Ivy Wingo praised as patient catcher for Reds pitchers
Ivy Wingo of Cincinnati is hailed by Walter Ruether and Jimmy Ring for his behind the plate work. They say his steady, encouraging presence steadies pitchers in critical spots and keeps umpires and fans from seeing his true value.
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Redleg
Ivy Wingo
Cincinnati
White Sox
Walter Ruether
Jimmy Ring
Cincinnati Hurling Group
Ringo
Ruether
Wingo
Ivy
Gcrbes
Ring
Toney
Fred Toney
Giants
Pat Moran
Rariden
Allen
Price of Athletic Goods Set to Rise Across Sports Scene
A survey of leading sporting goods dealers shows widespread price increases across athletic gear this year. Hiking shoes up 20 percent to 10 to 15 dollars, baseballs 50 cents higher, gloves up to 25 dollars, and baseball shoes from 12 to 21 dollars. Golf clubs cost 6 dollars and up while balls start at 60 cents. Labor and material costs blamed for the rise.
Barry Set for Australia in Title Row Against Felton
English sculler Ernest Barry departs for Australia to challenge current holder Alfred G. Felton on September 1 in a major title match. Shooters head to Canada for the Grand International handicap shoot at St Thomas Ontario from June 1 to 3 with trophies and 1500 dollars in prizes.
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Barry
Australia
Bexworld
Ernest Barry
England
Alfred G. Felton
Canada
St. Thomas
Ont
Persistency Rewarding Golf Hope For Aged Starter
A British amateur champion Charles Hutchings who began golf after age 30 shows perseverance pays off. At Royal Liverpool Golf Club monthly medal trials his score record appeared as 114-80-84 in the club book, illustrating steady improvement and encouragement for players who struggle early.
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Charles Hutchings
Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Sandlots Furnish Stars In Baseball Debate
Mordecai Brown asserts sandlot players outpace college youths when equal ability is assumed. He notes colleges produce many greats but contends college players lack world competition experience and the semipro start sharpens competition and adaptability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mordecai Brown
Chicago Cubs
Mordecai
Baseball Notes Highlight Spring Standouts and Trades
Bobby Veach stands out for all around play this spring. Rumor says Stuffy McInnis may be on the Red Sox market. Davy Bancroft recovers from flu and returns to the shortstop spot. Fred Thomas shows fielding skill but limited hitting, a possible new Athletics third baseman. Marsans struggles to regain form after a long layoff. Rabbit Gharrity, formerly with Galveston, now with Caspar in Wyoming under manager Arbogast. Gene Robertson is released by St Louis Americans to Columbus in the American Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Robertson
St. Louis Americans
Columbus Club
American Association
Baseball News and Player Notes From Early Season Moves
Pitcher Grimes plans to start 36 games for Brooklyn while Babe Ruth faces a tough campaign under Gotham fans. Ban Johnson, once a catcher, is remembered as AL president. Teams like Reds, Red Sox, Indians, and Giants are linked to lineup changes and potential comebacks as players pursue peaks this season.
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Grimes
Brooklyn
Babe Ruth
Gotham
Big Ban Johnson
Ban
Kalamazoo grand circuit nominations and sports notes
The piece notes 193 nominations for eight early closing events at Kalamazoo. It reports Lou Dillon foaling a bay colt by Etawah, her tenth and last. Possible Worcester swimming meet with rowing by amateur oarsmen on July 23 and 24. Colonel William Lassiter named army polo executive board delegate. Wisconsin schedules five year football series with Chicago. MIT to enter a crew for intercollegiate regatta. Boston College also taking up the sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Dillon
Etawah
C. K. G Billings
National Association of Amateur Oarsmen
Worcester
Un sociable Grampson Bemoans Nosy Neighbors
In a Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt, Mr Grampson complains the Jibbletons nag him about being unavailable. He says the large veranda was built to enjoy alone, and he wishes he were a mile wide to avoid neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Grampson
Birmingham Age-Herald
Thoughtful divorce request sparks sharp response
He asks for a divorce if they are not suited. She replies with cold humor offering to locate his co respondent, signaling a tense exchange about marital separation.
Insane asylum project announced by provincial council president
The Bulletin of Italian Society notes a provincial council president announcing, with ceremony, the construction of a new asylum. The speech frames the move as a solution, expressing pride in creating an asylum "exclusively for ourselves" after earlier patient transfers to distant facilities.
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Bulletin of Italian Society
Contrasting Father and Daughter in a Woodsy Scene
A reflective line contrasts a father in a woodshed with his son and heir to a daughter in her room powdering her sunburned face. The joke suggests the father tames the boy while the girl hides her tan.
Impossible Feat Message Through A Telephone Remark
A playful dialogue notes Mr. Gobbs seeking Mr. Jones by telephone. The reply claims no X ray attachment on the telephone, asserting an impossible or humorous obstruction to the call.
Unclear Exchange Reflected in Day to Day Life
Dialogue fragment shows a couple reflecting on quarrels and memories of a former home. The exchange hints at strain and nostalgia as they compare current tensions to past family dynamics.
On the Retired List and a Swift Chauffeur
A humorous column riffs on old cars and repairs with exaggerated lines about a swift’s new driver and tailors making a man. The tone mocks overstatement in everyday life and uses playful dialogue about aging vehicles and designers.
Birmingham Express Question Sparks Witty Railway Reply
A traveler asks to catch the four o'clock Birmingham express and a railway official coolly replies that the timing depends on how fast the traveler can run. The exchange highlights commuter impatience and railway service humor.
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Birmingham
London
Guardian role emerges in expert opinion satire
Browning's Magazine quotes an eminent counsel saying most clients need a guardian rather than a lawyer. Car toons Magazine humor adds a wry remark about gift giving versus forgiveness, reflecting light punning on generosity.
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Browning
A Cheap Triumph and Quick-Function Quips at Dinner
The Choice features a new boarder objecting to cold mutton while a landlady offers a blunt choice to eat or leave it. Day, Too, comments on a man who has given years to friends, and a playful exchange hints at rival suitors. Good Advice weighs the ethics of payment for duty with a sharp cash verdict.
Milks Emulsion touted as quick cure for coughs and weakness
An advertisement touts Milks Emulsion as a nourishing remedy for chronic coughs and wasting diseases. It claims rapid relief, promotes appetite, improves digestion, and builds flesh and strength, with a money back guarantee and a price of Go and $1.20 per bottle.
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Denver
Alice M. Huntlay
Pearl St
Galesburg
Milka Emulsion Co
Terre Haute
Ind
Adv
Shave With Cuticura Soap Ad Claims Double Razor Efficiency
An old advertisement extols Cuticura Soap for shaving and bathing, promising double razor efficiency, skin purity, comfort, health, and no irritation even with daily shaving. It touts one soap for all uses including shaving and shampooing.
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Adv
Character Returns from the Tomb as a Theme
In a witty aside from Professor Pate and Festus Pester, the dialogue notes that only character refuses burial and that the cemetery may return a widower who rushes back to marry again, reflecting a humorous journalistic aside from the Kansas City Star.
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Tex” Jones
Wichita
Pate
Festus Pester
Kansas City Stor
Peru Drift Sands Crest the Desert of the Pacific Andes
From the Malioendo port of Peru to the divide of the Andes the ascent encounters two broad desert shelves. At four to five thousand feet a vast plateau shows drifting sand dunes twenty miles wide with crescent horns toward the south wind. The gray sand forms smooth dunes fifteen to twenty feet across, spanning horn to horn up to a hundred feet, leaving little track in the lancha or pack animal footprints.
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Pacifc
Maliendo
Peru
Crescent
Swamp Root advertisement claims cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a proven remedy for kidney, liver and bladder problems, claiming tests and thousands of user statements support its success. Readers can request a sample by sending ten cents and a self addressed envelope to Dr Kilmer Co. in Hinghamton New York, with bottles sold at drug stores.
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Saya
Hr. Kilmer
Rample
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Hinghamton
N. Y
Unexplored Libya provinces and northern coast outline
The text describes Libyan territory as comprising Tripolitania and Cyrenaica plus Wes along the north coast between Tunis and Egypt. It notes longitudinal range from 0 to 28 degrees east and places the northern edge near 88 degrees north while the southern limit remains unknown as the region extends into the Sahara.
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Libya
Tripolitana
Chemlen and
Wes
Africa
Tunis
Eyeypt
Sahara
Stone walls and iron bars as metaphor in prison dialogue
A sympathetic figure quips about poetry not32 binding a convict while a prisoner retorts that physical confinement will prove whether one can escape. The exchange centers on imprisonment and the futility of stone walls.
Cure Catarrhal Deafness by Constitutional Remedy
Catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications. a constitutional remedy through the blood on mucous surfaces is required. The advertisement promises a $100 reward for any case not cured by the Catarrhal MINDICINT and cites Toledo Ohio as the contact point. The tone imitates a period medical patent offer with inducements and price notes.
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Wallis Carrarril Medicinig
Choutara Trae
A. Chanay & Co
Toledo, Ohio
Remedy Claims Cure For Stomach Acidity
An advertisement touts BATONIC as a sure remedy for acid stomach and bloating. It claims rapid relief from sourness gas indigestion and health damage caused by acidity. The copy asserts millions have benefited and offers a refund if not satisfactory.
Waterman Pen Legacy From Illinois Roots to Global Brand
A tribute to Lewis Edson Waterman and Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen outlines the inventor’s early life in Illinois, the rise of the L. E. Waterman Company from a New York base, and expansions including Chicago offices. It notes growth to five factories, future Newark work, and the Waterman Building in Chicago reflecting enduring standards and global sales.
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Lewis Edson Waterman
Waterman
Illinois
Kankakee
Elisha
L. E Waterman Company
New York
L. E. Waterman
Elisha §. Waterman
West
Chicago
Fulton Street
L. E. Waterman Company
Seymour
Connecticut
Canada
Newark
New Jersey
Congregational Book Store
Wabash Avenue
State Street
Republic Building
South
Clark Street
Middle West
South State Street
Palmer House
1. EF. Waterman Company
Middlewest
Frank J. Waterman
Fred S. Waterman
Waterman Boys
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Lee Fohl
Indians
Speaker
Cleveland
Boose
Everett Booe
San Antonio
Tacoma
Bobby Waugh
Holland
Australasia
The
Lawn Tennis Association
Halifax
Kelly
Akron
Frank Kelly
Brooklyn Dodgers
Akron Internationals
Baya College Boy
Bobby Veach
McInnis
Red Sox
Davy Bancroft
Fred Thomas
Athletics
Marsans
Galveston
Caspar
Wyo
Arbogast
Ban Johnson
Joe Bush
Harry Harper
Barrow
Champion Reds
Horace Milan
Washington
Nationals
Wayne Wright
Louisville Club
Ohio State University
Yankee
Ferrister
Peoria
Ray Morgan
Baltimore
Billy Purtell
Toronto
Ted Easterly
Bill James
Cleveland Sink
Beaumont
Tris Speaker
Hmit
Atlanta
Southern Association
Kansas City
Bill Evans
Pirates
Dreyfuss
Buzz” Wetzel
Saginaw
Honolulu
Braves
Asahis
Waikikis
Washington Club
Golden
Shreveport
Alex Schaufele
Kalamazoo Club
George Cutshaw
Joe Boehling
Indiana
Bill Ryan
Holy Cross
McGraw
Ban B. Johnson
Kalamazoo
Polo Association
Army
United States Army
Col
William Lassiter
University of Wisconsin
Stagg Field
France
Carpentier
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston College
Malcolm
Mamma the Swift
Cartoons Magazine
Edwin
Dearest
Angelina
Vansville Bar Association
Joseph H. Igleheart
Evanaville Association
Plateau Shelf
Parea
Yreee
Samire
Samuel
the Centaur Company
CIFY
William S. Ferris
L. £. Waterman Company
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Morse
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