WOMAN HANGS UP NEW RECORD FOR ALBANY-N. YORK SWIM
Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in a time reported as more than six hours under the record. The swim had begun October 10 and was divided into daily laps; she weighed 149 pounds at the start and 144 pounds when it was completed.
New York, Oct. 20. - (AP) - Another name was added to the 1926 casulty list of champions today when Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in six hours and 24 minutes less than the record time.
The name added to the long list of bested champions for this year was that of Mrs. Millie Gade Corson, second women to swim the English Channel. In 1921 Mrs. Corson stroked her way through the waters of the Hudson for a distance of 158 miles in 63 hours and 35 minutes. The new capital-Metropolis champion cleaved her way through 160 miles of water in 57 hours and 11 minutes.
Mrs. Schoemmel, like the former holder of the record, is the mother of two children. They were in the small crowd that cheered the greased covered swimmer as she clambered out of the water at Battery Park at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The end came in a pelting rain with a temperature of 59 degrees in the water.
The record-breaking swim was begun October 10 and was divided in daily laps. The last lap began at 11.05 this morning at Fort Washington, on the upper end of Manhattan Island.
·Mrs. Schoemmel weighed 149 pounds when she began her swim. She weighed 144 pounds when it was completed.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
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WOMAN HANGS UP NEW RECORD FOR ALBANY-N. YORK SWIM
Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in a time reported as more than six hours under the record. The swim had begun October 10 and was divided into daily laps; she weighed 149 pounds at the start and 144 pounds when it was completed.
New York, Oct. 20. - (AP) - Another name was added to the 1926 casulty list of champions today when Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in six hours and 24 minutes less than the record time.
The name added to the long list of bested champions for this year was that of Mrs. Millie Gade Corson, second women to swim the English Channel. In 1921 Mrs. Corson stroked her way through the waters of the Hudson for a distance of 158 miles in 63 hours and 35 minutes. The new capital-Metropolis champion cleaved her way through 160 miles of water in 57 hours and 11 minutes.
Mrs. Schoemmel, like the former holder of the record, is the mother of two children. They were in the small crowd that cheered the greased covered swimmer as she clambered out of the water at Battery Park at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The end came in a pelting rain with a temperature of 59 degrees in the water.
The record-breaking swim was begun October 10 and was divided in daily laps. The last lap began at 11.05 this morning at Fort Washington, on the upper end of Manhattan Island.
·Mrs. Schoemmel weighed 149 pounds when she began her swim. She weighed 144 pounds when it was completed.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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WOMAN HANGS UP NEW RECORD FOR ALBANY-N. YORK SWIM
Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in a time reported as more than six hours under the record. The swim had begun October 10 and was divided into daily laps; she weighed 149 pounds at the start and 144 pounds when it was completed.
New York, Oct. 20. - (AP) - Another name was added to the 1926 casulty list of champions today when Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in six hours and 24 minutes less than the record time.
The name added to the long list of bested champions for this year was that of Mrs. Millie Gade Corson, second women to swim the English Channel. In 1921 Mrs. Corson stroked her way through the waters of the Hudson for a distance of 158 miles in 63 hours and 35 minutes. The new capital-Metropolis champion cleaved her way through 160 miles of water in 57 hours and 11 minutes.
Mrs. Schoemmel, like the former holder of the record, is the mother of two children. They were in the small crowd that cheered the greased covered swimmer as she clambered out of the water at Battery Park at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The end came in a pelting rain with a temperature of 59 degrees in the water.
The record-breaking swim was begun October 10 and was divided in daily laps. The last lap began at 11.05 this morning at Fort Washington, on the upper end of Manhattan Island.
·Mrs. Schoemmel weighed 149 pounds when she began her swim. She weighed 144 pounds when it was completed.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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WOMAN HANGS UP NEW RECORD FOR ALBANY-N. YORK SWIM
Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in a time reported as more than six hours under the record. The swim had begun October 10 and was divided into daily laps; she weighed 149 pounds at the start and 144 pounds when it was completed.
New York, Oct. 20. - (AP) - Another name was added to the 1926 casulty list of champions today when Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in six hours and 24 minutes less than the record time.
The name added to the long list of bested champions for this year was that of Mrs. Millie Gade Corson, second women to swim the English Channel. In 1921 Mrs. Corson stroked her way through the waters of the Hudson for a distance of 158 miles in 63 hours and 35 minutes. The new capital-Metropolis champion cleaved her way through 160 miles of water in 57 hours and 11 minutes.
Mrs. Schoemmel, like the former holder of the record, is the mother of two children. They were in the small crowd that cheered the greased covered swimmer as she clambered out of the water at Battery Park at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The end came in a pelting rain with a temperature of 59 degrees in the water.
The record-breaking swim was begun October 10 and was divided in daily laps. The last lap began at 11.05 this morning at Fort Washington, on the upper end of Manhattan Island.
·Mrs. Schoemmel weighed 149 pounds when she began her swim. She weighed 144 pounds when it was completed.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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WOMAN HANGS UP NEW RECORD FOR ALBANY-N. YORK SWIM
Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in a time reported as more than six hours under the record. The swim had begun October 10 and was divided into daily laps; she weighed 149 pounds at the start and 144 pounds when it was completed.
New York, Oct. 20. - (AP) - Another name was added to the 1926 casulty list of champions today when Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel finished her Albany-New York swim in six hours and 24 minutes less than the record time.
The name added to the long list of bested champions for this year was that of Mrs. Millie Gade Corson, second women to swim the English Channel. In 1921 Mrs. Corson stroked her way through the waters of the Hudson for a distance of 158 miles in 63 hours and 35 minutes. The new capital-Metropolis champion cleaved her way through 160 miles of water in 57 hours and 11 minutes.
Mrs. Schoemmel, like the former holder of the record, is the mother of two children. They were in the small crowd that cheered the greased covered swimmer as she clambered out of the water at Battery Park at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The end came in a pelting rain with a temperature of 59 degrees in the water.
The record-breaking swim was begun October 10 and was divided in daily laps. The last lap began at 11.05 this morning at Fort Washington, on the upper end of Manhattan Island.
·Mrs. Schoemmel weighed 149 pounds when she began her swim. She weighed 144 pounds when it was completed.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from Daily Kennebec Journal, October 21, 1926, page 1.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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