Expelled club owner claims pennant fixed
Former Vernon club owner Maier accused the Pacific Coast League of fixing the 1916 pennant race to prevent Vernon from winning. He cites alleged league manipulation, including a Los Angeles player pressured to lose, and notes his expulsion from league membership. league officials dismissed the charges as unfounded.
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Ae Seney Errs
Mater
Vernon
Maier
A.T. Baum
League
Crandall
Davis
Washington
Walter Johnson
Detroit
Oakland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Directorate split over salary cap vote in Portland
Three clubs besides his own ran over the salary limit. Judge McCredie of Portland was the only member of the directorate who voted with me against reducing the salary limit.
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McCredie
Portland
Stranger Steers Kindness To An Exhausted Horse On Sixth Ave
A New York Herald account recalls an old burdened horse pulling a packed express wagon on Sixth Avenue near Thirty Ninth Street. A quiet stranger intervenes, rebukes the abusive driver, helps restore the horse, and offers humane restraint, while the driver’s curses fade as the animal finds a moment of rest.
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New York Herald
Little Micker
Thirty-ninth Street
al- Wwaya
Tay
Elmal
Cirione
Sixth Avenue
Iron in New Zealand iron sand at Taranaki yields pig iron
Large iron deposits exist in New Zealand notably in iron sand near New Plymouth. Early attempts to produce pig iron in commercial quantities began in 1848 with limited success. A recently completed plant produced a few tons of high quality pig iron, with samples sent to England for testing. In 1914 imports totaled 10,805 tons, US providing 85 and UK 9,284 tons.
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Taranaki
New Plymouth
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England
Iran
United States
United Kingdom
Meaderville Tournament Entries Open For Boxing And Wrestling
Meaderville Young Men's club opens entries for their annual box high and wrestling tourney to be held in Leonard Yard gym on February 19. Entries come from outside the city. more entrants could extend the event to two nights. Each wrestler has ten minutes per bout. boxing uses three rounds. The tourney follows American Athletic Union rules. Also notes the 1917 Sporting Record book by T Andrews, including boxers like Les Darcy and Jimmy Wilde. Moha and Brown draw in Racine.
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Meaderville Young Men's Club
Leonard Yard
American Athletic Union
T. Andrews
Les Darcy
Jimmy Wilde
Port
Bulgaria Replies on Peace Conditions From Sofia
Sofia Premier Radoslavoff has handed to neutral diplomats Bulgaria’s reply to the entente note on peace terms. The text will be published on Wednesday.
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London
Sofia
Haya
Radoslavoff
Bulgaria
Seawant in Early New York Economy
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt details seawant or wampum as a medium of exchange between whites and Indians, and among whites, in colonial New York. It notes merchants on Long Island, Indians trading skins and fish for seawant, and 1769 white craftsmen making wampum. Two shell varieties existed, black and white, with fixed penny values. the city regulated current value and quality.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Long Island
New York ‘City
Seawant
Dutch India Company
Aid to Machinists Helps Watch Progress Closely
Machinists at work now use magnifying mirrors to observe fine operations with greater care and precision. This adjustment aims to improve accuracy in detailed tasks and quality of output.
Balanced Turkish blend comforts after Fatima smoking
The Turkish blend is balanced, making Fatima's blend comfortable during and after use. The phrasing emphasizes comfort and continuity of experience for smokers.
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Fatima
Baseball Musings and War Echoes In 1916 Style
A long reflective piece blends sports nostalgia with wartime imagery. It recalls pitchers like Tom Rogers and Frank Chance era anecdotes, muses on courage, and muses on the fate of players as years pass, tying baseball lines to broader conflict and ambition.
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Wood
Frank Chance
P. le
Cubs
Chance
Frank
Everybody Rides and Father’s Temperamental Daughter
A fragmentary item notes RAY L MOPPMAN and a sedan or brougham in a 19th century road scene. The text is garbled but suggests a story about a father and daughter and a speedy vehicle, with implied travel on a highway.
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Ray L Moppman
Sen
Bells and morals in Shakespeare and Dickens echoed in Cornwall
The fragment discusses bells as symbols in literature, referencing Shakespeare's King John and Dickens's Ralph Nickleby. It notes a Cornwall belief that bells from Bottreaux Boscastle once heard at sea may still ring beneath storms, tying metal, faith, and fate to coastal lore.
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Bella
Dell
John
Hubert
Charles Dickens
Ralph Nickleby
Cornwall
England
Bottreaux
Boscastle
Botteaux
Time Honored Phase and The Pickwick Papers Origins
The article traces early references to The Pickwick Papers dating from 1887 in Captain Marryat’s Snarley Vow and The Dog Fiend of 1896, noting Moggy Salls-Burs discussing Vanslyperken and a later Kipling allusion to a descendant of the Dog Fiend in Rudyard Kipling’s articles on the Battle of Jutland.
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Snarley
Moggy Salls- Burs
Vanslyperken
Rudyard Kipling
Jutland
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