St Vincent College routs Orange Athlet ic Club at Athletic Park
Orange Athletic Club lost decisively to St Vincent College on the Athletic Park field as the side was overwhelmed by a fast heavy offense that crossed the goal line eight times and turned seven touchdowns into goals. The game featured relentless attacking play and home team collapse from the opening whistle.
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Orange
Orange Athletic Club
Athletic Park
St. Vincent College
Los Angeles High School to unveil new gym and diversity of sports
In the coming days Los Angeles high school will introduce a complete new gymnasium with updated apparatus and features. Students may choose boxing tennis apparatus work basketball indoor baseball football and fast breathing exercises as part of the expanded program.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles High School
Los Angeles High School Defeats USC at Fiesta Park
Decius, right halfback for Los Angeles High School, kicked three goals from placement in the game at Fiesta Park. Two came from the 35 yard line near the sideline and one from the 27 yard mark. LAHS outplayed USC with superior teamwork and individual play but could not cross the Methodist goal line.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles High School
Uis.c
Decius
UL S.C
Fiesta Park
Methodists
Riverside Opens Season as Riverside and San Bernardino Fight
Riverside fans saw the season opener between Riverside and San Bernardino with San Bernardino winning 15 to 0. The game showed cautious play and slower pace as both teams shake off the first contest. Riverside displayed team cohesion but lacked speed.
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Riverside
San Bernardino
County Seat
Riversiders
Pomona Varsity Thrashed by Santa Ana 9–0 at Claremont
Santa Ana High School crushed Pomona College 9 to 0 at Claremont. Head scored a touchdown for Santa Ana and a well-placed kick from the thirty yard line added the extra points in the second period.
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Santa Ana
Claremont College
Claremont
Pomona
Santa Ana High School
Flax Culture Promoted in Beaumont by Seed Trust
The flax seed trust promotes flax cultivation in Beaumont with landowners rotating crops from wheat or barley to flax annually. Advocates say flax improves soil for grain and eliminates summer fallowing while keeping land busy. The first week of October saw $6350 in business, and eucalyptus planting grows in Beaumont with about 60 acres set out in six months.
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Beaumont
Flax Seed Trust
Dangers of Cols and Cure Advocated
A historical note warns that ordinary colds can lead to pneumonia chronic catarrh and raise risk of infections such as diphtheria scarlet fever measles and whooping cough. It promotes Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the quickest cure and lists R F Billings as seller.
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R. F. Billings
Elkins Denies Katherine D'Abruzzi Engagement Report
Elkins of West Virginia states there was no engagement between his daughter Katherine and the Duke D Abruzzi. He says reports are without foundation and that no announcement has been made in Europe or the United States.
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Elkins
W. Va
United States
Stephen B. Elkins
Katherine
D’ Abruzzi
Europe
Kodol Aids Digestion During Indigestion Attacks
An advertisement advises taking Kodal when the stomach is unsettled to digest all foods and restore strength. It links brief relief from slight indigestion to longer use for severe attacks or nervous dyspepsia and notes availability from R. Billiarines.
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R. . Billiarines
Call Russ Lumber Co. for building and improvements
Lumber and mill work essentials offered by Russ Lumber Co. with a range including lumber lath shingles doors windows and related mill work for any project. Contact for best prices and service.
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Call Russ Lumber Co
Once an Italian Always an Italian in Italian Law
Antonio Mangano recounts being detained in Italy for military obligation despite American citizenship. He explains Italy does not recognize allegiance changes, noting officials ignored his American papers and passport. He was later released after learning only male family status exempted him from service.
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Italy
Washington
Antonio Mangano
Charities
the Commons
Pain and Pleasure In Hanging Tale From Fort Barrancas
A first person account describes being hanged as a Confederate spy near Fort Barrancas on April 4 1868. The narrator recounts four minutes between earth and heaven the sensation of a bursting steam like pain a milky light and a taste of sweetness before being cut down and enduring brutal pain before recovery. He says he would not endure the experience again for the wealth of the Indies.
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J. T. Mann
Fort Barrancas
Fla
Earth
Heaven
Indies
Russian Wedding Dance Extends Over Three Days
London Tit-Bits notes that Russian marriages can last three days with the bride dancing with many men. The bride’s stamina is a matter of pride and she is said to dance until exhaustion. It is considered rude for a man to smoke while she dances and holds his pipe as he dances.
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London
Not So Bad Mr Subbs Confides About Wife Illness
In a quirky exchange Miss Flannigan learns from Mr Subbs that his wife is a chronic invalid confined to her room. The dialogue hints at humor and tension in a domestic setting.
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Mr. Subbs
Cook
Miss Flannigan
Puck
Line from Baltimore American insults teacher remark
A quoted exchange from the Baltimore American shows a reader insulting a teacher by implying inherited stupidity. The fragment reflects slang and a personal jab rather than a reported event.
When a Woman Packs a Trunk Says Soul and Feet
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote contrasts packing a trunk by a woman as a soulful task with a man packing a trunk as putting in his feet. The wry observation riffs on gendered domestic labor and travel rituals.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Retz Quote On Enduring Enmities
A brief aphorism notes that deeply rooted hostilities resist reconciliation, warning that old feuds prove the stubbornest of rivals and struggles to fade despite time.
Train's Omaha Hotel Sparked by Broken Pane and Bold Gamble
In 1864 George Francis Train, famed investor and showman, built the Cozzens House hotel in Omaha after a broken pane led to a row with the Herndon House. The $60,000 incident, the ambitious hotel project, and its rapid rise and fall changed the city’s lodging scene as Nebraska’s governor and mayor attended the opening before the gas works failed and the venture collapsed.
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George Francis
Omaha
America
Herndon House
Ninth
Harney Streets
Missouri River
Train
New York
Colonel Cozzens
St. Louis
George Francis Train
Citizen of the Earth
Cozzens House
Nebraska
Union Pacific Railroad
Voodoo Doctors and Black Cat Witch Stories
A Philadelphia tale recalls a well educated Black man’s encounters with a famous voodoo physician who claims to ward off curses. He recounts a charm that thwarted a writ, a conjurer’s power, and a seizure of dreams by a cat witch. In South Carolina locals spread rice to stop witches who must eat each grain. Marvin Dana in Metropolitan Magazine.
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Philadelphia
South Carolina
Marvin Dana
Metropolitan Magazine
The Silver Rabbit of Lincolnshire
A Lincolnshire rabbit known as the silver rabbit has silvery gray fur and is abundant locally. English demand is low, but its skins are exported in large quantities to Asia where the fur is highly valued by royalty and bought mainly by the wealthy.
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Lincolnshire
England
Asia
Tartary
China
Author Declares Exclusive Contract With Magazine
The popular writer proclaims in a St. Louis Republic excerpt that he has signed an exclusive deal with one magazine. A friend notes numerous rival offers, but the author says he will decline them and has ordered printed slips to announce the exclusivity.
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St. Louis Republic
Clergyman's Visit Provokes Pledge Request
In a parish round the clergyman asks about periodicals. A woman replies she does not take them but her husband does, and she wishes the clergyman would obtain his signature on the pledge. The remark is attributed to a judge.
Bryan Plans Three Day Nebraska Tour From Lincoln
William J. Bryan prepares to begin a three day tour of Nebraska with a stop in Omaha at 9 a.m. tomorrow. He will address Nebraska University students this afternoon before boarding his special train in Omaha to cover seventy appearances. A medical ad follows, promoting Lewitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills with a one week trial offer sold by R. F. Billings.
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Stanford University
Stanford
University of California
Cardinal
Stanford Freshies
Lincoln
Neb
Omaha
William J. Bryan
Nebraska University
Healds Business College Riverside Ad
Its a Good School Healds College of Riverside is the lead ing business training school in this sec tion of the state. It stands for all that is best, and for all that is modern and progressive in business education in this country today. Special Features of the College. Clean, spacious inviting rooms, wholesome moral atmosphere, cordial helpful sympathetic teachers, firm but kind discipline, intensely practical and fascinating courses of study, progressive and vigorous policy. The largest commercial school in Southern California outside of Los Angeles. Write for our beautifully illustrated catalogue. Healds Business College Riverside California.
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Heaild
Gildard's Specials Highlight Havana Quality and Low Price
The note promotes Gildard's Specials made of the best Havana tobacco. It claims superior quality for the price and notes the offering in Corona with a low price.
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Gildard
Havana
Corona
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