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New blog: July 4th Contest Decided in Local Court
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"Helms, Bari (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:56:08 +0000
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With July 4th coming up next week, Out of the Box went looking through our collections to find something Fourth related and found this oddity - an 1893 July 4th hose contest that had to have its winner decided in the Rockingham Co. chancery court.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/06/27/july-4th-contest-decided-in-local-court/


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