Bio: Monson, J. C. (Large Onion - 1886)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
Email: bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surname: Monson

----Source: The Abbotsford Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 10/24/2012

Originally published in the Colby Phonograph, October 21, 1886

J. C. Monson, Abbotsford, has knocked onion raisers all in the shade.

Last week he sent the senior an onion that measured 18.5 inches in circumference one way and 16.25 inches the other way and weighs 2.24 pounds.

It is the onionest onion that we ever saw.

 

 


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