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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1936
Page
7
The article questions inflated sports salaries as tabloids hype multi million deals. It cites Carl Hubbell and top pitchers, compares with prize fighters, and critiques impact on fans and promoters. It notes uncertainty about Hubbell’s reported 18500 per year and argues big figures may distort public perception.
A collage of sports gossip from New Jersey bookmakers to college and professional players. Notes include Mayor Hague era intrigue, Eddie Johnson at Maryland, Ohio State football, Vezina chatter on Mike Macrakas, Dick Tuckey’s Detroit Clowns stint, Aqueduct racing tweaks, Discovery’s long Brooklyn handicap, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis quips, and various local figures in cycling, basketball, and billiards amid theatre and hockey talk.
Norman Daly recounts Jed Kiley surviving Paris Apache district knife tests after a dare involved five attackers and a hundred franc bill, then recalls a 1912 Nicaragua marine ordeal where a cigar dodged thirteen shots and a Fifteenth sparked sparks.
The Mississippi Bubble, a scheme by John Law under the duke of Orleans, aimed to ease French debt by Louisiana venture and Mississippi trade. Launched 1716, it grew wildly with 1719 shares, then collapsed within a year, wiping out investors and bankrupting Law, and is seen as a defining modern excessive speculation.
The Keswick movement began in England with Canon Har ford Batteraly in 1874 after a spiritual awakening. Returning to his parish in Keswick London the Keswick convention was called to promote practical holiness and advance evangelical work.
A rubber band can generate electric charge when stretched, acting as a simple early experiment in static electricity. The text notes rubber’s capability to produce either positive or negative charges.
The HTS name originates from a Norman knight of the 1200s. William St. Maur and the Seymour family in America descend from Roger de St. Maur, lord of Penlow and Woundy. In England John Seymour of Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, sheriff under Henry VII, married Sir Henry Darell's daughter of Littlecote. their eldest son continued the line.
The article traces the Seymour family’s English roots from Knighted commanders to the American branches in Hartford and Norfolk. It then critiques New Deal farm policy after the Supreme Court struck down the NRA and AAA, arguing for cautious, pragmatic reform and questioning Congress and White House handling of crop controls and federal spending.
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