Sweepstake racing to debut in United States this season
The National Track Association plans a mile handicap sweepstake for 3000 dollars with 10 entry fee, open nationwide, seven heats across eastern tracks including Manhattan Beach and Asbury Park, prize split 50 25 15 10. New Racing Board head Albert Mott hailed, college cycling push grows at Yale Princeton Harvard Columbia. Connecticut trap shooters league forms with monthly shoots and a uniform program.
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Australia
National _ . Track association
Ducker
Manhattan Beach
Charles River Park
Asbury Park
Bridgeport
Springfield
Louisville
Philadelphia
College Wheeling
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Columbia
A.B. Rich
Crimson
Willliam F. Murphy
New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Harvard University Cycling Association
Cambridge
James H. Maybury
Western Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association
University of Wisconsin
Ed Moulton
Badger University
Wisconsin
Maybury
Connecticut
Trap Shooters’ League
New Haven Gun Club
Colt Gun Club
Hartford
Parker Gun Club
Meriden
Windsor Locks
Athens Newspapers and Greek journal culture in 1900s
A detailed survey of Greek newspapers, their staff sizes, circulation, and pricing in Athens and across Greece. Notes on dailies, semi official papers, opposition titles, key editors such as George Soures and Aristides Roukese, pay scales for editors and reporters, and the growing prominence of interviewing by Greek reporters. Also mentions Romeos weekly and its editor George Soures, plus a curious note on bears skulls worship in Yozo, Japan.
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Greece
Peloponnesus
National University of Athens
Athens
Profa
Regeneration
Palingenesia
New Journal
Nea Sphemeris
Journal
Times
Advance
Dellyannis
Acropolis
Asty
Hestia
George Soares
Athen
Ian
George Soures
the Romeos
Aristides Roukese
Daily Journal
Mr. Soures
Syria
Soures
Soares
Hellas
Hymatus
Romeos
Bay of
Phaleron
Yozo
Japan
M. J. Revilliod
Milne
Death by Electricity and the Tyndall Experiment
Scientists debate whether electricity causes painless death. A London Royal Institution incident shows Prof. Tyndall feeling no pain though his optic nerve warped and he believed his arm was severed. He later recovered vision and stated the battery did not kill him. The piece contrasts nerve speed with electric current, suggesting a shock can pass before pain awareness.
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Prof
Tyndall
Royal Institution
London
Prof. Tyndall
Frigate Found in Brest Harbor Sunk by British
Dredgers uncovered a 160 foot long frigate at Grand Riviere Brest harbor, pierced by many cannon balls. The vessel, sunk by the British about three hundred years ago, is under study to confirm its identity and history.
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Grand Riviere
Brest
Kokomo Schoolmaster Praises Williams Pink Pills Cure
A Kokomo schoolmaster John Lean recounts three years of rheumatism heart trouble and nerve illness, describes insomnia and weight loss, then credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with rapid relief and full recovery after March 1869, and notes his sister Ellen Patton in Chicago also uses them. The ad promotes Pink Pills as blood builders and nerve tonics, sold at 50 cents a box or six for $2.50.
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The
Tribune
Kokomo
John Leahy
Lo Fansport
Indiana
J. Williams
Dr. Williams
Wiliams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
A Georgia Monarch and a 130 Foot Tree Height
A Georgia woodman felled a tree producing two forty five foot saw logs leaving ninety feet of top, totaling a 130 foot height. Merit Wina is cited as an Alabastine invention marking a new era in wall coatings and the company’s reputation amid widespread adoption.
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Georgia
Merit Wina
Oldgirl
Also Mentioned on This Page
General Sporting
United States
Racing
Albert Mott
George D. Gideon
League of American Wheel
Wheeling
Albert
Maryland
League
Maryland Bicycle Club of
Baltimore
Wheeling Club
Madison
Alleghanies
Chicago Times-Herald
State of
Texas
J. H. Maybury
New York
Mrs. Winslow
Chicago University
Mary Esther Reynolds
Gales
Leeburgs
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