Ruth Declines 1926 Play If Huggins Remains Yankees Manager
Babe Ruth arrived in Chicago from St Louis and told reporters he will not play for the New York Yankees in 1926 if Miller Huggins stays as manager. He warned he would be traded or quit despite his contract. Ruth accused Huggins of deceiving Ban Johnson and demanded a reduction of a $5,000 fine.
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Chicago
Babe Ruth
King of
Swat
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St. Louis
Ruth
Miller Huggins
Yankees
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Ruppert
Landis
Baseball
New York
Buckingham
Blubhouse
Bac
Steels
Ashington
Ruth speaks on suspension and Huggins in Chicago
Babe Ruth defends his record and criticizes Miller Huggins after a $6000 fine and suspension. He claims the manager shifts blame for the Yankees poor showing and notes friction with Huggins over lateness and rule infractions. Ruth vows he could quit playing if Huggins remains.
Position Filled Quickly by Classified Ad
This ad notes ten applicants by 8 30 and a capable talent secured before 10 30. The Commercial Tribune Classified Ads promise fast, low cost help and urge readers to call an ad taker to save time in interviews.
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Commercial Tribune
Paris Realities Like Jimjams
Paris dispatch notes a hooded calao found by Antoine Blarc near Porte d Asnieres and a bored Argentine lion dragged back to a private menagerie. An escaped-animal craze is linked to a woman claiming to be Zouzou’s wife after reading about foxes in the opera.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Bois du Boulogne
Antoine Blarc
Porte d’Asnieres
Charlie Chaplin
Blaze
Debas
Henri ‘Martin
Senor Basualdo
Basualdo
Luxembourg Garden
Zouzou the Fox
Zouzou
N. Y
Will Hays At Arc New York Connecticut Movie Tax Row
New Haven residents reacted to Adolph Zukor and Will Hays amid a proposed Connecticut film tax. The tax would hit exhibitors and shut down vaults at the Kilfeather Building, with 517 people out of work and a $500,000 annual payroll loss cited. Industry figures warn of litigation as New York and Boston markets move to respond.
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New York World News Service
New Haven
Conn
Adolph Zukor
Will H. Hays
Boston Post
New York
Boston
Smith and Brown
Mr. Zukor
Boston Post Road
Meadow Street
Kilfeather
King Tut
Connecticut
H. R. Durant
John J. Splain
Durant
Zukor
Splain
Sylvester Z. Poli
East
Poli
Mr. Sprain
Hays Enchmen
Seamen Strike Expands To Threaten Trans Atlantic Liners
In Southampton on August 30 the seamen's strike widened as workers refused to sign on at the old wage rate. A strike committee formed and plans were made to rally other sailors for a general strike. A mass meeting declared the action and a further meeting was set for tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Southampton
England
No Hardships Expected in Mine Strike Across Eastern Seaboard
New York august 30 mine strike nears and conditions show two changes since 1902. Bituminous coal capacity and regional production reduce dependence on hard coal. If strike lasts, only inconveniences for those unused to bituminous coal and possible violence in hard coal regions, with steady operator gains and improved miner conditions over twenty years.
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John J. Leary, Jr
New York World News Service
New York
John Mitchell
North Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Pennsylvania
Mitchell
Wales
Maritime Provinces
Canada
George F. Baer
George F. Baer of “Divine Right” Fame
Theodore Roosevelt
Egypt's beauty secrets a joke in modern view
London officials doubt Carter's Tutankhamen cosmetics will reveal ancient beauty secrets.Chemists analyze untouched cosmetics as museum staff note ancient Egyptian regimens matched Cairo market items. They describe unguents from animal fats and spices and quirky hair recipes. public face powders were ancient amusements for both genders.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Howard Carter
British Museum
Carter
Cairo
Tete
Egypt
N.Y
Strike Figures Highlight Anthracite Dispute
The New York World News Service outlines the coal strike in brief: 828 mines with 158,000 miners, 148,000 set to strike, 10,000 maintenance workers kept on. Demands include a 10 percent tonnage rate raise, $1 day wage for day men, and changes in check-off and conditions. Estimated daily wage loss is 1.16 million dollars.
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John J. Leary, JR
New York World News Service
New York
United Mineworkers
War romance ends in tragedy at Kew Gardens
Walter J. Fitzpatrick killed himself in Orlando after his wife Marie Louise Bernier Fitzpatrick died by gas in their Kew Gardens flat. Years earlier Marie Louise had married Colonel Leacroft of the British army in London in 1917 and, after various separations and remarriages, sparked a tale of war era romance that ended amid marital discord in New York.
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New York
Walter J. Fitzpatrick
Marie Louise Bernier Fitzpatrick
Kew Gardens
Orlando
Fla
Fitzpatrick
Ja Off
London
Maine
Leacroft
San Francisco
Colonel Seacroft
Five die as train hits auto near Greensboro crossing
Five persons killed at a grade crossing at Reidsville near Greensboro when the auto carrying them collided with a Southern passenger train. Victims include Jack H. Carter of Reidsville and New York and Nina Johnson Cone of New York plus Mrs. Manton Oliver, Mrs. John Oliver, and Mrs. Eugene Irving.
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Greensboro
N.C
N. C
Reidsville
Here
Southern
Jack H. Carter
New York
Nina Johnson Cone
Manton Oliver
Fire kills five infants and breaks mother's back
Five children all under 13 die in Everett fire started by a tipped kerosene lamp. Their mother Irene Scenna leaped from a window, sustaining a broken spine. Five other families in the two story tenement were displaced.
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Everett
Mass
Irene Scenna
Scenna
Chicago Autoists Hurt in Serious City Crash
Ten automobilists were injured in accidents in Chicago today. one person died. Two police sergeants were severely injured when their car overturned in a collision with another vehicle.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Auto crashes claim lives and injure dozens near Cincinnati
A spate of vehicle wrecks in Hamilton County and nearby Kentucky left two men fatally injured and many others hurt. Charles Gatts of Covington dies after a Beechmont crossing crash with a train. William Day, a Potter football player, dies in a creek-side plunge near Alexandria. Several others, including Mrs Mamie Schneider and a 13 year old, suffer severe injuries in separate collisions and a pole strike on Paddock road.
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Cincinnati
Beechmont Avenue
Charles Gatts
Russell Street
Covington
Hamilton County
Gatts
Nettie Gatts
Dean
General Hospital
Handley
William T. Day
Holman Street
Potter
Stanley Keller
Rosedale
Clifford Caldwell
Silver Grove
John W. Glar
Ross
Brush Creek Road
Alexandria
Dwyer
Speers Hospital
Dayton
Gfar
John T. Dwyer
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Mamie Schneider
Lee Street
Third Street
Crescent Avenue
Budd Snyder
John Schneider
Schneider
Cynthia Bickett
Fairfield Avenue
Cynthiana
Alphonso Sauer
Hannover Street
Hamilton
Flinea
Paddock Road
California Avenue
Countess Plans Gay Night Clubs in Florida
Countess Irma Mirafiore, arriving from Miami, announces a half‑million dollar syndicate to run innovative Florida night clubs. The plan includes three houseboats each with ballroom and restaurant for 1,000 guests, anchored offshore in St. Petersburg Boca Deiga Bay Biscayne Bay and Lake Worth vicinity, plus land clubs designed by Thomas M Lamb in Tampa Daytona Myers Sarasota and Orlando.
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New York World News Service
New York
Hote Commodore
Irma Mirafiore
Miami
Fla
Florida
Eduardo Mirafiore
Paris
M. E. Eads Johnson
St. Petersburg
Boca Deiga Bay
Biscayne Bay
Palm Beach
West Palm Beach
Lake Worth
Thomas M. Lamb
Tampa
Daytona
Myers
Sarasota
Orlando
Pinchot Seeks 1928 GOP Nomination and Western Power Divide
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania is named as a 1928 Republican candidate and is maneuvering to lead the Western Progressive faction. He promotes a giant power plan to bring cheap electric power to farmers, opposing a nationwide electric monopoly and the Coolidge-era conservative drift.
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Pinchot
West
New York World News Service
Minneapolis
Pennsylvania
Pepper
Calvin Coolidge
America
Great Central
Washington
Wisconsin
la Follette
Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican Party of the
Middle West
Box of dynamite found on Ludlow bridge
A box containing fifty pounds of dynamite and caps was found balanced on a Ludlow Kentucky bridge by Chief Robert Callahan. The box near the edge could have destroyed the structure if shaken. A woman reported it. investigators suspect amateur yeggmen tied to two prior failed safe blows.
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Southern Railway
Happy Hollow
Ludlow
Robert Callahan
Callahan
Ideal Supply Company
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway
League Council Aoked to Solve Mosul Problem
Geneva reports say the Mosul boundary dispute will dominate the thirty-fifth League of Nations session. The Mosul Commission report outlines three solutions, risking no side fully satisfied, while minor disputes with Turkey Greece Romania Hungary Lithuania Poland and Danzig loom. The Slavery Committee findings and Mandates Commission fireworks are anticipated along with Greek refugee relief led by George Howland.
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Geneva
League of Nations Council
Solomon
England
Turkey
Mosul
M. de Wirsen
Sweden
Teleki
Hungary
Paulis
Belgium
League
Great Britain
London
Angola
Downing Street
Angora
Thrace
Greece
Constantinople
Banat
Transylvania
Rumania
Bucharest
Hague
Lithuania
Poland
Danzig
Slavery Committee
India
South America
Ross
Portuguese East Africa
Lisbon
United States
Mandates Commission
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
George P. Howland
New York
Henry Morgenthau
Trains Sideswipe Injures Thirty In Colorado Station
About thirty passengers were injured when Train No. 1 north of Trinidad sideswiped Train No. 8 at Mayne Col. One sleeping car overturned. Judge Wiley Bell of Dallas and Miss Mary White of Victoria were dangerously hurt. No. 8 was taking a siding. Mayne lies about thirty miles north of Trinidad.
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Associated Press
Denver
Col
Texas Fast Mail
Colorado Southern Railroad
Mayne
Trinidad
Wiley Bell
Dallas
Tex
Mary White
Victoria
Rocky Mountains
Navy seaplanes begin noontime Hawaii transoceanic flight
Three PN-9 and PB-1 aircraft depart San Francisco on a nonstop Hawaii mission led by Commander John Rodgers. The voyage covers about 2418 miles with an estimated 24 hours in the air, carrying mail and testing mid ocean rendezvous tactics for future naval operations.
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New York World News Service
San Francisco
Cal
United States Navy
Hawaiian Islands
Naval Aviation
Honolulu
Naval Aircraft Factory
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Seattle
Wash
San Francisco Bay
Coos Bay
John Rodgers
Allan P. Snody
Arthur Gavin
J. H. Strong
Ralph E. Davidson
Rodgers
B. J. Connell
Wil
Connell
Navy
Hawaii
Snody
Gavin
Hawaiian
Maui Island
California
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Ieal
Pacific
Navy Department
Post Office Department
New York
Asia
Naval
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