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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1920
Page
8
A visiting speaker addressed public school pupils about the heart, describing it as a powerful, vital organ that beats continuously whether awake or asleep, stressing its importance and mystery to young listeners.
Yale athletic director Dr. Albert H Sharpe rejects Harvard’s proposal to replace game time with a set number of plays. He argues teams gaining possession should determine play counts and mentions alternatives to curb stale play, while criticizing changes to goalpost width and scoring after touchdowns.
Hot Springs Mar 11 Third base man Vitt's refusal to report angered Manager Barrow leading to no trade with the Boston club Vitt demanded 1500 more than last season and got 500. Barrow weighed swaps with Bodie Pratt Ge eon Tobin but Yankees rejected a Browns deal hoping Vitt remains unsettled.
Australia has produced many boxing champions who toured abroad including Lew Eawards and Ritchie Mitchell who fell in their first local engagements. English fighter Uwards fought mostly in Australia, and legends like Bob Fitzsimmons are part of a strong boxing tradition in the island continent known for athletic fans.
A young widow, newly remarried, confides that her second husband is extremely fastidious and eats almost nothing. She recalls her first husband, who died, used to eat everything she cooked. When a friend asks if she told him, she confirms she did and wonders if that behavior explains the issue.
Jack Flynn has been named manager of the Springfield baseball club. He previously managed in the old merger league in 1916, the Lawrence club in the New England league in 1917, New London in 1918, and Waterbury last year before a salary dispute led to his departure. Dan Howley praises Flynn as a top minor league mind, and Flynn joins a roster of Eastern league managers including Howley, Walsh, Bender, Daley, and Evers noted in the region.
Inter factory foremen of the Industrial department of the M C A plan a meeting at The Strate lo on March 19. F C Hendehschott of the New York arson Company and managing director of the National Association of Corporation Schools will speak on The Progress of Industrial Democracy.
In Saranac Lake on March 11 the Adirondack fur trade reveals roughly one million dollars earned for winter raw furs. Leading dealers estimate a single furrier paid about forty five thousand dollars for pelts while the region’s trade shows strong demand and high values. A quirky kitchen anecdote about Newlywed and a diploma adds local color as readers note population growth often outpacing literacy.
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