Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Dempsey (who was then under the direction of John the Barber) fought John Lester Johnson (Negro) at the old Harlem Sporting Club. Although the match was no-decision, Johnson smashed several of Jack's ribs...
...wake of Emile Coué, many innovations, scientific and otherwise, have followed. There is, for instance, " Sister" Mabel Harrell, nurse of New York, who has effected miraculous " cures" in Harlem, Negro enclave of the metropolis. Cripples, paralytics, the blind and deaf, idiot children have flocked to her meetings in an ecstasy of evangelical fervor. Prayer, hymn-singing, the laying on of hands, and unquestioning faith are her only accessories. These "cures " are, of course, explainable by perfectly natural psychological processes, and are nothing new under the sun. For certain types of afflictions, and with certain religious temperaments, Sister Harrell...
...Trenton, are only a few of the localities where stock companies are playing at present. The Root Bros, organization is about to tour the Dakotas under canvas. Brown Bros, dramatic stock is tenting the fields of Illinois. Miss Jessie Bonstelle, having just begun a stock season at the Harlem Opera House with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, is now in Detroit, at the opening of her summer stock company there...
...broad daylight of Sunday afternoon a ball of fire dropped from the skies and landed on a roof in Harlem's darktown quarter. To distant observers this phenomenon must have had as awful portent as Bardolph's flaming nose, perhaps dire prediction of the approaching eruption of such active volcanoes as Mount Borah, Mount La Follotte and Mount Hiram Johnson. But distance lends enchantment and observers who were not distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched...
...Childs Cup race between Columbia, Princeton and Pennsylvania will be held on the Harlem Rivet. This will be followed by the American Henley on the Schuylkill, on May 28. The season will close with the Poughkeepsie Regatta, on June...