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    1. [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Orange County: Oscar Bowman Drives a Stage
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    3. Elyria (OH) Chronicle-Telegram, December 7, 1911, p 4. 368,000 MILES BY STAGE Kentuckian Has Driven 40 Miles Every Day for the Past Ten Years New Albany, Ind-Without going further north than Paoli, Ind., or further south than New Albany, Oscar Bowman of Paoli has traveled a distance equal to ten times around the world. Bowman, a Kentuckian, is the driver of the New Albany and Paoli stage. He has held the position for ten years and has seldom missed a day during which he covered the distance of 40 miles over the pike between Albany and Paoli. Bowman has just completed his 3,276th round trip in which he drove a total of 368,000 miles. He has driven over the pike on the coldest and the hottest days recorded by the weather bureau in a decade and has never stopped for rain, snow or sleet.

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