Ad and blinky best trick shot artists

The St. Louis World’s Fair may have been the first time Ad and Plinky Toepperwein performed in public as husband and wife, but the couple from the Lone Star State wowed the matinee audience on May 13, 1904 with their trick-shot artistry.Born in Boerne during the post-Civil War occupation, Adolph Toepperwein was raised by immigrant parents in Leon Springs on the outskirts of San Antonio...

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