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DOWDELL, THE PUMPKIN MANHE GROWS THEM MAMMOTHIN SIZE.Three Hundred and Sixty Poundsof Pumpkins Taken FromOne VineWhen men get started thereis no telling where they willstop.The mosquito story of JimS Riddick and the melon story of! Lee Yanderipe had hardly got-EEten cold, before our goodand truthful friend, D. M.Dowdell, of Wimauma fame,came to the front with apumpkin story that takes thedilapidated linen from off theOr-shrubbery. I ^It was a pumpkin vine, and itgrew on Mr. Dowdell’s fertilebbay-head land at Wimauma.i[But it’s not the vine of whichwe wish to speak, but the pump-akins that grewr thereon. There1were but four pumpkins in mini- sber but they “grew so mighty tlarge” that it took extra help (to move them from the field, andwhen they were put on theiscales they made a balance att360 pounds.Mr. Dowdell proposes to varn-Iish two of the largest and keepthem for the fair.As stated before these pumpkins were grown at Wimauma, which is in Hillsborough county,fbut we want to say right here1rthat it took a Manatee countyman to raise them.
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Manatee Record
Manatee, Florida, US
Fri, Jul 26, 1907
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