Aviation and Auto Contests at Indianapolis Speedway
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway schedules multiple aviation and auto events this summer. Auto meets include five Grand Circuit rounds and a 24 hour race, with expected 65 to 70 entries from top drivers. Aviation events feature national meets, balloon championships, and a notable Wright company flight plan with ten planes hoped for, plus famed pilots and international entries.
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Speedway
Wright Company
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Curzon
Paulhan
Carl Fichser
George Boumbaugh
English Channel
America
Los Angeles
Bowerman Mentors Lemon In Catching Techniques
Houston Tex March 24 Joe Kelly reports Frank Bowerman guides young catcher Lee Lemon. Bowerman, aging but eager to share experience, corrects faults in handling outside pitches and passing balls while praising Lemon’s potential. Bowerman plans to retire soon to farm and golf, with help for farm duties.
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Houston
Tex
Frankman
Lee Lemon
Lemon
Bowerman
Anderson
Jack Johnson Freed From Tombs After Bail Posted
New York reports boxing champion Jack Johnson was released from Tombs prison after his confinement on $5,000 bail supplied by a friend named Duncan. He greeted the streets with a triumphant grin, treating the period of detention as a joke.
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New York
Jack Johnson
Duncan
Johnson
Tombs Prison
Billiard Title Match Planned Between Cline and Cutler
Chicago report says the 18.2 ball dine championship will be played in St Louis on April 7. Title holder Harry Cline of Philadelphia faces Albert Cutler of Boston for a 500 point match.
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Chicago
Harry ¥. Cline
Philadelphia
Albert Cutler
Boston
Willee
St. Louis
Diary of a Bushers Clowning in the Texas League
March 24 entry recounts a rough day in the Texas league with a failed baserun after a pitcher’s motion and a brisk taunt from the bench. Grady wonders why southern air dulls him and what will wake him when he returns north, as Bowerman and Weickman weigh in.
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Texans
Texas
Frank Bowerman
Grady
Otto Weickman
Premier Clubman drives city inspection fleet expansion
The Board of Public Works approves purchasing a new 440 Premier car for inspection service in Indianapolis. The Public Safety Board earlier added a close-coupled Premier for fire department use, aiding responses and Chief transport to stations. A Detroit merger ties Studebaker to Ford. Studebaker directors named. Elston promotes Chalmers exhibit to pupils to boost auto knowledge and sales interest.
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Coots
Indianapolis
Board of Public Works
Board of Public Safety
Fire Department
Gibson Auto Company
Ss. W. Elston
Chalmers Motor Cars
Chalmers
Bowerman Improves and Goes to Houston Infirmary
Houston March 24 Frank Bowerman Indians catcher was treated for a face scratch feared to cause blood poisoning He showed great improvement and was moved to the Houston infirmary for better care Doctors expect him to be able to return home with the team once healed.
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Houston
Texas
Frank Bowerman
Indians
Houston Infirmary
Bowerman
Kilbane Beats Mackey After Ring Brawl Ends Bout
In Lorain Ohio a ten round scheduled match between Biz Mackey and Johnny Kilbane was halted in the sixth round after a rough melee involving the principals and their seconds. Mackey violated a no hitting in clinches rule in round three, Kilbane had the edge, Mackey fouled and was disqualified. Referee Will McKay did not award a decision.
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Lorain
Biz Mackey
Johnny Kilbane
Mackey
Kilbane
Will McKay
Gets 1 000 replies to ad for a wife
Marcus A Bunce of Groveland Massachusetts has received over 1000 responses to his ad seeking a home and a good husband. More than a dozen applicants have visited him and a Boston woman began a trial as homemaker. Bunce’s mother died last week and if a match is not found a girl in New York will be sent to demonstrate her fitness for press duties and a happy home.
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Groveland
Mass
Marcus A. Bunce
Boston
Burces
New York
Princeton Players On Their Way Here
The Princeton Triangle club left Newark for Washington and on to Indianapolis St Louis Chicago and Pittsburg with His Honor the Button a musical comedy presented to a large Newark crowd. Brown Rolston 1910 led the cast as leading lady with graceful stage presence. The undergraduates wrote music lyrics and libretto themselves marking a notable college production.
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Newark
N. J
Princeton Triangle Club
Washington
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Chicago
Pittsburg
Bulton
Newark Star
Brown Rolston
Princeton
Whisky Tablets Get Man Jailed In Greenfield Ohio
Greenfield Ohio March 24 Mayor Coke Doster exposed a new dry town whisky scheme. Roby Willett admitted buying six dissolvable tablets from Cincinnati to make a pint of liquor. He beat his wife, raged with hobnailed boots, and caused a public disturbance. He got 30 days in the work house a 50 fine and costs and faces an assault with intent to kill charge awaiting grand jury action.
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Willett
Soup explosion harms two women in Denver home
In Denver on March 24 a gas explosion from a boiling can of soup severely burned 57-year-old Mrs Sue Oregon McLellan and left her 83-year-old mother Mrs Harriet McLellan bedridden from shock at 3549 Wynkoop Street. The incident occurred while heating soup. the can had not been fully opened and a levered lid caused a violent release injuring the daughter and shocking the mother. City physicians attended the victims.
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Denver
Col
Sue Oregon McLellan
Harriet McLellan
Wynkoop Street
Sue McLellan
Mcellan
Ventriloquist Captures 20 Sleepers at Reading Terminal
Philadelphia report says Special Policeman Crowley used ventriloquism and nerve to arrest 20 men at midnight at Reading terminal. He marched them single file to the station on Eleventh Street with no assistance, using voice imitations to simulate a police detail.
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Philadelphia
Crowley
Reading Terminal
Eleventh
Winter Streets
Naif
Bowlers Win Cup in Marion County Sunday League
Central Avenue M E team defeated First Presbyterian two games to one to clinch the league championship. The victory ended a tie for first place and earned the cup for the winners.
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Central Avenue M. E
First Presbyterian
Marion County
Bethea Kills Two On Royal Blue Train Barricade
J H Bethea, a Dillon South Carolina contractor, killed two trainmen and wounded two others aboard the Royal Blue Pullman car, then barricaded himself as a crowd of 3000 gathered at Wilmington station. He was killed by police and citizen gunfire after a long standoff. witnesses say drink and illness unsettled his mind. Samuel A Williams the porter and O E Wellman conductor were among the dead. John L Wiley and Matthew Haley were wounded.
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Wilmington
Del
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
J. H. Bethea
Dillon
S. C
Bethea
Samuel A. Williams
Oo. E. Wellman
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Rethea
Williams
Paniic
John L. Wiley
Matthew Haley
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Batra State
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Gwen
Joe Kelly
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Detroit
Studebaker Automobile
Ford Motor Car Company
Studebaker Brothers’ Manufacturing Company
South Bend
F. W. Stevens
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Walter BE. Fiander
E. M. F. Company
Jacksonville
Darling
Troxler
Starboard
Obert
Jack Parker
Davis
J. Wilson
Saan
Nicol
Ogarland
A. Williams
Salvage
Denny
Myles O'Connell
A. Thomas
Plenic
Gargan
Cencenseteenenses BF
Benenden
Yeager
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Nelson
al Wolgast
Milwaukee
Bat
Marcus Bunce
Indianapolis Browns
Eugene Higgins
Rural Street
Ventriloquist
Mergic
M. L. Haymenn
State Life Building
Ind
Harris-Thompson CO
South St
Dr. Wiley
Washington, D. C
Taft
Dr. Noble
Cashere
Taff’s
Washington Street
Strong Company
The
Indiana Trust Co
THF
Obbas CO
P. O
Peeke
F.D
Cedar
Ilstecis
Ohio
Indiana Avenue
Indiana
Home Brewing CO
Cruse and Daly Streets
Terre Haute
Richmond
Dayton
Columbus
Zanesville
Cincinnati
Bod
Effe
Rushville
Connersville
Conneraville
Shennyville
Polisection Co
Onnersville
Greensburg
Stalleyville
Greensburg Tacton
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