Veteran stars resist youth in big league ranks
Review of aging baseball greats like Walter Johnson Ty Cobb Eddie Collins Tris Speaker who remain key figures in the majors while younger players enter the scene. Johnson struggles in a New York bombardment as the Yankees win easily. Cobb and Speaker persist with long careers as managers and outfielders, shaping teams that still rely on veteran leadership amid inevitable decline.
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Walter Johnson
Ty Cobb
Eddie Collins
New York Yankees
Yankees
Twohguer
Wiieh
Ty Cobie
Detroit
Tigers
Ann
Eddie Colitis
Fast
White Box
Team Io
Comiskey
Trna Speaker
Trieo
Cleveland
Bant
Indians
Twenty Years Ago Anniversary and Other News
Over 400 Odd Fellows attended their anniversary at the Blks Opera House. Emory and Henry College beat Graham 12 to 1. Ten years ago J W Slaith of Bluefield was electrocuted at Coaldale tunnel. J B Wagner and bride arrived in Graham to settle. Mrs Sarah A Miller of Roanoke died. Sermon at Bland Street Methodist stressed home training as the key institution. Ireland seen as political exemplar in future, Miss Mary MacSwiney comments. Los Angeles reports $110 000 paid for a famous bull.
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Blks Opera House
Battle
Roanoke
Norfolk, and Western
Emory and Henry College
Graham
J. W. Slaith
Bluefield
Coaldale Tunnel
J.B. Wagner
Bride
de Land
Fla
Sarah A. Miller
Mra. B
Haltoneee
Fables on Health
Blisters form from shoe friction and can become painful sores. The article suggests removing blister fluid with a threaded needle and vaseline coated muslin, then daily treatment with a preparation of collection, castor oil, soft turpentine. Hands and feet blisters may be pricked with a clean needle.
Editorial on 100th Division training and civilian duty
Col. Waldron notes West Virginia leads the nation at 100 percent Army training camp enrollment as others follow. The piece lauds citizen soldiers, discipline, and patriotism, urging young men to embrace training for duties to family and country. It also reflects on marriage trends, domestic life, and a warning about crossing railway tracks.
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W. H. Waldron
Huntington
West Virginia
America
Fairmont
Weat
Texas
Maine
Dluba
Naghvilla
Telegraph Ticklers In Chicago and the River Jump Incident
Fragmented items report a man with four hundred thousand dollars leaping into a river in Chicago amid high tensions and humorous notes about various city and national curios. The piece blends anecdotes, overheard remarks, and social quips with no single coherent narrative.
Fragmented Dialogue Mixed With Local Trade Snippets
A collage of old time exchanges and street scenes includes a nervous remark about false hair and a tactful salesman offering shade choices. It features a bystander’s quips about a mule, a Chinese grocer’s fruit card mispricing, a barter at Milligan’s shop, and a druggist’s remark about selling the wrong item. The piece captures dialect and social quirks of a bygone era.
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Sul
Sam
Ascou
Exchange snippets spark quick wits across papers
A collage of quips from papers across the country laments politics, echoes of reform, and playful wordplay. A radio play in New York is set to air while audiences wait for applause.
Do their laws over-regulate the American people
A Washington interview with Attorney General Sonn G Sargent explores lawmaking versus enforcement and the role of prohibition He defends enforcement while noting laws expand with national growth He cites more arrests as evidence of enforcement and discusses personal conduct and public tolerances
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Washington
United States
Sonn G. Sargent
Wmy
Department of Justice
Sargent
Self Control and the Limits of Fearful Power
A discussion on parenting and teaching by fear, noting that fear-based methods fail to teach self-control in both children and adults. The piece argues that true efficiency cannot be sustained by coercion, cites economic behavior under capitalism and the frailties of French and German politics, and highlights the potential impact of new women in the American diplomatic service. It closes with a critique of Coolidge’s handshake policy and the value of personal contact.
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Sons Ond
Aimployerr
Pord
Lucille Anderson
Columbus
Berne
Miss Anderson
Switzerland
Ife
Coolidge
Hyde
Parade tribute to Marquis wheat inventor faces pension debate
Charles Saunders, the man behind Marquis wheat, is pensioned at 6000 a year by the Canadian government, a sum critics say is cheap for a lifelong inventor. The piece contrasts government support with tax revenue from beneficiaries and touches on traffic regulation debates in Rome and a ten year desertion tale of Paul Graove disguising as a woman for survival.
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Charles Saunders
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