Africa's Watussi athletes set world high jump record
New York reports from German East Africa recounts of Watussi athletes performing miraculous feats in high jump and javelin. Duke Adolphus Frederick of Mecklenburg notes an African high jump near 2.5 meters, with Indians and other races contrasted. The piece mocks European records while praising African prowess and exotic athletic displays.
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New York
Equatorial Africa
Rensavelts
Africa
German East Africa
Adolphus Frederick of
Meklenburg
M. DP
Sweeney
Adolphus Frederick
Amateur Athletic Association
Aart
Phayllus
Stockholm
Ilvorange
Year of Death Hall of Sport Figures Marked by End
New York dispatch recounts a year of losses across sport. Baseball lost many leaders including Loftus and Lucas with executives and players from the majors and minors. fighters like Ketchel and Gans died, as did turf figures Daly and Appleby. Other sports fields note notable exits from golf, billiards, boxing, and aviation.
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New York
Thomas J. Loftus
Henry V. Lucas
St. Louis Maroons
Lane
John S. Rogers
Philadelphia
Eugene F. Burt
Samuel L. Wright
Pennsylvania Teague
John Morrow
James P. Walsh
Rockford
McDonald Douglas
Stockton
Allan AL. Storke
Pittsburg Nationals
Joseph Weaton
Morris Critchley
Pittsburg
Patrick M. Downing
Joseph C. Hennessey
Trenton
N. 1
Dan McGann
Patrick Gillespie
New York Giants
Robert Pettit
Anson
Chicago Nationals
Qwen Jackson
Lynchburg
Ray Marshall
Jacksonville Pla
Stanley Ketchel
Joe Gans
Jem Mace
Tom Bate
New Jersey
England
Johnny Dwyer
Frederick G. Tuilen
Bridgeport
San Francisco
Billy Dunning
Maine
Td Hyland
Buffalo
Phil Daly
Robert L. Tusker
Louisville
Allan B. Stanbury
Baltimore
United States
Canada
Lucien O. Appleby
Stoughton R. Clark
Fred Langan
Ernest Huppe
Sarah Schaefer
Willie Anderson
Sprague Abbott
LDOT
Griffron
Francis Burri
James J. Hogan
Harvard
Yale
Earl Wilson
Naval Cadets
Ralph Wilson
Wabash College
Tustolph Monk
West Virginia University
L. RB. Payne
Cornell
Hugh J. McCormick
Ralph Johnstone
Jne Dustin Freeman
Wil Ma Martin
Cearnish
Frederick Welch Beats Jem Driscoll on Foul in Wales
In Cardiff Wales Freddie Welch the English lightweight champion defeated Jem Driscoll in the tenth round of a twenty round purse of 12600 due to a foul by Driscoll. Welch held weight and reach edge and took sixty percent of the purse while Driscoll received forty.
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Welch
Cardiff
Wales
Freddie Welch
England
Jem Driscoll
Great Britain
Driscoll
Welch Belsies
Few Licenses in Game Districts
Deputy Game Warden Yordy returned from a western sweep finding hunters evading license laws and several arrests. The counts show western counties issued far fewer licenses than Black Hawk where over 2,000 had been issued by December 15.
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Cedar Falls
Yordy
Clay County
Calhoun
Sac
Ida
Cherokee
O'Brien
Hunter
Black Hawk
Waterloo to Fight Ousting Plan in Baseball Row
A Dubuque baseball informant asks how Waterloo will counter Tearney and Kinsella plans as revealed by the league president in Chicago. Waterloo vows no surrender and plans to appeal to the national board of arbitration, which letters say would deem Waterloo’s ousting illegal and unlikely to be tolerated. Supporters in Waterloo claim the club has stronger friends than ever since Tearney’s statements.
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The
Courier
Dubuque
Waterloo
Tearney
Kinsella
Chicago
National Board of Arbitration
Racing Figures Spark Early Car Endurance Interest
Pion and Al Livingstone, Tobin Re Hymes, Thomas Kincade and WW H Sharpe emerge as well known drivers of racing automobiles highlighting the era's motor sport scene.
Local notes from Mt Vernon township and surrounding area
Morning report from Mount Vernon Township includes visits by Mrs. Austin Leversee and Mrs. Greensides to Plainfield and Waterloo. Several births announced, including a 6 pound boy at John Timion’s home. Families record travels, housing moves, and health updates. Otto Hilmer sold a farm for 125 per acre to a Butler county buyer amid local crop and livestock remarks.
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Mount Vernon
Austin Leversee
Harrington
Plainfield
Greensides
Chester Hamm
Helen Rockwell
Mesdames Lew Wangler
B. A. Haymond
Waterloo
John Timion
Rose Thomas
Nettle
Idaho
Sam Leversee
Jesse Morgan
Spokane
Minnie Ericson
F. W. Jacob
Cris Frank
Ed Peck
Julia. Rouch
Geo. Albright
Bertha Mahnko
Geo. Newell
Fred Tienry, Jr
Otto Hilmer
P. Burkhart
Butler County
Watter Peck
Meritol liniment praised as great remedy in ad
An advertisement touts the Meritol liniment as the greatest preparation for rheumatism neuralgia sciatica lumbago lame back strains and deep muscular pains. It claims endorsement by the American Drug and Press Association and urges purchase at Henderson Drug Co. Meritol store.
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American Drug and Press Association
Frenderson Drug Co
Meritol
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Mabel Ettinger
West Fourth Street
Music House
Sycamore ST
Newell
W. Wark Avenue
Jon
Joe Schiel
Hee
H.C. Weiger
Ralston
the People’s Store
Iowa
Carl Morris
Marvin Tart
Sapulpa
Okla
Haro
Morris
Hart
Walter
D. G. Boomer
M. I. Church
Janesville
Roy
Blanche Callahan
Ralph Moore
I. T. Ch
Edson Finley
Ames
Chas
Bacon
Galveston
Tex
John Burkhart
Mary Burkhart
Enid
George Peck
Des Moines
Grounders
MT. Vernon
Farmers Loan and Trust CO
Irving Hotel Bldg
Jone Bros
C. D. Pedersen
Consolidated Phone
Jefferson Street
Ralph A. Dunkelberg
Black Hawk Electric CO
H. G. Rogers
Lafayette Street
C. J. Miller
Klinefelter & Son
Park Avenue West
Robert G. Dakin
M. D
East Fourth Street
Pig
Ben. D. Everall
Marsh-Place
T. A. McManus, M. D
Gaspa
Commercial Bank Building
Black Hawk Natl
T. Jaynes
Black Hawk Bank
Dr. CA. Waterbury
Russell-Lamson
J. E. Brinkman
Black Hawk National Bank
Consolidated Phone Ia
Lafayette Bu
C. B. Atlas
Bodwell Osteopathic Physican
Baulltieg
E. A. Hunt
BR. Scott
Ida M. Scott
Commercial Bank
R. D. Tiffany
Consolidated Service
Mulberry Street
City Park
Case Dairy Co
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