BOOKES MADE ON DIAMOND Results of Baseball Games
Local St Louis game featured a strong outing as visitors were out-pitched. Several scores listed across leagues with notable performances by pitchers McFarland Weaver Slagle Ewing and others. Multiple games show high offense and varied batteries. Weather and delays noted for several cities including Kansas City and Milwaukee with postponed contests.
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St. Louis
Philadelphia
McFarland
Weaver
Sparks
Zimmer
Senators Hanna and Foraker Arrive for Ohio Convention
Columbus June 3 Senators Hanna and Foraker and leaders arrived in the evening for the state convention. Hanna and Cox of Cincinnati held a two hours conference. They discussed amendments to the state constitution. Myron T Herrick is expected to be nominated for governor without opposition. There is no contest on endorsing Roosevelt renomination or Hanna for re election or national issues in the platform.
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Columbus
Hanna and
Foraker
Hanna
George B. Cox Ofincinnati
Myron T. Herrick
Roosevelt
Joliet Gives Up Franchise In Three-T League
Bloomington Illinois June 3 President Sexton announces Joliet has surrendered the franchise in the Three- T League and it will go to Springfield Aurora Elgin or Danville. The state board of education elected Re Gateman of Decatur president. Thousands attend the encampment of the Spanish American war veterans with large delegations arriving from Tecatur Chicago Roos Island and other parts of the state.
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Bloomington
Ill
Sexton
Joliet
Springfield
Aurora
Elgin
Danville
State Board of Education
Gateman
Decatur
Tecatur
Chicago
Roos Island
Rock Island Train Wreck Fatality in Illinois
Rock Island passenger train derailed at Alta due to a broken axle. Passenger John Snyder of Henry Illinois died, with several others seriously injured. The June date and location are reported from Peoria Illinois.
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Rock Island
Alta
Peoria, Ill
John Snyder
Henry, Ill
Washington Letters on Highclass Stables and Society Life
Washington society notes spotlight lavish district stables costing $25,000 and the luxury of owners like Attorney General and prominent families. Ambassadors, socialites, and fashion, including Miss Knox and Alice Roosevelt, are profiled alongside postal rules restricting a husband’s access to his wife’s mail and Capitol paintwork on the dome. The piece weaves elite housing, travel, and public notices with light political society commentary.
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National Capital
Washingtons
New York
Washington
Inox
Leiters
Pattens
Townsends
Vast array of facts mirrored in global statistics
A survey of diverse data covers car numbers in the United States, police ratios in major cities, foreign travel and spending, lectures in law courts, philanthropy by Andrew Carnegie, steamship ownership, antique furniture prices, battleship names, railway power, and early electricity use on trains. It also notes stamps, medals, cable gutta percha supply, Venice’s campanile collapse inquiry, a pedal traction engine, land grants in Scotland, pneumonia death rates, and early electrical shipboard signaling.
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Monterez
Lexico
German Samaritan Union
Professor von Esmarch
Amazon
German New Guinea
Venice
Why We Say Bandbox Collars and Their History
The article explains seventeenth century English collars, or bands, were large and stiff like raffs, often needing a sizable bandbox for carriage. It cites Ben Jonson and Steele, linking bands to collars and establishing bandboxes as collar boxes, huge like ruffs.
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Ben Jonson
Volpone
Steele
Bath
Emperor Frederick William of Prussia and the king’s odd rules
A fragment recalls Frederick William I of Prussia chasing a fleeing subject in the streets. The monarch scribbled an ass head on a petition to dismiss a claim of folly and declared birth cannot change. He asked passersby who they were, causing nervous reactions, and punished a man who fled saying he feared the king but wished to be loved.
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Frederick William of
Prus- Ssia
Frederick William
Love and Ambition in a Short-Story Tale
A witty account where four dreamers and two men of action woo a woman. The dreamer writes verses to gain her love, while the other plans to conquer the stock market. The man of action amasses wealth, the girl marries a money inheritor, and all but the husband suffer. The tale ends with the wife content and the dreamer prideful.
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Man of Action
Nile Village Life From Upper Nile Described
A traveler from the upper Nile depicts a typical native village with Nile mud houses housing many related families. Streets are filthy with animals, dogs threaten strangers, women hide faces, and swarms of flies torment children as locals deem washing contrary to religious beliefs.
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L Nile
Upper Nile
Chicago Record- Herald
Fighters in London Streets During George II Era
The piece describes a martial London under George II with frequent street fighting. It notes lack of police, the need for self defense, and citizens carrying stout staves. Dr Johnson reportedly ordered a cudgel after a threat, reflecting widespread readiness to fight to deter bullies or footpads.
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London
George II
The Real Thins Horse Scene Chin Chin Style
A humorous exchange says Tell me, Herold, am I your ideal girl. He insists she is any real girl, prompting the horse to halt and browse as they ride along the country road. The line captures light, comic mood from a Chicago Tribune reflection.
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Herold
Chicago Tribune
An Unjust Aspersion on a Busy New President
A Brooklyn Life item defends a female president against claims she neglects wife and mother duties. It notes she sees her family nearly every day, asserting the gossip is untrue and baseless.
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Brooklyn
Village Editor's Bride In Dinner Wrapper Quip
A witty exchange from the St Louis Star features the village editor and his bride joking about wrappers at dinner. The knight of the paste pot interrupts with a quip about thoughts arriving in wrappers, reflecting light humor.
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St Louis Star
Wicked chat in a woman’s club prompts a truce
A fragment shows a boyish dispute with a speaker urging peace and reconciliation. The dialogue includes a jab about a man’s club and a suggestion to kiss and make up, reflecting informal tension and social dynamics in a club setting. The piece centers on conflict and a proposed resolution.
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Lifa
Colton Quote on Life's Length and Purpose
A Colton remark notes that a short life can suffice if it leads to improvement, while a long life feels brief if it lacks purpose. The line emphasizes meaning over duration in existence.
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Colton
The Time For Recreation and Creative Work
A note on recreation as essential to original thought. The author argues against exhausting the brain after a full day of work and warns that overwork harms writing quality and reputation. Marsden in Success is cited to support the claim that a fresh brain yields better creative output.
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O. S. Marsden
Dolly Madison and the White House Coffee Incident
Tales of Mistress Dolly Madison highlight her tact and kindness as first lady. A country lad at a White House reception spilled coffee, pocketed the cup, and she eased his embarrassment with cheerful chatter about weather and people, restoring his ease.
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Dolly Madison
White House
Astess
Dolly
Fire Horses as Pets in New York Fire Department
The New York fire department horses enjoy special treatment in most engine houses with stalls named for each horse such as Tom Harry Dick or Major. Firemen pamper them with comfort and small luxuries including leaf sugar and nougat, often sharing sweets with the horses.
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New York
All Was Well at the Bridewell Burial Ground Tale
A quip about Mme Creswell buried in England's Bridewell is recounted. Dying in Bridewell prison, she left £10 for a funeral sermon conditioned on only praising her. The preacher replied that she was born well, lived well, and died well, noting Creswell's birth, Clerkenwell life, and Bridewell death.
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Bridewell Burying Ground
England
Mme
Creswell
Charles II
Bridewell
Clerkenwell
Clerical Life In Fiction Villains and Vexed Clergy
A compact essay notes bishops rarely appear in modern novels for relief roles while deans are lightly depicted and scholars gossip. It contrasts the archdeacon as rubic and self important and the rector as a bluff bumbling figure, but crowns the vicar-Treasury as the true clerical villain.
Fisherman declares muskie name dispute in Wisconsin
A stranger blurts out the mispronunciation of muskie as mus kelleunge on a northern Wisconsin lake. The old guide retorts that Webster may not have caught a musky, underscoring a local pride and dialect clash in a Chicago Tribune item.
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Webster
Chicago Tribune
A Hint For the Flatterer
A witty exchange about flattery and vanity ends with the remark that the flatterer’s words only swell the subject’s ego. The dialogue hints at self love eclipsing consideration for others, leaving no room for genuine feeling.
Weather Outlook Hint from a Professional Prophet
A Washington Star weather note records a conversation asking about tomorrow's forecast. The professional prophet answers that indications point to more rain, but declines to offer a personal opinion on the subject.
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Washington
Quotations on success and justice in a schoolday quip
An anonymous pair of aphorisms appeared, one praising practical excellence and another warning against exploiting the needy. The first extols doing well without seeking fame, while the second cautions that harming the poor leads to ruin.
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Kansas City
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Des Moines
Denver
Peoria
Wen. Oats
Philadelpha cc
York
Ashongton
Hanna and Foraker
Myron T. Herrick Wilk
Three I Leaguua
Biltmore
George Vanderbilt
Arlington
United States
National Republican
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Ceat
Capitol
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Constabulary
Carl Schofield
Flushing
Holland
Paris
House of Lords
Chamber of Deputies
Australia
Andrew Carnegie
Western Reserve University of Cleveland
Germany
de Vries
Morgan's Combine
International Mercantile Marine Company
America
Autometer Journal
Clairgowrie
Perthshire
Scotland
Elgin Dairy
New Zealand
France
Russian
Poland
Dubuisson
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Ontario
J.J. Stach
University Book Store
Cerny & Lou
Chichester
Cmichester Chemical CO
Madison Siquare
Frais
Meadleen Med ¢E Co
Dondison, Wis
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