Jennings Magic Powers Orioles To Pennant Clinching Win
In 1896 Baltimore Orioles star Hughie Jennings starred in a dramatic pennant chase against the Cleveland Spiders. The article recounts Jennings’ brilliant fielding and timely hitting, including a pivotal play at the plate and a late two RBI in the eighth, sealing Baltimore’s postseason triumph.
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Hughie Jennings
Detroit Tigers
Orioles
Baltimore
Jennings
McGraw
Keeler
Cleveland Spiders
Hanlon
Cleveland
Spiders
Joe Corlett
Cuppy
Bpiders
McGarr
Blake
Jesse Burkett
Oriole
Burkett
Corbett
Short
Robinson
Doyle
Joseph B. Bowles
Relic From Alton Observer Stone Found In Riverfront Dig
Workmen excavating at the Sparks mill riverfront in Alton uncovered an old fragment of the Alton Observer marble. The stone shows makeup marks and is linked to the Lovejoy printing outfit buried near the site of the 1837 Lovejoy killing. The find adds interest to ongoing improvements at the mill and riverfront.
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Starks Mills
Alton
Alton Observer
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Lovejoy
Sparks Mill
Godfrey & Gilman
Lovejoy Rating Office
Gradwilly
The Soda Fountain as Heart of a Drugstore Scene
A nostalgic sketch extols a gleaming soda fountain in a pharmacist shop. It notes the clerks dignity and icy stare when patrons appear too flashy, while describing the fountain as a symbol of refreshment amid heat and city life.
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Cadiz
How to Cook Rhubarb and Rhubarb Desserts
A homey guide outlines peeling optional rhubarb to keep skin tender and give a pink sauce. It covers boiling water rinses, cooking with sugar, and gentle heat to preserve fruit texture. Then recipes for Rhubarb Pudding Sherbet Cream Pie and Baked Rhubarb are provided with simple steps and serving notes.
Clocks For Travel Bags In Eight Day Fashion
New travel clocks lie flat like a envelope and feature eight day winding. The compact watches fit into small handbags and offer timekeeping without nightly winding. Faces come in colored enamel to match leather and some models have illuminated dials for dark reading by touch.
Handkerchiefs Hidden In Pillowcases For Winter Wind
A housewife can protect fine handkerchiefs from winter winds by placing one or two in each pillowcase and hanging the case by the hem. This simple trick prevents loss when a stiff breeze has the fabric in danger of damage.
How to Make Strawberry Creams
Line deep saucers with pastry and bake until brown to form shells. Fill with strawberry jam or fresh berries and top with whipped cream. Cut berries for an even surface before serving.
Asparagus and Watercress Salad Guide
Wash the watercress and break into bits discarding coarse leaves. Mix with salad oil vinegar and salt. Heap in the center of two dishes and surround with iced green and white asparagus tips for serving.
Raised Doughnuts Instructions
A simple doughnut recipe combines one pint milk bread dough one egg and half cup sugar with a quarter teaspoon soda and half pint warm milk. Add flour gradually to knead then let rise until morning before cutting and frying without remolding.
Varied Soup Flavors and Simple Home Dishes
A reader offers practical soup ideas from leftovers to economical variations. Recipes include Potato Soup Tomato Soup Muligatawny and Salmon Soup with concise steps and flavor tips. The piece also notes avoiding overusing any single spice to keep meals interesting.
Chocolate Ice Cream Cookies Sandwich Recipe
A compact recipe for chocolate ice cream cookies. It uses brown and white sugars, butter, an egg, melted chocolate, sour milk with soda, and a flour mix to create a rollable dough. Filling blends hot water vanilla butter and confectioners sugar to a smooth spread, then sandwiched between cookies.
Ideal Gruel Recipe
Instructions describe making gruel by mixing a quiet amount with cold water then adding to boiling milk. Boil gently for fifteen to twenty minutes. Serve three parts in a cup with cold milk or cream and castor sugar.
Milk Lemonade Mix Promises Delicate Flavor
An 18th or 19th century beverage recipe describes dissolving four ounces of sugar in half a gill of boiling water, adding a gill of sherry and juice of two lemons, stirring, then adding three quarters of a pint of new milk. The mixture is strained and served, noted as inexpensive and delicious.
Steffens Admits McNamara Guilty Before Confession Trial
Lincoln Steffens testified in a Los Angeles trial that he learned the McNamara brothers were guilty of the Times dynamiting three days after arriving. He said he urged dropping Franklin bribery charges to aid a labor relations plan, claiming he acted with Darrow’s consent. The district attorney pressed the radical writer about his anarchist label and campaign remarks.
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Lincoln Steffens
Los Angeles
McNamara Brothers
John J. McNamara
Steffens
McNamaras
John J McNamara
Fredericks
Franklin
Mr. Chandler
Citizens’ Committee For
Labor
Darrow
Job Harriman
Diamonds Found in Illinois Report Says
The Gems and Precious Stones bulletin notes a Jefferson county discovery of diamonds reported by Austin Q. Miller of St. Louis to Dr. F. W. DeWolf of the Illinois State Geological Survey. Stones from Macomb area weighed up to 7½ carats, with reports placing the find near Ashley in a gravelly cornfield.
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U. S. Department of the Interior
Illinois
Jefferson County
Austin Q. Miller
St. Louis
F. W DeWolf
State Geological Survey of
Eisenstadt Manufacturing Co
Eisenstadt
Macomb
C. Lh. Goulding
Alton
Matthews Fox
Ashley
Hox
Muzzie Loaders Discarded in Area Today
Unclear fragmentary text notes unrelated terms Hard to extract coherent people places or events from the garbled OCR line
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Ieee Mig
General Miles'en Addres
Barber shop social backs weekly kegs plan
A barber shop social group contemplates organizing a night to raise funds for a social advancement. If enough members join they will secure three kegs a week, aiming to provide value for the money in these times.
Home Endorsement of Doan’s Kidney Pills From Marshall Citizens
Marshall residents share endorsements for Doan’s Kidney Pills as a trusted remedy for kidney trouble. Mrs J M Archer of 914 Ash St says the pills relieved intense back pain and abnormal secretions, noting repeated good effects after use. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents United States. remember the name Doan’s.
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Marshall
J. M. Archer
Ash St
Dean
Foster/Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
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