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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1925
Page
13
Fragmentary OCR mentions sea voyage terms and names such as McKay McKinley Kinley and Howells with scattered words like Canton and 210 years, yielding an unreadable archival snippet with no clear event or outcome.
York May 6 Sam Gray pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics is drawing praise as a rising star. Report notes his smooth delivery and underhand motion, comparisons to Carl Mays, and Texas roots. Mentions interest from Groves and other scouts and Gray’s 27 games for Paris, Texas, with 28 wins. Also references Ty Cobb’s three-homer game for the Tigers and league hitting records.
The article weighs Glenna Collett and Joyce Webber in a British amateur championship context. It notes Collett as a leading American woman driver with a strong chance to win, facing English rivals in damp Scot turf conditions and windy coast. It mentions rivals such as Tolley Storey and references to U.S. players like Gene Sarazen and Jock Brown.
World light heavyweight champion Mike McTigue announced he secured a $50,000 insurance policy in New York to protect against hand injuries. He also bought eight new glove sets for sparring partners in Summit New Jersey as he prepares for his bout with Paul Berlenbach.
The Sells Floto circus lands in Canton early Thursday from Mansfield with 100 plus acts, 50 clowns, 1000 performers, and "The Bride and the Beasts" spectacle. Water carry jobs for elephants are available. bugle ads announce shows at 2 and 8. No parade due to traffic, trains leave midnight for Mount Vernon, Roth Hug’s drug store handles ground tickets.
Gloria Swanson headlines the film Madame Sans Gene filmed in France with government support. Leading man is Charles de Roche as the story adapts Sardou and Moreau. Mabel Ballin stars with Tom Mix in Riders of the Purple Sage shot on location in Lone Pine California under Lynn Reynolds. May Allison appears in I Want My Man at the Alhambra with a vamp role.
Tom Mix receives royallike plaudits abroad while returning home to promote Riders of the Purple Sage. The Mozart hosts the film this week with Tony appearing in the picture and on tour alongside Harold Lockwood. I Want My Man co stars Doris Kenyon and Milton Sills in a tense society drama about postwar excess. The Lyceum opens Marriage A La Carte by Cute Little Devils with lavish scenic effects and rich decor.
Embroideries transform the stage into a place of rare beauty for the musical farce Marriage A La Carte. Curley Burn appears in an infectious blackface role while Aline Walker and Jertrude Lowery share the stage with Howard Paden in the romantic leads and Joe McKenzie and Rue in notable supporting parts.
An epidemic of fires hit Brunersburg four miles west, with youths suspected of setting several blazes. A hay mow blaze at John F. Dowe's barn prompted quick action, hours later a straw stack beside a shed caught fire on the same property. The key house of Walter Smith at Minneysburg burned midnight recently.
Belgrade reports that one arson victim died as troops clashed with exiles crossing from Romania. The raiders struck Tebirakaya village before being repelled by military forces.
Agnes Robershenski of near Glouster is held to the next grand jury on a charge of slander filed by Mrs. Andy Cerba alleging she damaged the Cerbas' reputation. The case stems from complaints filed in Glouster.
Ezra Meeker aged 21 crossed the Oregon Trail decades ago while buffalo swarmed the plains. Now living, he appears with 101 Ranch in Canton Ohio as a feature in the wild west parade and pageant, inviting crowds to Friday performances.
Mise Mianche Travia 18 of North Indus try Sjures Monday evening after alighting from a bus. She was hit by a motor bus and admitted to Mercy hospital with a fractured leg punctured lung several fractured ribs and minor injuries.
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