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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1916
Page
4
New York beat Chicago 1 to 0 in a tight series opener as Perritt held firm in relief and Fisher was struck out with the bases loaded. St. Louis edged Brooklyn in fourteen innings 2 to 2, with Dell fanning ten as Long and Bescher sparked a late rally for the visitors.
In Cleveland Speaker and Crowell powered a 6 hit effort as Cleveland beat Philadelphia 6 5. Speaker had five hits in five at bats with two runs driven in and three scored. In Chicago the White Sox beat Washington 2 1 in the ninth with Dumont driving in the winning run. Boston stopped St Louis 4 2 in ten innings to halt the Browns streak.
Chicago June 10. Tris Speaker tops the American league averages at .369 with Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb tied for second at .327. Speaker also leads in runs and total bases. Cobb heads base stealing with 12. Graney and others lead home runs. Detroit tops team batting. In the National League Daubert leads in batting, Williams and Zimmerman tie for home runs and total bases. New York leads team hitting. Also update from Wheeling on primary contests showing Robinson leading Lilly for governor and Sutherland ahead of Hite for senator.
Local forecast calls for scattered showers across West Virginia and Virginia likely Sunday and Monday. Rain chances are low to moderate with brief wet periods and mild temperatures shaping the weekend outlook.
The walking fern sprouts green heart shaped fronds that bend and touch earth launching new plantlets. Buds form at frond tips and develop roots linking the colony as a wandering, native east United States species rarely cultivated.
A photograph from a voyage from British Columbia to San Francisco captured an albatross in the act of a downward wing stroke, explaining swift flight hewing to unseen motions. The shot shows each wing about five feet long and suggests repeated strokes not seen by the naked eye. Also noted are two new farming implements: a hoe with a seed box and a shovel with an extra grip.
B S Coe of Williamson Mingo County West Virginia files for full discharge from all debts. Hearing set June 15 1916 in Bluefield West Virginia with notice to creditors by the clerk.
Property listing shows Lots 8 9 and 10 in section 843 north of Shenandoah street west of East River avenue offered for cash. Contact C. L. Barrier at 108 Walnut Street or phone 716 for price. Also classified: electric cash register $250 obo in care Telegraph. saddle nag seven years old, bay color. pony with cart harness and saddle. farm for sale.
Canadians held a vital post under heavy shellfire as Colonel Shaw and about seventy or eighty men fought hand to hand with Germans. The colonel was killed, the successor urged retreat, two escaped, and the major fired and then dropped. Americans aided, a captain from New York led the post and was killed. The assault collapsed under a battalion’s assault amid a maple corpse.
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