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‘FROM PRIZE RING TO PUPIT WILL^^H BE DISCUSSED BY FORMER FISTIC 101Of special interest to many in this) city will be the series of services to be hold at the First Baptist church by Joe Percente, former lightweight boxing champion of the world; ex-1 gambler, ex-saloonkeeper and former; bolting instructor for President Theodore Roosevelt. His subject next Sunday night at the church will be “From Priae Ring to Pulpit*.An afternoon meeting beginning at 2:30 o'clock will be for men only.Sixteen years is the minimum age limit. The subject will be “Life in a Large City”.Percente will talk at the Baptist Mission on Prosperity Street, near the Jefferson Hotel each Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 o'clock. The public is invited.Joe Percente is sixty-seven years old. but one would take him for a man of thirty, or less. He was born of an Italian father and a Cherokee Indian mother.
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Sikeston Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Fri, Sep 05, 1930
Page 9
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John H.
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