Scattered sports notes reveal rule changes and aging stars
A jumble of sports anecdotes covers football rule revisions on center positioning and blocking, golfer Byron Nelson’s planned gradual retirement, Frances S. Briggs’s famed baseball memorabilia, football pay averages, Jess Willard’s European exhibition tour, and older fitness stories. Also notes squash ball origin, the bone-shaker bicycle, and Yale’s 1889 football tackling dummy.
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Byron Nelson
Frances S. Briggs
Percy Briggs
Jess Williard
Europe
Wanderir
Joseph Hill
Warren Slater
Pasadena
Calif
United States
Pierre Lallement
A. A. Stagg
Yale
Behind Your Bonds Lies the Might of America
Iowa coal mining has powered the state’s resources for 95 years with 22 counties producing coal. From 34 million tons in 1880 to 9 million in 1917 peak, 297 mines employed 18,000 in 1910. Output now about 3 million tons, with peace seen as a rise.
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Iowa
U.S. Treasury
Doll of Russian Czarina draws New York show crowds
Rita Turpin of Elizabeth New Jersey admires an exquisitely dressed Russian Czarina doll at the American Doll show in New York City. The doll's beauty captivates onlookers as it showcases fine costume detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Schmid, Jr
Niles
Nelson Wage
George Hart
Bever Memorial Hospital
Ypsilanti
Charles J. Rapp
Wallace Block
M. E. Fuller
Ann Arbor
Ypsilanti High School
E. B. Deering
Detroit
Cornelia Hall
Eastern Stars
Coach Shaw
William Paul
Baye and
Paul
Schillyee
Lederer
Saline
Fred Staebler
Paul Bemis
Ann Avor
Saline Rife and Gun Club
Daniel’s Flats
Rita Turpin
Elizabeth, N. J
New York City
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Maytag
Howard ‘Electric Service
South Lewis Street
Suet
Yao Airtooade Neuse
Wiew Industries
Michigan Corporation and Securities Commission
Bank of Lansing
Lansing
Cadillac Square
The
Citizens Bank
Saline Theatre
Robert Lowery
June Storey
Sun
Mon
van Johnson
Lionel
Barrymore
Thurs Navy
Joan Fontain
George Brent
Milan
Robert St * Lande
Pra
Poukanton
Lynn Merrick
Xen Curtis
Pune
Ayer
Frank Sinatra
Anchors Aweigh
Gene Nelly
Kathryn Grayson
Plus
Errol Flynn
William Price
James Brown
Burma
Walter Brackell
Herbert Beisiegel
North Fourth Avenue
Ann Street
Apple
George Rentz
George 3Humenaur
Sebastian Finkbeiner
Theodore Hummel
G. Hummel
Esther Fairbanks
Allegan
Pearl Bowman
U. of M
Lucy Fairbanks
Gottlob Moertler
Lewis Breisehh
Ralph
Pittsfield
H. J. Abbott
B. F.schumacher
Chauncey Hummell
Chelsea
John Lutz
John Koebbe
Forbes School
George W. Shaw
Samuel Cring
Macon
Bert Gillen
Wallace Foot
Somerset
George Dell
Rose
Lake Shore
America
Lewis Lindenschmidt
Maple Ave
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