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Cumberland Press

Location

Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1914

Page

6

Excitement of Ice Skating Attracts Women of Society

The 1912 New York ice skating season opens with society women leading classes and organizing girl clubs. Prominent figures including Mrs. Irving Brokaw and Mrs. Charles B R Alexander spearhead efforts to teach and loan skates to schoolgirls, with clubs planned at Tuxedo and city rinks.

Barger Wallach Irving Brokaw Charles 8. Brown Harry la Mon New York Jack Frost Tuxedo Public Schools Athletic Wellesley Vassar Mount Holyoke Leazne New York Society Woodland Lakes

Swatow as a Major Chinese Port and River Junk Trade Hub

Swatow ranks as a key treaty port with imports in 1911 worth over 25.8 million dollars and exports above 0.8 million. The Han River supports intra river traffic to Chao-chowfu and NKayingchow, with junk ships about 42 feet long and 10 feet beam carrying five crew across 145 miles to Sam Ho at three knots, requiring about ten days upstream.

Watow China United States Swatow Inn Chao-chowfu Nkayingchow Sam Ho

John L Sullivan Farms Out of the Ring to Abington Life

The one time world boxing champion John L Sullivan has returned to farming near Abington Massachusetts. He and his wife tend a seventy acre plot growing potatoes corn beets and melons thriving on a simple country life. Sullivan says the farmer’s work keeps him youthful and rejects city life and politics in favor of steady labor and family happiness.

Addy John L. Sullivan Ten Mass Corbett Sullivan Mother Earth John L Womin Abington Mrs. Sullivan New England

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