Five rounds. Two strange stories each. Only one made the paper. Choose, then see the proof.
Unusual ambitions, unconventional courtship, and a chicken-feather champion.
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The five historical items from this edition, with their newspaper proof. Play first if you want to guess.
Frances Beauvais wanted a rough-and-ready husband who ate with a knife. A photo caption reported that her one-inch advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper brought 175 proposals in a week.
Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer · 1922-04-06 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗Lota Cheek was her real name. A newspaper photograph identified her as the daughter of Georgia farmer Leon Cheek and said she had been selected from six thousand entrants in a New York beauty contest. The caption added that she had won a thousand-dollar beauty contest the year before.
Wilmington Morning News · 1922-06-15 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗A farm-and-home-week contest at the University of New Hampshire had 30 women aiming rolling pins at a life-size husband dummy. The item noted that many contestants were unmarried, so experience was evidently optional.
The Salem News · 1928-08-17 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗Jeanne Granveaud planned to prepare her young son Paul for a voyage to the moon. The report described the ambition and its proposed training decades before humans made that journey. It does not show that Paul ever flew into space.
Edmonton Journal · 1927-11-12 · printed page not established
Open the original newspaper ↗When all the district’s pupils enrolled elsewhere, a Missouri teacher was left with nobody to teach. The newspaper said she still went to the schoolroom daily to carry out her employment contract.
Portsmouth Daily Times · 1926-01-16 · printed page not established
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