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Record Melon Hits 195 Pounds at Hope Water Festival
O D Middlebrooks, Patmos farmer, set a new world watermelon weight record in Hope on September 21, 1935, with a 195 pound fruit. The event follows a history of Hope Watermelon Festivals from 1926 to 1935, featuring giants like 164 and 152 pound melons, royalty, and thousands of visitors.
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Arkansas
Hope
Tom
Here
Mr. Middlebrooks
Middlebrooks
Hempstead
Vistory
John 8. Gibson
Hone
Luseter Brothers
City of
Express
United States
Calvin Coolidge
Hugh Laseter
W. Y. Foster
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Allen Davidson
Laurine Lewis
Tilman
Arthur Powell
Laseter
St. Louis
Terrell Cornelius
Bonnie Middlebrooks
Patmos
Tilman Parks
H. §. Dudley
John P. Cox
North Little Rock
H. S. Dudley
Rexall Corporation
Boston
Mass
L. Carter Johnson
Leona Martin
Spring Hill
U.S
Joe T. Robinson
The
Elks
Murray Hulbert
Walter Pemberton Andrew
Atlanta
Georgia
Edgar Lascher
Lasewer
Chas. Lowthorp Commission Company
Rush Brothers
Greenville
Wynne Denty
Geraldine Buzby
McCaskill
Ark
Justin Matthews
Arkansas State Highway Department
Hope District
Highway Department
Little Rock
Triumph