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1927 USA: Road fund - Charleston marathons on arterial roads
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0:45Now PlayingDate: 9th May 1927
Location: U.S.A.
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
USA
The Road Fun(d)
A chance for the Chancellor. Why not convert the arterial roads into dancing tracks and run Charleston Marathons as in America.
They "step it" on the road for 18 miles!
And two miles in a Dance Hall - where many collapse.
In an entry of 740 only 10 survived the ordeal.
DANCING
DANCE MARATHONS
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