Bowling and Speed Skating Outlook Across 1909 Schedule
Notes detail a busy schedule from January through April with major bowling tours in St Louis Detroit Baltimore and Toronto plus the American Bowling Congress leadership under A Langtry. It highlights three Lammy brothers Claudius Edmund and Ernest as rising speed skaters trained by father A. Langtry and mentions spring baseball prep with Hot Springs as a key training location for the Pittsburgh champions and Southeastern clubs.
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St. Louis
International Association
St Paul
Detroit
San Francisco
Baltimore
Taft
Toronto
American Bowling Congress
America
A. . Langtry
Firemen's Bowling Tournament Scores Updated on Monday
Vantacan Engine Company moved to second place in the Firemen's Bowling Tournament on the Central alleys and posted a high score. Avondale Tose Company followed, with the latest scores listing all participating teams and results.
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Vantacan Engine Company
Avondale Tose Company
Nutley Youth LeRoy Wood To Run At Washington Meet
LeRoy Wood of Nutley and Brookfield avenue gains athletic fame as a Wesleyan relay runner and 1911 class member. The Boston Herald reports he led Wesleyan’s relay team last year and is expected to be a key point winner in intercollegiate and dual meets amid past injuries. At Washington DC tonight he runs for Wesleyan and plans a Nutley visit afterward.
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LeRoy Wood
Brookfield Avenue
Avrelay
Wesleyan
Boston Herald
Nutley
N. J
Amherst
Wood
WV. J
Carlisle School
Washington, D. C
Georgia Judge Voices Prohibition Fight in New Jersey
Judge W. A. Covington of the Georgia Superior Court spoke to about five hundred at Vin cent Methodist Church. he promotes statewide prohibition led by the State Anti-Saloon League. He credited Georgia with pioneering dry laws and linked Lincoln to a countrywide liquor clash. Also present were J. Frank Burke Fillmore Condit and clergy leaders.
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W. A. Covington
Georgia Superior Court
Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church
New Jersey
State
Anti-Saloon League
Lincoln
J. Frank Burke
League
Fillmore Condit
Erie Trains Reports Strong Punctuality In Winter Months
The Erie Railroad reports inbound commuter service punctuality at 92.3 percent for November December and January with a 33.4 percent delay on outbound schedules. Weather caused 4049 Jersey City arrivals with 313 late by about ten minutes on average and Bergen tunnel delays lingered until the Berger cut completion in spring.
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Erie Railroad Company
Jersey City
Erie
Bergen Tunnel
Divers Cross Channel Folly and Celebrity Vignette Snippets
A survey of daredevil small-boat attempts across the Channel notes Westlake and Waterell’s risky voyages with improvised craft and dire rescues off Belgium and Rotterdam. It also recounts a French canoe crossing Dover to Calais and a 27 hour solo passage. The column then shifts to modern clothes naming foibles and comic quips about fashion and aviation hats.
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Bleriot
Westlake
Thomas Waterell
North Sea
Rotterdame
Dover
Calais
Felix Chauehois
London
In a Pickwickian Sense
A London music hall crowd greeted a famed Scotch comedian after his final American tour in a rousing welcome. Ouaemon was seen crying out in apparent delirium, a scene framed by the period’s theatrical flair and public adulation.
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Tonuvels
London
Ouaemon
Great Droughts RecordExtreme Heat and Food Shortages
Fragmentary notes discuss historical droughts with record heat and minimal rainfall in England around 678 and adjacent years. Mentions plants failing and nuts on trees roasting as if in an oven, illustrating severe climate stress and impact on food supply. Summary preserves archaic phrasing and focuses on drought severity and agrarian effects.
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England
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Edmund
Worders
Ernest
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Ernest Lamy
Hot Springs
Ark
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Tlanta
New York Americans
Athens
Boston Nationals
Pgusta
Yantagaw
West Nutley
Brosseb Kde
Smith
Stager
de Versney Tee
Weishedel Serene
Davis Wen Eee
Gehring Se
Barnes
Hallidy
Avondale
Speer Ae Beeen Wes
iCueman
Weischedel
Saaee
Werner
van Winkle
Gehring Aeernaen
Garrabrant
Pins Avondile
Yanfacaw
Teorey Ater
Meee Neers
West Notley
Nutley H. 5
Washington
Chestnut Street
W. F. Diitig
Burnham’s
R. G. Schaaf
W. F. Dittig
Chestnut ST
New York Press
New York Sun
Ethel Barrymore
Boston
Miss Barrymore
Washington Star
Broadway
OO Tee
L. S. Platt & CO
Broad St
Newark
Paterson
Trelley
J.B
Owl
Stirratt
Chestnut. Street
Passaic. Avenue
Doyle
Passaic “Avenue
Glen Ridge Cemetery
Franklin Ave
Jerolemon
Bloomfield, News
J. Telephone
Ward Shoe Store
Joe Ciccone
Prop
Franklin’ Ave
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