Hurdling the sprinting path through training insights
New York correspondent presents hurdlers as athletes requiring wind muscle and judgment. The piece explains hurdle mechanics from height three feet to two hundred twenty yards, training methods and recovery, and highlights C. T. Wiegand as a leading hurdler with dash and long jump prowess.
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New York
M. J. Melefont
Paige
Pnce
England
America
C. T. Wiegand
New York Athletic Club
Wiegand
Blizzard of January blizzard described as worst in Dakota
Sioux Falls readers recall the January blizzard as a two phase storm with a Thursday lull that misled people to venture out. The bitter wind snow and darkness killed many across Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska while some escaped by careful shelter and self burials in the snow.
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Sioux Falls
Dakota
Gettysburg
Pickett
Meade
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Iowa
Kings No Longer Tyrants In A Child’s Lesson
An anecdote about the young Prince of Italy showing autocratic vanity before a lady of honor’s daughter. When he threatened to cut her head off, the king fathered him for fifteen days to teach that rulers cannot decapitate subjects as in the old days.
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Italy
Teacher Corrects a Liquor Sentence Quiz
A small boy quotes a Harvard Lampoon line showing grammar errors. The first line uses wrong relative pronouns and verb forms, while the second mislabels the man as drunk.
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Harvard Lampoon
Blizzard Prizes Hardiest Dakotan Milkman’s Night in Prairie
A Jamestown Dakota county milkman P Gaffeny braved a blizzard after turning his team homeward. He lost his horse, camped in an open field, and wandered one mile from his house until wind and darkness abated. Another farmer, Nels Morgan, sheltered in a coal wagon for two nights and a day. The report recounts similar storm ordeals and notes widespread winter peril across the region.
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Jamestown
P. Gatfeny
Mr. Gaffeny
Nels Morgan
Morgan
Barnes County
R. N. Pray
J. R
Reynolds Team Survives Night After Sleigh Mishap
Reynolds, caught returning from Valley City, owed their lives to quick thinking. The crew halted, unhitched, and tipped the sleigh upside down, remaining hidden until morning after becoming lost on the road.
Belgrade Laborer Dies After Neglectful Freezing Death
A German laborer employed by a Belgrade farmer reportedly froze to death after being placed in a cold room without heat. The ill worker was found dead after an unusually cold night and later moved to the woods where his body was partially devoured.
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St. Paul
Belgrade
Montana
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Lon Myers
Gable
London
British Columbia
Cable Dispatch
Pall Mall Gazette
Ishmael
Cable
Vancouver
Commercial Cable Company
G. H. Bainbridge
Mackay-Bennett Company
Hosmer
Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraphs
Ward
Bristol
Waterville
Ireland
Canso
Nova Scotia
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ottawa
Montreal
Winnipeg
Pacific
Mee
G. Oppenheimer
Parthia
Northumberland Street
Gazette
D. Oppenaeimer
Atlantic
Sir W.thomson
Morse
New Westminster
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