SOCIETY WOMAN’S FEAT
A MIDWINTER WAGER. DAY’S MARCH Of 47 MTI.FS. BOSTON. Dec. 14. Eleanor Sears, a society wom.a ano a former tennis champion mad a foedish bet the other day that sh could walk in midwinter from Prov <l« neo, Rhode Island, to Boston, witl in the space of 24 hours. She a<lmil fed that it was foolish, but she had 1 g«> through with the v.agpr. A hundred people watched her slat on Sunday night in the middle of snowstorm, by 7 n.m. on Mondav th walker had covered 24 miles, and juafter nnon she finished the 47 mile walking triumphantly into her Bosto home.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 9
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107SOCIETY WOMAN’S FEAT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 9
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