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4 unusual facts about The Literary Digest


Carmen, Oklahoma

In 1914, according to The Literary Digest, Carmen originated a "Take It Back Day", when neighbors would return anything they had borrowed over the last year.

Clem Beauchamp

Beauchamp told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "Bo-shawm, both syllables accented alike." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)

Honea Path, South Carolina

In the wake of this, according to the November 25, 1911, issue of The Literary Digest, Coleman Livingston Blease, the governor of South Carolina, declared that, rather than stop a lynch mob, he would "have resigned his office and come to Honea Path and led the mob."

Vernon Kirby

He was ranked the third in the South African rankings in 1932 and World No. 9 in 1935 by J. Brooks Fenno, Jr. of The Literary Digest.



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