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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
6
Gen Bramwell Booth is named new commander of the Salvation Army succeeding his father. He faces mass goodwill responses and plans a tour of key posts to establish his administration. Booth stands over six feet tall and is praised for military bearing. He leads 75 000 officers serving in 55 countries.
Oscar Straus, nominated by the Progressives for New York governor, is noted as the first Jewish U.S. cabinet member. Born December 23, 1850, he rose from Georgia childhood to Columbia College and Columbia Law, later serving as minister to Turkey and member of the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, after a Paris stay, returned to Berlin to study at galleries and museums under Dr. Bode of the Royal museums. She aims to raise Chicago society’s artistic tastes and will visit Chicago next winter. Dr. Bode praised her art aptitude and led her through galleries with object lessons. The course lasted several weeks.
The closing of the Sixty second Congress marks the end of long political careers for many figures, notably Texas Senator Joseph W Bailey. Bailey, first elected at twenty six to the Fifty second Congress, gained fame for eloquence and tenacity in debates and challenged House rules, becoming an early insurgent whose ideas later influenced the chamber.
University of Nebraska professor George Elliot Howard argues in the American Journal of Sociology that professional baseball serves as a national democratic force and a moral uplifter. He attacks intercollegiate athletics as morally corrosive and urges full physical and mental education for students. He condemns organized cheering or rooting as a harmful cultural habit.
McGraw uses Devore in right field while Ted Easterly shines for the White Sox. Williams the Notre Dame recruit earns time in the Cubs outfield. Hendrix of the Pirates hits and pitches well. Tesreau’s first name is Charles. Attendance at the Polo Grounds averages around 10 000. Walker the Washington semi pro joins the Naps pace too fast for him. The Chicago Americans plan a tryout for Harry Smith of Lincoln Western league. McAleer of the Red Sox suspends trades for the season. Walker of Bristol eyes Brooklyn and Garry Herrmann seeks trades with few takers. Holmes lauds Lynch as a Sioux City substitute after Breen’s departure.
The Detroit Evening Journal reports Boston Red Sox president James McAleer offered $50,000 cash for Walter Johnson, the Washington pitcher, in a bid to win the World Series. McAleer and Ban Johnson pressed Clark Griffith at a Washington club table, laying down $1,000 to seal the deal. Griffith refused to entertain the offer.
Ban Johnson selects Eddie Foster as the best young player in the American league. The Chicago lad has aided the Senators in rising to second place this season.
The piece surveys spitball legends in baseball history led by Rube Marquard and cites rivals like Larry Cheney Jimmy Lavender and Marty O Toole. It notes managers McGraw Chance Clarke and Chesbro Walsh Ford as competing claims and highlights Lavender defeating Marquard to break the record streak.
The piece argues for professional trainers to oversee players health and conditioning, noting amateurs train intensely while pros neglect postseason routines. It calls trainers heartless dictators backed by management to keep players in condition and cites a Cubs Zimmerzman home run of 425 feet as an example of extreme hitting.
Garry Herrmann states the Reds cannot acquire Red Doom from Philadelphia as Cincinnati has nothing to offer for the pitcher. The remark underscores the lack of trade leverage and sets a tone of reluctance for a deal.
A noted Tennessee lawyer with a high temper and deafness clashes with a younger judge in a court. The judge orders the attorney to sit, the man continues speaking, and he is fined ten dollars for contempt. The exchange ends with the lawyer sarcastically asking if the fine is a just debt.
A Brooklyn reader details a yearlong skin eruption starting as a single pimple on the hand that spread to blotches and sores on both hands and the face. After trying treatments unsuccessfully, use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment halted the itching and cleared the skin within three weeks.
Sufferers from female complaints report health improvements after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs Henry Leiseburg and Mrs G B Whittington recount long hardships and relief, praising the company and encouraging others to seek guidance from its Lynn Massachusetts office.
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