BIG SPUDS
Four unusually large potatoes are on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store, including a Spalding Rose of two pounds and three ounces from the garden of Arthur Law and a Green Mountain weighing two pounds, four and one-half ounces.
Potatoes have grown large this season. So has the price. As to size of spuds there is on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store a quartet unusual. A Spalding Rose, from the garden of Arthur Law, Putnam, weighs two pounds and three ounces. G. A. Bell of Quadic shows a Green Mountain that weighs two pounds, four and one-half ounces. J. H. Johnson, Thompson, a three pound five ounce potato, variety not given. The largest is a freak potato. A cluster of eight small potatoes into a unit weighing three pounds and nine ounces. This monster was dug from the rows on the farm of Perry Moffitt, Pomfret.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
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Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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BIG SPUDS
Four unusually large potatoes are on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store, including a Spalding Rose of two pounds and three ounces from the garden of Arthur Law and a Green Mountain weighing two pounds, four and one-half ounces.
Potatoes have grown large this season. So has the price. As to size of spuds there is on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store a quartet unusual. A Spalding Rose, from the garden of Arthur Law, Putnam, weighs two pounds and three ounces. G. A. Bell of Quadic shows a Green Mountain that weighs two pounds, four and one-half ounces. J. H. Johnson, Thompson, a three pound five ounce potato, variety not given. The largest is a freak potato. A cluster of eight small potatoes into a unit weighing three pounds and nine ounces. This monster was dug from the rows on the farm of Perry Moffitt, Pomfret.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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October 28, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, The Bismarck Tribune, The Lambertville Record, The Indianapolis Times, Daily Kennebec Journal, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Daily Worker, and Evening Star.
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BIG SPUDS
Four unusually large potatoes are on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store, including a Spalding Rose of two pounds and three ounces from the garden of Arthur Law and a Green Mountain weighing two pounds, four and one-half ounces.
Potatoes have grown large this season. So has the price. As to size of spuds there is on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store a quartet unusual. A Spalding Rose, from the garden of Arthur Law, Putnam, weighs two pounds and three ounces. G. A. Bell of Quadic shows a Green Mountain that weighs two pounds, four and one-half ounces. J. H. Johnson, Thompson, a three pound five ounce potato, variety not given. The largest is a freak potato. A cluster of eight small potatoes into a unit weighing three pounds and nine ounces. This monster was dug from the rows on the farm of Perry Moffitt, Pomfret.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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October 28, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, The Bismarck Tribune, The Lambertville Record, The Indianapolis Times, Daily Kennebec Journal, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Daily Worker, and Evening Star.
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BIG SPUDS
Four unusually large potatoes are on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store, including a Spalding Rose of two pounds and three ounces from the garden of Arthur Law and a Green Mountain weighing two pounds, four and one-half ounces.
Potatoes have grown large this season. So has the price. As to size of spuds there is on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store a quartet unusual. A Spalding Rose, from the garden of Arthur Law, Putnam, weighs two pounds and three ounces. G. A. Bell of Quadic shows a Green Mountain that weighs two pounds, four and one-half ounces. J. H. Johnson, Thompson, a three pound five ounce potato, variety not given. The largest is a freak potato. A cluster of eight small potatoes into a unit weighing three pounds and nine ounces. This monster was dug from the rows on the farm of Perry Moffitt, Pomfret.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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October 28, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, The Bismarck Tribune, The Lambertville Record, The Indianapolis Times, Daily Kennebec Journal, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Daily Worker, and Evening Star.
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BIG SPUDS
Four unusually large potatoes are on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store, including a Spalding Rose of two pounds and three ounces from the garden of Arthur Law and a Green Mountain weighing two pounds, four and one-half ounces.
Potatoes have grown large this season. So has the price. As to size of spuds there is on exhibition in the window of the Gilman store a quartet unusual. A Spalding Rose, from the garden of Arthur Law, Putnam, weighs two pounds and three ounces. G. A. Bell of Quadic shows a Green Mountain that weighs two pounds, four and one-half ounces. J. H. Johnson, Thompson, a three pound five ounce potato, variety not given. The largest is a freak potato. A cluster of eight small potatoes into a unit weighing three pounds and nine ounces. This monster was dug from the rows on the farm of Perry Moffitt, Pomfret.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Putnam Patriot, October 29, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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October 28, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Imperial Valley Press, The Bismarck Tribune, The Lambertville Record, The Indianapolis Times, Daily Kennebec Journal, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Daily Worker, and Evening Star.
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October 29, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, Evening Star, Imperial Valley Press, The Alaskan, Putnam Patriot, Daily Kennebec Journal, Montgomery County Sentinel, and The Washington Times.