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May 31, 1870
The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
What is this article about?
Col. H. K. List brought an extraordinary potato to the newspaper office, filled with perfectly formed small tubers protruding through its surface, described as a rare vegetable curiosity on display.
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VEGETABLE CURIOSITY.—COL. H. K. List left at our office, two or three days ago, one of the greatest curiosities in the vegetable kingdom we have ever seen. It is nothing less than an ordinary sized potato, filled with small tubers, several of which have bursted their covering and protrude through the surface. These small potatoes are as perfectly formed as the large one covering them. All who have seen it say that nothing of the kind has ever before come under their observation. This freak of nature is on exhibition in our counting room, and lovers of the curious are invited to examine it.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Extraordinary Event
What themes does it cover?
Nature
What keywords are associated?
Vegetable Curiosity
Potato Tubers
Freak Of Nature
Protruding Potatoes
What entities or persons were involved?
Col. H. K. List
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Key Persons
Col. H. K. List
Event Date
Two Or Three Days Ago
Story Details
Col. H. K. List presented a potato filled with small, perfectly formed tubers that protrude through its surface, hailed as a great vegetable curiosity never before seen, now on exhibition.