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Archie Newfong was born on 15 October 1910. He was the descendant of the Ngugi people of the Moreton Bay area and a Chinese fisherman. Archie Newfong, like many Aborigines living on North Stradbroke Island, was employed at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, which was established in 1865 to provide shelter and care for the poor and needy of Queensland. In 1920 the Aboriginal workers of the institution began a campaign for cash wages, not rations but for equal pay under the awards applying to white employees. Archie Newfong was a superb sportsman playing cricket and football. He was also a boxer. One year he won the Amity Cup on his horse, “Pet”. The Amity Cup was a horse race along the beach at Dunwich held each year. In 1941 Archie became the heavyweight boxing champion of Queensland. After the World War tWO, Archie became active in the Incapacitated Servicemen and Women Association serving as a welfare officer helping returned diggers put their lives back together. He went on to become State President for seven years from 1977. Archie and his son John were active campaigners during the 1967 referendum, which gave power to the Commonwealth Government to legislate on Aboriginal matters. John went on to become a journalist for a major newspaper and was heavily involved in the 1972 tent embassy in Canberra. In 1988 Archie Newfong was appalled to hear of the motion moved at the RSL’s national congress by the Victorian president, Mr. Bruce Ruxton. The motion called for Aborigines to be race-tested before being allowed to claim government benefits. The motion was widely condemned and Archie campaigned in the Courier Mail on 29 September to have the motion rescinded. The Courier-Mail reported on 22 April 1991, that 80-year-old Archie Newfong had unveiled Australia’s first Aboriginal war memorial in the Jebbribillum Borta Park at Burleigh Heads. Throughout their lives, Archie and his wife Edna campaigned for the betterment of Aboriginal people. His wife was Edna Crouch, who came from a famous sporting family. She had represented Australia in the national women’s cricket team that played England in 1935. Their exemplary lives deserve to be better known. Source: thecommunityleader.com.au/in-the-community/local-history/...

Alfredo de Oro (1863?-1948) was a Cuban-born billiards player. In a championship career that began in 1887, he won the pocket billiards title 17 times and held the three-cushion billiards title ten times. He last participated in tournament play in 1934, at the age of 71. In 1967 he was inducted into the American Billiard Congress Hall of Fame.

WIkipedia:Alfredo de Oro. Yup, that's him.

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Sticker in upper right hand corner of photo bears date, 10/22/[19]14.

Must be Jules Védrines (1881-1919), some biographic information here and here. I don't see a Wikipedia article.

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This picture can be eactly dated: September 9, 1912. Jules Vedrines - the French flyer - turns here one of the pylons in the James Gordon Bennett Cup Race held in Chicago. Vedrines flew the Deperdussin Monocoque racer (1912 model) with a Gnome 14-cylinder rotary engine rated at 140 - 160 hp. Competition was minimal, only two other machine were flying (a Hanriot monoplane) flown by Andre Frey and another Deperdussin monoplane (with a lower powered engine) was flown by Prévost. Prévost finished and became second, Frey got engine trouble and did not reach the finish. Vedrines beat during the race the world speed record, setting the world speed record for 20 km (12.4 miles) covering the distance in 6 min. 56 sec. at a speed of 107 mph. Source: Reed Kinert. Racing planes and air races. Volume 1

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