Cranston Worsted defeat Battery C in Twilight League finale
Cranston Worsted wins 5 to 4 over Battery C in the last Twilight League game of 1929. Babe Ethier pitched for Cranston with three strikeouts. Jake Rippel of Warren fanned four for Battery C. Cranston leads 5 4 through five innings with key hits by Sunderland and Bull and seven by Riopel, while Greenwood of Battery C posts a .518 season average.
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Cranston Worsted
Battery C
Cranstons
Coast Artillery Boys
Babe” Ethier
Cranston
Jake” Rippel
Warren
Soldiers
Ethier
Riopel
Ruiopel
Riopel Cranston
Batterymen
Sunderland
Bull
Jarvis
Sevigny
Mott
Battery
Martie Mansi
Eddie Menard
Timur Laughs At Halazet As Emperors Fall
Timurlenk brings Halazet, the blind Turkish emperor, to his court after victory. Halazet denounces mockery, while Timur reflects that crowns are small before God and that rulers are flawed mortals.
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Halazet
Timur Lenk
Balazet
Timur
Had Not Really Done Much to Believe Him
A backwoods patient lies in stormy night with a sick husband and a wife recounts homemade remedies. The young doctor asks if anything was given or done to relieve him as the wife lists mustard, blister plasters, ginger tea, quack medicines, and pain powders used before the physician’s arrival.
Safe home precautions to protect babies at risk
A mother should teach older children to cooperate in safety. Keep sharp objects pencils scissors knives out of reach. Store medicines and matches high. While cooking, turn handles away and never leave hot liquids at baby level. Eternal watchfulness is the price of safety.
Birds Die Smashing Into Lighthouses During Migration
Authorities report thousands of sea fowl perish annually along New England coast as migrating birds crash into lighthouse lenses and white glare. Storms push birds toward shore while flashing lights fail to deter the birds, which instead meet fatal impact or fall into sea.
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New England
Southlands
Steam Thers Demonstrates Lighting Cigarette by Steam
A demonstration at the Reosal Institution of London shows high pressure steam can ignite shavings and cigarettes. Peetor Andende explains that escaping steam from a tank leaks as condensed droplets and is not true steam in the strict sense.
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Reosal Institution of London
Peetor
Immense 30 foot cake baked by Dresden master baker
Zeithain baker Zachiariis created a colossal cake about 30 feet long and 12 feet wide using 1 800 quarts of wheat flour yeast and milk 300 eggs and three pounds of nutmegs. The massive oven had 12 chimneys and the cake was rolled out and transported by eight horses to the Radewitz review headquarters.
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Zachiariis
Dresdén
al. Zelthuin
Zeithain
Review
Radewitz
Cow Jumping Noted in Daily Discovery
A London daily contributor reports a surprising discovery that cows can jump. He recalls seeing a herd dash across a cornfield, leap a hedge, and land safely before resuming their grazing. The tale is framed as old news to farmers and is presented with enthusiastic commentary.
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London
Waste o' Siller in a Heavy Gale Aboard Ship
In a March gale a Scottish passenger asks an officer if the ship will sink. The officer replies with a grim joke about fear and death. The passenger reveals he bought a grave plot in his local cemetery and fears a terrible waste.
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Detroit Free Press
Jekyll and Hyde Dogs Guard Flocks by Day Kill Neighbors by Night
Reports describe sheepdogs showing a dual nature. By day they obediently shepherd their master's flocks, yet at dusk they become killers, sparing their own sheep while slaughtering neighbors' stock.
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Jekyll and Hyde
Bever
Ingenious Romans tied water mills to river rafts
When Rome faced a siege in 436 A D the fourteen aqueducts supplying water were cut. With grain mills powered by water wheels, engineers laid mills between two raft structures on the Tiber so the moving water fed the grinding action and a famine was averted.
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Rome
Tiber
First Movies Enter New York With Skeptical Audiences
The first motion pictures reached New York and were shown in 1806 at Koster and Bial's Music Hall on Sixth Avenue. The audience doubted their legitimacy, thinking they were a trick in shadowgraphy, and did not applaud after the demonstration.
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New York
Koster and Bial
Music Hall
Sixth Avenue
Causes of Acute Indigestion
Acute indigestion results from eating decomposed canned foods or tainted meats, hard to digest fare, swallowing liquids at extreme temperatures, rapid eating, and overindulgence in spirits. Poor hygiene, rheumatism or gout, and chronic indigestion increase susceptibility.
Really Drunken Animals
The article notes widespread drunkenness in the animal world with bees as a major example. It cites Lombroso’s claim that intoxicants cause crime among animals and mentions Abyssinian sheep and goats that seek out caffeinated beans to become intoxicated.
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Lombroso
Abyssinia
settler crafts tin devices to store food and heat meals
The text describes a settler improvising with tin containers, a brazier, and mosquito wire to smoke a pipe and read home news. He uses punched tins as a dairy safe, a tin as a camp oven, and keeps bread and cereals safe from insects, moisture, and pests for November heat.
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Dred
Destructive Fires Set by Terror-Ridden Cats
Two aris stories recount fires started by cats. In Montbeliard a cat toppled into a meat fire igniting a mantel blaze that spread to a granary. In Lorient two girls left alone caused a coat on a cat to spark a bed fire, burning the house to the ground.
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Aris
Montbeliard
Lorient
Good Trenchermen Tracing Early American Eating Habits
Si las Bent explores America's historical dining customs in World's Work noting forefathers feasted richly with mutton, beef, ham, fish, corn bread, white bread, ale and wine. The piece marvels at how such abundance persisted in earlier eras.
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America
Silas Bent
Times
Phosphorescent Potatoes and Ghostly Lights
A note on potatoes stored in dark cellars becoming luminous and inspiring tales of otherworldly visitants. The piece describes luminous fungi in woods caves and churchyards whose bluish green glow could evoke superstition and fear.
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Maang
Sneezing as a Sin Turned to Life Sign in Rabbinic Tale
A New York Times excerpt recounts ancient belief that sneezing marked death from Adam through Jacob. Jacob prays for a reversal of the law and wins, turning sneezing into a life sign. After his era, children’s sneezes announce birth and the Shunamite child sneezes seven times to wake.
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Adam
Jacob
Jacobs
Elisha
New York Times
Childs sculpture joke at elementary school exhibit
Mrs Laura Knight recounts a scene at an elementary school display where a five year old sculptor finishes a statuette of an old lady. When asked what the old lady is thinking about a child quips she has no brains showing the blunt humor of young artists.
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Gow
Laura Knight
RCAA
The Real Life of Saint Vaclav Beyond the Christmas Carols
The article notes Vaclav known as Wenceslas, often linked to the mythical Saint. it explains his historical existence, the Polish form of his name, and the thousandth anniversary of his birth approaching, with various stories of his goodness beyond the popular carol.
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Wenceslas
Stephen
Ife
Vaclav
Wenzel
Laextis fainted by police at pater ti ae ne
A garbled OCR fragment reports an incident involving Laextis fainting near a location labeled pater ti ae ne. The text is unclear on time, people, or exact actions, but implies a medical or fainting event connected to an authority figure.
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Laextis
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