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Bill was doing really well in the seed racket in Missouri back in 1965.<\/p>\n
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From a seeds advertisement on the back cover of Bewitched<\/em> published by Dell in 1965.<\/p>\n Bill was doing really well in the seed racket in Missouri back in 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[312,726,43,1301,480,336],"class_list":["post-46142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-comic","tag-comic-book","tag-humor","tag-seeds","tag-usa","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bill-Hanlin.jpg?fit=640%2C999&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-c0e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13965,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/07\/29\/id-like-to-sell-the-world-some-seeds\/","url_meta":{"origin":46142,"position":0},"title":"I’d Like to Sell the World Some Seeds","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Miss Jackson was one in a seemingly endless army of satisfied sales-children happily selling seeds to friends, family and neighbors and reaping the rewards of CASH-money or really BOSS prizes. 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