Beantown Beeste: Graybeard Rookies Face 2nd Year Jinx
Boston Bees young veterans A Jim Turner and Lou Fette, known as graybeard rookies, seek to beat the 2nd year slump after 20 win seasons in 1937. Analysts note their strong minors credentials and possible durability but warn injuries and luck could swing the year. Fette hails from Alma Missouri with Molensville ties in Tennessee.
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A. Jim Turner
Lou Fette
Boston Bees
Graybeard
Boston
Fireball van Lingie Mungo
Molensville
Tenn
Fette
Alma
Age Creeps On After They Passed Twenty Five
Fragmentary notes describe scouts remarks about aging players or workers, with comments about losing zip and being too old to pitch or perform. The lines suggest a theme of diminished vigor after age twenty five and a resigned attitude toward continued effort.
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Sir Mail
Maritime Commission
Machinery Division of Commerce
White House
Here and There sports roundup with mixed notes
A digest of sports and university notes mentions RVING BUMP HADLEY pursuing AL official status, bowling expansion at a university, Bowler activity by undergraduates totaling 50,000 games, Bill Monahan leading concessions for the 1839 Golden Gate exposition, and various boxing, hockey, skating, and baseball references including Schmeling against Foord, Rangers and Americans rents since 1925, Kester’s 161 games in 15 hours 47 minutes, Baptie’s speed attempts, and DiMaggio’s limited hits off Mel Harder.
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Rving
Bump Hadley
White Sox
Yankees
Bill Monahan
University of California
California
Mex Schmeling
Ben Foord
Hamburg
Joe Louis
Yankee Stadium
Madison Square Garden Corporation
Rangers
New York
John Kester
Portage
Wis
Norval Baptie
W. C. McGeehan
Joe DiMaggio
Mel Harder
Cleveland
Crisler Named Michigan Football Coach and Athletics Assistant
Herbert O. Fritz Crisler returns to college football as head coach and assistant director of athletics at the University of Michigan. His career spans Minnesota, Princeton, Chicago, and prior Michigan leadership, with noted Princeton success and a long association with athletic administration. The piece also notes a 1296 meeting that formed a Midwest university alliance.
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Herbert O
Fritz
Crisler
University of Michigan
Harry Kipke
University of Chi
Princeton
Tiger
Michi
Fielding H. Yost
United States
Bobby Jones Expands Golf Leadership With New Institute
Robert T. Bobby Jones Jr. joins as director of the American Golf Institute, aiming to boost interest in the game amid conflicts with the USGA and PGA. He hints at an annual tournament at Augusta, Georgia, to be held in early April.
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Robert T
Bobby” Jones, S Jr
American Golf the Institute
Bobby
Ing
Golfers* Professional Association
Cates & Guae
Augusta
Alcazar Ruins To Remain War Shrine
Toledo Spain insurgents preserve the Alcazar ruins as a national shrine to Spain's civil war. Franco orders the fortress kept intact, generating revenue from visitors paying two pesetas each as tour guides recount the siege that held out from July to September 1936.
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Alcazar
Toledo
Spain
Franco
Dreath of Glacial Recession Foretold by Experts
Ontario paleontology experts say Canada was tropical 400 million years ago with coral reefs near Ontario and sponges over Hamilton. They note a former inland sea across the prairies and drought era as glaciers recede, threatening rivers to rivulets.
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Toronto
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
Canada
German Schwingmetall alloy promises quiet rail travel
A new alloy named Schwingmetall, combining metal and rubber through vulcanization, is reported by German experts. It is said to serve as shock absorbers in bedplates, reduce vibration in ships and machinery, enable rubber sprung wheels on rail vehicles, and provide simple safe elastic couplings and rubber springs for trucks, improving silent operation on curves.
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Lakehurst
N. J
United States
Europe
Atlantic
Machnee
Getsieline A
Germany
London
War-Office
Hugo Eckener
South America
Pan American Airways
Berlin
China
Sailors' Girls Wear Souvenir Garters
A sailor is noted for souvenir garters worn by girls associated with the crew. The item highlights period naval culture as a social custom linked to sailors and their supporters.
Grenadas Riches Found in Its Nutmegs and Fruits
Grenada, Windward Island, is famed for a diverse bounty beyond its nutmegs. The article notes nutmeg groves and fruit orchards with lush cacao, citrus, and mango trees. It describes the nutmeg fruit, mace coating, and the inner aromatic seed prized as the spice.
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Grenada
Windward Islands
Birth of the Marseillaise Revealed in Strasbourg Origins
The Marseillaise likely originated in Strasbourg not Marseille as a mayor urged a marching song for the et de Lisle. The tune’s composer remains uncertain per Pearson's London Weekly. It premiered before the Garde Nationale on April 29, 1792 and gained fame with Republican troops at the Tuileries assault.
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Marseillaise
Marseiles
Strasbourg
Et de Lisle
Pearson
London
Garde Nationale
Elephant Musth Bouts Raise Alarm in Domesticated Herds
In certain seasons elephants enter musth, a feared condition that makes them as dangerous as rogue elephants. A white temple spot marks a musth elephant, with a small hole above the ear where secretions leak during the illness. The period lasts about 60 days and greatly affects the animal’s mind.
Platypus Lays One to Three Eggs Revealed
The platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus, native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, digs 20 to 30 foot burrows along rivers and lays one to three eggs in a grass lined nest. The female incubates alone while the young ride against the mother’s abdomen after hatching. First described from a 1799 specimen, later discoveries confirmed this unique mammal.
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Anatinus Shaw
Australia
Tasmania
Colin C. Sanborn
Field Museum of Natural History
Familiar Misnomers In Art And Materials
A writer explains common mislabels in antiques and supplies. Camel hair brushes come from squirrel fur. Lead pencil cores are graphite not metal. Catgut derives from sheep or horse intestines. Turtle shells are from Caretta imbri cata turtles. Cuttlefish ink is not a fish product but a mollusk by product. Tice paper uses tree pith. Whalebone equals baleen from certain whales.
Poppy Mythology and Symbolism Across Cultures
The article links the poppy to evil omen in myth and its use as an offering to the dead signaling sleep. It notes Glaucus son of Neptune catching a fish, the Yellow Poppy's origin, and a cross of the pistil tied to Christian color symbolism.
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Roosevelt
Aghaga
C. I
Isbor
Congress
Glaucus
Neptune
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