Giants Close 1926 Season With 6 2 Victory Over Boerne
Fredericksburg Giants finish the 1926 baseball season with a 6 to 2 win against the Boerne White Sox at Boerne Fair. Henke pitched well though Boerne scored in the fourth. Durst led the offense with four singles in five trips and Knopp added two hits. The game marked the Giants' 19 wins and 8 losses for the season. time of game 1:35. Umpires Nichols and R. Jordan.
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Fredericksburg Giants
Henke
Sox
Dugosh
Cedric’? Durst
Knopp
Giants
Run Durst
Langerhans
Weaver
Durst
Blankey
Jordan
Dienger
Kott
Holekamp
Unecker
Leidl
Wendler
Uecker
Peter
Lochte
Hollmig
Debates on War Debt Cancellation and Liberty Bonds Rhetoric
Washington discussions weigh Newton Baker’s call to cancel European war debts as a generous gesture. Editorials challenge repudiation of Liberty bonds while the administration aims for settlements with borrowing nations. Also notes advances in non freezing dynamite used in U S industry and its Court of Chemical Achievement recognition.
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Newton D. Baker
Washington
Baker
Washington Post
Administration
United States
Court of Chemical Achievement
Non-Freezing Dynamite Promises Safer Explosives
Historical notes describe the shift from freezing dynamite to a low freezing formula. Tests in cold regions showed the new nitroglycerin based explosive remaining effective at extreme subzero temps, with safe handling emphasized.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Cigarette and cigar production figures released
The Bureau of Internal Revenue reports July output of nearly 8 billion cigarettes in the United States and more than 568 million large cigars. Cigarette production rises year over year while cigar manufacturing shows a decline.
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United States
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Lightning strikes Humble tank farm in Hall Texas
Lightning hit a 55 000 barrel tank at the Humble tank farm in Hall Texas on a September afternoon. Damages were estimated between 35 000 and 40 000 dollars as oil was pumped out from the partially filled tank.
Man Electrocuted Under Truck at Orange Bottling Plant
Orange Texas September 4 W J Franks an employee at a local bottling works died after being electrocuted early Saturday when he gripped a cord of an electric light beneath a truck Franks fellow worker F A Harris was shocked while trying to rescue him
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Orange
Tex
W. J. Franks
Franks
F. A. Harris
Ants blamed for death of infant in Amarillo yard
In Amarillo Texas Jim mie Lee Pierce 19 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Pierce died from bites by large red ants while playing in the back yard as the mother hung clothes nearby Her body showed green poison spots and she grew unconscious after being brought inside Funeral is planned for Lubbock Friday morning.
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Amarillo
Tex
Jimmie Lee Pierce
Arthur Pierce
Lubbock
Wolf Mangles Child Near Cameron
The two year old daughter of Ernst Alfred was attacked by a pet wolf while playing in the yard. The wolf ripped her throat and tore a tonsil, biting and scratching her head. An elder sister pulled the wolf away after the child disturbed a scab. The child was taken to the hospital in serious but hopeful condition.
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Cameron
Ernst Alfred
Post Office fraud order against McNickle and Company
The Post Office Department issues a fraud order against McNickle and Company of Spring Hill West Virginia for selling a medicinal preparation called Psycosulphene. The firm claims a daily powder in each shoe for 72 days cures various diseases, a scheme the department seeks to stop monthly to protect the public.
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Post Office Department
McNickle and Company
Spring Hill
West Virginia
Thinner bricks studied for road pavement efficiency
The United States Bureau of Public Roads investigates thinner bricks for road pavement to cut production costs freight and hauling charges. If bricks can be made under three inches officials expect rulings against wasteful clay use and the halt of thick brick production.
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United States Bureau of Public Roads
Herbert Hoover
Cost Of Lumber In 1924 Freight Costs Surpass Prices
The United States Forest Service reports the average price of 1000 feet of lumber used in 1924 was $12 while gross freight on lumber reached about $408 million. Freight charges often more than double the consumer price. ODO Cotton duck pickers sacks and wool bags advertised by Juenke and Schoenewolf.
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United States Forest Service
Juenke & Schoenewolf
Brewery Padlocked After Prohibition Violation
Federal Judge Duval West ordered a one year padlock of the New Braunfels Brewing plant following a Volstead Act violation. An out of court agreement exempted certain sections of the property. Prohibition agents seized several thousand bottles of beer at the New Braunfels plant and the San Antonio warehouse on August 25 for allegedly exceeding alcohol limits.
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San Antonio
Duval West
New Braunfels Brewing Company
New Braunfels
Fresh vegetables and fair events this week
Harness and running races take place at New Braunfels Fair on September 23 24 25 and 26. The M E Church Supper is scheduled for Friday September 17.
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New Braunfels Fair
M. E. Church
No Pellag ra After Three Treatments
Dear Doctor W C Rountree of Texarkana Texas treated a Pellagra patient, W W Foust of Hico Texas reports relief after three treatments following five years of illness with nervous symptoms, skin lesions, and weakness, after prior hypodermics offered no relief.
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W. C. Rountree
Texarkana
Texas
W. W. Foust
Hico
Rt. 1
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J. B. Stetson
Norman Brso
Odo
Goodyear
Hohmann & Stehling
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