Past Pages Aug. 30

130 YEARS AGO

How to Eat Watermelons: Cutting a watermelon like a tulip and putting a lump of ice in is condemned, because ice should never touch the pulp; but burial of the uncut melon in ice is wise. "The watermelon was intended as an episode - an interlude - a romance without words not to be mingledwith bacon and greens."

100 YEARS AGO

Who killed Charles Garalla at Manhattan is the question agitating Southern Nevada. Garalla was beaten to death by some unknown assailant. It is evident the beating was premeditated and cold-blooded.

70 YEARS AGO

Nevada's national guard unit stationed at Camp Haan is purely Nevadan only in name. Twenty-one states and one Canadian province are represented in the 121st Coast Artillery battalion.

50 YEARS AGO

Miss Bardahl of Seattle won the fourth and next to final heat in the 1961 Gold Cup world hydroplane championship on Pyramid Lake today. Miss Century 21 of Seattle with second place moved into the lead with total points.

20 YEARS AGO

After a 12-year absence, James Garner returns in a new show called "Man of the People."

10 YEARS AGO

Local artist Dee Bradford enters three pieces in the Nevada State Fair and comes home with three awards.

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