Baltimore Federal League drops suit against organized baseball
In Philadelphia on June 15 the Baltimore Club of the defunct Federal League dropped its $500000 damages suit against organized baseball. Garry Herrmann testified on cross examination about franchise values and motives to restore public confidence in the game as the trial proceeded into the fourth inning.
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Herrmann Denies Fraternity Blacklist Claim
August Herrmann, chairman of the National Commission, branded as untrue a claim by David L. Fultz that he asked the Players' Fraternity to blacklist players who jumped to the Federal League. Herrmann said organized baseball never sought monopoly and supports freedom for any club or league to compete.
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Players' Fraternity
August Herrmann
National Commission
Herrmann
State Champion to Vie at Harrisburg Two Day Shoot
Secretary Billy Cleckner of the Harrisburg Sportsmen's Association announces that Al Heil state champion will attend the two day registered shoot next week. Heil is the only shooter to make a clean score for the title in twenty five years and seldom misses a registered event.
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Harrisburg Sportsmen's Association
al Heil
Heil
Orphan Boy Trades Savings for Liberty Bond Worth Hope
Bernard Chase 11, an orphan at the Home for Destitute Colored Children in Philadelphia, uses his entire savings of about 26 dollars and promised summer work to buy a Liberty Bond. He plans no spending for ice cream or trips until the bond is paid, honoring his ancestors’ emancipation and gratitude to the government.
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Bernard Chase
Fifty-fourth
Berks Streets
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Willow Grove
Sam
United States
Umpires Grip Power as Managers Provoke Baseball Rifts
The piece argues managers and players provoked umpire authority by outbursts, noting umpires now wield broad control to keep games from breaking up. It cites Tigers vs Red Sox, Cobb and Heisman in Detroit's surge, and questions about Willard retirement and boxing lineage, plus golf and public war mobility milestones.
Twenty Millions Reached by U S War Garden Effort
Washington June 15 The Department of Agriculture reports that since America's entry into the war at least 20,000,000 people have seen publications on the food problem. A vegetable garden bulletin has circulated over a million copies and 250,000 circulars on canned fruits and jellies have been distributed. Posters of President Wilson urging thrift in food have reached about one million and a quarter farmers and housewives. Bulletins on production and conservation are in high demand.
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Washington
America
Department of Agriculture
Vrooman
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Peurchigne Is Pershing's Name in French Capital
Paris newspapers weighed in on how to pronounce General Pershing’s name. The Figaro notes the common form sounded by Paris residents, Pare shing, is not accurate and claims the name should be pronounced Peurchigne to align with the general’s French reception.
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Montmartre
York County Exceeds Allotment by 250000
York county oversubscribed its Liberty bonds allotment. The official tally shows 2.25 million raised, well above the 2 million target. About 5,000 local subscribers are reported as of yesterday. A Harrisburg Natural History Society field excursion to Marsh Run and Riverview in York county is planned for tomorrow. Also, Pittsburgh reports seventeen year locusts damaging gardens and infrastructure, prompting a city warning to gardeners to take control measures.
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Pittsburgh
German Agents Buy Condensed Milk to Aid Blockade
Washington reports that German agents have bought large quantities of condensed or evaporated milk at retail and shipped it to Germany via neutral ports. The war committee of the condensed milk industry said agents canvassed stores and paid retail prices, sometimes claiming the purchases were for Germany to avoid detection.
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Washington
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Department of Commerce
War Committee
Majestic and Regent courts with vaudeville and Peer Gynt
At the Majestic week’s end features include Whats Your Name a breezy musical comedy with a chorus of attractive costumes and juggler acrobats. The Regent presents a Today Only revival of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt with Cyril Maude. Anita Stewart headlines the Colonial for Clover’s Rebellion with a Key Stone comedy Secrets of a Beauty Parlor joining the bill.
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Mother Forces Her Son to Enroll For Service
A Philadelphia woman with a white haired elder man in tow insisted at City Hall that her son register for military service. The reluctant man, muttering about his age and duty, was blocked from leaving as the mother declared he was 28 and vowed he must do his duty and not be a slacker.
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Registration Commission
City Hall
Roosevelt Urges Americanism at Nebraska Celebration
In Lincoln on June 16 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt addressed thousands on the Capitol grounds closing Nebraska’s semicentennial events. He defended American unity, criticized German language papers, and urged English as the common tongue while praising a Swedish born soldier’s family as American. He warned clergy to place flag above church and urged farmers to buy Liberty Bonds, cautioning against joining Wall Street if they ignore liberty loans.
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Sweden
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San Salvador Hit by Recurrent Earthquakes
San Salvador reports several shocks over Wednesday and yesterday with no major damage. Relief committees distribute provisions to the destitute as shelters rise for thousands homeless in the streets. Red Cross attends the wounded. bodies recovered at Armenia and Quezinitepec as lava streams cover railway tracks and volcanic craters merge.
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U. S. Has Assumed Active Part in War Says Baker
Secretary Baker stated that General Pershing and his staff arrived in Paris marking America's active participation in the war to enforce peace with justice. He noted the warm reception for American officers and allied forces in England and France and said the combined armies will form a league to enforce peace with justice.
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England
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Cornplanters Win Parade Costume Prize at Altoona
The Cornplanter Tribe No. 61 I. O. Red Men of Harrisburg won a $25 prize for the best costumes in the Altoona state convention parade. The annual meeting will be held in Scranton next year.
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Altoona
Scranton
France Denies Rumor of Imported U. S. Labor
Paris June 15 The prefecture of police denies a circulating report that American labor will be imported into France. The announcement says the rumor was meant to cause French worker unrest and has no foundation. Anyone propagating it will be prosecuted.
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Prefecture of Police
France
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