Wolgast McFarland 10-round match set for Milwaukee card
Adolph Wolgast and FP McFarland have been matched for a ten round bout in Milwaukee on February 22. The card risks a major bout lineup with Packey amid talk of a Wolgast rematch and possible strong support bouts, including wrestling matches featuring Hackenschmidt and Par-dello.
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New York
Adolph Wolgast
McFarland
Milwaukee
Wolgast
Memalc
Los Angeles
Jones
Tom
Packey
Wolmant
Moran
Owen
Battling Nelson
Port Richmond
Lew Powell
Lewie
Attell Outpoints Kilne In Ten Rounds Boxing Match
Abe Attell featherweight champion outpoints Patsy Kilne of Newark in a ten round bout last night. Kilne presses Attell hard, but Attell uses footwork and counters to dominate with rights and lefts to head and body. Kilne’s left jab tests Attell in ninth, crowd notes Attell’s return to form after a prior setback.
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Abe Attell
Patsy Kilne
Newark
Kilne
Attell
Atttell
Kline
Ewinga
Joe Coster
Chicago Firemen Benefit Card Promises Full Wrestling Show
Chicago on January 14 reports a strong wrestling program set for the Dexter pavilion benefit. Promised main events are secured and the card is expected to give spectators a complete program with top matchups.
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Chicago
Wackenschmedt and
Gotot
Big Firemen
Dexter Pavillion
Taft Chosen Honorary President of American Olympic Committee
James E. Sullivan reports President Taft accepted the post of honorary president of the American Olympic committee. Yale's St James Courthed? of Yale traveled to Washington to urge the appointment. R. M. Thompson of the New York Athletic Club will serve as committee chairman.
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New York
James £. Sullivan
Taft
Wee
Tift
St. James Curthes
Yale
Washington
Rk.m. Thompson
New York Athletic Club
Cartmell Plans World Tour After UNC Coaching
Cartmell, former Pennsylvania sprinter and current UNC track coach, announces a world tour beginning next summer. He aims to race in England, South Africa, and Austria with match races against Walker in the Transvaal and Holway in Australia, claiming sprinting championships.
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Philadelphia
N. J. Cartmell
Pennsylvania
Eprinter
University of North Carolina
England
South Africa
Austria
BE. Walker
Transvaal
Charles
Holway
Australia
Cartmel
Walker
Pueblo Fireman Jim Plynn Returns Home for Rest
Pueblo Jan 14 Jim Plynn the Pueblo fighting fireman returns home after battles on the coast He will stay two weeks then travel to Oklahoma City for a scheduled bout with Carl Morris on Web 22 Plynn says If he beats me you can surely call him the white mans hope
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Pueblo
Jim Plynn
Oklahoma City
Carl Morris
Flynn
Umpire Kane Released by National League President Lynch
Kruisville reports Tom Lynch, head of the National League, has released Steve Kane the local umpire in the senior organization for two years. The notice came as a surprise to Kane who was not given a reason for the action and was left without explanation on short notice.
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Kruisville
Tom Lynch
National League
Steve Kane
Kane
Lynch
Johnson May Box in Philadelphia
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson arrives in Philadelphia seeking Jack O'Brien, manager of the American Athletic club. O'Brien not yet in town. Johnson may talk with him about appearing at the new club and Joe Woodman is in town with Sam Langford as a potential six round opponent.
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Philadelphia
Jack Johnson
Jack O'Brien
New American Athletic Club
O'Brien
O Brien
Joe Woodman
Sam Langford
M P A Dance at Fraternal Hall Tuesday
M P A dance announced for Tuesday evening at the Fraternal Hall. Admission is 0c with ladies priced at 25 cents.
Novel Will Be Quoted in Plea for Human Life
Kanaas Oliy January 14 The novel Stringtown on the Pike will be cited in a pardon plea for A C Biles. Cincinnati chemist John Urlievych who wrote the book on the futility of expert testimony and condemned Riles to hang for Robert Marvey’s murder. Gov Folk commuted Marvey’s sentence to life. Thomas W Ditty seeks Biles pardon with opinions of over fifty toxicologists and doctors that morphine poisoning was not the cause.
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Kanaas Oliy
Stringtown
Mane
Gov. Hadley
A. C. Biles
John Urlievych
Cincinnati
Bason
Riles
Robert Marvey
St. Louis
Folk
Biles
Thomas W. Ditty
United States Cirpcuit
Ditty
Harvey Dld
Teken
Matvey
Begging Letters Flood Cannon After Fake Wealth Claim
Washington reports Representative Cannon overwhelmed by begging letters after a fake notice claimed he inherited 2,500,000 in South Africa. The deluge came from diverse sources including reputable institutions and churches asking for a share of wealth.
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Jop
Washington
Cannon
Cherry Mine Disaster Fund Reaches Town Widows
Springfield Illinois reports the Cherry Relief Fund has paid 54,694 to widows and children of miners killed in the 1909 Cherry mine disaster. Six children of the dead have died, eleven beneficiaries sent funds to Europe, and six of 142 Cherry widows have remarried while 1062 residents remain in the village. The fund balance stands at 214,593 to be paid to eligible families.
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Springfield
Cherry
Cherry Relief Fund
Duncan McDonald
Commission
Europe
Citizens of Cheyenne urged to support State Leader
A brief appeal to Cheyenne residents encourages sending the State Leader offline to relatives and servicemen abroad. It lists subscription rates by mail: 3 months for 1.00, 6 months for 2.00, 12 months for 3.75, and provides the State Leader office address at 1813 Carey Ave and phone 93 for inquiries.
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State Leader
Carey Ave
Warren introduces bill for a re survey
Washington January 14 Senator Warren introduced a bill directing the interior department to resurvey lands in township 12 ranges 62 and 63 Wyoming. The move aims to correct alleged original survey errors that left entrymen with only half their claimed land and to settle complaints. Pension granted Mrs Mary A Ansell of Kinnear Wyoming at fourteen pounds monthly dating from September 26 1910.
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Washington, D. C
Warren Moday
Secretary of the Interior
Ranges
Wyoming
Land Office
Warren
Mary A Ansell
Kinnear
Wyo
Arkansas Largest Warship Launches at Camden Yard
The battleship Arkansae, hailed as the largest warship built in the nation, was launched at Camden New Jersey by the New York Shipbuilding Company. Miss Mary Macon daughter of Representative Robert B. Macon of Helena Ark christened the vessel amid a split with Arkansas officials over the launch date.
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Philadelphia
Champaign
Arkansae
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Mary Macon
Robert B. Macon
Helena, Ark
English lord Tweedmouth arrives in New York for polo
Lord Tweedmouth third baron and Lady Tweedmouth have landed in New York from Liverpool. They plan a two month stay with trips to California to play polo at Coronado Beach. He is son of the late First Lord of the Admiralty and referenced a published correspondence with Emperor William of Germany.
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New York
Lord Tweedmouth
Baron Tweedmouth
Tweedmouth
Liverpool
California
Coronado Beach
Admiralty
Campbell- Bannerman
William
Germany
Woman Prisoner Woman Prosecutor Woman Jury in Seattle Case
Ida M. Anderson arraigned for interfering with a public utility device by arcing a gas meter. A woman jury of six was selected including Mrs. Thomas Murphine, Mrs. Silvia Hunsicker, Mrs. Homer Hill, and Miss Alice Lord, with Read Whitehead handling the prosecution.
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Seattle
Wash
Ida M. Anderson
Justice of the Peace
Thomas Murphine
Milea Poindexter
United States
Senate
Silvia Hunsicker
Homer Hill
Alice Lord
Change in Chinese post service leadership may shift policy
Washington reports the retirement of Tai Shao Yi as President of the Chinese Board of Posts and Communications and the succession of Sheng Heuin hoalae. The leadership switch could alter Oriental policy timing at the State Department and influence railroad loan negotiations favorably for the United States.
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Washington, D. C
Tai Shao Yi
Chinese Board of Posts and Communications
Sheng Heuin-hoalae
State Department
United States
Bachelor Judge Seeks Domestic Relations Court Seat
Municipal Judge Jacob M. Hopkins, a bachelor, announced he seeks appointment to preside over the new domestic relations court opening February 1. He argued a bachelor would be an unbiased, disinterested party when cases involving domestic troubles come before the court.
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Chicago
Jacob HM. Hopkins
Hopkins
Nurses' Mistake Causes Death of Young Girl
Florence Weber a 14 year old with a long standing spinal condition died at St Luke's hospital after a nurse in training mistaken sponging her back with carbolic acid instead of alcohol. Coroner's Physician Hanlon noted Florence suffered from status lymphaticous making her death sudden from minor triggers.
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New York
Plorence Weber
St. Luke's Hospital
Hanlon
Florence
Armour to Be Sued Under Gambling Law in Chicago
A $6,000,000 suit against James A. Patton by Dr. Paul Burmaster, head of the Chicago Anti Gambling league, will be followed by a $1,500,000 suit against J Ogden Armour. About fifty to sixty transactions will be used as evidence. The suits claim Board of Trade speculation constitutes gambling and seek triple damages under state law.
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Board of Trade
Girl Wife Sentenced for Killing Husband in White Plains
Rose Picchione, 17, convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband, was sentenced by Supreme Court Justice Tompkins to prison for seven years six months to eleven years six months. She hugged her baby and refused to part with the child during sentencing.
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White Plains
N. Y
Rose Picchione
Supreme Court
Tompkins
Disfranchised Voters Reported in Adams County Ohio
In Union County West Union on January 14 a survey found that 100 Black residents were disfranchised for vote selling. Only about five other eligible Black voters remain in Adams County. Judge Blair sentenced fifty vote sellers, then adjourned to January 22. About 1,500 citizens have been sentenced and disfranchised in Adams County, nearly a quarter of its voting strength.
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Union County
West Union
Ohio
Bécn
Adama County
Blair
Adams County
Woman Pefles Wreck and Misfortune in Reno Marriage Bid
Mrs. Fannie Kelly of Moline Illinois 22 left for Reno to marry Frobel a California merchant she never met. Her rail journey endured robbery a derailment and four day stretch without food or shelter as she pressed the romance across the continent.
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Moline
Fannie Kelly
Spirit Denounces Will Cutting Off Young Wife
New York, Jan. 14. Surrogate Ketcham refused admission to probate for the late Robert H. Thompson paper manufacturer's will. Thompson had disinherited his young wife of four months from a $2 million estate after alleged spiritual influence. Legatees Mrs. Marion Punk and Robert H. Thompson Jr. reported receiving letters from his first wife claiming permission to have Thompson’s will changed.
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New York
Robert H. Thompson
Ketcham
Marion Punk
Robert HH. Thompson
Nan
Thompson
Andy Piv
Old Time Dance at Fraternal Ball Tuesday Eve
The M P A sponsors an old time dance and social at the Fraternal Ball on Tuesday evening January 17. Admission for a couple is 50 cents. Promoter Charley Argishemier and floor manager J J Grainger secured for the occasion. Aimed to revive dances from 20 years ago with guaranteed lively entertainment.
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Charley .Argishemier
J. J. Grainger
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