Indoor Tennis Fever on Millionaires Ocean Courts
A feature on Belcourt Newport and Helen Gould's private indoor tennis court, with Miss Virginia Fair and Mrs. Astor among society players. Describes Belcourt's luxe indoor court, lighting, refreshment room, and spectator comforts, plus the rise of indoor tennis among New York's elite along Millionaire's Ocean.
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C. H. Belmont
Belcourt
Hudson
Ides Gould
Astor
Miss Fair
Helen Gould
Helen
Gould
C. H. P. Belmont
Newport
MeeBimont Belcourt
Orient
Ted
John Jarab Aetor
Gil
Virginia Fair
New York
Pair
Count Castellane
Hudson River
Rockefellers
Che Mien
United States
College Prolics and initiation prank at Cornell
A Cornell man recalls an old initiation where juniors were consigned to a coffin rigged with air holes and lowered into a shaft. The victim, deeply drunk, slept through the prank and awoke to a frightened dawn of whispers and a paper, cigarette, and paper in hand.
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Washington Star
Cornell
Hus
United Stats
Alent
Lone
Ater
Aleep
Why He Complained About the Man from the Gulch
A frontier tale from the Chicago Post about a tense camp where a disliked buckskin-clad man suspected a murdered lookalike. A search party captures a missing drifter, a lynch plan is halted, and the camp resents the outsider who arrived with eerie promises of danger.
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Chicago Post
Weil
Reading Clerk Contest Sparks Humble Victory Story
In the opening session of a legislative term a competition for reading clerk pits rivals against John A. Reeve a Cairo Illinois politician famed in Washington. He wins by using a bold vocal performance and rapid reading to outshine elocutionists and secure the House post.
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House
John A. Reeve
Harrison
Cairo
Washington
Reeve
Chimp in tee exhibits writing and mischief in Central Park cage
New York January 20 A chimp named Johanna kept in an iron bound cage on the arsen al second floor in Central Park amazed reporters with attempts at writing and other refined behaviors She imitates her keeper McKay and assistant Burns earning praise and rewards Johanna shows literacy curiosity copying pencil marks learning to wake her bed and peel an orange Her antics include studying her reflection and posing with a mirror Her owner circus man James Batley plans frames for her drawings and she remains a lively symbol of animal intelligence in captivity.
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New York
Johanna
Arsenal
Central Park
McKay
George R Burns
Crowley
Mr. McKay
MekKas
Beardsley
Kay
Mehr
James Batley
Train wreck chaos as conductor left on the track
An extraordinary mishap aboard the Sheve Lian Express from Freem to New York ends with the engine backing along the line and the train losing its conductor. Passengers describe a chaotic scene as guards and brakemen search for the missing official while trains divert after the error.
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Kepe
Cinereney
Artiebpro
Mask
New York
Dadgeride
Reiton
Theonga
Thie
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