Memphis Trotting Meet Sets Two World Records
Memphis Tennessee October 28 The Memphis Trotting association eight day meet closed with Lou Dillon breaking the mile to wagon world record to two minutes flat and The Monk and Equity lowering the mile to pole to 2.08. Both trots featured two runners and wire dust screens with Lou Dillon finishing a nose ahead of the other horses. The Monk and Equity also set 2.08 despite a single pacing runner and faded to a gallop after the wire. The event marked a highly successful meeting for records and celebrated as the third annual track meet.
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Patch wins final heat at New England half mile circuit meet
Nashua, Oct 28 better weather and crowd energy marked day two of the closing New England half mile circuit meet. Baron Patch captured the last heat of the 2.25 trot while Billy Hurd won the first money in the 2.16 pace after losing the fourth heat by a neck to Willow B. The free-for-all was unfinished.
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Textile school football shake-up affects Saturday games
The Courier-Citizen notes changes in the Textile school football team, including photographs of Captain Baldwin and Charles Church and uncertainty over currier’s Saturday play. Lowell high school will play at Leominster Saturday afternoon instead of at the Fairgrounds, while Collinsville and Boulevards seek matchups with Crimsons or Centralville.
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Charles Church
Courier-Citizen
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Currier
Somerville
Baseball talk and player views from Sporting Life column
Pitcher Lynch says he will never play pro baseball after last summer with Newport. Roland Wolf, drafted by Boston from Waco, Texas, is a catcher who hit four home runs in one game last season. John Carney plans trips to Newport, R. I. and Portland, Me, as towns seek entry to the New England league next season. Joe Corbett criticizes salaries, prefers another business, and questions a 3000 dollar big league cap. John B. Foster argues sportsmanship is lacking amid war-time salaries, noting 1903’s high earnings and extra receipts from exhibition games. budget constraints and long-term contracts loom as leagues seek wage restraint.
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Roland Wolf
Manchester Union
John Carney
Newport
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Brooklyn
Joe Corbett
John B. Foster
New York
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James J. Jeffries
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All Creation
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Ithaca
Cornell
One Moore
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Nashua Narrowly Beats The Belvideres In Close Alley Game
The Belvideres of this city traveled to Nashua and suffered a tight finish in a bounce back alley match. The Nashua team pulled ahead only at the final pins, with the result in doubt until the last fall. A return game is slated for next week Wednesday in this city. The score remains to be reported.
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Belvideres
Nashua
Nashua team builds for strong season with Kelliher in
Bill Kelliher spent two hours yesterday working with Nashua players including La Belle, the noted Nashua baseball pitcher. He expects a strong Nashua performance this season as the squad forms around its core.
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New Jersey Editor Praises Foley's Honey and Tar
M T Lynch editor of the Daily Post New Jersey testifies to Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds. The product is sold by Goodale's drug store Ellingwood Co Carter & Sherburne Falls & Burkinshaw at listed street corners and addresses.
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Galvanized Coal Hods Free With Tea at Dickson's Tea Store
A local advertisement offers galvanized coal hods free with a pound of 60 cent tea at Dickson's Tea Store located on Merrimack Street. The promotion urges customers to order promptly.
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Merrimack Street
Race Possible James Hanley Challenges Prince Alert Dan Patch
Providence owner James Hanley proposes a $40,000 best two of three heats race between Prince Alert and Dan Patch on November 20 in Memphis. Hanley bets $20,000 that Prince Alert is faster than Dan Patch, but Dan Patch’s owner M Savage has not yet replied and Memphis despatches say a match is unlikely.
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Dan Patch
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British fight ends in drawn battle and gossip on heavyweights
London based Dixon draws Billy Barrett in a tough 20 round duel as Haghey returns from England after hard fights with minimal wins. Siler notes Fitzsimmons versus Grim and Gardner’s looming clash, while Corbett’s football tale and a doctor’s view on Grim’s stamina color the boxing world.
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Bob Fitzsimmons
Joe Grim
George Gardner
Fitz
Gardner
Bob
Grim the boxer shows grit and hard heart in ring
Grim stands firm and takes punches due to a strong heart while Foley’s Kidney Cure is advertised to purify kidneys and purge poisons from the blood. Local druggists Goodale’s, Ellingwood & Co., Carter & Sherburne, and Falls & Burkinshaw are listed with their street corners in Ellingwood.
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Central Street
Ellingwood & Co
Merrimack
Central Streets
Carter & Sherburne
Bridge Streets
Falls & Burkinshaw
Middlesex Street
Murder Suspect Ties in Lowell Armenian Fatality
An Armenian community in Lowell withholds names as they discuss the killing of Sagouni and the earlier murder of Chichian. They suggest Chichian’s Revolutionary sermons angered Sagouni, and speculate a Lowell associate of Chichian may have killed Sagouni, amid fear of public fear and factional tension.
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Chichian
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Old Country
Salad Supper at Mt Vernon Free Baptist Church
The Mt Vernon Free Baptist church held its yearly salad supper followed by an auditorium entertainment. Miss Millin, pastor’s sister, led the supper. Mrs Fred Green directed the program with readings by Rev S D Millin and Rev J Babb, music by Irene and Zatella Martin, and readings by Rev Mr Millin and Mr Joseph Perkins.
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S. D. Millin
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Horace Nickson
McDonald
L. S. Abbott
Susie Colburn
Dose in time saves lives in Dr Wood's syrup ad
An old advertisement proclaims Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as nature’s remedy for coughs colds and pulmonary diseases, urging timely use to prevent worsening health.
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Dr. Wood
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