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D7474-3
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- 1938-09-16 (Creation)
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Albert Dorn displays watermelons growing in the garden of his son's, Dr. Norman Dorn, American Lake home. The luscious red melons are the offspring of seed expelled from the mouth of noted Tacoma businessman Ted Faulk last year. Mr. Faulk was enjoying a repast of ice cold melon at the Dorn home last summer. The seeds collected in his mouth, and boys being boys, he initiated his own personal precision aim contest; spitting the seeds out the window, aiming for a small can lid on the ground. The following year, when strange seedlings appeared in the garden, Dr. Dorn was preparing to pull them out when his wife remarked how much they resembled watermelon vines. The pair put two and two together, and the melon crop was babied to red lush maturity. (T. Times 9/16/1938, pg. 12)
Dorn, Albert; Watermelons;