140 Years Ago
Advertisement. “FRISBIE’S Restaurant and Oyster Saloon, Corner of Carson and King Streets, Carson City, Nevada. At this popular restaurant and Oyster Saloon can always be obtained the very best the market affords. The public will be served to order with chicken, game, turkey steaks, duck, cutlets, geese, pastry, venison, trout, salmon. We have best cook on the Pacific Coast.”
130 Years Ago
Kate Castleton. “At Sea” provided a large audience at the Opera House to see Kate Castleton. It is an amusing extravaganza, an olla podrida of good things. Kate has improved since we last saw her. She is a trifle naughtier and nicer and has developed the genuine Parisian abandon. Her toilettes are superb, her stockings maintain their garish beauty and her voice, never her strong point, has improved ...
110 Years Ago
All sorts. The students of the Reno High school paid the Legislature a visit. The lumber season in the Sierra Nevada begins this week. Fleix Morris, who was struck on the head with a rock by three thugs in Reno, is reported much better. Thugs are still on the loose.
70 Years Ago
Spanish-American War. Five hundred forty-five men were trained at Camp Clark in 1898. Of the four companies of soldiers, one was recruited at Carson and Carson Valley, one at Virginia City, and one at Reno, one from Elko and Winnemucca. During the encampment in Carson, the Relief Corps and other organization administered to the needs of the soldiers. Forty-seven years later they were honored by the Spanish-American war veterans and told that their efforts in 1898 had been really appreciated.
50 Years Ago
Ground breaking ceremonies were held for the first stage of the Capital Village Shopping Center to be located north of Carson City on Highway 395 where Sewell’s, Inc. of Reno, will construct a 34,000 square foot supermarket. Sewell’s stores were founded by Abner Sewell in 1897 at the mining camp of Tuscarora and now operates four stores in Nevada, two in Reno, one in Elko and one in Winnemucca.
15 Years Ago
Advertisement. “Wallace Theater Corporation — Hanging Up, Whole 9 Yards, Pitch Black, The Tigger Movie, Next Friday, The Beach ... $4.50 bargain matinees daily.”
Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.
