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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
11
Fragmentary diary style lines reveal a mother complaining about a misbehaving household, a drunk or clumsy husband, and a broken screen door during a tense moment on the ice. The piece captures domestic strain and awkward accidents with sharp exclamations.
Johnson City prepares to assume control of the Morristown Appalachian League team to complete the 1925 season. Frank Moffett of Kingsport visits Johnson City to organize plans. a mass meeting is set at 7 30 pm in the chancery court room to discuss bringing the Roosters to finish the season.
Appalachian League action features Bristol at Kingsport and Greeneville at Morristown. In the American League the Yankees visit the Nationals, the Red Sox play the Phillies, and the Indians travel to Chicago.
Three National League games are listed with matchups St. Louis at Detroit Brooklyn at New York and Philadelphia at Boston. Pittsburgh visits St. Louis as the remaining fixture.
Greeneville defeated Morristown 5 to 2 while Morristown beat Greeneville 4 to 0. Washington lost to New York 3 to 5. Philadelphia edged Boston 5 to 4.
New York defeated Brooklyn as Chicago Cincinnati game postponed by rain. St Louis led with an 11 6 record while Pittsburgh stood at 3 7. Boston won against Philadelphia 1 to 10.
South Atlantic 0 Asheville 3. St. Paul 3 Toledo 5 with 9 second game rained out. Minneapolis Columbus rain. Milwaukee Indianapolis rain. Kansas City 4 Louisville 7.
Buffalo beat Toronto in a 10 inning first game as the doubleheader reached 6-6. Syracuse ended Rochester 6-5 after a second called, with an agreed result. Providence defeated Jersey City 5-2 and Baltimore took Reading 4-2.
Memphis beat Mobile 4-1, Nashville lost 1-2 to Atlanta, Little Rock routed New Orleans 8-1, Chattanooga and Birmingham game 13 with results not listed.
In Rocky Mount the teams tied 3-3 and Norfolk lost 4-10 with the first game lasting 12 innings and the second called in the seventh by agreement. Wilson and Richmond played a 3-3 tie with Kingston 0-1 and Portsmouth winning 5-0 in the seven inning second game.
In the Piedmont League results Winston-Salem beat Raleigh 7 to 2 and Salisbury topped Danville 6 to 4. Durham overwhelmed Greensboro 15 to 5 with strong pitching and timely hitting.
Greeneville Tennessee June 24 The Burley Cubs swept both ends of a doubleheader from the Roosters 5 4 and 2 0 Emerson pinch hitting for Goetz delivered the tying and winning run in the opener as McKay and Russell pitched. In the second game Carver blanked Morristown except for one hit while Hathaway allowed four hits including a Russell homer with runners on.
In Huntington, six lawmen lie in the wake of a nocturnal clash on Camp Creek five miles from town. Two agents die William Porter and George Ball and W E Workman is wounded buckshot rounds firefight provoked by feud over confiscated liquor car amid initial reports of mistaken identity.
England’s Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard told Cambridge University’s Aeronautical Society that abolishing air power might, in his view, prevent future war horrors. He warned of high casualties in a first clash and doubted any weapon could replace aviation for a century. He urged national backing for the Royal Air Force and greater support from universities.
Government officials planned to begin with Oxford and Cambridge air force units and expected to extend the program to other universities later, aiming to roll out the initiative across more campuses.
CAPIFOL NOTES Wilbur A. Nelson state geologist of Virginia will confer with President E A Alderman and Governor E Lee Trinkle on the Virginia offer. He has been Tennessee state geologist since 1918 and with the division since 1911. His successor may be chosen July 6 by the state geological commission. The panel includes P L Harned, H A Morgan and J H Kirkland.
Forty seven acres of land about two miles from Blountville on a graded road with a five room house, barn, spring, and a barn bond of about $1000 payable $203.85 yearly for six years. See Harris & Graves Kingsport Tenn. June 21 23 25 c.
At the secretary of state office Peabody Sport Goods Company in Memphis with capital of 2000 dollars. The Memphis and Louisiana Land Company incorporated in Delaware filed a copy of its charter for domestication.
In Sullivan County Tennessee A L Godsey et al vs Myrtle Godsey et al the non resident defendant Myrtle Godsey is ordered to appear in Kingsport Chancery Court on July 20 1925 to answer the complaint with four weeks of publication in the Kingsport Times. Clerk and Master H M McNeil signs the notice with Worley and McAnis as solicitors.
Abe Odum by next friend Henry Odum sues Mamie Odum for absolute divorce in the Tennessee Bristol court. Mamie is a nonresident and must appear by Sept third or the bill will be confessed and the case proceed ex parte. Notice to publish for four weeks in The Kingsport Times. June 24, 1925.
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