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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
9
Phoebe Fairgrave, age eighteen, who works as a stenographer, set a world altitude record for women parachutists with a leap of 13 200 feet. She spoke of fear before the jump and described swinging and a brief free fall before her parachute opened and she landed shaken but unharmed before a crowd of about twenty thousand.
Urban Faber leads White Sox to twentieth win of season with a homer by Falk in the 14th against the Athletics. Indians rally as Yanks lose lead to sluggers Mays Quinn and Ferguson. Rain halts games as Giants Reds Pirates Braves shift results. Phillies beat Cubs with Ring and Grimes as Doak and Veach register pitching duels and Tigers homer by Veach.
In the National League Philadelphia beat Chicago 8 to 1 while Brooklyn defeated St. Louis 2 to 1 in 11 innings. Chicago 2 Philadelphia 1 went 14 innings with Detroit and Washington and Boston tied to 7 with rain causing postponements.
The Small Arms Firing School at Camp Perry opens August with a course in straight shooting for male competitors from Army Navy Marine Corps National Guard and state rifle teams. State teams join service squads in a sequence of more than sixty events culminating in the National Matches led by the National Team Rifle Match on September 15.
Detroit won the Detroit Washington game as Oldham contributed four singles. The Browns extended a seven game streak against Boston by hitting Myers and rhormahden op portunely.
Fragmentary report notes a flat topped 100 foot high Tee beregs seen in mid Aslamiic bearing three vessels on fishr summit. Another bear near the Banks of Newfoundland had several polar bears in view.
Denver announces a city wide notice to unlawful individuals that they are not welcome. The alert describes a vehicle equipped with a machine gun, bulletproof windshield, radiator protector, and battering ram rail as evidence of Denver’s hard line to deter crime and defend the city.
A fragmentary note traces patent metal boots with replaceable parts and mentions spectacles first made by a monk Alexander de Soma in the late thirteenth century. It also hints at a barber shop owner renting space in a New York hotel basement.
A fragment notes a bird that chats and imitates many kinds of sounds. The snippet hints at a playful behavior or talking bird observed by a reader in a near hello world style.
Racing meets at Yonkers and Windsor Ontario. Grand Circuit close at Kalamazoo. Golf national open at Washington Co Worcester and Wisconsin state at Kenosha. Colorado and California championships at Denver and Del Monte. Northwestern regatta at Duluth. Eastern Zone handicap at Louisville. Boxing cards in East Chicago feature Burman Smith Sharkey Montreal Dolan Christian.
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