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Ruth Fulghum Elected Selma's Beauty Queen, March 10, 1925

Selma’s Beauty Queen Chosen

Selma, March 6—At a mass meeting of the citizens of Selma Wednesday evening in the opera house the beauty queen for the Eastern Carolina Exposition was elected. Mayor Wade Brown acted as chairman and Mr. J.N. Wiggs was made secretary. The voting was done by secret ballot. Miss Ruth Fulghum was elected, while Misses Breattie Corbett, Rosa Waddell, and Emma Lucas Ward received a large number of votes.

From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Tuesday, March 10, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073982/1925-03-10/ed-1/seq-1/#words=March+10%2C+1925

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