Baseball pools thrive in minor league cities across the country
In eight American Association cities baseball pools gross weekly sales from 340,000 to 50,000 dollars. Kansas City serves as a hub with 5,000 weekly players, while Toledo reports 2,000 regulars spending about 1,800 dollars daily to win 1,200. Pools cover major and minor leagues with tickets costing ten and twenty-five cents and prizes up to 500 dollars.
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NEA
Kansas City
Middle West
Toledo
American Association
Former city judge supports baseball pools in dissent
James FE. Deery, a former city judge, dissented from officials and citizens condemning baseball pools saying he sees no objection and that pools stimulate interest in the game. W. E. Claver, secretary of the Indianapolis Baseball Club and a city councilman, argues pools lessen attendance.
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James FE. Deery
W. E. Claver
Indianapolis Baseball Club
Baseball Pools Run Across Cities With National Ties
The article details hidden baseball pools operating in multiple cities including St. Paul and Minneapolis, with weekly sales to thousands of dollars and a national pool headquartered in New York. It notes raids on handbooks, restricted ticket selling since 1915, and condemnations by mayors police chiefs and officials while federal inquiry widens to mail use.
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New York
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
Columbus
Frank Anderson
Kansas City
Jennings
Toledo
A. E. Nelson
Weather Update Across Regions With Frosts Reported
Warmer conditions prevail from the middle Mississippi eastward into the Ohio valley while cooler air reaches the Rocky mountains. Frosts linger in the middle and northern plains with freezing temperatures in north central Nebraska. At 7 am yesterday highs reached 7 degrees in New Orleans San Antonio and Tampa with a 38 degree low at Bismarck North Dakota.
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Mississippi
Ohio Valley
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Nebraska
New Orleans
San Antonio
Tampa
Bismarck
N. D
Pee Nee
Westersee
Alleged Booze Seller Caught and Other Oddities
A collection of quips and brief notes from TOM SIMS remarks on romance and light, a headline about an alleged booze seller, references to Oyster as Gompers' secretary, Bill Hart's son not robbing trains, rail strikers returning for vacation, a currency note converting seven million Russian rubles per dollar, and Kipling denying US criticism in a talk with a rag, bone and hair.
Bandit Ring Extradited Chief Sonny Dunn Tied to Robberies
Indianap olis detectives pursue William Sonny Dunn believed leader of a six man gang tied to four holdups and twenty two robberies in Indianapolis and nearby cities. Dunn caught in Chicago after a farm house arrest. other members named include John Bogish DeWitt Parker Robert Prater and Louis Schulingburg with Cecil Johnson alias Harry Miller whose confession sparked the case.
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Chicago
William
Sonny” Dunn
Indianapolis
Dunn
John Mullin
Johnson
John Bogish
DeWitt Parker
Dave Alton
City Hospital
Robert Prater
DeLoss St
Louis Schulingburg
Indiana
Parker and Johnson
Alert
Ind
Western Oil Refining Company
Massachusetts Ave
Eagles
Em-Roe Sporting Goods
Rite Clothing Company
Mullin
East Tenth Street
Pinkerton
Argonaut mine disaster leaves 22 orphans in California
United Press reports in Jackson California that 22 children are fatherless after the Argonaut mine tragedy. Forty seven miners were recovered from 4350 feet underground with notes warning of deadly gas as rescue teams pierced barriers and found the last trench holding the bodies.
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United Press
Jackson
Cal
California
Argonaut
Hal
Members of Klan Barred from Jury Service in Chicago Court
In Chicago on September 19, Judge Joseph B. David barred Ku Klux Klan members from jury service in his Superior Court sessions. He questioned jurors from two venires about Klan membership to weed them out, aiming to ensure impartiality in common law cases.
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Chicago
Joseph B. David
David
Talesman
Court Appoints Doctors to Examine Archie Mickens
Judge James A. Collins appointed Drs. Paul T. Robinson and B. B. Pettijohn to evaluate Archie Mickens mental condition after his indictment for murder of his wife Elizabeth by the Marion County grand jury. The motion was filed by Paul Wetters on grounds Mickens was once violently insane in Mt. Sterling Kentucky.
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Archie Mickens
Paul T. Robinson
B. B. Pettijohn
Marion County Grand Jury
Elizabeth
James A. Collins
Criminal Court
Paul Wetters
Mickens
Mt. Sterling
Editor Arrested in Memphis Strike Injunction Case
G V Sanders editor of the Memphis Press was arrested in Memphis Tennessee on a charge of violating the Daugherty injunction against striking railroad shopmen He was released on his own recognizance and will appear to provide bond of 1000 today.
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Memphis
Tenn
G. V. Sanders
Memphis Press
Daugherty
Sanders
Kemal Seeks Adrianople With Divine Will Aid
Refugees arriving in Athens report Mustafa Kemal vows to capture Adrianople within a fortnight using divine will. He spoke after a Smyrna victory toast, saying he hopes to echo the toast at Adrianople and beyond.
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United Press
Athens
Mustapha Kemal
Adrianople
Smyrna
Europe
Constantinople
Kemal
Water famine nears in Bloomington as four-day supply remains
In Bloomington Indiana the water works report only four days of supply left from four lakes amid factory curtailments and a looming typhoid risk. University reservoirs hold six months. The council may pursue a new bond of 150000 to expand Leonard’s Lake and recover tax-board approval. Arrests expected in Haell Mills murder case as coroner's inquest continues.
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Epward Wheeler Hall
Frances Stevens
New Brunswick
N. J
Haell-Mills
Btricker
Hall and Mills
Timea Special
Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Weimer's Lake
The
University
Leonard’s Lake
Chamber of Commerce
State
Tax Board
Citizens Gas Company seeks permanent 1.20 gas rate
Evidence of earnings through Sept. 1 was presented to special master William P. Kappes in Federal Court. The hearing aims to justify a 1.20 rate, granted temporarily last spring, with further hearings after property valuation is completed. The suit seeks to bar Indiana Public Service Commission from enforcing the 90 cent rate.
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Citizens Gas Company
William P. Kappes
Federal Court Library
H. H. Hornbrook
Indiana Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission Probes Coal Profiteering
The Public Service Commission reports excess coal prices as part of a state fuel emergency probe. A northern Indiana city was cited charging $11 per ton for Indiana coal, while officials say $4.50 per ton is a fair mine price for top grade coal. Brokers and mine operators are under scrutiny for profiteering.
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Public Service Commission
State Fuel Emergency Committee
Indiana
Prohibition Agents Seen as Social Outcasts
Wayne B Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League, told a Boston meeting that prohibition enforcement agents are social outcasts and lead lonely, thankless lives because neighbors shun them. He urged league members to be neighborly toward the agents and their families.
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United Prena
Boston
Prohibition
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
League
Sunday Theater Closing Request Denied by Mayor
Mayor Shank refused to heed a W C T U petition demanding Sunday theater closures. Representatives claimed 12 000 signatures, urging moral screenings. The mayor warned of injunctions, saying theaters attract people to well lit venues while citing the inability to stop gambling and unsafe driving on Sundays.
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Shank
W. W. Reedy
Alice Free
Marion County
Eagle Creek
Newfoundland backs Lloyd George on Near East policy
London September 19 Premier Lloyd George received full support from Newfoundland for his Near East policy. A cable from Newfoundland acting premier expressed sympathy with the imperial position.
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New Foundland
United Press
London
Lloyd George
Near East
Italians Withdraw Troops From Neutral Zone
Rome dispatch reports Messagero states Italian government will pull Near East troops from the neutral zone of Constantinople, a decisive withdrawal announced today.
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United Press
Rome
Near East
Constantinople
Messagero
Court probes crowded Indianapolis schools shortage and segregation
Juvenile Court Judge Frank J. Lahr orders an inquiry into overcrowded conditions in Indianapolis public schools after parents allege desks are lacking and students sit on floors. The probe focuses on School No. 4, a segregated facility, and No. 5, amid complaints of hardship and long walks for white students.
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Indianapolis
Frank J. Lahr
Juvenile Court
California
Washington Sts
Lahr
Michigan
Blackford Sts
Tenth St
White River
Washington and
California Sts
Britain vows to defend Dardanelles neutral zone
The British government will defend the Dardanelles neutrality against the Kemalists and will mobilize Empire resources if needed. The cabinet issued a Downing Street communique denying any bluff and stating Kemalists will not cross the Straits until peace terms are set. Lloyd George heads to the countryside as Curzon and Beatty return from Paris.
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London
Dardanelles
Downing Street
France
Italy
Straits of the
Lloyd George
War Council
Lord Curzon
Lord Beatty
Admiralty
Paris
Kemal March Toward Dardanelles Reported Under Way
Sept 19 reports say Mustapha Kemal is moving troops from Smyrna toward the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles where British are entrenched. Kemalist cavalry patrols near Chanak guard the entrance to the Dardanelles neutral zone as Royal Sussex reinforcements arrive. Colonel Shuttleworth says he can repulse any forces Kemal concentrates in days.
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Constantinople
Mustapha Kemal
Dardanelles
Smyrna
Bosphorus
Chanak Kemalist
Chanak
Royal Sussex Regiment
Shuttleworth
Pastor's Wife Shot In New Albany
Ivy Times reports from New Albany Indiana that Sept 19 the wife of Rev Fred Fox a local Methodist minister is hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the breast. Police have detained Fox who says the shooting was accidental as does his wife.
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Fred Fox
New Albany
Ivy Times
Ind
Fox
French Stay Out Backed by Government in Non Intervention Policy
Paris report states Premier Poincare has government backing for a non participation stance in military moves against Mustapha Kemal. The government will preserve the policy to seek peace in the Near East and refrain from entering the invasion of the neutral zone.
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Poincare
United Press
Paris
Mustapha Kemal
Near East
Readers Report Odd Incidents In Indianapolis Times
A collection of short, humorous anecdotes spotted by readers in the Indianapolis Times. Items include a man removing teeth for chewing tobacco, a patrolman with a 19% license plate, a White woman driving four people down the boulevard, a Chinaman cooking with oil, an elderly man reloading after ice cream, and a boy on a table exclaiming there is a fire.
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F. J
M. A
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