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The five historical items from this edition, with their newspaper proof. Play first if you want to guess.
At a Grady County farm-women’s picnic, wives called husbands from a field a hundred yards away. The quickest response won. Mrs. M. B. Ratcliff received a year’s subscription to the Chickasha Star as the husband-calling prize.
The Chickasha Star · 1929-07-18 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Jackson and Geiser of Shamrock jokingly challenged marathon dancers in a newspaper advertisement. They counted five years of moving around their store, twelve hours a day and six days a week, as 18,720 hours of “dancing.” This was advertising wordplay, not a nonstop endurance record.
Nowata Daily Star · 1923-05-21 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗An Omaha dispatch reported a white Leghorn named Babe Ruth laying her 151st egg in as many days. She belonged to A. R. Lander of Norfolk, Nebraska, and was entered in a national egg-laying contest. The paper called it a world championship, ahead of Lady Lindy’s 149-day record.
The Enid Events · 1927-09-29 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗The Leader announced a long-distance gum-chewing contest after the marathon craze. Contestants were to sit in a row while judges checked that their jaws never stopped, and stenographers were entering in large numbers. The item announces the plan; it does not report a winner.
Oklahoma Leader · 1923-05-31 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗The AP dispatch said Bill Williams of Rio Hondo, Texas, completed his peanut push up Pikes Peak the day before publication. It reported a $500 wager and sore knees after the 22-mile route. The feat was described as nose-pushing; this brief does not detail his apparatus.
Medford Mail Tribune · 1929-06-11 · p. 1
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