Past Pages Sept. 29

130 YEARS AGO

Soda explosion - Wm. Pearson's soda factory exploded yesterday. The generator with a pressure of 400 pounds went to pieces and wrecked the place. Some of the fragments went through the window and across Fifth street. Damage $300.

120 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: Warren B. Dipple, of the Arlington, has secured the agency for the Magic Pocket Lamp, a novel and useful invention, to be carried in the pocket and used when a light is wanted in a hurry.

70 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: "Carson Theater: 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby' with Broderick Crawford, Peggy Moran, Johnny Downs - It's a merry musicalulu! You'll swing with its songs and sway with its laughter!'"

50 YEARS AGO

Births: Born at Carson Tahoe Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smales, a boy.

20 YEARS AGO

Congressional investigators conclude that millions of dollars can be saved by moving the F-117 Stealth fighter jets out of Nevada to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

10 YEARS AGO

Photo caption: Jordan Dargert capped off a successful Outlaw Kart season when he blazed to a track record and wrapped up the 125 cc class season championship at Fuji Park. Dargert of Carson City turned a time of 11.541 seconds.

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