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  2. William Frank Carver - Wikipedia

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    William Frank Carver was born in Winslow, Illinois, to William Daniel Carver (1828–1888), a physician, and Deborah Tohapenes (Peters) Carver (1829–1907), who had migrated to Illinois from Pennsylvania in 1849. He had a younger brother, William Pitt, who became a farmer in Kansas, and a sister, May, who was born in May 1856 and died before ...

  3. Diving horse - Wikipedia

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    William "Doc" Carver "invented" horse-diving exhibitions. Allegedly, in 1881 Carver was crossing a bridge over Platte River which partially collapsed. His horse fell/dived into the waters below, inspiring Carver to develop the diving horse act. Carver trained various animals and went on tour. His son, Al Floyd Carver, constructed the ramp and ...

  4. Sonora Webster Carver - Wikipedia

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    Webster answered an ad placed by William "Doc" Carver in 1923 [2] for a diving girl and soon earned a place in circus history. Her job was to mount a running horse as it reached the top of a 40-foot (12 m) - sometimes 60-foot (18 m) - tower and sail down on its back as it plunged into an 11-foot (3.4 m) pool of water directly below.

  5. The strange, cruel spectacle of horse diving once drew big ...

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    Jan. 10—At the Maine State Fair in 1925, Dr. Carver's Diving Horses made a splash. People flocked to the fairgrounds in Lewiston to see "The Girl in Red" make a "suicide jump" clinging to the ...

  6. William Carver (Wild Bunch) - Wikipedia

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    William "News" Carver (September 12, 1868 – April 2, 1901) was an American outlaw and a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch during the closing years of the American Old West. His nickname "News" was given to him because he enjoyed seeing his name in newspaper stories of his gang's exploits.

  7. Kansas City Club - Wikipedia

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    Clubhouse, 1888-1922. After the Civil War, most of Kansas City's social clubs were pro-Confederate.A group of prominent local businessmen and professionals, including Edward H. Allen, Victor B. Bell, Alden J. Blethen, Thomas B. Bullene, Gardiner Lathrop, August Meyer, Leander J. Talbott, William Warner, and Robert T. Van Horn, decided to provide an alternative, and organized the Kansas City ...

  8. Results from high school state swimming and diving meets in ...

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    Here are results from the high school state swimming and diving meets in Kansas and Missouri: Missouri girls results. Thursday-Friday, at the City of St. Peters Rec-Plex (race distances in yards ...

  9. Cops in Kansas City Now Towing the Cars of Spectators at ...

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    City ordinance 230724, passed on September 14 of this year, is responsible for giving officers the power to tow spectator vehicles at events like this. "If the driver or passengers of a vehicle ...