Ritchie and Rivers Finish Training For July 4 Bout
San Francisco July 1 Willie Ritchie lightweight champion and foe Rivers of Los Angeles wrapped up hard training today for their twenty round bout on July 4. Both near 131 pounds within three hours before the weigh?in and will rest from now on. Betting 10 to 8, with Ritchie the favorite. Both said to be in super physical condition.
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San Francisco
Willie Ritchie
Foe Rivers
Los Angeles
Riteni
Chapman Elt'o’s late line and three at bats
Sporting editor notes Chapman's poor showing in a late game against New Orleans on May 28. In his first at bat of the third inning he hit a fly to right field, Breen and Montgomery chased it but New Orleans caught it. His second at bat yielded a base on balls and the third ended with a pop to the shortstop.
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the Constitution
Chapman
Art OW. OR
New Orleana
Lima
Breen
Montgomery
New Orleans
Tennis Postponed at Piedmont Driving Club
Georgia state tennis matches in men's doubles and mixed doubles were postponed yesterday at the Piedmont Driving Club due to rain. Grant and Thornton lead the men's doubles after a 6-4 first set win and a 7-7 second set when play stopped. Thursday will see Lansden and Smith paired with Grant and Thornton, and Muse and Carter with Stanton and Thornton.
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Piedmont
Grant
Thornton
Lansnetd
Smith
Miss Muse
Carter
Miss Stanton
Vaise Beats Bayley For Lightweight Title Decision
French Vaise of Seattle won the decision over Canadian champion Dayley in a fifteen round lightweight bout at Brig House arena. Bayley matched pace early, but Vaise broke Dayley's nose with a right in round six and maintained the advantage to secure the victory.
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Vaise
Seattle
Voxer
Ine Dayley
Brighouse Arena
Bayley
Exmoor Club Wins Crafts W Higeoins Trophy
Exmoor Golf club of four women won the Crafts W Higeoins trophy in the Women’s Western Golf Association annual tournament near Chicago on July 1 by finishing eight up to par. The Exmoor links scorecard shows 80 on a long difficult course. Mrs J G Lattimer of Homewood Country Club Chicago posted the day’s best round finishing on par and set a new women’s course record.
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Exmoor Club
Chicago
Exmoor Golf Club
Crafts W. Higeoins
Tom Morris
Exmoor Links
J. G. Lattimer
Homewood Country Club
Judge Moore Sel Wins Forest King Trophy at Olympia
Langon July 4 A New York rider won another championship at the International Verse Show in Olympia capturing the Forest King trophy for ponies 14 hands and under. His horse, Lady S aton, secured top honors in single harness, after previously earning a second prize in a related class.
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Langon
Woore
New York
Olympia
Cobb Gained Ty Cod Gains on Rival Plea Tuesday
The report notes Cobb gained and Ty Cod gained eight Beth of a rivals as the result of Tuesday events. Two hits were recorded, with attempts tied to a registrar. Jeckann did not play as the standings show team players and RR gar in a scoretable.
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Beth of
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Holmer defeats Dinning in 4 mile run match
American long distance runner Holmer beat Georg Dinning of London today in Carlisle England. The 4 mile race finished with Holmer winning by 80 yards. Holmer's time was 52 minutes 58.3 seconds.
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Dinning
Carlisle
England
Hans Holmer
Georg ® Dinning
London
Mosaic of Minor League Scores from Regional Leagues
The list details numerous baseball results across leagues such as Cotton States, Federal, American Association, International, Texas, Appalachian and more. Notable scores include Asheville 7 over, Roanoke 2, Richmond 7, Cleveland 1 over Chicago, Kansas City 6 Milwaukee 5, Owark 7 Baltimore 2, and Buffalo 14 Toronto 1.
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Owark
Baltimore
Jersey City
Providence
Toronto
Buffalo
Montreat
Rochester
Debs Leads Weston Pace Through Lima Ohio Stop
Samust BE Debs the pedestrian arrived in Lima, Ohio, late tonight, several hours ahead of Edward Payson Weston who is walking from New York to Minneapolis. Weston was between Lima and Kenton and this stop sets Debs ahead in the cross country duel.
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Ohio
Samust BE. Debs
New York
Edward Payson Weston
Minneapolis
Weston
Kenton
Women Celebrate Winning of Ballot in Chicago Parade
Chicago marks the day as 2000 women from numerous societies parade Michigan Avenue in decorated cars to celebrate the passage of equal suffrage for all statutory offices. Leading figures include Mrs Catherine Waug McCallach and Mrs Grace Wilbur Trout amid a wide coalition.
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Michigan Avenue
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McCallach
Grace Wilbur Trout
Sherman Booth
Antoinette Funk
J. Medill McCormick
Springfield‘n
Chicago Political Equality League
University of Chicago
Tulrnois Equal Suffrage Association
The
Women's Party
Texas Seeks 102 Million Penalty From Standard Oil
Texas concludes testimony in a 102.9 million penalty and ouster suit against Standard Oil Co and Texas subsidiaries. Hearings move to New York in August with possible sessions at Titusville and other eastern points. Case accuses Standard Oil entities of violating anti trust laws. includes John D. Rockefeller and Archbold among named figures.
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Texas
Standard OM Company
New York City
Titusville
Standard 61l
New York
New Jersey
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Corsicana Petroleum Company
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H.C. Falser, Jr
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil
Messrs. Archbold
Folger
Magnola
Tucks Used For Cross-Eyed People In Chicago
Chicago July 1 Tucks are being used widely among people who misdirect their gaze or misperceive vision due to convergent strabismus. Dr George A Suffa described operations tightening the opposite eye muscle, likened to adjusting suspenders, as part of a Chicago meeting prep for a national homeopathic ophthalmologic society gathering. A New York doctor, Harold Foster, reported a finger method to remove tonsils in seconds after sleep, noting strength is required.
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American Homeopathic
Suffa
Denver
General Homeopathic Society
Harold Foster
New York
Flynn denies urging violence in Paterson trial
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, IWW leader, testified she did not utter the alleged violent remarks in a mass meeting with Paterson strikers. The indictment cites statements read by her counsel. About twenty strikers who attended the meeting also testified she made no such remarks and the jury may retire this afternoon.
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N. J
Elzabeth Gurley Flynn
Industrial Workers of the World
Paterson Sith
Lady Sackville in suit over Sir John Murray Scott will
London July 1 Lady Sackville and kin face a probate suit alleging manipulation of the late Sir John Murray Scott s fortune of five million allegations of influence and coercion denied by Sackville counsel Edward Carson contends no codicil exists and that Sir John s relations with the Sackvilles were friendship not coercion Lady Sackville testifies about first meeting and reports Walter Scott s advances in court
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Str Johen
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Washington
Edward Carson
Sackvillea
Edward
Malcolm Scott
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Walter Stott
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Walter
Great Celebration Planned by Moose Men
Newport PR July celebration by Progressive party marks anniversary with Colonel Roosevelt as drawing card and other speakers. Naval review, fireworks, and a clambake for 4000 attendees planned. Roosevelt to speak on The American Navy and again later. Beveridge to speak. Conferences on economic and social topics set for Thursday.
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PR. E
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Trousevelt
Narramanset Bay
Albert 7. Beveridge
The
National Organization
Washington
Conference planned on coastwise trade facilities
New Orleans hosts a planned joint conference of governors of South Atlantic and gulf coast states and coastwise shippers of rice cotton lumber and other southern products. F H Farwell of Orange Texas acting as Governor Colquitt’s designate says most southern coast governors and prominent shippers intend to attend the meeting likely in New Orleans around September 1. The agenda emphasizes enlarging the coastwise merchant marine and likely a radical revision of merchant marine laws.
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South Atlantis
Gulf Coast
F. H. Farwell
Orange
Texas
Colquitt
Farwell
Saloons Closed in Mohave Desert After Dry Order
San Bernardino California July 1 Mohave Desert becomes dry for first time in history. Saloons along a 200 mile stretch shuttered as licenses were revoked and Needles remained the sole town with saloons. County officials moved to enforce the new dry rule amid record heat.
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Cal
Mohave
Needles
Jury Recommends Manslaughter Action Over Grade Crossing
A coroner's jury in Chicago recommended that the presidents general managers and boards of directors of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated railroad and the Aurora Elgin and Chicago railways be held for manslaughter after the grade crossing collision that killed George M Scott and his niece Mrs Harrist W Smith. It also urged release of Martin F Barry the motorman of the electric train involved in the crash.
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George M. Scott
Harrist W. Smith
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
Aurora
Elgin
Martin F. Barry
Scott
Condition of Cotton Remains Unchanged in June Reports
The cotton condition on June 23 averaged 80.9 in reports from 3900+ Journal of Commerce correspondents, up 0.4 from May and near last year’s 81.3. States show mixed changes with gains in South Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, while most districts improved after rainfall. The season runs about two weeks late due to a June cold snap, fields are small but healthy, stands are irregular from replanting, and boll weevil pressure is high in Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
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Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
McReynolds Dismisses Clayton Herrington From DOJ
San Francisco investigator Clayton Herrington, posted to the United States Department of Justice, is dismissed from federal service by Attorney General McReynolds. Herrington had been under suspension after he telegrammed President Wilson demanding McReynolds’ ouster over actions in the Diggs Caminetti and Western Fuel cases, which prompted the resignation of U.S. District Attorney John L. McNab. Herrington’s reply to the telegram was merely Telegram received. He had been active in the Diggs Caminetti white slavery probe and pressed for McReynolds’ removal due to the postponement order.
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Clayton Harrington
United States Department of Justice
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Herrington
Wilson
Diggs-Caminetti
Western Fuel Company
United States
John L. McNab
McRey Nolds
Investigation closes on Hemet Korea trust pickers expulsion
State department agents conclude their inquiry into the Hemet California expulsion of Korean trust pickers. The incident is deemed closed after Secretary Bryan received a telegram from the president of the David Lee Korean National association explaining the Koreans were not Japanese subjects since they left Korea before annexation by Japan.
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Jay
State Department
Hemet
Cal
Bryan
David Lee Korean National Association
Japan
Treasury reports 1918 surplus and Panama canal deficit
Washington July 1 Uncle Sam closed the fiscal year 1918 with a surplus of 40 083 220 dollars over ordinary receipts after excluding Panama canal and public debt. The Panama canal expenditures wiped out the surplus and created a deficit of 2 149 000. Total receipts 725 742 921. ordinary disbursements 698 699 692.
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Bam J
the Treasury
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Panama Canal
Washburn Wins Metropolitan Lawn Tennis Singles Title
Washburn of Harvard captured the metropolitan tennis singles crown at the West Side Tennis Club in New York on July 2, defeating T. R. Pell in the postponed final 1 8 6 1 9 7. The 18 year old also won the metropolitan doubles with C M Bull Jr of Crescent Athletic Club.
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New York
Watson
Harvard
West Side
T. R. Pell
C. M. Bull, Jr
Crescent Athletic Club
Federal Judge Wolverton Decrees Railroad Grant Forfeiture
Portland Oregon July Federal Judge J Charles S Wolverton signed a decree in the Oregon and California railroad grant case forfeiting 2 075 616 acres of land in the Willamette Valley held by the Southern Pacific company. The decree cites the failure and refusal of the railroad and its successor to convey the land to settlers at 32 50 an acre as stipulated by Congress. The case now goes to the United States Supreme Court.
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Ore
J.charles S. Wolverton
Oregon and California Railroad
Willamette Valley
Southern Pacific Company
Oregon and California Railroad Company
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Harris Takes Oath as Census Director
Washington July 1 Special Ww J Harris today took the oath and began his duties as director of the census by holding a reception in his office, which had been filled by the clerks with fragrant American Beauty roses and shaking hands with each of the one thousand employees of the bureau The oath to execute the constitution was administered to him at 11 o clock in the office of Mr Redfield secretary of commerce by Warren R Choate chief clerk to the commissioner of corporations
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J. Harris
Bureau
Mr. Redfield
Commerce
Warren R. Choate
Corporations
Caleb Ridley Lecture in Buenos Aires Canceled
The planned visit by Dr. Caleb Ridley to Buenos Aires on July 1 was canceled by order of the Minister of Marine. The Argentine training ship Presidente Sarmiente was associated with the itinerary, and the cancellation reflects official action from the marine ministry.
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Buenos Ayres
N. S
Presidente Sarminente
Sarmiente
Indicted Officials from Pakuska and Kansas City Arrested
Eleven to twelve officials and attorneys tied to Uncle Sam Oil and local Osage council affairs were arrested on federal indictments following a grand jury session in the past days. All released on bonds of $2000 each. The charges stem from improper influence in Osage council lease approvals covering about 480000 acres. The case relates to former Interior Secretary Walter Fischer’s removal of the council amid lease approvals.
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Pakluska
Okla
Kans City
John Leahy
W. T. Leahy
Pakhuska
H. H. Tucker
Kansas City
Uncle Sam of
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Albert Wilson
Uncle Sam
John Palmer
Osage
Wesley Mf. Dial
Osage Council
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Eugene Scott
W. A. Matthews
Ed Brown
Paktuska
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Walter Fisher
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Uncle Sam Company
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