Odd Championships and East End Freak Contests Highlight Odd Sports
Folkestone hosts an international beauty show with 16 year old English winner from Sydenham and Dutch runner up. East End fairs showcase preambulator races and extreme feats like cork balancing and nose billiards. France prizes cock crowing contests. handless man competes in nose billiards while Southamp ton barber wins pipe delaying contest.
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Folkestone
Pearson
Europe
Sydenham
Holborn
Southampton
Belgium
Holland
London
West Riding
Leeds
P. W
East End
Whitechapel
Stepney
France
Morgan Likes Old Photos in Photographers Studio
Philadelphia photographer Frederick Gutekunst recalled J P Morgan on his eighty first birthday and shared stories of General Grant Wu Ting Fang Phillips Brooks Henry W Longfellow Walt Whitman and Edwin Booth. Morgan prefers preserving his old portraits to show his present likeness rather than later aged changes.
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Philadelphia
J. P. Morgan
Frederick Gutekunst
Mr. Gutekunst
General Grant
Wu Ting Fang
Phillips Brooks
Henry W. Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Edwin Booth
Mr. Morgan
Lecture on Christian Science by Willis F Gross in San Antonio
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Antonio announces a free lecture on Christian Science at Bee thoven Hall on Sunday afternoon October 13, 1912 at 4 o'clock. Willis F Gross C B of The Mother Church board of lectureship will speak. The public is cordially invited to attend.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
San Antonio
Texas
Beethoven Hall
Willis F. Gross
Boston
Massachusetts
Suffrage Strike Idea Proposed by Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks argues for a peaceful general strike by women to win voting rights in Britain. She outlines widespread stoppages in factories and homes, a two year fund built from luxuries, and a phased plan led by Cicely Hamilton and Christobal Pankhurst to pressure men without violence.
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Ada Patterson
Elizabeth Banks
Peru
London
Bernard Shaw
J. M. Barrie
Great Britain
America
Cicely Hamilton
Christobal Pankhurst
Dublin
Broadway
Ringworm cured by Cuticura on Virginia woman
Virginia Woodward of Campbell Virginia reports six to eight years of ringworm on the right face beginning as small pimples and spreading to a red rough circled area. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for a month the condition cleared, with skin care advice and sample offers included.
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Campbell
Virginia Woodward
Cuticura
Dept.t
Boston
No need to return to methods used to tear up ties fifty years ago
The remark dismisses reviving past tactics of railroad disruption. It emphasizes shifting away from old, violent means and implies a preference for lawful, modern approaches to conflict or protest. The quote reflects a stance against rekindling historical sabotage.
Pictures Tempt Girls In Juvenile Court Case
Two 16 year old girls Miss Lottie Loehr and Miss Helen Woodward faced Judge Callan on charges of stealing rings worth 80 dollars. The judge linked the theft to attending 5 cent moving picture shows and urged parental supervision to protect girls from street danger. Both girls were placed on probation.
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Washington
St. Louis Herpetologist Describes Reacting to Poisonous Snakes
Julius Hurter, a St. Louis naturalist, explains what he would do if stung by a poisonous snake. He notes no known case of a snake killing a person he has encountered, and says handlers like him rarely know such cases firsthand. He carries permanganate of potassium and strychnine when in the field.
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Julius Hurter
St. Louis
Mr. Hurter
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Duri
West Commerce St
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Main Ave
Heights
Los Angeles Heights
East
Houston Street
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