Sometimes in researching people and subjects you are thrown off by terms that were popular a hundred years ago but today have a different meaning. An Example would be the above "Champion Commie Shooter" wow! did school kids really hunt communist down and shoot them for sport in 1926. No after looking into it the school was having a marble tournament and commie refers to a marble that is very common and usually made out of clay. They were colored by the clay they were made of, tans, reds and browns. They were sold cheaply such as in the below 1901 ad where 30 could be purchased for a penny.
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