Cuyler Delivers Two-Run Blast Secures Pirates World Title
In a rain-suspected clash at Forbes Field Pittsburgh defeats Washington 9 to 7 to clinch the world championship. Kiki Cuyler hits a two-base drive with the bases loaded in the eighth, driving in two runs as Walter Johnson bears the heavy onslaught and the Pirates seize the decisive victory.
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Forbes Field
Pittsburgh
A. P
Kiki” Cuyler
Senators
Buccaneers
Walter Johnson
Buccanneer
Johnson
Aldridge
Pirates
Washington
Rice
Stan Harris
Barnhart
Goslin
Joe Harris
Pirate
Judge
Bluege
Harris
Morrison
Peck
Wright
Moor
Smith
Buel
Moore
Ruel
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Locarno pact gains German adhesion and guarantees
Premier Painleve hails Locarno draft as historic as Germany officially joins the Rhine pact aimed at outlawing war. Britain and Italy are named guarantors with France, Belgium, and the signatories to proceed to formal signing in Switzerland. The accord broadens arbitration to cover frontier disputes between Germany and neighbors.
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Paris
A. P
Painleve
Locarno
Briand
Germany
Switzerland
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Italy
Urania Oil Work Expands With New Side Track Near Chicasaw Trestle
Urania reports a 400 foot Missouri Pacific side track south of the Chicasaw trestle for Arimnia Petroleum to load oil. Urania Petroleum plans test drilling No 9. gas tests at No 3. Ayers Bros. set casing. Derrick crews mobilize. field activity rising as rains replenish streams.
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R. H. Brooks
Urania
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Arimnia Petroleum Company
Urania Petroleum Company
No. 9
Beckman-Freeman
Urania No. 3
Ayers Bros
Urania No. 1
Dowling
Holloway No. 1
Lone Star Highway
Tullos
Little River Bridge
Rochelle
Keene & Wolf
Louisiana Oil Company
Urania Petroleum Co
Ed Blivins
Woodsworth
Urania Lumber Company
E. Lucky
Lucky
Senator Samuel M. Ralston Dies at 67 in Indianapolis
United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana died at his Hoosier Home estate after a six week illness. He served as governor of Indiana in 1912 and later as junior senator. Funeral services are planned for Lebanon, Indiana, with survivors including a widow, a daughter, two sons, and other relatives.
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Indianapolis
A. P
Lebanon
Ind
United States
Samuel M. Ralston
Indiana
Hoosier
Senator Ralston
Ralston
Senate
Treasury mulls 20 percent top surtax limit in tax reform
Washington reports the treasury may propose a 20 percent maximum surtax in the next tax law. Secretary Mellon has yet to settle on a final figure for the maximum reduction of the nation’s tax bill.
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Washington
A. P
The
Treasury
Congress
Mellon
Youth Fall Fatal at Union Mill West Monroe
Bernard Kearns a 20 year old sheet iron worker from New Orleans died instantly after a forty foot fall from a scaffold at the Union Oil Mill Company storage plant in West Monroe. He had worked on the project about four weeks with Blattman Weeser Sheet Metal Company crew. Coroner Gray attributed the death to a fall. the body was sent to New Orleans.
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Union Oil Mill Company
West Monroe
Bernard Kearns
West Monroe Company
New Orleans
Blattman,Weeser Sheet Metal Company
Kearns
P. Gray
Missouri Pacific Road
Crescent City
Priest Denies Alienation Suit In Full
Rev Father Hebert Cramers, pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church, answers a $25 000 damage suit by J Edmund Matts over alleged alienation of Louise De Villliere Matts. He denies any improper conduct and says actions were in his priestly duty at their solicitation. Trial set for October 28 in district court.
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Lake Charles
A. P
Hebert Cramers
Church of the Immaculate Conception
J. Edmund Matts
Matts
Louise de Villiere Matts
Father Cramers
Thos. C. Plauche
McCoy and Moss
Griffin T. Hawkins
8. W. Plauche
Vance Plauche
Edwin F. Gayle
PlJsintiff
Louise de Villier
Louise de Villiere
Death certificate scam trial expected to go to jury
In Pine Bluff Arkansas on October 15 the C B Norris former life insurance agent faced trial on charges of forging death certificates and collecting insurance. A witness a negro woman said she was almost scared to death when told by a grand jury member she was supposed to be dead.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
A. P
C. B. Norris
Norris
Real Estate Operator Indicted for poisoning Woman
John Gobel Daytona realty operator formerly jailed here faces a first degree murder indictment for the poisoning of Mrs. H. B. Hunt on August 18. The Miami grand jury also revisited charges involving 21 other homicides and jail conditions.
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Miami
Fla
A. P
John Gobel
Daytona Realty
H. B. Hunt
U S Court Dismisses Brown Case in Civil Attempt
In New Orleans Federal Judge Louis H Burns dismissed the injunction filing by former Bishop William Montgomery Brown seeking to stop his deposition by the Episcopal Church House of Bishops. The 48th triennial General Convention resumed with the election of Most Rev John Gardner Murray as primate after a lengthy ballots.
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New Orleans
A. P
Louis H. Burns
William Montg
Ery Brown
House of Bishops
Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Episcopal Church
United States
John Gardner Murray
Ethelbert Talbot
Bethlehem
Murray
House of Deputies
Gailor
National Council of the Church
Church Court of Review
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Council
Federal Council of Churches
River Stage Updates Across Mississippi and Nearby Rivers
Water levels on the Mississippi at Memphis and Vicksburg show rises of 0.1 and 1.0 feet to 7.0 and 13.2 respectively, while New Orleans falls 0. Red River readings place Shreveport at 114 with a 0.3 rise and Alexandria at 6.5 up 0.3. Ouachita shows Camden at 8.7 rising 0.7 and Monroe at 14.7 up 1.0. Ohio shows Cairo at 13.6 with a 0.4 drop.
Peckinpaugh Homers to Break Tie in Senators Victory
Roger Peckinpaugh, shortstop for the Senators, hit a decisive eighth inning homer to break a seventh inning tie with the Pirates. The play capped a series where Peckinpaugh atoned for errors, and Washington fans contributed over two thousand dollars to a loving cup awarded for the season's standout American League player.
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Roger Peckinpaugh
Senators
Pirates
Peck
Washington
Firestone plans $100 million Liberia rubber empire
Firestone president Harvey Firestone announces Firestone Plantations will develop one million acres of rubber in Liberia West Africa. The plan includes harbors roads towns hospitals and even steamship lines with a 330000 man workforce. A smaller nursery plantation in British Guinea is already purchased and Liberia’s malaria climate is cited as a challenge.
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New York
A. P
United States
Harvey
Firestone
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Firestone Plantations Company
Mr. Firestone
Liberia
Montrovia
Negro Republic
Florida
Army Flier Sentenced for Traffic Violation
Lieutenant John McDonnell an Army flier on duty in the Army air service was jailed for 30 days after traffic court found he failed to disclose his identity after colliding with a car owned by Rear Admiral W. H. Brownson. He sought a fine but received no remission.
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Washington
A. P
John McDonnell
Army
Army Air Service
W. H. Brownson
McMahon
Lieut. McDonnell
Plan to create premier railroad by KC Southern buy of Cotton Belt stake
Kansas City Southern Railway moves to unite with the Cotton Belt by purchasing its controlling interest from the Gould family through the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific. L. F. Loree envisions a national trunk line with 9 000 miles east system and a 6 000 mile western system, forming the largest railroad in the country.
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New York
A. P
Kansas City Southern Railway
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
St. Louis Southwestern
Cotton Belt
Gould
Arthur E. Stillwell
Kansas City Southern
L. F. Loree
Delaware and Hudson
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
New York Central
Loree
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
Vicksburg
Shreveport and Pacific
Illinois Central
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
High School Youth Admits Mail Truck Robbery
Robert Cargo, a young law student at a Los Angeles evening school, confessed to skipping class to join a gang that robbed a U S mail truck of about 600000 in money securities and jewelry. Police report four others jailed, two at large, about 500000 recovered.
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Los Angeles
A. P
Robert Cargo
Polytechnic Evening High School
Alexander Siegler
Cargo
United States
Walter Johnson Offered Vaudeville Contract If He Wins
Walter Johnson, the Senators ace, was offered a vaudeville contract start ing next Monday in New York for 2000 dollars a week if he wins today against the Pirates. Eugene Connolly announced the offer on behalf of the Keith circuit. Johnson’s wife expressed doubt he would accept as he planned a Florida winter.
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A. P
Walter Johnson
Senators
New York Hippodrome
Pirates
Eugene Connolly
Johnson
Keith
Florida
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