Speed of pitched baseball shocks science on speed
Reading like a late 19th century sports science note the piece discusses measurements of ball speed from bases to home plate using rapid motion pictures. It cites Walter Johnson Grover Alexander Edward Chutte Carl Mays and other pitchers as examples and relates ball speed to safety at the plate and a fatal incident involving Ray Chapman.
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New York
Walter Johnson
Grover Alexander
Edward Chutte
Carl Mays
Ray Chapman
Cleveland
Caz
Chick” Fewstr
Yankee Star
Pitcher
Popular Science
Frank B. Gilbraith
Polo Grounds
Chapman
T.D. Morrigan
St. Laurence Hospital
Flynn Discovers Norfolk At Night Fight Club
In New York on August 25 Leo Flynn recounts discovering the fighter Kid Norfolk after breaking up a club bout. He paid the bootblacks to stage a controlled match and signed Norfolk after the tall challenger quit early in the second round.
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Flynn
Norfolk
Leo Flynn
Fittte
Kid Norfolk
Newark Man Arrested After Climbing Telegraph Pole
A Newark man was arrested for climbing a telegraph pole and lying across it as police questioned his claims of arrest. The report mixes unrelated political quips and world affairs with local misadventure, reflecting a jumbledまとめ of current affairs and oddities.
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Newark
Wirs
Hamar Greenwood
FT Ireland
Ireland
John Bulls
Cowes
John Bull
Frei Piaiion
Harry
Fred
League of Nations
League of Self-determination
Coast Baseball Taste Of Discontent Stirs Critics
The Pacific Coast fans vent at overhyped big league reports and costly purchases. Stories recount flawed trades involving a Chicago catcher with a broken arm and a battered left fielder, plus clashes between managers and players over misplayed balls and selective scouting.
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Viney
Boneyard
Abe Kemp
Cal Fawins
Oakland
Chicago
Cal
Hen Perry
Los Angeles
Johnny Kling
Berry
Sur
Local Ads and Notices Mix With Wanderer Tales
A fragmented newspaper fragment lists wholesale grocery items and prices from Edward F. Groher, Jeffersonville, with products such as salmon jars sugar and vitamins, alongside scattered society notes mentioning travel to Glasgow Kentucky and visits to relatives in Eckerty Indiana.
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Edward F. Groher
Chestnut and
Spring
Travel By Trolley In Indiana Net Schedules
The Hoosier Flyers depart Jeffersonville for Scottsburg Dorest ersville Seymour Columbus Edinburg Franklin Greenwood and Indianapolis at 7 47 9 47 and 11 47 pm 1 47 4 40 and 6 47 pm Sara cars run Jeffersonville to Seymour and all intermediate points at 6 47 8 47 and 10 47 am and at 12 47 3 47 5 47 8 47 and 11 32 pm Through freight cars operate between Indianapolis and Louisville Express service on local passenger cars and agents and official time table table folders in cars.
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Hoosier Flyers
Jeffersonville
Scottsburg
Dorethersville
Seymour
Columbus
Edinburg
Franklin
Greenwood
Indianapolis
Peinta
Louisville
Pitching Records Show Few Hitters Reached in Nineties
The report notes Christy Mathewson avoided hit batsmen across many seasons. Alexander had no hit batsman in nineteen games last season. Cicotte walked twelve batters in thirty games. Only seven pitchers in both leagues surpassed forty five innings with a clear no-hit-by-pitch record.
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Christy Mathewson
Alexander
Ciccotte
Innnes
Bovee's Sweet Shop Ad Promises Ice Cream Delights
An advertisement touts Bovee's Sweet Shop as leading Cass county ice cream and candy store offering chocolates creams and melts. It urges customers to try the delicious ice cream and bring friends, promising better health with more ice cream.
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Bovee’s Sweet Shop
Cass
After War Cost of Living Strains Vienna Educators
Vienna reports show teacher and professor salaries lag behind rising living costs, indicating that both the defeated and victorious face hardship after the war.
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Vienna
Gillespie and Son Plumbing Gains in Jeffersonville
Master plumber Gillespie and Son install modern plumbing and sanitary systems in many Jeffersonville homes. Work meets hearty public approval as households embrace new, efficient fixtures and equipment.
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Gillespie & Son
Jefferonville
Premier Millerand Held on Russia Debt Standstill
Premier Millerand says France will not resume relations with Russia until Moscow agrees to pay its debts. He argues Russia must have a new government before any settlement.
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Millerand
Russia
Jewelry ad and social notes from the era
W. MM Young’s Jewelry proclaims 100 percent gold standard items with full guarantees on rings pins charms watches clocks and silverware. Also notes Mr Young cleans watches and promises punctual service. A Cincinnati American Classic league meeting features patriotic Latin songs, while Mr and Mrs C N Southard and daughter of Indianapolis return home after visiting Mrs Parker.
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W. MM. Young
Jewery
Mr. Young
American Classic League
Cincinnati
Young Girls Made Strong by Vegetable Compound
A Danville woman testifies her daughter, once delicate and irregular, improved after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The ad urges mothers to try the remedy for irregularities and painful symptoms and offers the company’s advice from forty years of experience. It also includes a note about transit signs and a New York Laundry advertisement.
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Danville, Th
Lydia E. Pinkham
Z. Tl. Boxup
N. Jackson St
Danvihe
Bove
Dadian EL Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Miss Louise Baird Returns From Ky Visit
Miss Louise Baird has returned home after visiting relatives in Kentucky.
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Louise Baird
F. J. Braun 5 10 and 25cc Store Ad
Local ad touts a sale at F. J. Braun offering 25 to 50 percent off on home goods. Includes kitchenette supplies tinware granite ware crockery lamps and related household items at bargain prices.
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F. J. Braun
Cardinal labor rights quoted from Washington Post
The Washington Post argues against prejudice toward organized labor and for equal citizen rights across all groups including labor, politics, and religion. The piece asserts no two classes of rights exist and justice to workers is justice to the public, warning against intimidation and urging truth to prevail. Misses Madely Richardson and May Perkins and Messers William McIntyre and Fred Roederer motored to Corydon yesterday to attend the Fair.
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United States
Washington Post
Madely Richardson
May Perkins
William McIntyre
Fred Roederer
Corydon
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Blanche Andres
English, Ind
Mrs. J. B. Stanley
Eckerty, Indiana
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Tanlac
Moherty’s Standard Drug Store
Sellersburg
M .F. Nickles
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