Johnson Sparks Pirates Past Senators in Tight World Series Bout
In Forbes Field Pittsburgh hosts Washington in an opening world series clash. Johnson’s pitching, a record crowd, and early action kept the game tight with several close plays and a rare hit by Joe Harris deemed a home run before a ruling. The crowd rose as the Pirates staged a first-inning threat and built momentum through the early frames as both sides fought for supremacy.
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A. P
Washington
l@t center
Rice
Wright
Moore
Johnson
Carey
McKechnie
Kiki
Cayler
Ruel
Cuyter
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Judge
Meadows
Grantham
Joe Harris
Harris
Bluege
Peckinpaugh
Peck
Pirates
Pittshurshers
Barnhart
Traynor
Peck Grantham
Johnon
Stan Harris
Smith
J. Harris
Old Master Walter Johnson Faces Pirates Tonight
Washington hurler Walter Johnson and Stanley Coveleskie anchor the mound attack as the Big Train aims to sustain his renowned endurance in the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates after last year's series.
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Walter Johnson
Washington
Stanley Coveleskie
Pittsburgh Pirates
Five-year-old abducted as three cars seen near Gibsland
Shreveport report says three automobiles with 10 to 11 men and a woman stopped on the highway near the Howell residence. Arminia Howell, five, was seized from her aunt Saturday. No warrants issued and no clues found after three days of investigation.
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Shreveport
A.P
Gibsland
Arminia Howell
O. E. Howell
Ruston
Sheriff’s Department
E. E. Howell
Lucille Howell
Howell
Senators and Pirates Battle In Error-Filled Noisy Game
The report details late innings with hits by Goslin and Johnson for the Senators and a Traynor home run for the Pirates. Fans caused a stoppage as the field was cleared and the contest continued into the sixth inning with multiple strikeouts and baserunners.
Federal grand jury indicts eleven in two-day session
The federal grand jury reported to Judge Dawkins and indicted eleven individuals after a two day session. Six pleaded guilty with sentences ranging from three months to two years.
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Federal
Ben C. Dawkins
M. M. Munholland
Harry Sanders
Delacia Scallion
Emory Anderson
Harry Benners
Rosie Martin
Greenwood Jones
Washington
Oleanian to Speak at Presbyterian Conference
Chattanooga Tenn October 7 The general assembly stewardship committee of the Presbyterian church announced speakers for the church-wide conference on unified budget and program to be held December 13 in Chattanooga A D Mooney New Orleans is listed among the speakers as delegates in West Virginia plan a special train to attend the event.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
A. P
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church of the United States Today
A. D. Mooney
New Orleans
West Virginia
Cubs and White Sox Clash for City Title Opener
Chicago opens the city series with the Cubs facing the White Sox. The Cubs lean on veteran Grover Cleveland Alexander to duel Ted Blankenship on the mound, in a bid to take the early edge.
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Chicago
A. P
Cubs
White Sox
Grover Cleveland Alcander
Ted Blankenship
Episcopal Conference Opens 48th Gathering in Audubon Park
The forty eighth general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church opens in New Orleans under Audubon park oaks with 250 singers and a procession of 120 bishops. Bishop Bratton’s opening sermon is read due to illness and attention centers on creed definitions and church unity amid debates over federation with the Federated Council of Churches.
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New Orleans
A. P
Protestant Episcopal Church
Audubon Park
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montgomery Brown
Galion
Ohio
Araknsas
Brown
House of Bishops
Theodore Dubose Bratton
Thomas F. Gailor
Tennessee
National Council of the Church
Forty-Eighth
General Conference
Episcopal Church of America
House of Deputies
Women’s Auxiliary
Church School Service League
Federated Council of Churches of Christ
Federated Council
Protestant Episcopal Church of America
Theodore D. Bratton
Misissippi
Gailor
Bratton
Roberson Fails to Win Rehearing in Epstein Murder Case
Attorney Geo Wesley Smith says he will pursue all legal rights after the U S Supreme Court refused a rehearing in the Epstein murder case. Roberson, convicted twice in Ouachita Parish court, faced renewed appeals as the case closes with the high court's denial.
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Geo. Wesley Smith
U. S. Supreme Court
Howard Roberson
Supreme Court
Roberson
Adolph Epstein
Swartzgrocer
George Wesley Smith
Mr. Smith
United States Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Epstein
Luther Hayes
Will’. Stone
Schumaker
Hayes
Critial
Ouachita Parish
Casket Factory To Be Built In Monroe South Of City
Monroe Manufacturing company to erect a coffin and furniture plant at the old glass factory site in Monroe south end. Construction starts immediately with operations hoped by November 1. Capitalization 10 000 dollars, potential increase to 50 000. Officers Venable Allen Kilpatrick. directors Venable Allen Kilpatrick Boyd Abernathy.
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Monroe Manufacturing Company
Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
H. M. Venable
C. A. Allen
A. K. Kilpatrick
H. H. Boyd
L. P. Abernathy
Start Sixth Day of Long Search for Missing Pilot
Confidence grew that the fate of Charles H. Ames would be known within 24 hours as the sixth day of the search began. National Guardsmen and hundreds of volunteers scoured air and woods near Clarion, following Governor Pinchot's mobilization order for five hundred troops and multiple cavalry and infantry units.
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Clarion
A. P
Charles H. Ames
Ames
Pinchot An
Homestead Co to Erect Fine New Building
The People’s Homestead Company voted to authorize its building committee to begin preparations for a single story limestone business building at the southeast corner of DeSiard and Catalpa streets. Cost about 60000 dollars with corner store space, planned as 40 by 125 feet, echoing Central Savings Bank in style.
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People’s Homestead Company
DeSiard and
Catalpa Streets
DeSiard Street
DeSiard
I. T. Davis
Travis Oliver
Frank Masling
Central Savings Bank & Trust Company
Catalpa Street
State Building and Loan Association
John L. Perry, Grandfather of Walter Johnson, Dies
John L. Perry aged 82, grandfather of Washington pitcher Walter Johnson, died in Santa Monica California yesterday. His death announces a notable figure tied to Major League Baseball. The obituary notes the family connection and Perry's age as the main details.
River and Ouachita River Levels Report Newswire
River stages for Mississippi and Ouachita systems show Memphis steady at 4.4 feet while Vicksburg climbs to 9.4 feet and New Orleans edges up to 2.1. Red River falls noted at Shreveport and Alexandria. Ohio watershed shows Caire rising to 14.8 with a 2.0 increase and Monroe lower on the Ouachita segment.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Red
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ohio
Caire
Second Effort to Quash Indictment in Noe Case
Federal court granted a continuance for James Noe accused of using the mails to defraud via fraudulent Union Parish oil stock. Trial reset to April 6 1926 with witnesses from Minnesota Idaho and other states. Defense also contested an indictment against W M Lynch for bankruptcy law violations and grand jury composition. Randle Richardson was yesterday convicted of larceny and uttering from the national armory theft.
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J. W. Elder
Farmerville
Ben C. Dawkins
James Noe
Union Parish
United States
Hardin
Minnesota
Idaho
Saint
Shreveport
W. M. Lynch
Monroe
Lynch
Travia Oliver
Central Savings Bank & Trust Company
Oliver
Randle Richardson
National Armory
Preston Stuart
National Reformatory
World Series Daily Play by Play from North Second Street
The News-Star will megaphone a full Associated Press play by play from the North Second Street studio each afternoon at 1 p m during the World Series. Monroe readers can attend the daily sessions and a complete game account will appear in the News-Star every evening in all editions unless the game extends extra innings. Harry Prophit hosts the big horn all week for the broadcasts.
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Associated Press
News-Star
North Second Street
Monroe
Wtch
Harry Prophit
Escape by six prisoners shocks Nashville jail scene
Five inmates were at large after six escaped Davidson county jail by sawing bars on the fourth floor and lowering to the ground on bedsheet ropes. Miss Ollie Smithers, 26, alleged sweet heart of fugitive Clarence Woodward, was arrested for helping smuggle the saw. Augustus Whiting, the sole recaptured prisoners, was seized as he fled through a yard.
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Nashville
Tenn
Davidson County
Ollie Smithers
Clarence Woodward
Augustus Whiting
Smithers
Whiting
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