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Would You Believe Vacuum Cleaners Saved Baltimore's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1936?

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Gil Sandler
Published November 21, 2013 at 2:08 PM EST

The story of how the traditional annual Hochschild Kohn "Thanksgiving Toytown Parade" was one vacuum cleaner away from not being a tradition at all!
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