{"id":409345,"date":"2010-03-09T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.modernmechanix.com\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2010-03-09T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:53:01","slug":"crazy-endurance-contests-are-the-height-of-something-or-other-dec-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409345","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Endurance Contests Are The HEIGHT of Something or Other! (Dec, 1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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These three boys teamed up in an attempt to keep the bicycle moving all summer. The credit here should go to the bike instead of the boys.<\/p>\n

Shipwreck Kelly, world’s champion flagpole sitter, has sat on about every pole except the North and South, and he may tackle these sometime.
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\nMinus the comforts of many tree sitters, Lawrence Peters, of Yuma, Arizona, remained aloft in this giant cactus for 118 hours. A desert electrical storm finally forced him to come down.<\/p>\n

Bud Morris and Harry Yostrup, of Chicago, were two of the several thousand boys who escaped the squirrels during the summer. After all it’s still a gay, foolish old world!<\/p>\n

Jack Skuratosaki, of Newark, N. J., claimed the doughnut eating championship when he ate 36 doughnuts in 45 minutes.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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