Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description:	Odd pecan nuts, and an old mechanical Santa Claus. Image Access WideTEK 25 1936 Send in your Tri-State oddities. This Old time Santa Claus window display is celebrating its 45th anniversary in the Strickland Drug Store window in Owensville, Indiana. 8 inch wide 18 inch tall his head and eyes moved by clockwork J. Roy Stricklands father started to display it when JRoy was a lad. little children admire it - their parents recall how, as children they too looked at it. Nut: this pecan found near Yankeetown, Ind. has three perfect sections halves in place of the customary two, halves. From Mrs. Oscar Siegel Boonville Ind. One Two Shell Three Odd Nuts. Geo Schneider of Newburg sent this nut. It was from a tree on the farm of Geo Ross, 2 miles south of Boonville, Ind. The tree has the bark of Black Hickory, and leaves of a pecan. The husk of the nut is like a paper shell pecan - the nut looks more hickory than pecan. Inside the meat is separated like the pecan but of rough texture and tastes like a hickory nut. With just this address this envelope and contents was delivered to my boss
Origin:	2013
Created By:	Karl Kae Knecht
Source:	http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/136
Collection:	Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects:	Holidays Oddities Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States

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