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Sued for Divorce. Barney Oldfield, 61, oldtime automobile daredevil; by Hulda B. Oldfield; in Los Angeles...
Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden...
Died. Charles Leslie Thrasher, 47, magazine illustrator famed for his quaint Saturday Evening Post covers; of pneumonia contracted after he was overcome by smoke in a fire which razed his home at Oldfield Village, N. Y.; in Port Jefferson...
...away from home, became a mechanic, a waiter in an insane asylum and later trainer to Barney Oldfield in the days when Oldfield was a bicycle racer...
...wedged an unlighted cigar between his teeth. Close behind roared a motorcycle policeman. At the hamlet of Santarita the car slowed down and the motorcycle drew alongside. The speeder stopped, pushed up his hat, ripped out his cigar. Said he: "Yes, I am Barney Old' field To Speeder Oldfield, first man ever to drive an automobile one mile in one minute, now a special advertising man for Chrysler Motors, the policeman handed a ticket for driving 60 m.p.h...