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A Paris bankruptcy list included makers of women's hair combs and hairpins. The paper blamed the damage on the fashion for bobbed and shingled hair.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 29, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Carl John Reuter won a local 'Swat the Fly' campaign after turning in about 126½ quarts of flies. The paper estimated a quart at more than 24,000 flies.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 29, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Georges Clemenceau was not wealthy, the paper said, but refused the stipend attached to membership in the French Academy — whose members are traditionally called the 'Immortals.'
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 29, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗The vague headline hid an unusually detailed spider story: it rebuilt an elaborate web each evening, anchored it with 'guy wires,' ate its catch, dismantled the web in the morning and slept by day.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 29, 1926 · p. 2
Open the original newspaper ↗Eight farmers were reportedly neglecting their crops while sinking a shaft for buried treasure. Their evidence came from a young woman said to communicate with spirits who told them where the gold was.
The Herald · Sept. 29, 1926
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