Driscoll Earns Shot at Abe Attell in Featherweight Clash
English featherweight Jem Driscoll has secured a title bout with American champion Abe Attell after clear victories over top contenders. Driscoll’s speed and power are praised, with a potential weight at 126 pounds and speculation about a 122 pound limit.
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Jem Driscoll
Feather
England
Abe Attell
Driscoll
Ring
Charley Griffen
Attell
Young Corbett
McGovern
Books and Authors at Christmastide in the periodical
A survey of Christmas books and authors highlights Henry van Dyke’s Out of Doors In the Holy Land and Egypts Monuments by Hichens and Gue. The Garden of Allah and The Silver Butterfly by Wilson Woodrow are discussed, with notes on John Burroughs at Slabsides and remarks on Roosevelt and naval matters. The piece also touches Attell and Driscoll boxing expectations.
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Henry van Dyke
Holy Land
Christ
Bethlehem
Egypt
Jerusalem
Temple
Jor
Dan
Calvary
Chris
Palestine
Rerpi
Joseph
Art Hichens
Jules Gue Hichens
Guerin
Nile
Sesostris
Amenemhat
Rameses
Alexander
Napoleon
Amenoplis IV
Travers to chase British title next May abroad
National amateur golf champion Jerome D Travers plans to travel abroad to enter the British amateur championship at Muirfield in May. The event is the premier golf tournament of the year. Travers has held the national amateur title for two years and seeks to regain prominent form against top English and Scottish players.
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R Riley
A Betts
America
Jerome D. Travers
Muirfield Club
Walter J. Tr
Travers
New Jersey
Gore
Heart to Heart Talks in a Cemetery
Edwin A. Nye retells a true Omaha Prospect Hill cemetery incident where two average boys secretly removed flowers from a neglected infant grave and placed them on the baby's grave. They judged the act as mercy not theft, arguing the baby deserved flowers as much as others.
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Prospect Hill Cemetery
Omaha
Neb
Benisons
Law Library
Toby
Angel
Barnatto
Papes Diapepsin Promises Fast Indigestion Relief
Misery in stomach urged to start now with Papes Diapepsin to end indigestion gas belching and upset stomach. Claims relief in five minutes without drugs, improves appetite, and makes digestion smoother. Encourages readers to tell their druggist to obtain Papes Diapepsin for a thorough cure.
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Pape
Tormach
Land Opening Announcement for Roseburg Oregon
A land opening is planned in Roseburg Oregon on January 20 1909 with lists blue print maps and full filings information. Send $2.00 to Roseburg Vie een Oregon for details.
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Roseburg
Oregon
Grays Harbor Briefs From The Aberdeen Herald
Grays Harbor items recap events from the Aberdeen Semi Weekly Herald. This transcript notes local happenings and notices in compact form for readers in the region.
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Deen
Herald
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Aberdeen Herald
Mr. Hichens
James
Howard Chandler Christy
Mr. Riley
Inley
Wilson Woodrow
New York
John Burroughs
Burroughs
Young Men's Catholic Association
Boston
Mr. Connolly
President Roosevelt
Japan
Admiral Evans
Hampton Roads
Connolly
Corr
Janse Ap
Valence
Robert Hichens
Pundy
James B. Connolly
Whitcomb Riley
John Burrouges
Edwin A. Nye
Roseburg Abstract
Roseburg Vie Een
Penings On
Grays Harbor
Aber
Barnatto Diamond Co
Girard Bldg
Chicago
Sirs
East
Hume St
Aberdeen Livery & Transfer Co
C. E. Murray
A. W. Barkley
South
Ory
Foe
W. J. Long
Dabnew Block
Beckenhauer Bros. & CO
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