Feller Sets Pace in Strikeout Push Beyond Records
Baseball briefs show Bobby Feller racing past 118 strikeouts in 107 innings as Hal Newhouser’s 1944-45 pace looms in reach. Other notes: Red Sox beat Browns. Yankees top the White Sox. Cronin’s lead holds. Detroit shuts out Philadelphia as Trout hurls seven hits. Evers injury reshapes lineups. Giants lose to Chicago as Wyse and Meers give up 15 hits.
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Bobby Feller
Hal Newhouser
King
Revie Robert
Rube
Feller
Cleveland Indians
Boston
New York
Red Sox
St Louis Browns
Yankees
Chicago
Joe Cronin
Fang
Cronin
Randy Hefhouse
Earl Johnson
Bobby Doerr
Joel Haynes
Spud Chandler
Haynes
Nick Etten
Don Kolloway
Tommy Henrich
Detroit
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Ovener
Fritz Ostermueller
Pirates
Hugh Casey
Ewell Blackwell
Cincinnati
Phillies
New York Giants
Hank Wyse
Russ Meers
Agriculture Council Criticizes Dairy Price Increases
The Wisconsin council of agriculture criticizes OPA and USDA price hikes on butter milk and cheddar cheese as too vague and unlikely to spur greater production. The executive committee says while gains offset rising costs, they will not sufficiently motivate farmers.
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OPA
Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin Council of Agriculture
Freeport Golfers Honoring Trueblood at Club Exhibition
Freeport golfers gather at Freeport Country Club to honor B C Trueblood a tag on twenty five or more years of top play in the mid 70s. Chick Evans an eminent amateur travels to attend and take part in an exhibition featuring Trueblood and local pro Harry Rubendall against Evans and Gunnar Nelson.
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Freeport
Freeport Country Club
B.C. Trueblood
Chick Evans
U.S
Trueblood
Harry Rubendall
Evans
Gunnar Nelson
Rockford
Want Ad Woes: Busy Work for Small Pay
A brief item notes that many people take on extensive tasks for minimal pay when working with classified want ads. It highlights the paradox of labor for limited compensation in the classifieds market.
Monticello Socials Reach Across Wisconsin and Switzerland
Monrose and Monticello residents, plus families from Madison, Monroe, Evansville, New Glarus, and Belleville, travel guests and relatives including the Houri family in Canton Bern Switzerland. Visitors hail from Okee Wisconsin to Albany and Madison with many callers and social visits noted in this Monticello column.
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Allie Beer
Monroe
Clarence Loveland
Okee
Wis
Fred A. Blum
Ed Blum
Anna Schuler
Brooklyn
Robert Wild
Stanley Dixon
Pete Blum
Herman Feenie
Edgerton
Emil Escher
John Zeller
Fred Loeffel
Albany
Charles Simon
Madison
Wallace P. Barlow
Helen Baehler
Jacob Baehler
Emil G. Voegeli
LaCrosse
Phyllis
John Houri
New Glarus
Walter Houri
John Houri Sr
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Robert
Virginia
Harvey Gempeler
Harris Babler
Jill
Browntown
Adam Duerst
Willis Babler
Raymond Pierce
Jimmy
Methodist hos_pital
Archie Gilbertson
Evans
Jane Hamilton
Werner Saxer
Anna Mae
Edwin, Wirth
Harry
Edwin Saxer
Robert Holcomb Jr
Nancy
Wilbert Wirth
Frederick Sammond
John
Peter
Milwaukee
Edwin
Airborne Wins 163rd Epsom Derby at Epsom Downs
Airborne won the 163rd running of the Derby at Epsom Downs. The favorite Gulf Stream owned by Lord Derby finished second with Lord Astor’s Fast and Fair in third place.
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Airborne
Epsom Downs
London
J. Ferguson
Lord Derby
Lord Astor
First Place at Stake in Junior Contest Sunday
Beloit (3-0) faces Monroe (2-0) in a key junior league clash at Spon's Park after both teams beat Janesville. Beloit pitching led by Bill Mansfield limited Janesville to four hits while Monroe opened with a 7-4 win over Janesville. Standings show Beloit and Monroe atop the southern division with perfect records.
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Beloit
Monroe
Janesville
American Legion
Spon's Park
Janesle
Bill Mansfield
Fanning
Brookins
Stoker
Petseseeees
Orfordville
Evansville
Footville
Jefferson
Waterloo
Fort Atkinson
Milton-Milton Jet
Palmyra
Edgerton
Joe Louis Struggles in Final Fight Prep Session
Joe Louis appears to push rather than snap his punches during six rounds of sparring at Greenwood Lake training camp. Reporters noted the heavyweight champion’s punches lacked the snapping power of past sessions as he nears defense of his title, bringing his total sparring rounds to 92.
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Joe Louis
Conn
Con Gots
Greenwood Lake
Fire and Gas Traps End Lives in Chicago Sewer Rescue
Report details rescuers trapped 35 feet underground at 22nd and Laflin as a deadly fire and poisonous gases engulfed Chicago’s LaSalle Hotel area. The La Salle complex, built ~1908, suffered a major disaster with hundreds injured or killed across the city’s history of fires and conflagrations.
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22Nd
Laflin
Chicago
Tel
Stevens
Madison and
la Salle Streets
Financial District
City Hall
State and Madison Streets
la Salle-Madison Hotel Co
Central Life Assurance Society
Des Moines
Roanoke Hotel Corp
Illinois Republican Party
Clark
la Salle
Michael J. Corrigan
Fair Ground
James Horan
Morris & Co
Burlington Railroad
Jackson Boulevard
Clinton Street
Juda By Mrs. F. N. Miller
Mrs. John Bridge of Beloit is reported improving after a stroke. Nathan Paul, son of Clarence and (Mrs.) Paul, lies as patient at St. Clare hospital. Eunice, daughter of Mrs. Harry Smith, celebrates a fourth birthday with twelve Sunday school friends and gifts. Frederick Feldt and spouse mark ten years with a Community hall dinner for sixty five guests. Zetta Bradley hosts a surprise party for three birthdays with gifts. Four tables of 500 feature prize winners Esther Newman, John Waelti, and Merrill Waelti.
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John Bridge
Beloit
Nathan Paul
Clarence Paul
St. Clare Hospital
Harry Smith
Eunice
Clarence’ Brunkow
Charles Smith
Frank Siedschlag
Edison official calls to cut farm chores time in half
Grover Neff, head of Edison Electric Institute, urges private utilities and REA coops to collaborate to reduce barn chore time. He cites the slow pace of chores since 1880s, noting need for research and practical solutions beyond mechanical milking. He grew up on a Milford Indiana farm and emphasizes practical gains for farmers.
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Farm Progress
New York
Grover
Neff
Madison
Edison Electric Institute
Milford
Ind
REA
Wiscosin Power & Light Co
New Twist in Controlling Wild Mustard Weeds
On James Doherty farm three miles north of Monroe county weed commissioner Robert Logeson explains a header drawn by two horses is used in a grain field to top mustard heads 6 to 8 inches above the rain now about 14 inches high. The header adjusts to cut at any height. Duckfoot shovels attached to the mechanism aid the process.
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James Doherty
Monroe
Robert Logeson
Green County
Green County farmers control Canada thistle with shovels
Logeson says cultivators using duckfoot shovels to cut thistle roots about two inches deep bring the weed to the surface. Cultivating infested ground every 14 days for a year can bring thistles under control.
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Green County
Logeson
Softball Meeting Rescheduled to Friday Night
Jerry Beardsley announced the softball meeting has moved from Thursday to Friday night at 7 30 p m in the circuit court room of the county courthouse.
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Jerry Beardsley
Circuit Court
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Agriculture Council
Weasehold
Farm Auction Service, Inc
A. C. Schmid
Monticello
C. D. Curtis
Belleville
A. R. Achtemeier
Watertown
Henry V. Babler
Betty Ann
John’c. Babler
Sam Duerst
Karl
John C. Babler
Roger
Ruth Ann
William Erb
Clifford Riese
Billy Erb
Grant Beer
Walter Zeller
Clarence Elmer
Ivan Marty
Albert Zimmerman Sr
Edna Schuler
Helen
Henry Gessler
Arthur
Raymond’ Gessler and Sons
Nancy Becker
Dorothy
Ann Stauffacher
Mary Lou Dabnke
Marilyn Roethlisberger
Eleanor
Dorothy Marty
Buddy Marty
John Wirth Sr
John Saxer
John A. Marty
Jacob Wittach
Alfred Wittach
Marty
John Hoskins
Charles Schnetzler
Anna Schnetzler
Madi Son
R. L. Rote
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C. J. Klooster
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Walter Winchell
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Peterson & Kittelsen
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Freeport Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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