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Died. William Breining Ward, 44, of New Rochelle, N. Y., board chairman of Ward Baking Corp.; of heart disease; in his office in The Bronx...
...Rizzardis, aerialists extraordinary . . . Welsh & Kaplan, divertissement . . . Maybella de la Maye, operatic star . . . the Smfth Brothers & Their Eight Musical .Cough Drops . . . Frenzo, master of legerdemain . . . newsreel. Roseribergs from Queens . . . Callahans from Brooklyn . . . Schmidts from Yorkville . . . Whites from Harlem . . . Rosenbergs, Callahans, Schmidts from the Bronx...
...first flop that Rickard promoted was the Tunney-Heeney fight in The Bronx last summer. Right afterward, Tunney retired, still heavyweight champion. Since it is regarded as essential that there should always be a World's Heavyweight Champion, it was necessary to discover immediately who this should be. On investigation, it appeared that there was no one good enough to fill the position adequately. Dempsey who, judged by the eminently suitable criterion of gate receipts, had never lost the heavyweight championship, was reconsidered for the honor. Frantic and slow elimination contests were held, meaning nothing. Tex Rickard, having made professional...
Died. Howard W. Nesbit, 41, Bronx salesman, brother of famed Evelyn Nesbit, Harlem cabaret hostess, onetime wife of Harry K. Thaw; from suicide by hanging; in The Bronx...
...Fort Vanguardia. The significance of such diplomatic procedure-senseless and mischievous, though perfectly "correct" and "usual"-is of greater importance to the world than any additional blood which may be spilled between 2,155,000 Bolivians and 853,000 Paraguayans-scarcely as numerous as the denizens of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens...