AN AMERICAN RECORD
Civic.improvement news from St. Louis (A,5.A,... .-., ..... : ■ ‘-‘A gpin-spitting contest for women hud girls ,w,as held .yesterday at Forest Park Highlands as g feature of the tinnual picnic given by thetThirtyninth Street Business -. and ■ Improvepient Association..> The picnic was attended by 8000 persons. The struggle for superiority .in the art of gumspitting was ended after an- hour of diligent, effort on ’the pdrt of all-the. entrants, when Mrs Helen Hntby, of 3841 Folsom Avenue, - succeeded- in putting the gum a distance of thirty feet, a record so'far as it known.’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 10
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92AN AMERICAN RECORD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 10
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