OPINION | OLD NEWS: Monticello thrilled as 1921 'Miss America' spuds-in oil well

Time to check back in with Edith Mae Patterson, Pine Bluff schoolteacher who, as we discussed Oct. 25, was startled 100 years ago to find herself declared the most beautiful woman in 46 states by a contest she did not enter.

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