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A London dispatch reported that some fashion shops preferred more ordinary-looking models because exceptionally attractive models could distract customers from the clothes.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 24, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Residents of an old English market town were reportedly refusing to use electricity while utility poles remained in the streets. They objected to what the poles did to the appearance of the town.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 24, 1926 · p. 3
Open the original newspaper ↗A British Columbia report claimed a creature in Okanagan Lake kept pace with a car along the shore for several hundred yards. Witnesses described it as roughly 15 feet long.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 24, 1926 · p. 3
Open the original newspaper ↗The mild headline concealed a stranger story: teachers followed clue-based directions toward a picnic, several groups lost their way, and one group reportedly missed the gathering entirely.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 24, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗A drug-store argument about whether anyone present could run a quarter-mile in 75 seconds reportedly ended in an 11:30 p.m. road race. The runners proved the headline right.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 24, 1926 · p. 1
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