Wolgast Eyes Big Money For Packey McFarland Fight
World of Sport notes Ad Wolgast received offers totaling 232,500 for a Labor Day bout with Packey McFarland and Sacramento clubs bid 20,000 to face Rivers on Labor Day. Wolgast doubts his plans but considers boxing Packey now to maximize earnings before a Mexican fighter retires. He also muses about San Francisco option if lucrative.
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Los Angeles
Tom Olmy
Ad Wolgast
Packey McFarland
Ad Line
Sacramento
Rivers
Packey
San Francisco
Cubs Defeat Scouts to Claim City Championship
The Cubs beat the Scouts 4 to 3 yesterday after 1 inning of hard fighting to win the city championship. Fans expect a return series due to the closely matched teams and strong interest from both sides.
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Cubs
National League results and battery lineups from yesterday
Baseball results show multiple NL games with batteries listed for each team. Notable matchups include Cincinnati vs Brooklyn and Philadelphia vs Chicago, plus various scores and player pairings like Hess Brown Kling and Geyer Steel Bresnahan. A large slate lists minor league and city standings with Omaha and Des Moines results and several league standings entries.
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R. H
Moron
PIU Laminar
Owe Geat Aaceie Alee
Hess, Brown and
Kling Geyer
Steel and
Bresnahan
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Lola
Brooklim
Hoston
Boston
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago Cleveland
Rae
Detroit
St Louia
New York Western League
Soat. Pet
St. Joseph
Earnire
Stowx City
Denver
Omaha
Wichita
Des Moines
Lincoln
Topeka
Postal Bill Aims Eight Hour Day For Workers
Washington July 9 Publishers may choose between second class mail at 2 cents per pound or parcel post at 1 cent under the tentative post offices appropriation bill before the Senate committee. The bill may also provide an eight hour work day for postal employees with possible extension to ten hours.
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Washington
Senate Committee
Lorimer Gets Final Chance to Save Seat
Congressional drama centers on Lorimer as rivalries heat up. A Senate committee grills the embattled senator amid vivid portraits of Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, highlighting tensions within elite circles over his political fate.
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Lorimer
Theodore Roosevelt
Booker T. Washington
White House
Mr. Lorimer
Senator Fletcher
Tramps Must Play Ball for Liberty in Wilkesbarre
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania Burgess W D Morris orders 30 arrested tramps split into two teams to play a full nine inning game on the town commons Contestants fight for freedom while the losing squad must pawnbroker a store for two days The burgess says it will be a great game testing how well men can play the national game when their liberty depends on the outcome
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Wilkesbarre
Plymouth
Burgess W. D. Morris
Taggart Drops Out of Political Office
Thomas Taggart of Indiana resigns from the Democratic National Committee after twelve years. He will take no official part in the presidential campaign this year, saying the party faces a bright prospect and that Wilson and Marshall are as good as elected.
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Washington
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Democratic Naional Committee
Taggart
Indianapolis
Wilson
Marshall
Royalist Forces Defeated by Portugal Army Near Claven
Royalist forces outnumbered republican troops two to one were defeated near Claven. Royals retreated across the Spanish frontier and fired back on government troops. A three hour battle ended with royalists in retreat. News sent to the chamber of Deputies amid moves for military tribunals and pensions for soldiers’ families.
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Lisbon
Royalleta
Claven
Montalegre
Tristea
Montes
Chinves
Chamber of Deputies
30 Dead in Cadeby Mine Explosion Traps 80 Rescuers
An explosion at Cadeby colliery in Conisbrough Yorkshire England kills thirty miners and injures others. A second blast and roof falls trap about thirty rescuers as government inspector and pit manager are reported dead. King George visited nearby pits during his tour.
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Coniabrough
Yorkshire
England
Cadeby
King George
Iowa progressives press Taft amid Kenyon fight
Des Moines July 9 Governor Carroll warned the state Republican convention progressives must endorse President Taft or risk a party split. The note implies potential defeat for Senator Kenyon in the next legislature as a consequence of the defection. In Vermont a Roosevelt league telegram says progressive Republicans plan a joint state ticket and electors and may nominate Harland H. Howe for governor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kenyon
Carroll
Taft
Bethel
Vermont
Wallace Batchelder
Roosevelt League
Roosevelt
Harland H. Howe
Camorra sentences 30 years for key defendants in murder case
In Viterbo Italy the Camorra murder case verdicts assign Alfano api Sorting Salvi Morea Cerrato and di Mariti thirty years each for instigation and plotting with three years police surveillance. Sixteen gang members get five years with three years surveillance. De Mattis twenty years. Asorittere and priest Vitozzi receive eleven and nine years. Eight are discharged. Di Marinis cuts throat in court cage amid protests and clashes as verdicts shock defendants.
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Viterbo
Italy
Camorrists
Alfano
API
Salvi
Morea
Cerrato
di Mariti
de Mattis
Asorittere
Vitozzi
Camorriots
di Marinis
Kap
Vitosal
Mannes
Hotel Arrivals From Across the Nation Listed
A long hotel arrivals column lists dozens of guests including J. Anderson Omaha and W. D. Clifton Omaha among many from Des Moines Chicago and Denver. The fragment ends with a stray hotel joke about a strike and a waiter.
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J. Anderson
R. Lb. White
H. M. McQuoiln
W. D Clifton
Omaha
BE. Fish
Des Moines
B. Davidson
Islay
Mike Queley
Hanna
N. H. Cohen
St. Joe
Carl Chris‘anton
H. Thompson, Jr
C. R. Boynton
Frank M. Hall
B. B. Tear
H. &. Reniek
C. J. Gavin
Wm. A. Goldler
Horace N. Hawkins
J. A. Smith
J. T. Muray
Alleen Meyer
H. W. Baenson
R. 8. Rahn
B. L. Hoffman
W. E. Goldsborough
John C. Sedwell
Denver
C. P. Arnold
Thos
Fi. Work
Laramie
W. Morrison
Chicago
John Hartsberg
R. L. Knowles
Mra
H. Sadowski
H. B. Green
New York
F. W. Poss
W. D. Stewart
Chugwater
J. Ralph Hall
Wheatland
Wm. M. Fitshugh
Casper
Mia. Chas. L. Hendershot
Child
Waleenburg
W. 8. Wade
Springfitd
F. S. Hawley
St. Louis
F. M. McMahon
Colorado Springs
Hanson Specials On Ice Cream and Cold Drinks
Daily Chang offers Hanson specials on ice cream and cold drinks with fresh scoops and pricing.
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Hanson
Army Reorganization Talks Under Way at War Dept
Washington hosts a series of conferences among experienced officers, bureau chiefs, and Congressional leaders to draft a broad pan partisan reorganization for the military. The aim is to secure legislative consideration on broad lines, improve army conditions, modernize methods, and reconcile claims while postponing a fresh veto clash on the regular army appropriation bill.
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Washington
Congress
War Department
Offeers
Thaw Plans Divorce Against Evelyn Nesbit After Trial
Harry K. Thaw, seeking freedom from Mattewan, intends to file divorce against Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Testimony by Dr. Adolph Meyer claims Thaw would move to Pittsburgh for business and to sue his wife on statutory grounds. It is rumored Thaw may name a former lawyer and three New York reporters as parties.
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White Plains
Harry K. Thaw
Mattewan
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Pittsburg
Thaw
Adolph Meyer
James Hopkins University
Pittsburgh
New York
Preacher Resigns Amid Gossip in Cromwell
Cromwell Connecticut July 93. The Reverend Arthur Carpenter quits as pastor of the Cromwell Baptist church after rumors tied his name to Mrs Edith Bezu Boardman wife of Sheriff Arthur Hoardmas. A public notice near the church called a meeting to reconsider the minister's resignation following reports of long visits to the Boardman residence on Main Street.
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Cromwell, Conn
Edith Bezu
Boardman
Arthur Howard Hoardmas
Arthur Carpenter
Cromwell Baptist Church
Main Street
Carpenter
Nake
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