Here's a great photo of the old Central Turner Hall in Davenport, Iowa.  Which training devices do you recognize?

The Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives is a great source of information about the German Turners and their system of physical training. 

Here is another great link for information about how and why the Germans contributed so much to physical culture in the USA during the mid-late 1800's.

This paper by Heinrich Metzner might also be helpful.

Here's one more source.

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Nukes option by U.S. in Korea

California announces discouraging 
2003 youth physical fitness results.

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