The recent PDD posting about the 1960s song “Ruth from Duluth” has led to a potentially related historical sidebar. It turns out that in the 1940s there was a carnival performer promoted as the 750-pound “Ruth from Duluth.”
Very few details are available in the five periodical clippings unearthed so far.
The Billboard, June 30, 1945:
Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Sept. 10, 1945:
The Billboard, March 26, 1949:
Star Tribune (Minneapolis), March 30, 1949:
The Billboard, Apr 9, 1949:
