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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1913
Page
6
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Canadian breeders and American poultry enthusiasts favor Rose Comb White Leghorns for winter laying and small feed costs. The breed traces to a Hamburg cross about fifty years ago, combining Italian and Dutch lines. Breeders now select for size and a smaller regular comb, with pullets around four pounds and cockerels about five pounds, prioritizing egg production over carcass size.
Schedule notes for the International League show Montreal at Baltimore with yesterday's scores including Newark 6, Buffalo 4 and Jersey City 11, Toronto 6 among others. American League results list Philadelphia Athletics 7 over Boston 5, Detroit 4 over St Louis 0, Cleveland 9 over Chicago, and New York 37 over Washington 0 with Sunday games noted. National League results include Brooklyn defeating Philadelphia 9 to 1, New York sweeping a morning beatdown of Boston, and several other city matchups with varied scores. The standings section lists Washtn, Detroit, Athletics, St Louis, Cleveland, Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pittsburgh with wins and losses.
April 21 report states Ray Pfron Schmidt was found guilty of killing his father mother sister and another woman. The jury fixed the death sentence. The trial drew across farm life imagery as the town recalls a chilling murder ahead of appeals.
York Pa April 21. Three year old Marie daughter of Mrs Willan Boeckel accidentally set a fire while playing with matches. Mrs Boeckel rushed home upon seeing smoke and screams. She rescued her daughter and seven months old baby from flames by tearing off burning clothing. Lillie Powell of nearby helped prevent further tragedy.
Harrisburg Pa April 21 Harry Telter a Pennsylvania railroad electrician was thrown twenty to by a locomotive while installing a new electric system. He survived the impact and is in Harrisburg Hospital with facial and eye injuries and a broken tooth.
Adjutant General Gardner W. Pearson of the Massachusetts Militia warned that the nation faced dangerous peril from abroad. He asserted Germany could land forces within seven days and Japan mobilized in Pacific cities. He urged a mobilized, well trained military policy to meet these threats.
Vito Puellate, 37, was stabbed twelve times in a dark basement passageway of a East Side tenement. The attack occurred while two women lingered and a crowd overheard voices in a foreign tongue. A stiletto finished the kill and a semi-chisel cut bore the Black Hand mark. Authorities note rising crime stats in 1912 Philadelphia.
A boy burglar was caught in Chicago by a woman who found him in her bedroom and dragged him to the police station. The youth confessed to multiple thefts and said he had been expelled from three schools for taking clothing from neighbors. His father works in the eastern city, and authorities planned to send him to reform school.
Governor Tener will transmit a message to the Pennsylvania legislature detailing his plan to combat the white slave traffic. He supports Cochran’s five member commission to investigate similar to Ullngis and is expected to urge tougher laws to curb the traffic.
In Allentown Pennsylvania April, a herd at Colonel Trexler's game park on the Jordan grew from three to twelve buffaloes with two new calves born last week. The first calf emerged Wednesday, traveled four miles to rejoin the herd, and swam across the river. Mrs. Trexler hunted the calf for hours and found it surrounded by wary adults. The keeper noted a buffalo calf can stand and move at birth, explaining the remarkable trek as natural for the species.
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