Beaumont Becomes Oil Boom Hub as Crowds Overrun City
Beaumont Tex May 24 Excitement over oil draws 20 000 to 35 000 visitors straining hotels saloons barber shops post office and banks. Barbers fetch 10 000 for a three year lease while hotels and telegraph offices struggle to handle the rush as residents cope with water shortages and crowded lobbies.
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Jockey Perilous Life Revealed In 1899 Racing Toll
A lengthy critique exposes the brutal risks of horse racing. It cites five jockey deaths in 1899, numerous broken arms ribs and skull fractures, and calls out the cold indifference in coverage. The piece recounts incidents from Nashville and New Orleans, including Del Sherland's fatal injuries and a brutal on track clash involving Winnie O Connor and another rider. It argues riders maim competitors to gain advantage and highlights dangerous rivalries and spectator shock at the sport’s perils.
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Nashville
del Sherland
Red Monk
John Boone
New Orleans
Winnie O’connor
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O'Connor
Bill Daly
Little O’connor
Harvard Wins Intercollegiate Meet First Time Since 1892
Harvard captured the intercollegiate track meet on Saturday led by a strong showing from Yale Princeton Cornell Georgetown and Michigan in the top five. Goshen prevailed in the Goshen Elk Heart South Bend meet as Wisconsin topped Chicago and Salem won Southern Indiana with Notre Dame trouncing Purdue I A State Normal and Wabash in the state college field day events. R C Ewry Purdue graduate demonstrated with several world record exhibitions including a standing jump and backward jump and set a new record in the double kick.
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Princeton
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Notre Dame
Race official fines rider after fainting in saddle
Allen Bangree recounts a scene from Ainslee's Magazine where a rider known as G- is fined 100 dollars and warned of permanent dismissal after staggering to judges, retied in the saddle, and failing to lodge a complaint, Pa Bill having spoken earlier.
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Pa Bill
Allen Bangree
Ainslee
Chicago Baltimore baseball game notes
Chicago and Baltimore scored in a baseball notes snippet. Batter details include Griffith Sugden McGinnity Dunn and Robinson. The fragment references Batteries for Chicago Griffith and Sugden and for Baltimore McGinnity Dunn and Robinson.
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Baltimore
Griffith and
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Miller wins monthly gold medal handicap at Country Club
Saturday’s event drew only Miller E H Burford W B Wheeler and Miller due to foul weather. First play of the season. The piece also notes Thomas Lawson’s agreement with New York Yacht Club and Independence’s potential for the cup.
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E. H. Burford
W. B. Wheelock
Thomas Lawson
New York Yacht Club
Independence
Findlay S. Douglass
Rye
N. Y
A. Snyder
H. R. Rhodes
College scores and pitcher notes from recent games
Culver defeats Hyde Park 5 to 1 in a star game while Spiceland pitcher Thompson fans two Earlham hitters and Spiceland wins 5 to 4. Purdue lands 15 runs on 16 hits, DePauw concedes 7 errors. Yale loses 2 to 7 at Brown, Penn tops Cornell 14 to 4, Harvard beats Michigan 5 to 4, Chicago defeats Wisconsin 9 to 8.
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Hyde Park
Spiceland
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School No 39 9 Hamilton Stars 3 Young Easterns 12
School 39 tops Hamilton Stars nine to three in a packed matchup with Young Easterns routing the Originals twelve to zero while Second Silent Hoosters fall six to three to Sandows. Hitchen Hollweg employes tally eleven and Daniel Stewart scores nine.
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Hitchen
Hollweg Employes
Daniel Stewart
Chicago Train Schedule Fragments From Ticket Office Notice
Fragmentary schedule details include Chicago night express and fast mail timings. References to Sunday only ves passages and daily Sunday trains, with times around 11.50am to 4.37pm and notes on Monon service and daily ex Sun patterns.
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