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Tribute specials

Independent 1985 replay
1985 Mike Ditka Tribute · Week 1 · September 8–9

Fourteen Finals. One Tribute.

Chicago’s 43–17 opening statement, Washington’s Monday night rout, all fourteen game accounts, opening-week leaders and all six division tables. A separate special edition with independent 1985 records.

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1900 Universe editions

The original newspaper archive
Monday, January 22, 1900 · Weekly edition No. 4

Petre & Ferns: force and endurance

All 68 January 15–21 results across five sports, third-week honours and new Mercer and Pembroke columns.

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Monday, January 15, 1900 · Week Two

Morrow & Russell: the weekly honours

All eighty January 8–14 results, seven sports, two award citations and new Mercer and Pembroke columns.

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Wednesday, January 10, 1900 · Special edition

The Great Catch-Up

Why 83 historical archive additions retain their January 1–10 dates: seven sport dispatches, all catch-up results and seventeen earlier historical entries for context.

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Preserved working edition · January 8 paper with later additions

The weekly paper and its catch-up dispatches

The complete former current paper, including all later backlog dispatches, retained exactly as it stood before the special edition.

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Monday, January 8, 1900 · Sunday roundup

The Sunday account

The earlier Monday issue, focused on seven Sunday fixtures, remains available alongside the expanded full-week edition.

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Monday, January 8, 1900

Six days. Thirty-three finals. A week for the book.

The complete January 2–7 chronicle: every XHL and Fury final, all sport archive accounts, player distinctions and Mercer and Pembroke columns.

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Monday, January 1, 1900 · January 2 editorial supplement

The Universal era begins.

The preserved illustrated opening edition, with boxing, regattas, racing, soccer and cricket; the first Mercer and Pembroke columns.

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