1908 baseball season opens with stars and scandals
Baseball news of the 1908 season highlights the Dizzy Dean trade to the Chicago Cubs and Joe DiMaggio’s final salary concession. It also notes early performances by Bob Feller and Jim Bagby, Rip Collins’ comeback, and a grim safety feature urging caution on American roads.
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Mporte
Dizzy Dean
Chicago Cubs
Joe DiMaggo
Colonel Ruppert
Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Dizzy
DiMaggio
Cincinnati
Bob Feller
Cleveland Indians
St Louis Browns
Jim Bagby
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankers
Fragmented OCR Note Highlights Unclear Readings
An OCR readout presents garbled text with broken phrases about people, events, and actions. Key names and details are missing, leaving an unclear fragment that cannot be reliably interpreted without the original source.
Humorous Minute: Amatuer Hour and Holiday Banter
A fragmented humor page recalls lines from an Amateur Hour sketch where contestants joke about being hangry and mix up words with quirky mispronunciations. A sailor in a seaside tale questions the wind jammed ship while a woman shows off a spring hat. A street scene features a used car pitch and a comic kiss misadventure ending with a witness claiming self defense.
Frontier Postoffice recalls self service mail system
Early Wall residents collected mail from grain sacks at the general store after the Frontier Postoffice adopted a self service method. The wall mail sorting occurred on the floor, with residents handling letters and packages themselves. The Wall fire station opened in 1067.
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Frontier Postoffice
Wall
Dakota City
Old Mers Say
Geeral
First Nighter Lady Heads Margot Cast
A fragmented preview notes Margot as leading the first night cast with Rie and Marge Qirey in a production likely titled First Nighter. Azan Joma is listed with a seequarter projection, suggesting technical or scheduling notes for the show.
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Lady Heads
Margot
Marge Qirey
Azan Joma
Peabody Sul Ross Expedition Shifts to New Site
Sul Ross archaeologist J Charles Kelley reports the expedition moving to an alternate site after earlier digs yielded limited Indian artifact returns but produced substantial scientific data and findings for study.
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Peabody-Sul Ross
J. Charles Kelley
Sul Ross
Remember This When You Need a Laxative
An old advertisement note extols Black Draught as a good laxative. It emphasizes persistence, claiming Nature provides a better aid when other remedies fail.
Rattles Form Eye catching Longhorn Tourist Camp Sign
A sign at Longhorn Tourist Camp in Laredo uses 531 rattles killed in the past four years. Ranchman RM Clihon of Webb County mounted the rattles on a golden oak background with a 36 inch depth and a rattled border. The top border carries ATTENTION RANCHMEN, and a second ad promotes Genuine Mountain Cedar fence posts from Graves Lbe Haw Co of Uvalde, Texas.
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Laredo
Longhorn
RM. Clihon
Webb ‘County
Graves Lbe. & Haw. Co
Uvalde
Texas
Sign Riddled With Odd Letters Showcases Hidden Message
A damaged OCR fragment describes a sign with the word Mann rendered in tall letters. Rattles are mentioned and the word appears centered, suggesting a puzzling or coded display encountered by the observer. Details are sparse, but the scene implies a deliberate signmaker choice or vandalism.
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C_D WOOD ELEN FRIEND
Rip Collin
Reds
Collins
Oacke
Lesmens
China
Barcelona
Knights of Yesterday
Knights of the
Walter Damrosch
Amertex
Rand
Wiven
Ba Ogee
Holt End
Ted
Fn Tae
Alanithy
Bil
Mandy
Rastus
Black Man
Aloot
Baby
CHIX
Leddy
Home People
Adans
Dom Adams
Daver
Magnolia Petroleum Products
Mobligns
Mobilell
Henning Motors
Richland Tires
Magnolia
College Avenue
Ith Bt
Cash
Carly
Matt Smith
Business and Professional Directory
Alan R. Fraser
Ween
Jae Eaw
Alpine
J.W. Shepperd
H.R. Gard
Wiens
A. M. Turney
Otis Turner
Noch
Tess
Apia
Toma
Mae M. Ament
Bomm 6
Berd Bldg
Alpine, Texas
Neal
Alpine Motor CO
NOCO
Eral Autor
Colden
Big Bend Feed Co
T. A. Beard
Orient Dairy
WL Matthews
Prop
Crepe Ques
Anan, Pallehen, Wists Blade
Peter G. K. Lange
Mildred Witwer
Ma Home Institution
LFING
W. G. Fielder Mobilgas Mobilet
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