Underwood Veneer Wins 1940 Softball Crown at Playoff
Regular Inter state league season ends Sunday with Bessemer vs Montreal at Massin Field. Davis, Montreal and Bessemer have playoff berths. Penokee, Marenisco and Saxon vie for the fourth spot. Underwood Veneer Company Ten clinched the title by defeating White Birch Inn in last weekend’s playoff.
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U. Bergman
Osseeeu
Marenisco
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E Kangas
D. Winkowski
Bessemer High School Faces Uncertain Football Week
Coach Bob Reihsen reviews a thin pool of returnees and new players as Bessemer High begins football practice. Potentially moving the Marquette game to Massie Field could give Bessemer four home games and three away, with open dates and unknowns shaping the season. Local softball events and a four-team tournament also unfold as fraternals and boosters push local sports coverage.
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Hurley Star Calligaro Leads Wisconsin Football Hopefuls
Hurley high school star Leonard Calligaro is among UW Madison varsity candidates under coach Harry Stuhldreher. The six week summer session saw Calligaro pass all studies, assuring his eligibility for the fall team alongside other hopefuls. About 700000 Germans are classified as racially Jewish.
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Seven Rules Governing State High School Football
The Michigan High School Athletic Association enforces three weeks of practice before the first fall game, now in its fourth year. Key points: no practice before September 1. in Upper Peninsula practice may start August 19 21 with first games later in September. scrimmages only between bona fide high school teams. no All-Star participation during or after season. if practice starts before school, it must occur at the after school site. no football camps.
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Sleepy Yatchak joins Milwaukee Chiefs for training camp
Vincent Sleepy Yatchak left Weyauwega Wisconsin to join the Milwaukee Chiefs pro football team for a three week intensive training before the season. He previously played rugby in Canada for three seasons and starred in Wakefield and Moorhead State Teachers College. Several Milwaukee teammates came from Canada and most players were recruited from Minnesota Illinois and Wisconsin universities. Ruts of the old Santa Fe trail, opened in 1821 by Captain William Becknell, are still visible in New Mexico.
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New Mexico
Three Intersectional Tilts For Wolverine Gridders
Michigan reveals an Ocean to Ocean 1940 football schedule with Cal in Berkeley and Harvard in Cambridge plus home games against Michigan State Illinois Pennsylvania Northwestern and a season closer at Columbus. The slate includes Minnesota and Ohio State as key intercity clashes. Captain Evvy Evasheski predicts no ties, and alumni across California and the West Coast show strong interest in the Cal game.
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Callifornia
The Kentucky rifle origins and rise in America
The Kentucky rifle did not originate in the South but grew from eastern Pennsylvania forges. Lancaster and York county gunshops perfected the American rifle, used by Daniel Boone in Kentucky, and linked to a Lancaster gunsmith.
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York Counties
United Press
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Kentucky
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Berks County
War era tuberculosis deaths rise despite wartime effort
As deaths from tuberculosis lag behind increasing wartime deaths, the piece notes a global rise in TB fatalities during World War I and warns that without intensified fight, a twenty year regression will be documented again.
Canada’s iron and steel output hits all time wartime record
Canada’s primary iron and steel production climbs to a new peak driven by wartime demand. Industry data show record output levels as government needs and military supply push mills to operate at high capacity. Demand from defense contracts supports sustained growth for steelmakers.
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