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Kelpe, Omer H., 1905-1975 Sitdown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC10047.01.192.02 Author/Creator: Kelpe, Omer H., 1905-1975 Place Written: Randolph Field, Texas Type: Newspaper clipping Date: September 2, 1943 Pagination: 1 p. ; Order a Copy

One newspaper clipping sent by Omer H. Kelpe to Virginia Heidt Kelpe in a letter dated September 2, 1943. The title of the article is "Sitdown." It is a short article about a car's lights being left on during a black-out. The police's solution was to sit on the headlights for twenty minutes.

Kelpe, Omer H., 1905-1975
Kelpe, Virginia Lee Heidt, fl. 1942-1975

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