Show Early Ohio Publicity Many myths about Ohio in its set set- settlement settlement settlement days were spread through- through lout the East to attract more families into this new region Among the fabulous tales relates a writer in inthe inthe inthe the Cleveland Plain Dealer were that springs of brandy flowed down the hills that flax bore little pieces of cloth on the stem that pumpkins grew as big as barrels and that melons well melons well the size of Ohio mel mel- melons melons melons ons ranged in comparison from a two-gallon two jug to a bushel basket On the other hand at the same time that such myths were going the rounds myths of an adverse nature also trickled into the East One of these was that the Ohio carried such a poisonous wallop that when its fangs pierced say a tree trunk the leaves curled up and died the tree itself itsel dying soon afterward |