Spelling bee held in the United States in 1929
The 5th National Spelling Bee was held at the National Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 1929, by the "Louisville Courier-Journal". Scripps-Howard would not sponsor the Bee until 1941.
The winner was 12-year-old Virginia Hogan of Nebraska, a student at St. John's Parochial School in Omaha, correctly spelling the word "luxuriance", followed by "asceticism". In second place came Viola Strbac of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (who had failed to properly spell luxuriance), followed by Teru Hayashi of Ventnor City, New Jersey, a Japanese-American who stumbled on "panacea".
Hogan was first bee winner from her state. She died in Fremont, Nebraska, in 1976. Nebraska did not have another winner until the 40th Bee in 1967. 
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