Three Great Pitchers Will Keep Brooklyn Dodgers Out of Cellar
Nick Flatley reports from Clearwater Florida that Brooklyn relies on three top pitchers to avoid cellar status. The roster includes stars Grimes and Reither with Mike Gonzales looming in trades as Uncle Wilbert Wilburn rebuilds an infield and outfield, aiming for a higher finish.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
Nick Flatley
Clear Water
Fla
Brooklyn
Grimes
Reither
Robin Chutekings
Wilner
Robinson
Wilbert
Branch Rickey
Milton
Branch
Bobby
Mike ‘Gonzales
Baylor
Johnny
Decatur
Janse Captains TowA 24 Cage Team
March 27 report notes Hector M. Orward chosen to lead the university cage team for two years. The season shows promise with a fast floor leader who has shown strength and convincingly impressed observers.
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Hector M. Orward
Farmer Loses Eye After Cow Incident in Kingsley
In Kingsley Texas on March 23 Clarence a local farmer lost the sight in one eye after throwing a slick at a cow that swished its tail. Sioux City hospital surgeons said the eye could not be saved.
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Kingsley
Clarence
Sioux City ‘Hospital
Iowa
Sioux City
Abe Thomas
Myrtle Mosley
Widow Elopes. Chicago Note Delivers Spring Gossip
In Chicago on March 28 a widow, Mrs Amelia Schreiber aged 65, reportedly eloped with a gray haired man after being seen visiting Ogden Park. Her son Charles Schreiber says she did not return home and there is no word from her. The piece also hints at spring moods and mentions stargazing terms.
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Charles Schreiber
Amelia Schreiber
Ogden Park
Butter Outpaces Margarine in Germany Since War
Germany uses nearly twice as much butter as margarine before the war, but after the war butter and margarine have essentially swapped positions.
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Germany
Banker Drowns After River Jump Near Des Moines
Albert Hoffman a prominent Mitchell South Dakota banker and patient at a local sanitarium drowned after leaping from a bridge near the police station into the Des Moines river. He swam several blocks before succumbing to icy water as spectators watched. Hoffman survived by a wife and several children.
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Banker
Des Moines
Albert Hoffman
Mitchell, S.D
State House
N. E. Kendall
Iowa Senate
House
Hoffman
Iver
Mitchell
Dies of Blood Poison
Carl Bock a farmer near Reigen Iowa died from blood poisoning after a fall against a car radiator his superficial eye wound neglected.
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Reigen
Carl Bock
Here
Japan may resist world aviators arrival
Tokyo dispatch notes Osaka Asahi editorial raises doubts about the global flight program. The paper says the round world air navigation race may tie to air force expansion if used for defense, urging Japan to craft a plan to address the issue.
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America
Japan
Osaka Asahi
Colorado judge Duke Kimbrough dies by suicide
Judge Duke M. Kimbrough, a noted western figure, shot himself in his Boulder bedroom, health cited as the probable cause. He had recently represented Rufus Jones in a $200,000 railroad workers suit, a verdict reportedly favoring Jones for $50,000.
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Boulder
Colo
Duke M. Kimbrough
Kimbrough
Rufus Jones
Order of Railways
Jones
Aover
Boy Slayer of Negro Tot Is Degenerate
Manchester Iowa date report shows Charles Cornwall a white boy aged 15 killed Jimmy Carson a four year old black child. University of Iowa specialists found Cornwall moron with the mentality of an eight year old and insensible to pain. They recommended sending him to a state institution and dropping a second degree murder indictment.
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Manchester
University of Iowa
Chas. Cornwall
Jimmy Carson
Cornwall
Italian Storm Tragedy Sees 100 Dead and 7500 Homeless
King Victor Emmanuel III escaped a wreck as a special train halted by an early landslide near Caserta during a storm that battered the Amalfi region. The disaster left about 100 dead, hundreds wounded, and 7500 homeless with army surgeons and volunteers treating victims and Fascisti groups aiding in clothing and shelter.
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Naples
Mare
Victor Lmmanuel
Taly
Amalfi
Caserta
Ruarde
Teano
Beck Heads Justice Department as Acting Attorney General
James M. Beck becomes acting attorney general at noon replacing Dougherty. Curtis Wilbur and William Kenson are leading candidates, with Arthur Rug g and Harlan Stone named as others. Secretary Hughes is floated but unlikely. President Coolidge weighs diverse options after Dougherty’s retirement rumor and surveys potential successors.
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Washington
James MM. Beck
Department of Justice
Coolidge
Curtis D. Wilbur
California
Navy
William S. Kenson
Iowa
Daugherty
Picwre
Arthur P. Rugg
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Harlan S. Stone
Legal Department
Columbia University
Hughes
Secrretary Hughes
Winter Lesson Rouses Small Boy With Gloves Joke
In a classroom after a lesson on snow Dr Mittens asks what one might see on every hand. A small boy responds with gloves, delivering a concise winter pun.
Elemental spirits and their four ruling beings
In medieval belief elemental spirits presided over fire water air and earth. Fire spirits were salamanders water spirits undines air spirits sylphs and earth spirits gnomes.
Epinard Invades U S Against Heavy Odds
Epinard the French wonder horse will campaign on American tracks next fall under a binding plan with Belmont Shevlin Winn Wertheimer and others. The series opens at Belmont in September with three quarter mile journeys and 325, Hod added. other races follow at Aqueduct Latonia with entrants like Zev In Memoriam Grey Lug Saracza St James and more. Entrance fee 250 plus 100 starting fee. entries close July 1 to fit Wertheimer's training plans.
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Davis J. Walsh
New York
Epinard
August Belmont
Westchester Racing Association
James Shevlin
Queens County Jockey Club
Matt J. Winn
Kentucky Jockey Club
Pierre Wertheimer
Harry Sinclair
Zev
Grey
Harry
England
Jamaica
L. 1
Belmont
Aqueduct
Papyrus
MacDonald Moves to End London Strike Crisis
Premier MacDonald and his labor government push last minute efforts to avert a citywide transport strike set to paralyze London. If subway workers join, chaos looms as buses streetcars and power could fail and a state of emergency may be proclaimed.
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London
Ram- Say MacDonald
MacDonald
Privy Council Seeks King's Signature on Emergency Declaration
Members of the privy council traveled to Knowsley to secure King George's signature for a state of emergency declaration to be used if necessary. Lord Ashfield, leader of transport chiefs, stated no further concessions would be offered to striking workers.
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Privy Council
Knowsley
King George
Lord Ashfield
British World Flyer Arrives in Italy
A. Stuart Mac Laren of the British air force completed the Lyons to Civita Vecchia leg in a hydroplane as he continues a round the world flight. He arrived in Civita Vecchia for the night during the third leg of the journey toward Rome.
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Italy
Rome
A. Stuart MacLaren
Lyons
France
MacLaren
Civita Vecchia
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