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 | | George Steadman of Ashby, East Westmoreland, wins a prize at a wrestling tournament held at the Agricultural Hall on Liverpool Road in London, a feat that he repeats every year for the next 31 years. |
 | | Besides lifting weights, Gilman ran a mile a day and boasted of her ability to "vault and jump, go up a knotted rope, walk on my hands under a ladder, kick as high as my head, and revel in the flying rings." By 1904, fencing was also popular with Rhode Island society women. |
 | | In Tucson, Arizona, saloonkeeper George Hand notes in his diary that the body of a stranger was found alongside the railroad track. |
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