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Colfax Globe-Trotter Remembers Prohibition Era Speakeasy Life
Elmo Griffith recalls writing for the Colfax Record at age 13 in 1926 predicting a televisor. Born 1913 in Auburn, he later sailed the world as a merchant seaman for nearly 30 years, visiting Singapore, Shanghai, Tunisia, and Tahiti, before retiring to Auburn.
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Elmo Griffith
Colfax Record
Scientific American
Griffith
New York City
Colfax
Young Griffith
Auburn
Scoop Thurman
Scoop
Richard Halliburton
Halliburton
China
San Francisco
U.S
Japan
Okinawa
Singapore
Sydney
Shanghai
Tunisia
Hong Kong
Saigon
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Straits of Gibraltar
Panama Canal
Tahiti
Papeete
Colfax Record Office
Marson's
Susie
WSCH
The
Colfax Grammar School