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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, January 24, 1910
“I was going to call on a friend who has consumption,” explained the prisoner, “and my doctor advised me to eat some onions first, to avoid contagion. I did so. They went to my head and things began to whirl. I don’t remember what happened after that.”
Prunner left, followed by a crowd anxious to learn where he got the onions.
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Soldiers in a store house shovel onions into sacks for the Western Front, Vancouver, ca. 1916
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, April 24, 1910
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Journal Gazette,
Mattoon, Illinois, July 20, 1910
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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1920
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Harrisburg Telegraph, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1924
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 26, 1909
…is looking for a blue onion. Until he finds it he will be unhappy, and so will those who come in contact with him…
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Oakland Tribune, California, April 7, 1935
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Oakland Tribune, California, April 28, 1935
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The Adair County News, Kentucky, August 16, 1905
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Portland, Oregon, May 24, 1913
It is said he wants to raise a plentiful supply of onions. From the smell in the neighborhood, we should judge that he will raise a heavier crop of small-pox or cholera than of esculents.
