Baseball season begins in earnest in 1912
New York April 11 after a month of practice and exhibitions the two major leagues start the championship season of 1912. The sixteen teams begin the race with National League matchups including Philadelphia at Boston New York at Brooklyn Chicago at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh at St Louis. American League openers set St Louis at Chicago Detroit at Cleveland Washington at Philadelphia and Boston at New York.
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New York
Philadelphia
Boator
New ‘York
Brooklyn
Chicago
Cincinnati
Pitsburg
St. Louis
Louis
Detroit
Cleveland
Washington
Boston
Do You Smoke Drink or Eat Too Much Breakfast Banquet
An odd morning after tone promotes MI-DNA stomach tablets as a cure for indigestion and stomach distress. The ad cites a lodge banquet scene and a breakfast query as setup. H. R. Palmer & Sons offer the product on a money back plan, large box for fifty cents.
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Brown
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Michigan Claimed for Taft at Republican State Convention
Bay City Michigan April 11 Republicans met in the state convention to choose delegates-at-large for the national convention in Chicago. Early proceedings favored Taft supporters who aimed to name delegates and craft resolutions despite Governor Osborn led Roosevelt opposition.
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Bay City
Mich
Michigan
Father of Field Hospitals Retires
Washington April 11 Col John Van Rensselaer Hoff of the United States Army Medical Corps ends a forty year active career by retirement for age. He created the United States Field Hospital as it exists today and helped develop sanitation in military medicine. A New York native, Hoff joined after the Civil War and served in camps during the Spanish American War, led as chief surgeon on Gen Chaffee’s staff in China during the Boxer disturbances, and was military observer at the Russo Japanese War in 1904.
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Washington, D. C
John van Rensselaer Hoff
United States Army Medical Corps
Army
Hott
United States Field Hospital
Col. Hott
New York State
Spain
Gen. Chaffee
Meklly
United States
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic Promises Growth or Money Back
An Athens Georgia store advertises Rexall 93 Hair Tonic claiming it revives living hair roots, promotes circulation, and nourishes follicles. It promises to return customers’ money if not pleased and lists two sizes priced 50 cents and one dollar.
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Rexall
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Athens, Ga
Athens Prominent in Industrial Index Shows Clarke County Growth
The Columbus Industrial Index highlights Athens prominence with bond votes for a $200,000 courthouse and jail in Clarke County. It notes plans for Y M C A facilities, new gas and wholesale drug ventures, road bonds, and school use of surplus land.
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Athens
Columbus
North
South
Alabama
Gorgia
Iinance
Clarke County
J. Me Ftadsson
Board of County Commissioners
J. M. Hodgson
Clarke
City of
Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
J .M. Hodgson
J. T. Pittard
Winterville
W. S
Oglethorpe County
Athens, Ga
Athens Gas Company
Capital
Rowland Wholesale Grocery Company
Negroes of Georgia Now Accumulate Property Rapidly
Georgia negroes are rapidly increasing wealth with about 2.6 million dollars added yearly. Tax compilations show 1911 valuations at 34,022,379 dollars, up from 32,224,037 in 1910, with 119,871 paying full taxes and 4,685 in default.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Governor Jos M Brown Acknowledged Lawyer Of Georgia
Atlanta April 11. Governor Jos M Brown, though not a lawyer by image, was admitted to Georgia bar in Cherokee superior court on August 3 1873. His legal studies in his father and brother offices earned praise from Judge Knight and General W Phillips. The article notes Brown later pursued Harvard law but left after less than a year.
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Atlanta
Jos. M. Brown
Georgia
Wiclent
Govenor
Brown
Cherokee Superior Court
United States
Julius L. Brown
Noel P. Knight
Blue Ridge
Atlanta Constitution
Knight
Governor Brown
W. Phillips
Col. C. ‘D
Os Oe
Tlips
W. D. Anderson
Ly Litchfield
W. H. Simmons
Donda
Mr. Brown
Jos. M Brown
Col
Chas. Philips
Marietta
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Law
Harvard
Too Much Starch A Food Perennial in Early Text
A narrative recounts a Georgia railroad career and a case of mistaken career aim due to eye trouble. It notes a man born of a Western and Atlantic line and his rise from bill clerk to traffic manager, also revealing he is a lawyer. The piece also includes letters praising Grape Nuts and postum with health claims and a brief theater notices section.
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Western and Atlantic Railroad
Nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis
Brown
Western and Atlantic
Georgia
Coures
Asheville
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Taft
Talmage Hardware Company
Prince Avenue
Tatoga
Sade
I. P. Canning
M. L. Troutman
A. M. Soule
F. A. Lipscomb
C. H. Phinizy
T. H. Nickerson
L. F. Edwards
Prince Avenue Presbyterian Church
Davison-Nicholson Company
Kaley
DORSEY @ FUNHKENSTEIN
Clayton Street
The
Procter &Gamble Distributing Co
Emma Carus
the Lifer
Lulu Glasser
Dorothea Sadler
Felice Morris
Edmund Hearden Fin
Thomas Jefferson
David Higgins
Piney Ridge
Gertrude Elliott
Charles Frohman
Thomas E. Shea
William Allen White
Walker Whiteside
London
Margaret Mayo
Pak Camean
MAL Ctadus
A Sanderson
Donald Brian
Charles Exgienenn
Ke. A
Wish Wynne
Billie Burke
Paris
Ruin
England
Trgg
Sete
Ay Ae
Simone
America
Pauline la Vérne
John William James
Omaha
Nev
American Theater Stock Company
L. S. Sire
George Bronson Howard
Hassard Short
David Belasco
Alice Bradley
Emmett Corrigan
Robert McWade, Jr
Milton Sills
Emma Dunn
Gladys Hanson
Marchioness of
Dufferin
Flora Davis
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