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Buddy, can you bowl that tire?, It's hard work moving a 250-pound tractor tire, as longshoreman Donald Mullen, working at dockside in Toronto, discovered recencently
Buddy, can you bowl that tire?, It's hard work moving a 250-pound tractor tire, as longshoreman Donald Mullen, working at dockside in Toronto, discovered recencently

Buddy, can you bowl that tire?, It's hard work moving a 250-pound tractor tire, as longshoreman Donald Mullen, working at dockside in Toronto, discovered recencently

Date9/11/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Buddy; can you bowl that tire?; It's hard work moving a 250-pound tractor tire; as longshoreman Donald Mullen; working at dockside in Toronto; discovered recencently.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0010230F
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