spruce up the local cemetery and hospital. They represent the Junior High Millbrae Methodist Church.
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.