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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1909
Page
5
Baseball results show Waco tied 3-3 with Shreveport 0-2 at Waco. Galveston beat Oklahoma City 5-? at Galveston. Houston defeated Dallas 4 to 2 at Houston. San Antonio beat Fort Worth 3 at San Antonio.
In the report from New Orleans and Memphis events, a sequence involving Montgomery and venues in New Orleans and Memphis is noted. Details are sparse, with fragmented place names and team references.
National League results show Chicago 9 New York 7 at Cincinnati 3 Boston 2 1 at St Louis 9 Brooklyn 2 St Louis 3 7 with games listed by city and score. The brief recap notes multiple matchups across venues including Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis.
Detroit delivers an 8 to 1 win over Chicago as the week begins. The schedule lists German American yacht trials off Marblehead and numerous openings from chess at Lake Minnetonka to yachting at Oshkosh and Fort Erie. Other events include tennis in Omaha and Newport, boating, horse shows, archery, auto racing in Indianapolis, and several professional bouts in San Francisco New York and Chicago.
In New York Chinatown a 21 year old Chinese woman Bow Kilim was found murdered in a Mott Street tenement. Chin Sen cried out and led officers to a second floor bedroom where the victim lay stabbed with a bloody knife. Blood traces appeared on stairs and store door as multiple witnesses were arrested.
Three Chinamen were arrested though denying knowledge of the death. Six American women claiming to be wives of Chinamen were also taken in but offered no admission of guilt. Len says he found the body after 2 a.m. with blood on his hands. Sing says Kilim owed him money. Len is held as a material witness in $5,000 bond.
A Taft letter urges strict rules for census supervisors and enumerators to avoid political use of their positions. He calls for prohibiting campaign activity, public addresses, or vote solicitation by officials, and demands dismissal for any partisan actions to ensure a just census process.
The Grand venue offered Hardy and D Alaine vaudeville and two pictures Por His Daughters Sake and The Foundling. The first is color tinted and shows a father's sacrifices for his sick daughter ending in triumph. The Foundling follows Ruth who leaves her baby and seeks shelter then appeals to her father.
FOR SALE One hundred fifty home grown watermelons on ice car hay wire largest stock of nails in Monroe new Texas Carlsbad Mineral Water just unloaded and sold. The best remedy for chills fever indigestion headaches. Mr C L Thomas a Monroe businessman says it cured his indigestion. Sells daily with many friends Monroe Grocer Co Ltd 1851.
A dressing room occupant finds and adopts a baby. Years later Redmond and the child enjoy a summer holiday while Ruth rises in theatre. Ruth and Redmond meet again as she joins his company, rejects him, then learns the child is hers. She finally consents to marriage.
Last night at the Airdome a large audience enjoyed Manager Clark Grambling’s show. Arthur Angel opened with monologues and songs, followed by Mack and Benton whose singing and dancing pleased the crowd. Miss Benton sang George M. Cohan’s What’s the Use and Mack introduced novel dance steps. The bill will swap with Shreveport on Thursday and new acts will rotate each Sunday and Thursday, promising continued high class entertainment.
Headquarters advertises low prices on all feedstuff types and promises savings for customers. Contact details not provided.
For immediate sale price is only 5000 dollars. Two sections pattered land on the Rio Grande river. One half cash and the balance in one year will buy it. Address J. E. Johnston Jr Shreveport Louisiana. 31 151
The Cunard steamer Lucania was gutted from the saloon forward after a fire started in the saloon kitchen Saturday night. Fire brigades fought the blaze as tugs towed lines taut and flood operations flooded the vessel by three this morning. Re floated late tonight, the Lucania will be dry-docked and towed to Glasgow for repairs.
A morning incident resulted in multiple deaths with one person dying on scene while others perished instantly. Details on location and involved parties are not provided in the fragment.
Attorneys for Governor Haskell and five co defendants filed motions in Federal Court to quash the indictments in the town lot fraud case. They present a series of sensational allegations challenging the legality and handling of the charges.
The examining trial of Thomas Saraba the alleged Mexican revolutionist arrested here last week has been postponed to August 30 at the request of the prosecution. John Murray of the Political Refugee and Defense League of Chicago says the state has no case and that the list of revolu tionists is only subscribers to Saraba s paper. Also an advertisement offers foot relief from H R Rayner Cumberland 632.
In the last twenty four hours the region faced its hottest since 1901 with Enid Oklahoma at 105 and Fort Smith Arkansas 102. Concord Kansas reached 102 and Lamar Missouri 101 as the heat persisted with no deaths reported yet.
At Frisbee station near Kennett Missouri five Hyde children were killed when a wagon was struck by a St. Louis and San Francisco train at a crossing one mile east of their home. The victims include Leila 23 Julia 20 Jesse 17 Susie 12 and Charles 26.
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