Babe Ruth accepts All-Star snub maintains star status
Babe Ruth shows no complaint about being left off the 1932 All-Star team. He notes his own selections for key positions and praises teammates Ty Cobb Joe Jackson Hans Wagner Christy Mathewson Eddie Plank and Herb Pennock while stressing his continued value as the game's top gate attraction and high-salary performer.
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Alan Gould
Associated Press
New York
Babe Ruth
Jacob Ruppert
Eastside
Florida
St. Petersborg
Chuck Klein
Ruth
Hal Chase
Larry Lajoie
Hans Wagner
Jimmy Collins
Joe Jackson
Ty Cobb
Harry Hooper
Ray Schalk
Christy Mathewson
Eddie Plank
Herb Pennock
Baltimore
Collins
Red Sox
Mathewson
Lajoie
Wagner
Jackson
Joe
Black Sox
Hap Felsch
Tris Speaker
Cobb
Hooper
Babe's
Plank
Pennock
Grove
Waddell
Justice for Jones Case Prompts Courtroom Ceremony Question
In Miami a courtroom ceremony was deemed unnecessary as Judge W F Brown and two men strolling near Princeton encountered a still and associated circumstances involving Thomas Jones a Black man. The event raised questions about formal judicial rites in this case.
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QUICK
Miami
Fla
Thomas Jones
W. F. Brown
Princeton
Jon Fessed
All Bran Fans Vote For Kellogg Brand Loyalty
Enthusiastic reader Miss Amy Person of University Park Iowa praises All Bran for its clean taste and lasting fullness. Advertisement touts Bran as providing bulk for digestion and iron for the blood with dosing notes and pricing scattered through the copy.
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Kell Company
Amy Person
University Park, Iowa
honors Sidney Lanier remembered in Polk County tribute
On February 3 Polk County residents praised Sidney Lanier the poet musician and Confederate signal officer. School children staged programs honoring the “sweet singer of the South” who died September 7, 1881 in Lynn. Lanier born 1842 in Macon Georgia wrote his last song in Polk Hills.
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Tryon
Sidney Law
Polk County
South
Lynn
Polk Hills
Lanier
Wilmington
Macon
Virginia
Texas
Move to Secure Child From Pen in South Carolina
Judge Heyward Brockington ordered Clyde Snipes and his wife to show cause why their infant Frances Joan Snipes and their six year old son should not be placed in foster homes. The children were born to Beatrice Ferguson Snipes while her death sentence for killing Officer Elliott Harris was commuted to life. The case draws adoption interest from across states as officials weigh removing the youths from the penitentiary milieu to ensure stable homes.
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Columbia
Heyward Brockington
State Penitentiary
Frances Joan Snipes
York County
Brockington
Laura C. Kramer
Clyde Snipes
Beatrice Ferguson Snipes
Conductor Fends Off Robbers In Columbus Shootout
George Briggs, a street car conductor in Columbus, refused to surrender his money as two Black men tried to rob him. He fought back until they fled after a gunfire exchange.
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Columbus
George Briggs
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