New Balkline Billiards Set for Chicago Match
New York, Jan 18. For the first time in half a century a new balkline billiards style will be played in the United States during Jan 25 30 in Chicago as Jake Schaefer and Willie Hoppe meet in a match game. The 28 2 format introduces wider balk spaces and increased drives demanding greater precision. Hoppe and Schaefer have dominated balkline in America for decades with Hoppe still the 18 1 champion.
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Jake Schaefer
Willie Hoppe
Chicago
Europe
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Jake Schaeffer
Bowie Htt
Ba Haster
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Scheefer
Hoppe
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Schaefer
Dr. Clarence A Barbour Dies At Brown University
Dr. Clarence A. Barbour president of Brown University died at his Providence home after a two day illness. He was in his seventieth year and had been on leave awaiting retirement February 1 and the inauguration of his successor Henry M. Winston. Barbour had missed recent commencement due to illness and previously underwent appendicitis surgery in January. He became Brown president in 1929, after leading Colgate Rochester Divinity School.
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Clarence A. Barbour
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Tlenry M. Winston
Lawrence Callese
Appleton
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Colgate- Rochester Divinity School
Terre Haute Strikes Halt Trolley and Bus Service
Terre Haute Ind January 17 full city transit suspended as Indiana Railroad workers strike for a 20 percent wage increase. Officials did not operate buses or street cars after over 250 operators voted in an early morning meeting to strike.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana Railroad
Balkline champions eye world tournament in United States
The passage notes Welker Cochran and Eric Hagen lacher, former world champions at 18.2, likely to compete at 28.2. It mentions American leaders growing stronger and European titleholder Roger Conti of France, at 28.2 or 71.2, expected to join a world event in the United States, reviving past U.S. prominence in balkline.
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Welker Cochran
Eric Hagenlacher
Roger Conti
France
United States
Drilling Rock Versus Street Drilling Explored
Frederick workers describe pneumatic drilling on a Bentz Street sewer job as a hard, noisy task. A driller explains the physical strain and one man notes rock drilling differs from street work, recalling a prior project on Saint Street.
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State Armory
Strangest of all the tragic figures in the Russian revolution
Bruce Catton reviews Mohammed Esgad-Bey's revealing biography of Tsar Nicholas II. The book portrays a ruler born to rule yet incapable of reform, blinded by divine-right autocracy. Nicholas's dull, fragile nature and stubborn refusal to change helped spark the revolution that reshaped one-sixth of the earth.
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Khaut
Mohammed Esgad-Bey
Oin Michelae I
Purple cFock & Warnalls
Marssia
Notable drilling method amid explosive rock loosening efforts
A short drill pierces pavement as workmen operate a drill to bore toward a rock mass. Workers alternate drill bit sizes every few feet and apply pressure with limbs to maintain contact. The aim is to place dynamite strategically to loosen large rock sections while the drilling noise prevents idle chatter among the crew.
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Chpondnis
Dritehandl
Mount St Marys College Faculty Appoints Chemistry Assistant
A Mount St Marys College notice reports the appointment of a chemistry assistant, noting the candidate’s lineage and education. Rev John Cogan and Rev Fr John Gordon are cited in the faculties, with credentials including a master’s degree and a recent graduation. The report references Erm Smitsburg and West Virginia as location mentions.
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Walter BL Zedgler
Mount St. Mary's College
Erm Smitsburg
John Cogan
Mro Sengler
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Mount St Mary's
John C. Gordon
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West
Werthelmier Names Lily Pony on Frederick Farm
On a farm west of Frederick Werthelmier named a thoroughbred Holstein heifer Lily Pony. He expressed a desire to honor Mist Pons and Margherita Trindelll, with a note that Pons would be delighted to accept the gesture and the calf’s name.
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Werthelmier
Frederick
Lily Pony
Mor Werthelmier
Mist Pons
Hee
Margherita Trindelll
Woolheadler
Ly Unser
Tie
Adenaida and Adlerika bowel cleansing ad
An advertisement promotes Adlerika and similar internal cleansing products claiming to clear the bowels of "pulegnous matter" and relieve stomach pain headaches and nervous troubles. It urges readers to try the product for better digestion sleep and overall well being with strong endorsements from unnamed customers.
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Amerika
Adlerika
Local man wins 190 prize in photog contest
James H. Grove Jr. of near this city received a Saturday letter from Hock Products announcing his first prize in a national photo contest. A $100 check accompanied the notice, with two prize pictures reproduced in Rock Products annual review. John Aher Markell captured the shots showing a 423-foot belt conveyor installation at the Frederick plant of McGrove Lime Caney. Crave is the manager.
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James H. Grove, Jr
Hock Products
Nume
Rock Products
Grove
Winter Water Helps Hens Increase Egg Output
Aims at poultry care note that warm water supplied daily to two of three hens during winter months boosts egg production. Eggs are about 64 percent water, suggesting hydration aids yield and quality in cold season.
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