19-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Thursday, October 29, 1914: << no entry>>
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Since Grandma didn’t write anything a hundred years ago today, I thought that you might enjoy seeing the cover of the October 15, 1914 issue of Kimball’s Dairy Farmer Magazine.
Amazingly Kimball’s was published twice each month (on the 1st and the 15th). I previously showed you the other October, 1914 cover. It was the orange one with a woman leading a cow.
A Hundred Years Ago 
Pumpkins are everywhere! Doubt there was one in Ireland in 1914!
Really? . . . I would have guessed that they had always been in Ireland.
No, I don’t think so. I’ll have to check it out, though. Will keep you posted.
These days there would have to be warning on the photo saying something like this ” this child was supervised whilst holding the knife.”
🙂 You’re probably right. Back then I think that kids were taught at a relatively young age how to use pocketknives so they could use them for chores around the farm.
That was appropriate!
It definitely was an appropriate cover for the season.
I always enjoy your posts. 🙂
It’s nice to hear that you like them.
Nice to know that some things never change – like carving out pumpkins 🙂
It is nice how some traditions, like carving pumpkins, have survived across the years.
Oh my yes. So different from the showy hallowe’en cover.
It is a very down-to-earth cover.
Honestly? I like those simple carvings as much as the fancy ones that show up today. I admire the carving artists, but I like the charm of this.
I agree–I also like the traditional simple carved pumpkin faces better than more elaborate ones.
The pumpkins my son and I used to carve were simple, and very much like these.
My kids and I also used to carve pumpkins faces similar to these.