Pratt At Second Base Shines For Brown In American League
Pratt, Brown's second baseman, tops experts as best in his position, closing on Collins for AL supremacy. Georgetown may revive rowing in 1914 with Pat Dempsey likely to coach, after three years without a crew due to funds. Kolehmainen the long-distance runner is also a bricklayer, citing open-air work as boosting his lungs. Marshall undercuts all simultaneous-dice records with 46 wins 11 draws. Grand Prix auto race set for Savannah in November with 7000 total prize money and 11.44 mile course. Lajels denies reports he will retire from baseball after the current season.
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Derrill
Pratt
Severs
Mamond
Collins
Georgetown
Pat Dempsey
Crows
Dempsey
The
Athletic Association
Southern University
Kolehmainen
Hana Kolehmainen
Finland
Brooklyn
Marshall
Frank J. Maraball
New York
United States
Pittsburgh
Gavannah
Literary Rivalries Between Hugo and the Dumases
A biographer of Victor Hugo recalls a salon quip about the triad of French fame. Hugo, the romance and drama, and the elder Dumas respond when a guest flatters the group as the greatest poet dramatist and romancer. The elder Dumas asserts the dramatist was his son.
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Victor Hugo
Dumases
É& F. Davidson
Vietor Bugo
France
Dumas
Dumas the Younger
Dumas the Elder
Monsieur
Monsfour
Odd Court Martial Stories From Naval Calamities
The article recalls court martiales held after naval disasters such as the Serpent off Spain and the Biscay wreck, noting nominal blame and the oddities of naval justice. It also mentions a hoax about a rare library sale in Binche and a lentil soup recipe from the London Chronicle.
A Frank Admission From a Contention Citizen
A Washington Star quote shows a contentious citizen seeking reform while Warmer Corntonget remarks he approves yet questions the expression. The exchange hints at public debate over reform methods and civic rhetoric.
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Sald
Warmer Corntonget
Washington Star
Mystery of the stolen money at the bank heist
Adrian Markham, a paying teller at the Tenth National Bank, reports a $20,000 bundle vanished from a shelf while he was briefly away. Detectives trace a nail imprint in the cage wood and arrest a circus man whose boot heel hides the stolen bills, recovered from a mattress.
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Adrian Markham
Tenth National Bank
Markham
Biok
Eel Iudtu
Marktan
I Wis
Tas
Flex
Mom
Jack
4& Constabls
An Annoying Speed Limit and the Nose Rule
A collage of quips and anecdotes from Detroit Free Press Youth's Companion and Yonkers Statesman. A man walks ten miles to an adjoining town then jokes about a Fifteen MPH sign slowing him, while wisdom on patience and following your nose surfaces in light humor.
Too Much Competition and a Parade of Quips
A collage of brief witty exchanges and moralizing quips from various papers. Bits include a girl feeling neglected after a new baby arrives, a charity request for castoffs, a politician’s faltering pledge, a misfired humorous scene about a funnel and keyhole, a judge’s pun about a misbehaving watch, and other short vignettes on life, money, and happiness.
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Taber
Mary
Lowell Sun
Mysterious Telegraph Line Quips in Old New York Weekly
Fragmentary chatter from a New York Weekly column jokes about telegraph operators and pricing, with garbled phrases like Twenty fis tents and Year Yeu. The piece reflects playful wordplay on language rather than a clear event, relying on readers to infer humor from clipped dialogue and odd spelling.
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Canard
Leary Lajels
Mets
Preag Asso
Odd
Bay of Biscay
Ottivera
James May
Cowper Coles
Blame
Pratas
Caid
Court Martia
Belgium
Binche
Mons
M. de Fortens
Sevral Nationa!ibraries
de Kortana
Bluebird
London Chronicle
Waatdogtou Herald
England
Mr. Wilson
Ladies’ Home Journal
Detroit
Heetland
Stuc Lim
Eric
Frudden Lumber Ci
C. A. Frudden
Aclkey, Iowa
Kansas City Journal
Scott
Aittle
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Binka
Florida Times-Union
Yer-Journal Eorst Ull
Koteker
Bocker
New York Sun
Walt May
Clare
Lydia
Roxy
London
Dunish
Marchindisa
Ben
Judiciuus
Ring
Lemiper
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