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During the War Jack Dempsey got into trouble by posing as a riveter in a shipyard. The labor manager of Sun Ship-building Co. dressed him in overalls, snapped his picture to use in a campaign to recruit labor. When the public saw the photograph it concluded that Boxer Dempsey had really become a riveter to escape the draft. Last week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter...
...Statesman Shoemaker was escorted to the police station, released on $25 bail. By that time Taximan Newman had decided to sue for $100,000 damages. To defend him Statesman Shoemaker got his House colleague. Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin who was once attorney for Jack Dempsey. also for Joe ("Shoeless") Jackson in the 1919 baseball scandal. It was not the first time that stocky, pugnacious Francis Shoemaker had been arrested for assault. Last April when he was annoyed by the radio of one Theodore Cohen, a neighbor in Washington's Chastleton Hotel, he marched into Neighbor Cohen...
...Bobby Manziel, sparring partner of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, drifted into the rich East Texas oil fields. He had $1.80 in his pocket. He promoted prizefights between oil field roustabouts for two months. Then with $700 from Jack Dempsey he started drilling a well. Soon he owned a major interest in ten. He gave Jack Dempsey a half interest in a lease in Gladewater. When he struck oil last autumn he summoned his partner to Gladewater. The townspeople celebrated by staging a parade...
Victory Well No. 1 gushed merrily on until last week when the U. S. Government got after Messrs. Dempsey and Manziel, claiming that they had produced more than their allotted quantity of oil. Said Oilman Manziel: "The independents are catching hell in East Texas but here's two that can take...
...only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which made Ty Cobb "greatest baseball batter of all time." which enabled Prizefighter Jess Willard to "triumph over" Prizefighter Jack Johnson, and Prizefighter Jack Dempsey "to whip" Prizefighter Jess Willard. Currently E. Virgil Neal has a cosmetic factory in Paris, one in London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries." He would sell his latest product in the U. S. "if I could find a good man." Three months in the U. S. this autumn...