Old Time Baseball Had Some Swatters
A 1875 pamphlet on early baseball, focusing on the Boston club of 1874 and its players, salaries, and expenses, plus notes on trap shooting clubs and wartime football trends.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
7
A 1875 pamphlet on early baseball, focusing on the Boston club of 1874 and its players, salaries, and expenses, plus notes on trap shooting clubs and wartime football trends.
Camp Sevier in Greenville South Carolina reports the departure of snow and ice after nearly three weeks. Routine drills return with long daily hikes giving way to close order drill and maneuvers. Trench occupation continues and target-range practice will likely restart soon.
A compact reflection on the joy of giving and the subtle art of living. It contrasts ignorance of generous living with the quiet pleasure found in selfless acts.
Dr. Ister Lovejoy of the Red Cross in Paris describes a munition plant in Frances with a model nursery for babies of women workers. Six thousand women are employed. infants are cared for by trained nurses at the plant, with mothers allowed periodic nursing breaks and nightly bottle feeding. Lovejoy notes such arrangements show wartime economic necessity fostering progressive child care.
Berlin reports frenzied bidding at recent art auctions prompting the Prussian chamber to authorize a government law to prohibit or hinder sale abroad of art objects or old master paintings now owned in Germany.
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