Diamonds Go 80 Fast in Rice Sells Them
A brief note states diamonds move quickly, with Rice selling them at high speed. No additional context or figures available.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1899
Page
8
A brief note states diamonds move quickly, with Rice selling them at high speed. No additional context or figures available.
Indians 58 31 3L 51 3k 513. Indianapolis hosts 1 600 newsboys and street Arabs in right-field bleachers. Bob Allen and George Tebeau clash as Indianapolis maintains lead amid noisy crowd. Crawford and Hartzell pace scoring. Grand Rapids to visit for a double-header. Cincinnati trades and league chatter follow.
Game details show Indianapolis versus Grand Rapids with bases on balls 6 on Newton 4 off Me. Gill 2, Hickey, Newton, Flynn, Stewart, Motz, Buckley struck out. McFarland 2-base hit. Double play Flynn Motz. Left on bases Indianapolis 5 Grand Rapids 9. Time 1:40. Umpire Sheridan. Attendance 1,000.
Fragmented sports notes list battery pairs and lineups across teams in the American and National Leagues. Mentions include Hart Speer Center Spies and Thomas Cronin Buelow Diggins plus Taylor Donahue Sudhoff Schrecongost and McJames McGuire Seymour Warner in various clubs.
Burns Pierce set new records in Philadelphia on Friday by riding two to five miles with a motor pacing aid. He opened the first mile in 1:34 and improved to 3:10 for three miles, 4:46 for three miles, 6:23 for four miles, and 8:02 for five miles, shaving 12 8-5 seconds from the prior mark. Oscar Gardner’s hands remain in condition for a fight, while Ben Jordan and Rain are noted as arriving for upcoming bouts at the Grand circuit races in Columbus.
Over 4,000 attended the Friday events at the gerstown meet. Points won the free for all pace in a seven horse field. Bola Strachmer won the 3 minute trot heat in 2 31. Gracie C. captured the mile running race in 1 47 44.
A buggy racing meet at the driving park features Anna K challenging Major with several heats. Major sets a 32 second quarter and helps push race records, while Anna K gains on him in heat three. Ora Shover’s horses win multiple classes. crowd plans a rematch next week as Anna K. eyes another shot at Major.
Poultry dealers F P Teaster and son of 396 East Wabash street found a half hatched chick in a bottom egg layer hauled from New London by John Hickman. The chick, awakening in the shell, chirped asking if it was hot and was wrapped in cotton for return to New London.
George B. Marshall recalls pension office chatter on removing seven bodies of John Brown’s followers from Harper’s Ferry to Lake Placid for reburial. He notes reports of lost remains and mentions a Mart insville physician’s office displaying a skeletal relic tied to Brown. He suspects the skeleton is still in Martinsville.
A company offers to transact fiduciary business for individuals and trusts, act as executor administrator trustee guardian receiver assignee and financial agent for railways cities and counties in securities or loan dealings. It will employ attorneys for trusts and provide first class collateral loans while not engaging in general discount banking. Officers include John Holliday president Henry Bhitel vice president and treasurer. Directors listed include Charles H Brownell Thomas C Day A Culbertson John H Holliday Henry Eitel George Rothe Edward L McKee H C Long Sam E Rauh V T Malott A A Barnes.
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