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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1916
Page
6
Reporter notes Mahan mentoring Bears backfield as California football opens with scrimmage plans and a schedule featuring Southern California and Northwestern. Track and field and golf events draw attention, with records set at San Diego and San Francisco meets, plus impending state championships and trophy awards slated in Monte.
Sheridan’s first tennis tournament concluded with Tre vor Heald claiming the allver loving cup by defeating C Riley in three sets to one in the final. Thirty-three Sheridan players entered, narrowed to the final match as both finalists beat clever opponents earlier in the tourney.
National League games in New York and Boston show varied outcomes with listed batteries. American League matchups include Washington, Chicago, and Cleveland with multiple pitchers noted. Western League mentions Topeka and St Joseph.
At Lyric Theatre Tomorrow Janet Beecher rises from Broadway success to film in the World Film release Fine Feathers. She plays a young wife discontent with suburbia earning twenty five dollars a week and aids her husband in discreet mischief before a moral awakening and lesson in contentment.
Sean Gregg of the Boston Red Sox earned a recall after a stint in the International League. Since returning he has been a most valuable hurler, reviving his big league promise and contributing on the mound.
Chicago reports Paull Harvey of Oak Park won two of three races at the Ford Speedway meet in Maywood. He completed twenty and fifty mile events and averaged about six miles per hour in each contest, finishing first in the twenty and fifty mile races.
New York reports describe a tight American League race with Boston Detroit and Chicago contending as the Red Sox and eastern teams prepare for a decisive late-season push. National League sees Brooklyn Philadelphia Boston swapping leads in a dramatic week as standings tighten.
Trap shooters from across the west gathered in Portland for the opening of the eleventh Pacific coast handicap hosted by the Portland Gun club. Practice shoots occurred at Everding park as competitors arrived. the tournament runs through the fourteenth with entrants from California Nevada Utah Colorado Wyoming Washington Idaho Oregon and British Columbia led by Frank Troeh Peter O'Brien and Heiri Purrman.
Australian boxing sensation Les Darcy reportedly seeks a United States visit to meet American middleweights and light heavyweights. Negotiations for a bout with Gibbons or Dillon have begun in New York.
The Central league season closed as Dayton won the first half and Springfield the second. Springfield secured the pennant by sweeping a double header to end the year.
Seward Alaska reports the U S government plans to have about 939 miles of telegraph and telephone lines in operation from Seward as a starting nucleus for a territory wide network. The initial line will run parallel to the railroad toward Anchorage covering 117 miles with a single copper wire.
The article describes a developing all wire telegraph network north of Anchorage with a 62 mile line to King's Drive and a branch to the Matanuska coal fields. It notes a separate 40 mile Talkeetna river system with Susitna river reach and a planned winter connecting line over swamps. Telegraph rates range from one cent per word for press messages to fifty counts for ten words. A night letter service is mentioned.
In Denver on September 11 a tribal note records the death of 5 year old Arapaho queen Draped in ceremonial attire she died after illness linked to whooping cough Her father Tom Crispin and grandfather Lonebear mourn her loss at St Stephen's Mission The Arapaho lodge community recalls her coronation at the last great council in Denver and her role within the tribe as a symbol of heritage
Mark Chapman is linked to properties on 19th and Carey Avenue including Omrenes and associated houses. Local records show ownership details and possible filings. Further confirmations needed from municipal housing registry.
Pittsburg, Pa September 11 Larry Doyle Chicago Nationale second baseman fractured his ankle in the first game with Pittsburg Saturday An X ray showed a small bone in the ankle broken He will remain in the hospital at least ten days and cannot play this season Ren F Swisher optometrist and optician 216 West 7th Street G-1oit
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