Willowy Fencing Teacher Puts Fat Women Through Grace
A New York fencing teacher describes teaching nearly 400 women from the 400 to fence, noting how the sport promotes grace and physical changes. She advocates loosening corsets, lowering heels, and minimal skirts, and cites actresses Margaret Sangster and Mrs. Howard Gould as examples of fencing’s appeal. She explains technique, balance, and the parry, emphasizing fencing as sport and personal improvement.
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New York City
Echo
Rose Margaret Sangster
Howard Gould
Bernhardt
Maurice
How to cook possum and sweet potatoes like a chef
A humorous Old South dialogue describes the method of cooking possum with sweet potatoes. The old man instructs on skinning, parboiling, drying, frying, oven baking, basting, and serving with rich gravy. He notes the aroma warns neighbors and that refined technique comes from a famed chef.
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New Orleans
Britain Dispatches Massive War Ammunition Shipment
A vast consignment for the seat of war includes forty million rounds of small arms ammunition, eleven thousand rounds of shrapnel, lyddite and common shell, eight hundred fifty one boxes of fuzes and forty boxes of pistol ammunition. It is one of the largest such shipments ever sent from Great Britain.
Corbett Trainer Hunt Turns To Lakewood Plans
Jim Corbett travels to Lakewood amid rumors of trainers as boxing circles debate a potential buildup for the Jeffries bout. Rumors name Ruhlin Delaney Ryan and McCoy as possible mentors while older champions and managers speculate on two camps, boycotts, and the pace of the Grand Circuit horse racing scene.
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Jim Corbett
Lakewood
Jeffries
Rubim
al Mont
Joe Cheynaid
Charles Kid McCoy
Norman Selby
Tommy Ryan
Joseph Youngs
Steve O'Donnell
Australia
Billy Rivers
William J
Spike Sullivan
Boston
Harlem
Dennie Botier
Joseph Craig
George Green
Young Corbett
Amos
Billy Smith
William Lawrence
Kid
McPartland
Charlie Burns
Cincinnati
Baers
Burns
Jack Daly
Wilmington
Cornelius T. Moriarity
Tom Sharkey
Dundalk
Ireland
Robert Fitzsimmons
Elston
Cornwall
England
Peter Maher
Galway
Sidney
New South Wales
Joe Goddard
Pyramid
Dick O'Brien
St. John
New Brunswick
Dan Creedon
Tnvercargiel
New Zealand
Tommy
Zurich
Switzerland
Casper Leon
Palermo
Sicily
George Godfrey
Prince Edward's Island
George Byers
Prince, Edward's Island
Billy Whistler
County Derry
Denver Td ‘Smith
Birmingham
Jack |Trout
Austria
Jack McAuliffe
Cork
Syracuse
Billy Delaney
San Francisco
Corbett
Delaney
David
Jonathan
Pythias
Damon
Ryan
Bob Fitesimmons
Charley Mitchell
Jacksonville
Sharkey
Corbet
MecCoy G
Gorbett
Johnny Sullivan
New Orleans
John L. Sullivan
Jim
Egyptian Monuments Depleted as Plants Found in Mummies
Eighty existing plants are depleted on Egyptian monuments, and many have been found in mummies, signaling a surprising preservation and haul of plant specimens across ancient sites.
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National Baseball League
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mag-Nates
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