Past Pages for Sunday, June 28, 2015

150 Years Ago

Advertisement: “Wagner and Kline—Carson City Brewery. We invite the attention of our friends and public in general to the oldest Pioneer Brewery in the Territory, where we are prepared at all times to furnish our patrons with ‘Lager in Small or Large Quantities.’ We also wish to intimate to our friends that it is conducive to health to see us at our Brewery and imbibe a cool and foaming drought… together with ‘Switzer Kase and Pretzel.’ Malt and Hops supplied to Brewers in quantities to suit.”

130 Years Ago

Jake Torbiner’s cat: Jake had purchase a gold watch and chain as a birthday present for his wife. He laid it down and a moment later, it was gone. At dinner he said the joke had gone far enough, and asked his wife to please produce the watch. It was then Jake heard a noise on the stoop and found the cat with the chain tangled around her neck. He grabbed at her, but she ran under the house. He heard a noise, and the cat was upon the woodshed with the watch still around her neck. He climbed up with a bowl of milk for the cat, but she ran under the chicken house… He went to get the gun to shoot the cat, but miraculously she appeared with the watch still dangling from her neck, and Jake was able to retrieved it.

110 Years Ago

New mining town: Cresent is the name of the new townsite out from Searchlight, Lincoln county. A boom has started in the town because of the great ore values found on the surface. The Lucky Dutchman mine has some free gold that runs up into the thousands of dollars…

70 Years Ago

Advertisement: “Cash, Mercantile Stores Co., Carson’s Department Store, Don’t Miss These Values for the 4th of July: Cool cotton dresses, $5.95; Rayon Taffeta Sun Suits, $7.05; Misses 2-piece swim suit, $4.16; Ladies 2-piece spun rayon play suits $7.22…

50 Years Ago

Photo caption: Construction of the Department of Motor Vehicle’s new $750,000 building in Carson City was officially begun when Governor Grant Sawyer and Louis P. Spitz of the Department of Motor Vehicles turned over the first ground in the groundbreaking ceremony…

15 Years Ago

Blaze: Ramsey Mine between Fernley and Silver Springs has an estimated 10,000 acres that have burned. More than 200 firefighters are battling the blaze.

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