Yep, it’s doubtful this record will be matched or broken.
Does anyone else notice the writing style in these old newspaper articles is different than today? The word choice is different than things would be described today. Not sure how to describe it, but it’s like they are using “big” words; they weren’t trying to dumb down the news story for a lowest common denominator. And presumeably the people of the time understood what they were reading, at a time when many more people dropped out of high school than today.
The government monopoly schools have had an additional 70 years to erode the intellectual level of us readers.