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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
2
Mike Yoke of Salt Lake City defeated Jordani of Cleveland to reclaim the world middleweight championship. He won the first fall in 3 hours 36 minutes and the second in one minute 30 seconds.
Golf season updates mention speakers and players led by Dean Daly describing the game. Louie Tellier, a famed French pro, accepts a salaried position at Canoe Brook Country Club. William Reid, the English pro, is rumored as a candidate for a similar role at Baltusrol Golf Club.
The piece surveys several teams and players including Washington and Jefferson, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Chicago. It highlights a heavy 179-pound average for Harvard’s squad, Dartmouth’s rising halfback Tuck, Yale’s Knowles, and Mills of Notre Dame, plus a Kalamazoo boy’s fatal injury and other football developments.
Pugilism notes in Brooklyn and St Louis within fading scraps. John Olaburg stops Archie Mcleod in the second round. Matt Wella falters after a KO setback and challenges Welsh and Reemadan. Joe Hivers defeats Freckle in ten rounds in Los Angeles. Gunboat Smith and Wilder praised as welterweight contenders amid broad praise and debate over top 140 pounders.
Major league deals next season may include a clause prohibiting players from writing for newspapers. The piece notes that not all contracts expired, and mentions pitchers Push, Hender, Al Demaree, and Art Fromme from Quincy, Illinois. It references Wilbert Robinson managing the Giants at Marlin Springs before McGraw’s return, and hints Wise awaiting a new role in echoes of the old Orioles.
The article notes a long rise to the two-year-old harness record from 2:40 to 2:06, with Peter Vole drawing attention in attempts to beat the mark. May Mack, once a grand circuit failure, posted 2.08% in California, winning three races and 9,500 in seven days, signaling strong form. Etawah, by blind and lame sire Al Stanley Alicia Arion, captured the Kentucky Futurity, becoming the era’s largest three-year-old winner aside from Deuretta.
Vanderbilt cup races may run in San Antonio with several courses under review. An international tug of war drew 20,000 in Stockholm, London won. Mike Ports returns to Greece and boosts Quaker weight team and wreathing squad. Royal show at Crystal Palace awards 99008 dollars in prizes. University of California rugby candidates reach 235 total with 159 freaks and 126 varsity players. World chess title prospects involve Dr Lasker and Rubinstein. Winter Yale to enter five teams in a college league. Olympic committee favors Antwerp as Olympic host city. Cheering crowd anticipates Muringhem club challenge winning year.
Pearson's Weekly reports Europe’s youngest grand duchess, eighteen, of Luxembourg, will marry Prince Henry of Mavaria. She defied a bill after becoming ruler, upholds independence, and guides a small state famed for a ceremonious court and a people proud of their chatty French German blend.
A mule shipped from Lincoln Nebraska to a York County buyer who paid collect charges refused to pay or accept the animal. The railroad returned it to Lincoln, where the original owner refused the mule. The case may go to the supreme court, two years behind docket. The mule is boarded in Omaha as Burlington guarantees the feed bill.
In a humorous exchange a man in a drug store is urged to buy Briscoe's Bea all tonic touted as a cure all. The clerk claims doctors endorse it and promises fast relief, while the customer balks, insisting he is Briscoe. The Pittsburgh Telegraph framing hints at promotional exaggeration and skepticism.
A sick man's wife sends a neighbor to a farm to buy ten cents worth of onions for poultices. The farmer claims he has tomatoes radishes and peppers but no onions and jokes the visitor mistook produce for onions as myths in a scene echoed by Youth's Companion.
A farm accident at Ash Grove near Mallow County Cork Ireland caused the death of a farmer named Lyons while tying his boot in the yard. A wagon strike or bicycle incident is described as the cause and neighbors recall the man’s quick laugh before the tragedy unfolded.
Adolph seeks a blood test to decide his century old romance with Carling. The eccentric doctor measures traits and affections, concluding opposites attract and doom the lovers to marriage. Carling accepts the outcome and the couple prepare to wed.
Report describes a Sunday ritual in East London where lodging house residents trade used cigar ends called apipes for coin. Swarthy buyers purchase the stubs, but the subsequent fate of the tobacco remains unclear in the account.
A theft report indicates the Relice of Wageer, the great composer, was stolen from the family home Villa Websfried in Uayrouth ermany noting the move valuable of the pelice and the composer’s water watch was taken amid the confusion.
The readable text resembles a garbled query about a failed visit to the editor and a village dispute. It contains incomplete phrases and uncertain names, providing no clear event, date, or identifiable organizations to summarize into a coherent news item.
A vintage advertisement extols Knowlton's Dandeline claiming dandruff disappears after application. It promises immediate results with hair appearing neat fluffy and lustrous and urges readers to buy a 25 cent bottle from any store to prove the claim.
Thousands of Y M C A members nationwide will be urged to back a Tuberculosis day effort during the week of December 7. Lectures and discussions on tuberculosis occur Sunday afternoon December 7 and through the surrounding week with prominent speakers in many cities. Dr George J Fisher directs the program and literature is available free from the National association office in New York City.
Rev. E Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania suffered a year from Dropsy with swollen limbs heart flutter dizziness and dragging sensation. After 6 boxes the swelling eased and he regained strength. He notes ongoing faith in the remedy and endorses Dodds Kidney Pills 50c per box from Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY. Free Household Hints music and dish recipes offered.
A quirky inventor explains a theater chair that drops a button triggers a floor sink to hidden rooms. The dialogue notes it is meant for the person who leaves a seat mid row, with a tester named Jim described as a brick. The piece reads as humorous dialogue about a concealed mechanism and its practical joke potential.
The readable portion shows unclear phrases and fragmented names. No coherent event or identifiable entities present to summarize into a factual news item.
Representative Siason of Misetseip pl laments a financial setback that mirrors his long distant diary. The narrator recalls an old diary full of cryptic entries and abbreviations, calling it Greek and a disappointment as memory fails to clarify the puzzling notes.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, harmless remedy for indigestion dyspepsia gastritis and other stomach troubles. It claims rapid relief from gas sour stomach upset and related symptoms after taking the tablet, urging readers to keep a fifty cent case at home.
In Denver, Bishop Biougram laughs at a servant girl's definition of a lady as dyed and painted and wearing diamonds and Turkish tobacco. He notes there is some truth in it and recalls a street encounter with a boy named Willie who hides his cigarette with a quip about his mother.
A judge records a humorous exchange as a daughter seeks summer seashore travel while her father cites a string of past trips. The dialogue contrasts romantic hopes with a rolling stone refrain as the daughter asserts she will be the sole pebble on the beach.
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