Sullivan’s Fight Showed Training Ruin of a Champion
A medical critique argues John L. Sullivan was starved and overworked by his trainer before his New Orleans bout with Corbett. It asserts excessive rope skipping, poor nutrition, and lack of rest weakened his muscles and nervous system, nearly causing a fatal brain event in the ring.
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Poleos
Kilifal
Corbett
Providenes
Masceur Por Excellence
New York
Itonach
John L. Sullivan
Mary
Sullivan
New Orleans
India
Coila
Ttiowen
Hasier
Souven
John L Sullivan
John Hunter
Hercules
Longfellow
Sara
Tues
Cesar
McKeon
Ace
Salli
Samson
Delilah
Kilrain
Sean
Li Sullivan
Corbette
Grear
Nature
Prof
Gairdner
Glasgow University
Duke of Wellington
Patching Up a Lion in Venice Reunites San Marco Figure
The Lion of San Marco on the Marcus column is restored after centuries of disrepair. Engineers lowered the statue, stored fragments at the arsenal, and craftsman Giovanni Bontempi welded the pieces with bronze lining. Externally no repair is visible, and the lion welcomes visitors anew.
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Venice
San Marco
Marcus Place
Lagoons
Marcus
Lum Vendrasco
Giovanni Bontempi
the Doges
Decline of the Negro Song Spurs Shifting Music Tastes
The Boston Transcript notes new education among young Black people leads to contempt for slavery era culture and a fading of rich minstrel songs. It recalls old plantation fiddlers and banjo players once favored, while city Negroes favor piano, and rural folk shun violin as sinful.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Enya
Pluto
Satan
Laporzan
Oor'jou
FACES IN THE WELL AT KILDARE VIRGINIA REPORTEDLY SEEN
Colonel Dever's Virginia well at Kildare near Handsom's station drew 3000 visitors after May discovery claims. A mirror over the water showed faces of the dead and other apparitions, seen by Dever family, visitors, and Norfolk observers, with researchers unable to explain the phenomena.
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DtaraTort
Colonel J. Dever
Southampton County
Virginia
Colonel Dever
Kildare
Handsom
Norfolk
George Bowden
Kenton Murray
McKinney
Colonel Deer
Mr. & & Nottingham
Norfolk Landmark
Dever
Tar Dispatch
Deyer
Murray
Bain
Wottingham
Colonel Deyer
Tour House
Susan
Miss Lizzie
Lazzie
Mra Dever
Lizzie
Richmond
North Carolina
Seaboard
Roanoke
Nto
Dr. Tudor
Mra. Dever
Miss Grate Pettit
Miss Dever
Miss Pettit
Weeds Tested as Fertilizers at West Virginia Experiment Farm
At the West Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station several experiments gauge weeds as fertilizer sources. Notable tests include bitter-rock common tle grow-loot grass sleep sorrel sweet aie burdock lettuce carrot and others, evaluating nitrate and phosphoric content.
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West Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station
Observatory to rise on Monte Ros summit
A small observatory will be erected soon on Monte Ros summit at 15,581 feet, second only to Mont Blanc in the Alps. The station will be named the Queen Maret after the Italian queen and will include three rooms a bedroom and a kitchen with necessary instruments.
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Monte Ros
Mont Blanc
Alpa
Whalebone From Baleen Whales Explained
The Baleen whale produces whalebone not real bone. A broad plate along the mouth sides is fringed with teeth and whalebone is obtained from it. Lengths range from one foot to twelve feet, with the longest in the largest whales.
Columbus Third Voyage Brings Strife and Imprisonment
The narrative follows Columbus as he sails from Cadiz in 1498 amid popular distrust, seeks aid from Ferdinand and Isabella, faces mutinies in Hispaniola, and confronts O jeda and Vespucci. Rebellion, famine, and slave trading strain the colony, while Bobadilla arrives and imprisons Columbus and his brothers, who accept their fate with stoic resolve.
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Cadiz
Columbus
New World
Ferdinand and
Isalla
Lucar de Barrameda
Roldan
Spain
Diego
Alonso de Ojeda
Fonseca
Ferdinand and Isabella
Hispaniola
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine
Western Hemisphere
Columbue
Don Francisco de Bobadilla
Shige
Snail
San Domingo
Bobnadilla
Bartholomew
Bobadilla
Alonzo de Villejo
Villejo
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Sullivan All Right
Grier
Neen
E4- Smith
Sams
Homestead
Journal + da Medicin
Jack
Andrew Clark
Mr. Gladstone
W. F. Green
Glasgow Univ
Cofin
Monte Rosa
L. H. Weeks and
Paul Latzke
Trinidad
South America
Paria
Europe
Bartholomew Columbia
Mini
Hispaniols
Sam
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