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