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A Century Late
Friday, October 29, 1926
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Putnam PatriotPutnam, Conn.

BIG SPUDS

Context - explained by ACL:

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.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Putnam Patriot, Putnam, Conn., October 29, 1926, page 2]

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 A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.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.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 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, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 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, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Friday, October 29, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Putnam PatriotPutnam, Conn.

BIG SPUDS

Context - explained by ACL:

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.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Putnam Patriot, Putnam, Conn., October 29, 1926, page 2]

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.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 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, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 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, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Friday, October 29, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Putnam PatriotPutnam, Conn.

BIG SPUDS

Context - explained by ACL:

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.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Putnam Patriot, Putnam, Conn., October 29, 1926, page 2]

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.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 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, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 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, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Friday, October 29, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Putnam PatriotPutnam, Conn.

BIG SPUDS

Context - explained by ACL:

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.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Putnam Patriot, Putnam, Conn., October 29, 1926, page 2]

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.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 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, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 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, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.

A Century Late
Friday, October 29, 1926 Price: 2 Cents
Notice to Readers: Every story as printed 100 years ago: nothing added, nothing rewritten, our notes marked. They didn't know how it ends.
You do.
Life & TimesAs printed 100 years ago on page of:Putnam PatriotPutnam, Conn.

BIG SPUDS

Context - explained by ACL:

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.

The printed page, with the story outlined
[The story on the printed page. Putnam Patriot, Putnam, Conn., October 29, 1926, page 2]

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.

Yesterday's paper

November 3, 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, The Indianapolis Times, Seward Daily Gateway, The Bismarck Tribune, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Worker, Spirit Of Jefferson, Daily Kennebec Journal, and Smyrna Times.

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Today's paper

November 4, 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, Askov American, The Wrangell Sentinel, The Indianapolis Times, New Britain Herald, Seward Daily Gateway, Evening Star, Fitzgerald Leader Enterprise And Press, and Daily Kennebec Journal.