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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1915
Page
2
The article extols Christmas day outdoor life as a social and global pastime. It notes skating sleighing coasting and ski traditions from Canada Norway and beyond, highlighting how winter sports unify people and offer vigorous recreation even amid conflict and cold.
Sporting notes recount Ed Dunkhorst the heavyweight known as the human freight car. He recalls two decades before the public, jokes about his weight, coins earned weekly, and a wish to return to the ring. He praises Johnson as a good man who repaid a loan and helped a Russian tailor family.
W R Applegarth the English amateur sprinting champion has turned professional and offered to race any man in the world at 100 and 220 yards for 500 to 1000 dollars per side. His records include 100 yards in 9.45 seconds 200 yards in 19.25 seconds and 220 yards around a turn in 21.15 seconds all officially recorded in English records.
In Albany a Republican legislature meets in January and is expected to vote on repealing the Frawley boxing law. The statute has failed as real sport, with club promoters losing money and third rate bouts failing to attract audiences or receipts.
A Providence Journal snippet recalls a chaotic Christmas Eve with exhausted family members and the children’s humorous complaints about gifts. The narrator hides, overhearing lines about a modern Japan book, a shabby hat, a dubious shell comb, a fountain pen, and a golf club, ending with a playful threat to “bang Santa Claus” to keep him unseen.
A collection of wartime anecdotes from the Eastern front and Western front detailing tricks against Russians, trench fights with shovels, and cemetery fortifications. Included are armored car deception, close-quarters combat near Roye, and a retreat incident in Mons as relayed by Royal Engineers.
A collection of light quips from wartime or early 20th century society pages. Jokes touch on Christmas spending, household humor, and social foibles with terse punch lines and period tone. Notable lines include witty exchanges about Christmas gifts and domestic life, presented as brief comic snippets.
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