Western League Notes and Hoosier Expectations
A look at Western league standings with Milwaukee near lethargy and Indianapolis advantaged. Milwaukee and Columbus face Minneapolis and Detroit. Buffalo, Kansas City, and St Paul also in action as weather and open dates shape the schedule.
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Baseball Gossip and Trades Stir Season Hype
Report notes bids for Wagner and Jennings amid trades as teams react to looming moves. Cincinnati allowed six runs in the ninth to Washington, while Nesbitt signs with Pittsburg. Newton and Foreman impressive. Hickey emerges as league’s top third baseman in a strong Western Association season surge.
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Hanlon
Jennings
Wagner
Louisville
Cincinnati
Washington
Pittsburg
Nesbitt
Jack Taylor
Allen
Newton
Foreman
Milwaukee
Hickey
Western Association
Yale and Harvard Arrive in England for Intercollegiate Meet
Yale and Harvard teams reached England in good health to prepare for the Oxford and Cambridge meet. The Metropolitan Bowling Club reorganized with George Geis as president and Charles Balz as captain. A Readville trial showcased the two in three heat system as the emerging race format. Boxing bouts are planned with Pedlar Palmer facing Terry McGovern in New York this fall.
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Yale
Harvard
England
Oxford
Cambridge
Metropolitan
George Geis
William Baase
Fred Kroeckel
H. G. Peterson
Charles Balz
Readville
Mass
Coney Island
Terry McGovern
Palmer
New York
A Modern Caesar Poem Attacks Mayor Taggart in Pamphlet
A 40 page pamphlet by a Deacon Lackwit figure, published in Indianapolis, parodies Mayor Taggart’s administration in cantos. The satire features Caesar, council scenes, a midnight streetcar deal, and lampoons with caricatures. The piece claims to reveal the author’s literary ties to an Indianapolis lawyer.
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Indianapolis
Lackwit
Taggart
Friday Sale of Fine Wash Goods
A Friday sale offers imported madras and ginghams at 25 to 45 cents per yard, silk batiste at 50 cents, organdies at 63 cents, novelty piques for skirts at 50 cents, and white piques from 5 to 25 cents. Many items note quality levels and yardage values for shoppers.
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Madras
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Public House Plans Saturday Half Holiday Push
The Commercial Club backs a Saturday noon closing as more large stores are urged to join. In New York on July 13 Representative Hawley of Texas appeals for flood relief contributions to the Texas governor at Austin for affected towns and farms. He notes 20 populous towns inundated and vast agricultural devastation leaving over 160,000 residents in distress.
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Commercial Club
New York
Hawley
Texas
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Austin
Senators in Civil Service Row Escalates to Duel Incident
In Concord New Hampshire on July 13 Senators Chandler and Gallinger clashed during a civil service commission session over a circular allegedly pressuring government employees to support the Republican campaign fund. The exchange nearly turned physical but was contained by aides. Chandler claims Commissioner Brewer biased the hearing and seeks Brewer's removal.
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Comrade Claims Grant Cullom of Pennsylvania Shot as Spy
A letter from a comrade in Altoona Pennsylvania says Grant Cullom of Company G Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers was captured near Caloocan and executed as a spy. Cullom, fluent in Spanish, served as an orderly to General Otis and was exposed when a rainstorm washed away his disguise. He leaves a widowed mother in Beaver Falls.
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Altoona
Grant Cullom
Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Caloocan
Otis
Beaver Falls
Parades, Conventions, and Fatal Accidents Across Cities
reports from Chicago Boston Augusta and Richmond note 3000 Orangemen parading in Boston and a fifteenth annual labor convention in Augusta. Cuba opens ports to 100000 cattle for breeding. In Alabama a shooting ambush injures miners George Henry George Brown and Gus Miller. in Boston John Abbott Lewis Vinton die in an elevator fall. Dennis Welly and Abraham Ross die in separate accidents including a tree fall and a matches fire.
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Chicago
Boston
Augusta
Cuba
Brooklyn
Staten Island
E. V. Smailey
New York
Richmond
George Henry
George Brown
Gus Miller
Tshkooda
Ala
John Abbott
Lewis W. Vinton
Dennis Welly
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The Kisser Strikes In Three Cities
Patrolman Freeman of Toledo is in bed with a severe facial injury believed caused by a kissing bug. In Rochester three people are hospitalized in serious condition after being struck by the same assailant.
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Sun's Seventh Page Liner Headings at Meridian Street
Fragmentary OCR notes show a mention of 581 N Meridian Street and a phone number 564 with references to complimentary headings and the Sun's seventh page, but no clear event, person, or outcome to summarize.
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