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Category: Art, Holidays, Patriotism, Patents
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Category: Holidays, Advertising, Retailing, Myths and Fairytales, Cartoons, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, United Kingdom
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Category: Family, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Holidays, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Newspapers, Cartoons, 1970s
Chairman of the Hibernating Groundhog Lodge in Quarryville, Pa. calibrates the "ultra-secret invention" that will be used to contact "10,672 registered groundhogs in Lancaster County" on Groundhog Day.
image source: Temple University Library
Louisville Courier-Journal - Feb 2, 1947
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Feb 2, 1947
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Category: Holidays, Inventions, 1940s
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Category: Holidays, School, United Kingdom
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Category: Holidays, Miniature People in Ads, Nineteenth Century
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Category: Holidays, Toys, Gender, Goofs and Screw-ups
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Holidays, Regionalism, World Records
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Category: Food, History, Holidays, Myths and Fairytales
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 31, 2020 -
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Category: Holidays, Horror, Music, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Superstition, 1930s, Fictional Monsters
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