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Staring Contest Postcard

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37194
$2.00

Description

Portland, Oregon was the site of the first professional staring contests West of the Mississippi, in 1903. Pictured on our postcard are the reigning champions, Alice T Mundy and Baxter Burnside square off in a championship match to the death. In 1904, bloody rivalries erupted between the Southeast and the Southwest staring gangs that ended in numerous arrests, several deaths and countless strained eyes.

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