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A Look Back
It was time for pumpkin pie when this photograph was snapped on Oct. 1, 1958. Watermelons had been replaced by pumpkins at local markets. Here, Louis Fischer and his father, Jeptha Fischer, at right, of Bell City, Missouri, brought one of the first truckloads of pumpkins to Cape Girardeau for sale. (G.D. FRONABARGER ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...
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It was time for pumpkin pie when this photograph was snapped on Oct. 1, 1958. Watermelons had been replaced by pumpkins at local markets. Here, Louis Fischer and his father, Jeptha Fischer, at right, of Bell City, Missouri, brought one of the first truckloads of pumpkins to Cape Girardeau for sale. (G.D. FRONABARGER ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
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