Mexico City bull fight revival draws 18000 crowd
The Mexico City arena, billed as the world's largest, hosted a bull fight revived after a 1915 ban. Safety rules spared the bull and three horses per the plan, but the event drew protests as banderillas and an attempted killing failed. News notes also report a British committee urging a ban on aircraft killing of wild birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph H. Turner
Tee
Argentina
Uruguay
Cuba
Mexico
Amado Nérvo
South America
Bisanore Chan
al- Wirs
Mexico City
Anmerican
Madrid
Tisle
Santa
London
England
Notre Dame Tops in Basketball and Boxing Headlines
Gossip highlights Notre Dame’s strong winter basketball showing and Kilbane planning England fights. Benny Leonard’s KO of Coogan stuns fans while Wilde Sharkey promoter loses money. Ruth’s home-run pace and Havana racing feats draw chatter as baseball plans unfold.
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Notre Dame
Johnny Kilbane
England
Benny Leonard
Mel Coogan
Coogan
Jimmy Wilde
Jack Sharkey
Milwaukee
Babe” Ruth
Walter Johnson
Cear
Wilbert Robinson
Brooklyn Badgers
Havana
Cuba
American Jockey Club
al Reich
New Yorker
Clark Griffith
Washington
Charley Lee
Reds
Mowran
Mexicans Want Work and Industrial Revival
United Press dispatch from San Luis Potosi reports Mexicans increasingly seek employment as farming and industrial activity resume amid unrest. Demand for agricultural implements rises. farm machinery exports from the United States aid distribution across Central Mexico. Experts cite improved corn yields, shifts to stable work, and migration pressures as factors in restoring order and economic life. A second note adds that London police veteran Herbert Shiner resigns to seek army rank. Fulton Chain residents petition to rename their locality to Gawanka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph H. Turn
United Press Staff Corr
San Luis Poto
Mexico
San Luis Potosi
Carranza
Inen
United States
Rota
Freberg to wrestle Russia’s Itkovitch Friday in Chicago
Rockford heavyweight star John Freberg will face newcomer John Itkovitch of Russia in Chicago on Friday night. Itkovitch challenges the claim of Jack Linow as Russian champion. In Rockford and here teens showcased Freberg’s skill in a handicap match with Martin Plestina, with Freberg and an opponent failing to secure a fall.
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John Freberg
Rockford
Chicago
John Itkovitch
Russia
Itkovitch
Jack Linow
Martin Plestina
Plestina
Preberg
Ja Tartar
Freberg
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
A sweeping catalog of historical observations on women across cultures and times. It notes Colby University admitting women in 1874, women barbers in Japan, Italian women as early as 1481 compositors, and George Sand’s income. It covers labor in Texas cotton fields, Spanish vineyard work wages, and Queen Alexandra using a typewriter. It also mentions Tunisian wedding customs and Turkish superstitions about marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Winter racing and golf events across Cuba and Pinehurst
Today’s sports roundup lists racing meets at Havana and New Orleans, an NCAA annual gathering in New York, and a Mid winter golf tournament at Pinehurst. It notes a billiards match between Robert L. Cannefax and Charlies Otis and a three cushion contest in New York, plus a one hundred target shooting event in Japan. Spiders are described as rapidly spinning webs on telegraph wires, disrupting currents.
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Braves
Columbus
Georgia City
Notre Dame
Harvard
Crimson
Michigan
Cambridge
Joe Stecher
Nebraska
Joe
Jack Britton
Amer
Mirael Pennant
Willie Keefer
New York
Willie
Baltimore Orioles
Vardon
Ray
America
Francis O Quimet
Crique
Ross
Carpentier
Beckett
Deponthieu
Tancy Lee
England
Robert L. Cannefax
Charlies Otis
Japan
Global News Briefs From Birmingham To Sydney
Reports from Birmingham say night classes in citizenship and suffrage have opened for night students. London notes a Willesden woman with mixed names claiming Irish roots but born in England with a Canadian husband. Lisbon covers two Cintra girls begging Alberto Cardoso to kill them. he shot both and attempted suicide, sentenced to five years hard labor. Ashland reports Robert T Caldwell retained in London to appear before Parliament for English insurance companies. Fargo notes Judge Monson to decide if R E Wheeler, one-armed, may get a taxi license. Spartanburg covers Converse College’s $500000 building and endowment drive. Schenectady cites new proverb-based tests for job applicants at a local plant. Sydney reports Lady Davidson advising Australians to avoid the latest fashions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Cintra
Alberto Cardoso
Spartanburg
S. C
Converse College
Schenectady
N. Y
Sydney
Lady Davidson
New South Wales
No. 40 Blood Remedy Praised by Rheumatism Patient
Augusta Georgia May 30 1919 a rheumatism and indigestion sufferer reports revived strength after using Number 40 the Blood and says it helps feed himself again and plans to cure him he recommends it to friends and notes it is sold by Crescent Drug Store J T Denson.
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Augusta
Wesley Ryal
J. M. Haynie
J.C. Mendenhall
Evansville
Ind
J. T. Denson
Crescent Drug Store
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Tom O'Rourke
Pred Fulton
Fulton
Secor’s
The
Nyal Store
Rugs
Kodaks
Herbert Shiner
Police
Army
Fulton Chain
N.Y
Fulton, N. Y
Post Office Department
Gawanka
Denmark
Colby University
Italy
George Sand
China
Detroit
Gail Malcomson
Spain
Queen Alexandra
Princess Mary
Queen Elizabeth
Tunis
Turkey
Cuba-American Jockey Club
Jefferson Parish Fair Association
New Orleans
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Pinehurst
N.C
Pinehurst, N.C
Birmingham
Ala
Willesden
Ashland
Robert T. Caldwell
Workmen's Compensation Board of Kentucky
Fargo
N. D
Monson
R. E. Wheeler
DeKalb
Still's Inc
Eloqu'y Saysnoy
Joy
Tories
Akron
Ohio
Scott & Bowne
Scott's
DE Kalb Scrap Iron & Coal Company
Oak St
Standard Oil
Indiana
Diana
Standard Oil Company
Michigan Ave
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