Baseball Ground Bids Clash Over Site in Des Moines
Competing groups vie for control of the present ball park as the Coliseum project seeks a site. Owners of the park and local management debate renewal terms and the hoped for rental raise. Resolution hinges on whether the Colosseum can secure Fifth Street grounds or baseball keeps the lease and control.
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Brank Wynn
Harry Elliott
W. P
Fifth Street
Ickey
Coliseum
Des Moles
Tu. Fi, Bush, U. la
J. K. Gilcrest
Hickey
yanaLttes
Budd Wins Hazard Cup in Shoot Off at Omaha
Budd of Les Maine defeats Frank Parmalee to win the Hazard Cup in the mid-winter tournament at park. Finalists from Kansas City and Omaha also scored high as Barton Lewis of Norborne posted 145 in the match. Other results include a long card of races at New Orleans and postponed bowling games in Des Moines as Drexel readies new alleys.
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Frank Parmalee
Omaha
Kaugas City
Sporting News
Kensay
Mu Budd
Les Maine
Lire
Harley
Park
Prank
Parmalee
Alin
Neal
Gar
Bilisth
Cockrill
Kansas City
Barton Lewis
Norborne
Cure
Homeseekers Excursion Tickets From Towa Central Rail
On the first and third Tuesdays monthly Towa Central Railway sells homeseekers tickets to Iowa Minnesota North and South Dakota Montana Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas at one fare plus 2.00 for round trip with twenty one day return limit. Iowa Central Route offers access to rich farming belts in western states. Full details available from Geo S Batty Marshalltown Iowa agents or by mail. Winter tourist tickets to Florida Gulf Coast via Louisville and Nashville with deluxe dining car service. Write for folders to C L Stone Louisville Ky. Governor Van Sant calls Northwestern governors meeting in Helena December 3 to discuss Northern Securities merger.
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Towa Central Railway
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Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Iowa Central
Geo, S. Batty
Marshalltown
Louisville & Nashville
Governor Toole Accepts Date by Wire to Helena
The governor replied by wire in the affirmative and welcomed the governors to Helena. The message confirms that the dated arrangement was approved and sets the tone for forthcoming meetings in the Montana capital.
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Toole
Helena
How Safe Blowers Operate
A New York Times report details how burglars use nitroglycerin to open a Lynn manufacturing firm’s burglar proof safe. Experts describe a method involving wedges of wood and putty to channel nitroglycerin into the safe door, creating a 45 degree slope of liquid that forces the door free.
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New York
Lynn
America
Freight jumps trestle wreck near Ridgetop kills three
A Louisville & Nashville fast freight derailed from a trestle near Ridgetop Tennessee. Engineer Fitegeral and brakemen Walter Anderson and Eskridge were killed. Conductor Mehan was probably fatally injured.
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Tenn
Louisville & Nashville
Fitegeral
Walter Anderson
Eskridge
Mehan
Russian noble loses 160000 pounds in Vienna card game
A Vienna dispatch reports at the Vienna Jockey Club Count Potocki lost £160,000 over three hours of card playing. Count Pallawic reportedly took most of the money as the session ended this afternoon.
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London
Vienna Pubel
Vienna
Jockey Club
Potocki
Pallawiccini
Coach Knipe Goes East to Study Gymnasiums
University of Iowa coach and physical training chief Dr. Al Knipe will travel to Philadelphia New York and Cambridge to inspect gymnasiums at Penn Harvard and others. He seeks ideas for a university gymnasium while planning winter spring track and baseball programs and stressing athletic development over winning titles.
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Iowa City
AL AL Knipe
University of Iowa
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Knipe
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Yowa
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Hollenbeck
Coulthard
Spalding faces injunction as National League turmoil deepens
New York reports that a court injunction keeps A G Spalding from acting as National League president or secretary treasurer while a legal test of his election is pending. Freedman and allies see the move as a setback, with six clubs unable to join a meeting to restart league operations, and the schedule committee paralyzed by the ban.
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Justice Scoté
Supreme Court
National League of Professional Baseball Clube
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Freedman
A. G. Spalding
Natonal League
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Officiea
Geott
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N. FE. Young
Chicago
Brooklyn
Philadelphias
Pittsburg
Boston
St. Louis
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N. E. Young
National League
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Columbia Selects Six For Intercollegiate Chess Team
Columbia unveils its strongest six for the intercollegiate chess contest led by Frank Hi. Sewall on board one and Howard A. Keeler on board two. The team includes B. R. Von Shelly, George W. Tucker, R. Schroeder, and G. A. Bilis as substitutes, aiming to defend the cup without last year's champion balk. Yale, Princeton, and Harvard lineups follow with multiple players, while a match against Cornell is set for January 3 as Columbia seeks victory in a Triangular league context.
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College
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B. R. von Shelly
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R. Schroeder
G. A. Bilis
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Difford
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P. W. Bridgman
Wile
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Shawmut Freighter Launched for Boston Steamship Line
Baltimore dispatch reports the 11,000 ton transatlantic freighter Shawmut was launched today. It is one of twelve similar ships for the Boston Steamship Company. New York move to close the Produce Exchange was approved at a board meeting, with closure set for the day before Christmas.
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Sugar Factory Contract Forges Ontario Project in Dresden
Captain James Davidson waited for the American Construction and Supply Company of New York to secure the contract for a new sugar factory to be built at Dresden Ontario. The project will involve associates including Cabref Cartécon and FL Fitz and is connected with the Sugar industry expansion plans announced from ity Michigan on December 1.
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James Davidson
American, Construction and Supply Company of
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Dresden
Ont
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