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Monika:
Here is a link to a site where you can read scanned issues of the Lightning Flat Flash. It´s quite fun to see what it looked like. It didn´t survive long. 1922 - 1926.

http://pluto.state.wy.us/awweb/main.jsp?flag=collection&un=public&ps=public&smd=1&cl=library2_lib&qs=Lightning+Flat+Flahs&qt=64&submit=Search+Newspapers&itype=advs&menu=on

Monika:
This piece of "news" reminded me of another story, albeit this one has a happy ending

24 Year Romance

A romance of twenty four years duration came to light
here the first of the week when
Joseph G. Kennedy, rancher of
the Rockypoint country, Wyoming,
arrived in Newcastle in
search of Miss Mable Brown of
Menominee, Michigan, his
sweetheart of twenty four
years ago.
It seems that almost a quarter
century ago this couple lived in the Michigan city and
here the friendship commenced
that has resulted in a marriage
solemnized by the Rev,
Father Brady at the Corpus
Christi church in Newcastle,
Wyoming, on Thursday morning, February 8th, 1923, at sixthirty
o'clock. P.H. McHugh
and Mrs. Mary Nolun, acted as
the witnesses.
This morning the happy
couple left for the groom´s
ranch at Rockypoint where
they will take up their future
residence.

Jeff Wrangler:
Come to think of it, now I remember seeing a small newspaper clipping, carefully preserved by my paternal grandmother, that noted that Grandma had perfect spelling that year in school.  ;D  That was actually considered newsworthy in a small Pennsylvania community.

I don't have the clipping with me here, but it sticks in my memory that it was for her year in the eighth grade--which would have been her last year in school, because she went to school in a one-room schoolhouse that only had eight grades. Grandma was born in 1911, so she probably started school about 1916, so she probably finished the eighth grade about 1924.

The newspaper clipping was tucked inside a small New Testament--which was given to my grandmother by her public school teacher as a reward for her perfect spelling. Imagine the uproar if a public school teacher tried to do something like that today.  :-\

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