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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
4
Umpire Billy Evans recalls a disputed ninth inning play where a wet spit ball caused a high throw hit into the stands. The umpire ruled based on ground rule text allowing two bases, a decision later commended by the league president and adopted by others.
Coach Jack Moakley of Cornell celebrated his fifty third birthday and eighteenth year at the university as his cross country squads won 15 races and captured the intercollegiate track and field games BOVE Thief.
East players show interest in Pacific coast measures to introduce a season long most valuable player emblem. Points earned for performances will decide the winner, with tied or close races expected as the coast rivals push for the honor.
A newspaper note warned that cutting 25-cent seats at major league parks would anger fans, especially younger attendees. Office workers struggle to secure sunlit seats as prices rise, with four bites seen as a hardship.
A collage of notes on golf fear of a squirrel boxing and wrestling in college arenas. Mentions Harvard football training, Bill Carrigan retirement helping seven AL clubs, umpires not wearing masks, and Swedish athletes. Comments on baseball figures Christy Mathewson Honus Wagner and Stallings signings. A blend of sports humor and veteran insights across many names and eras.
The article discusses a flexible fashion trend with no strict tailor rules for coats and skirts, favoring plain fabrics like gingham linen and white combined bodices. It notes a shift from tailored suits to sports dresses, featuring plaited skirts, striped fabrics, and white cotton bodices, with practical, demi-season outfits for children and upcoming spring sewing.
The Wyoming Fourteenth Legislature endorsed a presidential proclamation to sever diplomatic ties with Germany and pledged support to Wilson. It laid on the table House Bill 170 creating post 1918 dry status, and listed bills signed by the Governor including irrigation, banking, and education measures.
Laramie state news reports the university planning a debating team, the Ivinson Memorial hospital near completion, and a new county agent for Park County. Other notes include a wool industry car tour, Wolf sightings near Kemmerer, and a Cheyenne post office robbery investigation.
The House committee of the whole recommends indefinite postponement for House bill 80 which would bar state officers from any public printing done outside Wyoming. The Senate tabled Senate file 29 on second reading forbidding state officials and employees from any interest in all leases.
A rear collision of two Burlington trains in Corinth, Montana left two men dead and a third severely injured. Ray J. Burnell, 22, and R. C. Daughterty, both from Sheridan, were crushed beneath an engine. Burnell was killed and Daughterty is not expected to survive. An unidentified man also died.
In Wheatland several children show a peculiar illness thought to be the sore mouth disease seen in cattle. Doctors believe the children contracted the ailment from milk of diseased cows. Physicians admit being baffled and say they have not encountered this disease before.
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