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Queer RecordsAs »alt; to have Inin exacted, with the craze for the new dance, the “Shag- sweeping the country, the usual number of endurance contests have sprung up m several cities and colleges.1 he question of contests i% one that puts the American public “on its »ar‘* as soon as something new springs up. Newspa]er accounts during the last several years have brought to light many types of contests for various “titles.” We have had the dance Marathon in which several people danced over 100 hours at a stretch, the coffee drinking contest in which the winner finally swallowed 07 cups of the liquid, and other “long distance” title meets.Just what has been accomplished after a |ersnn has won a shag contest is hard to say. Perhaps he or she gets the same satisfaction that the flag pole sitter does after a hard week's work.
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Williamsburg Flat Hat
Williamsburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Nov 23, 1928
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