Twilight League Board Meets Tonight at 7 in YMCA
The Board of Governors of the local Twilight League will hold an important meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in the YMCA building to discuss league matters. Frankie Sousa of Bristol Twilight League impressed Boston fans by filling in at right field for Roslindale in a 7–1 victory over Providence Colored Giants. He batted three singles, scored twice, and made three putouts. The Roslindale nine, first-half champions, will face the second-half winners in a championship series starting Sunday at Lincoln Park. Joseph A Murgo, ex Rhode Island State College star, is named by Orlando Bisbane to coach the Bristol Oaks football team.
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Oaks eye Providence League bid after state title
Coach Margo schedules Saturday practice at 1 PM to select a team from reported wrestlers. Oaks, last year state 125 lb champions, plan to enter a Providence League competition this season.
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Lefty Farrell and Jess Hubbard Star in Colored Baseball Circuits
Luther Lefty Farrell, a Chicago native, pitched for the Colonial Hotel nine in the Twilight League champion ship and played for multiple clubs from 1918 to 1926 in Detroit Indianapolis New York Chicago Philadelphia Atlantic City and more. Jess Hubbard known as Big Mountain of New York began with the Brooklyn Colored Giants in 1919, later with the Baltimore Black Sox 1920 1930 and then joined Bachrachnants and Providence Colorednants this spring.
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James Lick funded Lick Observatory project
The text notes James Lick an American philanthropist born in Fredericksburg Pennsylvania in 1796 funded the observatory at California through a 3 million dollar endowment placed in 1874. He previously operated as a piano manufacturer in multiple cities before settling in California and investing in real estate, with major bequests to the University of California for an observatory and a superior telescope.
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Tablet Erected to Walt Whitman by Brooklyn Authors Club
A tablet at Fulton and Cranberry streets in Brooklyn marks the 1855 publication site of Whitman s Leaves of Grass. The central figure shows an idealized Whitman head with flowing hair and beard, surrounded by symbolic depictions of Old Ireland O Captain My Captain Passage to India and Democracy.
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Buffalo Bill Memorials and Landmarks Featured
The tomb of Buffalo Bill sits on Lookout Mountain near Golden Colorado about ten miles from Denver where he died January 10 1917. An equestrian statue by Mrs Harry Payne Whitney stands at Cody Wyoming near Yellowstone entrance. A Cody shrine and museum are located in Cody.
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Valuable crystal ball on display at National Museum
The crystal ball in the National Museum Washington is 12 inches in diameter and weighs about 107 pounds. Valued at 250000 dollars, the ball came from a Burma rock crystal block that rough weighed over a half ton.
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Newport Brees Past Collins & Aikman 2 1 in Twilight League clash
Johnny Wesley drove in Eddie Damm with the winning run as Newport edged Joe Marshall's Collins & Aikman 2 1 in six innings. Charlie Marsden pitched superbly for Jarvis Drug Store, limiting C A to five hits while K ing Fisher, Burdge struck out nine as Newport seized the early lead.
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Jarvis
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Tony” Baker
Bristol Twilight League Final: Colonial Hotel Wins 8 2
Luther Farrell stars for the Providence Colored Giants affiliated Colonial Hotel nine, beating LaFazia Drug Store 8 to 2 before about 5500 at the common. Hubbard Milton and Spagnardi homer, Farrell twirls four hits allowed, and Rauding handles mound duties late as darkness ends play after five innings.
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Bristol Post Office Labor Day Schedule 1931
There will be no deliveries by city or rural carriers on Labor Day. Mail collection from street boxes at 6:45 a.m. Mails dispatched at 7:30 a.m. Mails received at 6:35 a.m. Stamp window and general delivery open 7 to 9 a.m. Money order and registry divisions closed all day. Patron notices due by 3 p.m. at general delivery window. Wm. M. Connery, Postmaster.
Origin of Tweed Name Traced to Clerk Error in 1820
The article explains the word tweed likely arose from an 1820 invoicing error where "tweeds" was written instead of "tweets." The mislabeling led to orders for "Scottish tweeds" and the term gained popular acceptance as a quality fabric brand, despite no link to the River Tweed.
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Origin of racket word tracks slang through history
The term racket began as a noisy imitative word for clatter then shifted to social bustle or spree. It further evolved into slang for a scheme or trick and eventually to a notion of a large illegal enterprise.
Cornell expert urges incubation knowledge to save poultry
A Cornell specialist states two million dollars are lost in the United States yearly because eggs fail to hatch. He says losses could be reduced if poultry growers gained greater knowledge of incubation science.
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