Whirlwinds Clash With Battery C in Twilight League
The Mill Tolan Ende tops National India Rubber 5 to 2 as Bill Cooper stars in the field. Cooper, ex Rogers High athlete, makes several key plays including a running one hand grab and a peg to cutoff a runner at the plate. Leo Menard leads NI R with a double and two singles, while Regnier and McFee add important hits. The Champions end the first half with three wins and three losses. Sal Alesio's Whirlwinds face Battery C tonight on the Common.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Cooper
Joe Marshall
National India Rubber Co
Cooper
Rogers High
Joe Kelley
Ma ‘Ng
Smusz
Gladue
Bull
Leo Menard
Andrad
Herb Remick
Bennie Smusz
Jacobson
Red
Sunderland
Cranston
McFee
Point Hammers
Newport
Billie Bull
Mosie Moore
Eddie Menard
Babe” Ethier
Regnier
EL. Menard
Boston Red Sox
Leo
Honey” Menard
Rubber Workers
McFee, Sunderland
Marshall
Early disinfection pivots in city water history
The report traces 19th century waterborne cholera outbreaks and early filtration efforts in Hamburg and Altona, noting unfiltered versus filtered supplies. It highlights the shift toward disinfection beginning with chlorine in the early 20th century, crediting Houston McGovern and George A. Johnson for pivotal 1904 1908 work using bleaching powder to purify Jersey City water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jere Frankland
Eholerain
Banburg
Filtraon
Hamburg
Altona
Hite
Houston
McGovern
England
George A. Johnson
Jersey City
New York Times
Inventions Babson predicted for wealth growth
Economist Roger W. Babson outlined twenty ideas to reach a million dollars including plant fertilizer pills, a gearless self-parking rotary engine auto, a helicopter for rapid city landings, children's gliders, fog piercing guidance for air navigation, talking books, flexible unbreakable materials, cold light, and mahogany lumber enhanced by dyes to boost value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger W. Babson
Lions habits and occasional man eating noted
Lions prey on young antelopes zebras buffalos and giraffes in the wild and will eat recently killed flesh in captivity. The king of beasts has been recorded attacking humans with examples from Africa including two man eaters in Uganda railway construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iu Os
Nong
W. Reid Blair
Africa
Uganda
Pathfinder Magazine
Small Potatoes From Haley Fiske On Savings And Reputation
Haley Fiske recalls a Brooklyn YMCA address claiming big business profits come from liberal spending while tiny economies destroy goodwill. He cites a Scotch barber tale to illustrate how small cuts can inflate costs and harm values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haley Fiske
Insurance Fame
Brooklyn
Lberal
First Municipal Water Purification in America
The New York Health department notes the 1986 mission of James P. Kirkwood to Europe to study water purification. His detailed report became a classic among engineers. In 1872 a Poughkeepsie plant built from his plans marked America's first practical municipal water purification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Health Department
St. Louis
James P. Kirkwood
Europe
Kirkwood
Poughkeepsie
America
Unrepose Prose of a Cat on a Garden Wall
A Pathfinder Magazine excerpt notes cats meeting on a garden wall with comic barks and yawls. It likens Tommy and his Tabby to suitors, while a kitten courts by a coy smile and a display of teeth amid imagined coldness rather than love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Pathfinder Magazine
Five eggs puzzle sparks clever divide by one
A man with clean character asks a riddle about dividing five eggs among five people so each would get one and still one remains. He finally explains the dish itself is taken by one, solving the paradox.
First European Colony in China Established at Macao
The article notes Macao as the first European colony in China, a Portuguese possession founded in 1657 with two and a half square miles of territory. It mentions the permanent occupation of Macao and nearby Verde Taipa and Coloane islands, not confirmed by treaty until 1987, and references gas and oil pricing concepts intertwined with the colonial history.
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Chine
China
Macao
Wese
Verde
Taipa
Geloane
Portugal
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Chit
Me Ton Te Tetegi Ottis
Delco Superay Indies
Democratic Town Committee
Bernard M. Callan
Railread
Croade Street
Warren
R. L
Cornelius Harrington
Ney
A. Frea
E. A. Skinner
Hope St
Bristol
R. I
Mill Tolan Ende
Whirlwinds
Battery C
C. W. Mill
O. le Clair
Burton Street
O. M. Bailey, JR
National Radio Institute
P. G Box
Bristol, R. I
New York
Providence
New York Pier 14
North River
Ton Bt
Buffingtons Drug Store
Maisanos
THE
New Haven
Reginald
Colt Farm
Jersey
John
Te Alor
Oldémobile
F.e. Kb
Lancing, Mich
Vermette Brothers
Hope Street
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