Mike Gibbons Declares Self In Middleweight Race
Longtime contender Mike Gibbons announces another bid for the middleweight title from St Paul. He schedules a campaign start at Broadway Sporting Club while negotiations with Al McCoy stall. Rogen notes Gibbons outclasses rivals and could become a public favorite if he sharpens aggression.
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New York
Blike Gibbons
St Paul
Mike
Broadway Sporting Club
George Chip
Hig Waterloo
Johnny Howard
Gibbons
al McCoy
Brooklyn
McCoy
Slike
BicCay
Chip
Maddie McGoorty
St. Paul
McAllister
Newoorty
McCoxs
Chiis
Mohas
Ritchie
Willie Ritchie
Tommy Murphy
Murphy
Tommy
Hitchis
Madison Square Garden
Hut “Leach
Quick Home Cure for Piles Trial Package
Advertises Pyramid Pile Remedy with a free trial package sent in plain wrap. Claims instant relief, reduced inflammation and swelling, and eventual cure from piles. Urges writing for a free trial and later purchasing full-size packaging for 50 cents, with a mail-in coupon.
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Pyramid Drug Co
Pyramid Ride
Marshall
Mich
Sven
Pyramid Drug Company
Galaxy of Confederate Beauties at Jacksonville Reunion
In Jacksonville Florida on May 24 the twenty fourth annual United Confederate Veterans reunion gathers hundreds of Georgia belles and sponsors for a formal social program. The event features decorations dinners receptions a ball and a flower festival as its main social draw with many maids sponsors and dignitaries from the South in attendance.
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Galaxy of Georgia
Jacksonville
Fla
United Confederate Veterans
Daughters of Dixie
Lee
Manassas
Appomattox
Daughters of the Confederacy
United States
National
South
Florida City
Yuetropolia
Florida
Jackisonville
Ilorsch
Boxing prospects loom as crosswants big title chance
The night’s fights hint at Cross facing Welsh or Leach in a twenty round test with British speed versus American grit. Rivers vs Wolgast and the Buffalo scene around Rocky Kansas signal rising talents and looming rematches as the lightweight and featherweight scenes heat up.
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Willie Tuteme
Battes
Jack Britton
Joe Shugrue
Australia
Reddy Welsh
Pitche
Joe Rivers
Freddy Wreish
Leach Cross
Rivers
West
Freddy
Leach
Leachie
Cross
Welsh
Reesy
Kansas
Buffalo
Crttucs
Rocky Kansas
Rand
Rocky
Buffalonians
Playthings of the City Life by Edmund Gosse
A reflective meditation on society as human toys wound up by hunger hopes and fears. The speaker notes people dressed and moved like coordinated theatrics until they break or are discarded, questioning why such beings are ever created and who observes the performance.
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Edmund Gosse
Gordon and Reid Buy Furniture Firm to Form New American
Gordon and Reid former owners of the American Furniture freeset have bought the stock fixtures and business at receiver's sale. With H M Goldsmith as associate they reorganize as the American Furniture company to run a furniture store focused on high service to the public.
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Gordon and Reid Purchase Furniture Company Business
R. A. Gordon
ML YW. Reid
American Furniture Freeset
Goldsmith, Actoh & Witherspoon Company
Messrs. Gordon and
Rev
H M. Goldsmith
American Furniture Company
Publc
Preventing House Flies in a Texas Community
Charles W. Castner of Lavon Texas describes a local effort to curb house flies. Neighbors used fly traps screens and sanitation measures. manure kept in ventilated stables, daily cleaning, lime sprinkling, and closed odorproof closets. Result: fewer flies and a drop in typhoid fever and related concerns.
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Charles W. Castner
Lavon
Texas
Burden of Wars and the Call for Peace in Verse
An Indianapolis Star opinion notes poets from Browning to Shelley urged peace and universal harmony. It asks who will lead to spare lives instead of destroy them, steering military patriotism toward noble ends and forcing rulers to use power to promote peace. The piece laments dead heroes and seeks a path where their sacrifices are not in vain.
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Indianapolis Star
Soy
Browning
Vison
Shelley
Cowper
Eulogist
Wellington
Balava
May
Phas
Harriman and Art Dealers Conspiracy Exposed
An account details a scheme where two rival art dealers named A and B colluded to inflate prices by staging expert endorsements for cherished pieces. A banker exploited the ploy to push up values as the pair profited, while maintaining public hostility. The tale highlights market manipulation during a vogue for reliquaries and flawed judging by rivalries in high end art dealing.
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HE. H. Harriman
Deaiers al
Helena
Saxe
Abe
Cover Crops vs Fall Plowing in Southern Farmland
Massey argues fall plowing on clay soils is fine where frost is present but warns fall plowing without a cover crop is poor in the south. In the north, late fall plowing can be advantageous if the ground is kept rough for frost action, yet southern practice should include a green winter crop.
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W. F. Massey
Why the Wall Street Man Falls
The Wall Street man falls due to two strong pressures. He is highly credulous and must gamble to satisfy the excitement of stock trading. Rumor and sensational reports travel fast, inflaming prices before any sober verification.
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Wall Street
Coluer
Wall Streat
United States
Supreme Court
Baker
Lehire
Broad and
Wall Streets
James R. Keene
Hair-Line Victory in One Point World Bowling Final
New York on April 26 Koji Yamada upset Jacob Schaefer by a hair line margin in the world 14.2 balk line championship closing a dramatic contest. Yamada led 286 to Schaefer 400 in the late stages but missed by a hairs breadth on a long shot to hand Yamada the victory as the four hundredth carom sealed the win. Afternoon and evening scores list other competitors Morningstar Sutton Demarest and Morfingatar with strong totals and high runs as the event concluded.
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New York
Koji Yamada
Jacob Schaefer
Chicago
Carom
Schaefer
Yamada
Ota Morfingatar
George Sutton
Schacter
Rune
Morningstar
Sutton
Calvin Demarest
Harry PB
Cling
Philadelphia
Japan
Pittsburg
George Jossan
Mexican newspapers suspended at Laredo
El Guarda del Bravo a Mexican paper in Laredo published for Huerta government was suspended by District Judge Mullally and Mayor McComb. Publisher Priscellano Aldama had printed attacks on the American government blaming it for Mexico’s troubles. authorities warned continued attacks would be halted.
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Laredo
Texas
el Guarda del Bravo
Huerta
Mullally
McComb
Priscellano Aldama
Mexico
The Old Fellows Are Learning
An essay extols older farmers in the South embracing reading and self education. It cites Thomas A. Edison and moonlight schools in Kentucky, noting elders and youths partnering to advance farming and living, with examples of lifelong learners and a 15 year old reader aiding his father’s subscription efforts.
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Thomas A. Edison
Kentucky
Wanted A Miracle in Tacoma and the Patent Ads
A Collier's excerpt imagines Christ returning to Earth and reshaping news by erasing all content on blank pages. A Tacoma reader sends a marked copy showing thirty four patent medicine ads erased with miraculous effect. The piece questions publishers’ role against medicine fakery and notes a perpetual steam engine pumping water from a British coal mine for over a century.
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Collier's
Christ
Earth
Visite Faris
Tacoma
Wash
Tacoma Daily News
Onry
Litmus Paper and its Acid Base Color Change
Litmus paper is saturated with litmus extract, originally from Holland. It turns red in acids and blue in base, shifting back when exposed to moisture or alkaline materials. The exact chemistry remains not fully known even to chemists.
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Litimus
Holland
W. Massey
Balance on hand and disbursements report itemized
Abstract of report of the comptroller general December 31, 1929 showing balance on hand and a list of disbursements by agencies such as public debt, schools, agricultural funds, state universities, and military funds. Totals include large figures for bonds, subsidies, and miscellaneous expenditures with incomplete legible figures.
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Biliiaras and
Pout Cigarette Deniers Corporation
Tad Valores Iwerrie
Wertiti
Tisterdacé San Lietane Feex
Peupauion
Tena
Tyteutas
Supreme Court
Department of Nericulture Geological Fund
Georgia Normal and Industriacone
Legiolaulye Bay Tolls
Colferre Wee
Briniing Fund
Georgia
Ame State Normal School
Sandrarm
State University
Sap
Funit ‘State University
GOL
Muarr Ter Wee
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Hortense Hermann
Eastman
Anna Warren Clark
Moultrie
Army of Tennessee
Lillian Estes
Macon
Irene E. Hunt
Dalton
North Georgia Brigade
J. D. Roberts
Shellman
South Georgia
Gertrude Richardson
Sons of Veterans
Edwin W. Gould
Third Georgia
Sallie McPharland
North Georgia
Aeen
Ad Wolfast
Joe Tigers
McCarey
Los Angeles
Wolgast
Tack Wei
Medem
Will de Rivers
Michigan Wildcat
Joe
Veen Slibpims
Aitenne
Freddy ‘Welsh
H.W. Goldsmith
R. 4. Gordon and
M. W. Reid
E. H. Harriman
Asia
Katherine la Salle
John Mason
Canada
England
U. C. V. Reunion
Atlanta
Griffin
Central of Georgia Railway
W.H Fogg
Atlanta, Ga
Peachtree and
Marietta Streets
Morrow Transfer & Storage Company
Alabama St
Constitution
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John M. Slatos
AL H. Ulm
Drehive
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