Lefty Grove Tops Records As Pitching Great Of 1928
Lonaconing Md native Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia Athletics sets new big league marks with a 31 win 4 loss season and an .885 winning percentage leading both leagues for three straight years. He also fans five in a 17 pitch game and maintains a three year average of .834 the highest ever. Grove discusses cigars and hunting in winter leisure.
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Philadelphia Athletics
Lonaconing
Lefty
Grove
Joe Wood
Boston
Athletics
Cleveland
Robert Grove
Young
Alexander
Walsh
Matthewson
Johnson
Havana
Rosellen Finds Joy in Reading Through Choice
A mother learns Rosellen, a college-educated father’s daughter, resists books until she selects her own reading. The shift comes when she is allowed to pick from the family and school libraries, teaching the value of guided, choice-based reading for developing good citizens through early school programs and kindergartens.
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Rosellen
Mary
Dorothy
Sve
National Kindergarten Association
West
Fortieth Street
New York
Coconut Cultivation Yields 80 to 100 Nuts per Tree
The article says a mature coconut tree produces about 80 to 100 nuts annually and the fruit is eaten both ripe and green.
Spider-Crab Hides from Devilfish Using Seaweed Camouflage
The spider-crab disguises its shell with seaweed and sponges to blend in and evade the arch-enemy the devilfish in its coastal habitat.
The Secret Six exposes city corruption and underworld power
A Pastime feature previews Life in the raw on Oct 23 24 detailing how gang leaders seize control through crime, bribery, and political manipulation. Wallis Beery as Scorpio leads a web of vice with Lewis Stone Margare Rambeau Jean Harlow and others portraying reporters and a doomed heroine in a dramatic fight against lawlessness.
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Underworld
Histor
Wallace Beers
Scorpio
Lewis Stone
Newton
Margare Rambeau
John Mack Brown
Clark Gable
Lawless
Jean Harlow
Hell's Angels
Bristol Fourth of July Echoes From a Patriot Town
Readable reminiscence of Bristol July Fourth celebrations with parades under Col Charles Sherry, Joe Green band, and the town hall as era memories recall firecrackers, sweets stands, and a love of the old town’s music and oratory.
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Reynolds
Josephus Gooding
Sidney DéWolf
Major Munro
Washington
Newport
Guy Fawkes
Armory Hall
King Philips
Evers
High
Hope
Bradford
Church
Elisha Wardwell
Tom Frank Asher
Joe Green
Columbia
Bristol
Charles Sherry
General Burnside
Prin
Cipal Streets
Uy Port
Henry White Diman
Samuel F. Upham
Congregational Church
Nat. Church
Fort Daddy
Old Town
State Street
Hope Street
Dan” Wilcox
Daniel
Dan
Glamorous Norma Shearer in A Free Soul at San Francisco venues
Monday and Tuesday October 26 27 feature Norma Shearer in A Free Soul a drama inspired by Adela Rogers St Johns novel set in San Francisco gambling dens. With Taonel Barrymore Clark Gable James Gleason and Lucy Beaumont the film follows a social butterfly torn between two loves as her father a moralizing lawyer confronts the underworld. Sharkey Carnera boxing pictures also shown at 2 45 and 8 15 pm.
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Norma Shearer
San Francisco
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Miss Shearer
Taonel Barrymore
Itfe
Underworld
Lesh Howard
Clark Gable
James Gleason
Jucy Beaumont
Sharkey-Carnera
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Robert “Lefty” Grove
Scheel
West 40Th Street
New York City
Your Children’s Books
Helen Gregg Green
Chevrolet
F.e. G. Flint
Pri
Michigan
Ul H Lawson
Buick
Hope and
Washington Streets
Erno Rapee
Rapee
General Motors
Industrial Trust Company
Lanzire’s Express
Phoenix Files
Providence
Fox Point
Pier 14
N. R
Fulton St
Buffington’s Drug
Maisano’s
Wood St
R. L
NEW England Steamship Lines
Philco
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