Earl Smith Clash Highlights Riots in Toledo League
Former Pittsburgh catcher Earl Oil Smith now with Toledo complains of a riotous American Association. He tells Tom Sheehan a game series between Minneapolis and St Paul features regular roll calls as players go missing after matches.
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Earl
Smith
Pittsburgh
Casey Stengel
Toledo
Smitty
American Association
Tom Sheehan
Tom
Sheehan
Minneapolis
Staul
The Motor Quiz: Common Tire Care and Driving Facts
A quiz listing tire enemies and care tips, auto color preferences, engine power losses, and 1928 auto grade crossing fatalities. It notes weather and sun light as tire enemies, proper inflation preserves tires, blue brown gray green and black as staple colors, and four major causes of power loss: compression, valve timing, ignition, and carburetion.
Pennsylvania Farms Embrace Radio Ownership
About a quarter of farms in Pennsylvania now have a radio. The adoption marks a notable trend in rural households expanding access to news and entertainment.
Missouri Highways Secure From Annoying Punctures
Missouri motorists save about 500 dollars daily in puncture costs from three 960 pound magnets on a two ton patrol truck. The device clears nails bolts and scrap metal from gravel roads, covering seven to eight feet wide at ten to twelve miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
State Highway Department
C. P. Owens
Highway Department
Harvard Gridiron Card Is Booked for 3 Years
Harvard announces a football schedule through 1932 with Penn State Dartmouth Brown Army Holy Cross and Yale on the last five Saturdays. A two year agreement with Michigan ends with a Cambridge game this fall. Texas will be a newcomer next year.
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Harvard
Princeton
Crimson
Penn State
Dartmouth
Brown
Army
Hloly Cross
Yale
Michigan
Cambridge
University of Texas
College Star Walter Masters Extends 15th Consecutive Win
Walter Masters star pitcher for the University of Pennsylvania baseball team clinched his fifteenth straight victory in two years of intercollegiate play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Masters
University of Pennsylvania
Radio controlled garage doors coming from Switzerland
A new Swiss invention allows opening garage doors by pressing a button on a machine. Radio waves from the device are received by an aerial on the garage top and trigger the motor to open or close the doors automatically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
School Championship of Japan Attracts Crowds
The school championship of Japan drew more spectators per game than the U S World Series according to Sporting News reporting. A Japanese native says each game would attract over 150000 spectators if the U S champions visited Japan. The Philippine games flourish with native players and locals claim higher skill than their northern neighbors. A Filipino youth prefers independence with baseball intact over any plan removing the sport.
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Japan
United States
Conlt
Sporting News
Philippine Islands
Teresly Told Squirbs Of Different Sports
Twenty eight leading athletes graduate from Lehigh teams this year. Dan Howley notes all eight clubs in the National league race are strong. David G Marvin of New York elected captain of Princeton fencing. Northwestern polo undefeated by Big Ten in four seasons. Andy Coakley Columbia coach receives 500 in gold before big match. Coakley coaches Columbia 15 years. World record duck pins by Donald McGary of Bangor Maine. Rusty Callow Penn crew to build boathouse on Delaware River. Te Mar drinks ice water runs marathons eats ice cream pineapple pie after a race. Jo Connie Mack Jr elected captain Germantown Academy 1951 baseball. Over a ton canvas for four America's Cup defense yachts. Main sail weighs 1 400 pounds.
Remedy for Leaky Exhaust Valve Guides on Any Motor
A method to fix leaky inlet valve guides is described. A light spring on the valve stem and a felt exhasiber washer with a clearance allow the stem to slide, pressing a washer between spring and felt to seal the guide and stop air leakage. Helpful for old cars where new guides are costly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Oil Pressure Gauge Misleads on Lubricant Amount
The article warns that the dash oil gauge does not reflect oil quantity. Read the under oil filter pipe to accurately measure lubrication levels. The distinction between oil pressure and oil quantity is emphasized, noting the gauge’s purpose and limitations.
Women Use Chauffeurs and Driving Trends
An American Automobile Association official notes 650000 private chauffeurs exist in the United States and annual uniform costs reach 104 million dollars. Despite more women drivers, women use chauffeurs more than men as female motorists grow, with women increasingly handling cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Automobile Association
Radio Tubes Stretch 4000 Miles If Laid in Line
A dopester estimates that 4,000 miles of radio tubes in use could form a straight line totaling four thousand miles, illustrating the vast reach of radio hardware.
Private nicknames reveal presidents and playful jests
The article notes Hoover's reserved nature compared with Wilson's habit of signs of personal familiarity. It recalls Cal and Tommy as nicknames in private chats and a Western tour moment when a boy called Wilson Woody. Wilson joked about the term as long as not descriptive.
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Wilson
Hoover
Mr. Coolidge
Cal
Mr. Hoover
Bert
Herb
Tommy
Thomas
Woody
Artificial Sunlight Solarium For Idaho Miners
An Idaho mining plant uses a moving platform to expose miners to six mercury-quartz lamps in a narrow cabinet. The ultraviolet light simulates sunshine for health benefits as workers pass through the cabinet on their way out of the mine, and the solarium will be available to miners families.
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Idaho
Horseshoes Found Inside Pine Circle Hidden for Years
In South Paris Maine a sawblade hit a hard object while cutting a pine near a schoolhouse. The tree 18 inches thick grew around a pair of horseshoes, likely placed inside the trunk a generation ago.
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Paris
Maine
Time to Live quote from Anna Steele Richardson
Country Home features Anna Steele Richardson arguing against delaying life until after retirement. She challenges the notion that enjoying life at sixty reduces chances of heaven, urging readers to seize real living now.
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Darth
Anna Steele Richardson
Largest wire rope to haul ships at Hongkong dockyard
A rope claimed as the world’s largest will be used at a Hongkong dockyard to haul huge vessels up slipways. It consists of 4 wires per strand, runs 1,656 feet, weighs 50 tons, and has a breaking strain of 500 tons.
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Hongkong
Pays Claim With Cur Little Falls Car Collision
Philip Goat of New York could not settle damages in cash after a collision with Earl Vetter of Chester town. Goat paid Vetter by giving his automobile to cover the claim.
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Little Falls
N. Y
Philip Goat
New York
Earl Vetter
Chestertown
Vetter
Egyptian Box Found At Thebes Reveals Hieroglyphs
An Egyptian seventh century B C box unearthed at Thebes shows hieroglyphic figures carved on its surface and crafted from a platinum gold iridium alloy.
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Thebes
Spirit of What Crushes Dandelion With Respect
Observers note a symbolic act of crushing a dandelion performed with reverence for the land’s spirit, reflecting regional values and attachment to the prairie landscape as described by a Omaha World-Herald writer.
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Omaha World-Herald
Ancient garlands and valued opinions in Greek lore
A fragment discusses how parsley garlands crowned heroes in ancient Greece and compares it to keeping a watch on the wrist. It notes that external display may mislead about true worth and implies cautious appraisal of opinions versus value.
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Greece
Could Hardly Do Her Work
Mrs J W Albertson of Mission Texas writes that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped her regain strength after prolonged weakness and fatigue causing heavy housework impairment. She reports feeling much better and offers to answer letters from other women seeking advice.
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Mission, Tex
Lydia RE. Pinkham
J. W. Albertson
Miller Avenue
Mission, Texas
First Woman Appointed to Vienna Medical Faculty Institute
Frau Helene Wastl becomes assistant to Professor Durig in the physiological institute at the University of Vienna. Her appointment marks a notable achievement for women in physiology and dietetics in the faculty.
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University of Vienna
Helene Wastl
Physiological Institute
Durig
Dr. Wastl
Two of a Kind Blinks in a Witty Quote Exchange
A humorous contrivance compares wives and husbands with quick quips about mood swings. The dialogue uses playful rhymes and endearing sarcasm, reflecting domestic banter and social humor in a lighthearted voice.
Castoria Advised For Infant Ailments In Old Dental Ad
A vintage health ad promotes Castoria for baby discomforts from crying to upset stomachs and constipation. It urges avoiding adult medicines and endorses the genuine product with Chas. H. Fletcher's signature on the package.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
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