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OddlyTrue News Stand — August 6

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Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

Source: Classic headline (CJR 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim' collections)View clipping source

Headline 4 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on August 6

1930 Weird
New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Force Crater disappeared in Manhattan, in a case that was never solved.
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1862 Oddly true
American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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1819 First ever
Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1941

Evening star (Washington, D.C.), June 17, 1941

Page 24 · mentions "anti-noise popcorn"

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Image and text from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site.

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