All American Baseball Dream Team picks by local editor
Local sports note profiles an imagined All American baseball team with players from the Senators Yanks Brooklyn Detroit St Louis Giants and a famed manager. It includes remarks on Ruth Hornsby Cobb Wheat and Ruths fielding plus a nod to War as catcher and McGraw managing the Giants. Also reports on Lititz High School track meet results and upcoming junior inter class meet.
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Scribes
Team
Senators
Yanks
Brooklyn
Detroit
St. Louis
N. L. Giants
Argumen
Hornsby
Tye
Frisch
Keystone
Zach Wheat
Ruel
Blue
Frisch and Hornsby
Peck
Washington
Cobb
Ruth
Big Bertha Babe
Jawn J. McGraw
Giants
Yorktown Aims to Become a Second Hollywood After Griffith Film
In Yorktown Virginia a historic hamlet on the James River, famed for Revolutionary history and a World War mine base, is abuzz over D W Griffiths filming of America at Paramount Theatre November 14 to 16. Locals exhibit Griffith scenes in 1770s houses, church services, and revel in the town turning movie mad as they dream of becoming a major film center.
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America
Yorktown
Virginia
James River
D. W. Griffith
Paramount Theatre
Hollywood
Washington
Griffith
Hamlet
Must Be Freaks Arm Latent Strands Theald
A fragment notes a peculiar scene with the phrase arms hanging listlessly and long strong hands reaching toward the ground, attributed to the Portland Press der ald, preserving stark descriptive wording in a terse newspaper fragment.
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Portland Press-derald
Around Our Town Nuts and Trees Grow in Town Sight
The article describes English walnut trees along Front street at the Ditzler home, large and productive. Black walnuts and Japanese walnuts are common, with the latter offering shells that crack in halves and whole kernels. A cultivated Japanese tree and a seedling with rough shells are noted. Nathan Reist grows several unusually large hazelnut bushes.
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Front Street
Ditzler
Nathan Reist
Moravian Choir of Lititz Presents October Musical Evening
The Moravian church choir of Lititz directed by Miss Bessie T Gingrich will present a musical on Sunday evening October 26 opening at seven with a short organ recital by Mrs Kenneth Witmyer. Selections include I will Sing of Thy Power Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars Sweet is Thy Mercy In the Cross of Christ I Glory a duet by Miss Mary Kautz and Mr Norman Showers The Day is Past and Over The Lord is My Light Soloists include Miss Janet Rudy Miss Mary Kautz Mr Norman Showers Mr Carl Workman and Mr Joseph Zahm.
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Moravian Church Choir
Lititz
Bessie T. Gingrich
Kenneth Witmyer
Sullivan
Rogers
Brandy
Christ
Mary Kautz
Norman Showers
Marks
Lord
Parker
Janet Rudy
Carl Workman
Joseph Zahm
Weather Wit and Card Math in The Statesman
The Statesman morsels reflect on weather prophecy, harvest notes and Halloween preparations, plus social quips about taxation, risk, and human folly. It closes with a nerdy note on permutations of playing cards, explaining the factorial formula for ten cards.
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