Fragmented OCR Summary of Local Sports Item
Readable text shows a short sports note about a team with a standout game. Mentions cure skin issues and a playing field reference. No clear names, dates, or locations are recoverable from the fragment.
12 Sep 1912
Page 1
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1912
Page
1
Readable text shows a short sports note about a team with a standout game. Mentions cure skin issues and a playing field reference. No clear names, dates, or locations are recoverable from the fragment.
Denver report notes a Colorado primary sweep by progressives with Philip Stewart nominated for governor and M Ammons for the Democratic ticket The Roosevelt forces urged Stewart to join Bull Moose but he refused and will face Minard B Costigan as the Moose candidate Also Helen King Robinson named for state senate while Katherine Williamson lost in the race for Congress
About 12,000 veterans weathered thinning ranks in Los Angeles as the annual G A R parade drew 200,000 spectators. The national officers face election on Saturday with Colonel Albert Beers of Connecticut in the running for commander in chief. Detroit and Denver vied to host next year’s encampment.
A mob of several hundred white men stormed the jail in Cummings Georgia and killed Ed Collins a Black man accused of aiding in the assault on a white girl. His body was mutilated with a crow bar and hung from a telephone pole before about 2000 spectators. Cox the confessed assailant was moved to Atlanta for safekeeping.
In Boston Olga Petrova the actress advertised for a temporary husband and has received 487 marriage proposals in forty eight hours. She says she may not marry at all and notes fans wait on street corners and at hotels. She believes this is a world record for volume of proposals in such a short period.
Secretary Nagel announced after the Titanic disaster that full passenger safety cannot be guaranteed until Congress grants the Commerce and Labor Department authority over ship crews. He said many current crews are not sailors and cannot row a boat.
Despite high wind, aviator Fourney set a new nonstop flight mark in a biplane from Ftamps France. He began at 5:57 a m and logged 461 miles by 4:30 p m with the flight still in progress.
Roosevelt today spoke on the Rooseveltan recall plan in Oregon, citing court rulings nullifying laws of public interest. Taft is at Beverly, Wilson visits Jersey City, Debs slated for Galveston, Chatin in New Britain CT.
Col Roosevelt addressed Dreamland park where thousands cheered as he led an automobile parade through Seattle. He praised the fleet’s world voyage, criticized Congress for delaying the canal, and claimed the people gained the canal despite a difficult process.
New York City Mayor Gaynor faced a two hour hearing at City Hall resisting questions on police reform after the Rosenthal murder. He cursed the inquiry as scandal mongering, defended the police, praised Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo, and cited reforms including civil service integrity and anti graft efforts saving about $3,000,000 annually.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Valentine announced he submitted his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Fisher. Fisher was in Hawaii at the time.
It is admitted that the resignation was submitted and Valentine has been out of sympathy with the Taft administration indicating a political rift affecting leadership alignment and policy support.
Tens of thousands of delegates arrive for the Eucharist convention in Vienna with one hundred special trains. Nearly two hundred archbishops bishops and clerical dignitaries attend as anti church forces protest. The government opposes distribution of literature amid growing bitterness.
Charles Myers, 24, a cook at a Wisconsin hotel in Aberdeen, S D, despondent after a quarrel with his wife, swallowed formaldehyde in a suicide bid. A farewell note to a fellow employee helped save him, but he vows to repeat the act.
Three incidents in Gregory and Tripp counties reveal snake stories as locals report rapid rattler deaths on the Louis Waugh farm near Colomo where John Mc Ghee and associates killed four rattlers in under 30 minutes. Nearby Hakon Matsen fought a blue racer near Burke, landing blows before finally choking the snake. Fred Gaestal, four miles southeast of Burke, also stepped on a snake.
Two large rattlers were killed and brought to town after shocking grain. Reportedly among the largest rattlesnakes ever seen in the region, their size is noted as remarkable for local wildlife.
Watertown South Dakota reports the Upper Pass at Chain lakes leased by local sportsmen. A gun club will protect and improve the property and reserve shooting rights, barring public access. P W Shoenberger and John Keegan lead the leasing on behalf of the club. Lower Pass remains owned by Watertown sportsmen and the effort forms a practical organization.
Chicago reports France yesterday won the world aviation championship. Jules Vedrines, France's champion, piloting a Deperdussen monoplane, captured the James Gordon Bennett silver trophy from the United States with no American plane challenging. Only American pilot Dello Thompson remained until the end, then withdrew.
Promoting Electric Bitters as essential for strong enterprise leadership, the ad claims success hinges on health. It cites Chas B Allen of Sylvania Georgia reporting relief from rheumatism liver trouble stomach disorders and kidney issues after four bottles. Available for 50 cents at Diehl and Brown’s.
In Topeka, Dr. S. J. Crumbine and Dr. A. L. Skagg declare the central and western Kansas horse disease is not communicable to people after investigating a human case. They warn carcasses must be buried, note medicines killed horses, and outline a conference to curb spread. Pastures and farm work suffer across forty counties amid the epidemic.
Chief Three Bears of the Blackfoot tribe remarried Washington correspondent Robert Heinl and his bride Helen Corbin in a ceremony likened to adoption. Thirty Indians, many grass dancers, attended with Heinl named Black Eagle and his wife Small Woman. About one hundred tourists from the U S and abroad witnessed the event at St Marys Lake Montana.
London dispatch reports the Hamburg liner Kamerun totally wrecked along the Liberian coast. No further details are provided.
Denver clean up results in indictments of Frank Greene and Carlos Wittenburg for conspiracy malfeasance and embezzlement. Millionaires Horace W Meyers Julius A Bennett linked to property used for immoral purposes as part of vice scandal. Becker case updates from New York include possible commission for Hot Springs testimony and delayed trial dates.
Medill McCormick, national vice chairman of the Bull Moose, addressed Wisconsin progressives and accused La Follette of past moves to back Roosevelt for president and seek support from Roosevelt and Johnson. The Bull Moose publication also denounced him as a leader who abandons the cause he aimed to lead.
New York City report notes that after fifty bridges were destroyed and extensive wreckage of track the Southern Pacific Railroad has formally demanded protection of its Mexican property from the U S state department in Washington.
Bishop Reginald Heber Weller succeeds the late Bishop Grafton as head of the Fond du Lac Diocese and will be enthroned October 6th. The ceremony marks a transition in the local Episcopal leadership.
Ernest Rich, watching a home run from a seat in a tree, toppled and grabbed a ring on his left third finger. The ring caught as he fell, tearing the finger off after several minutes of struggle before rescuers freed him.
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