Great 17 Innings Tie For AL Title In Darkness
Detroit and the Athletics played 17 innings in Philadelphia with a 9 to 9 score until darkness halted play. Official attendance 24,127 with thousands more on passes or fence jumpers. Donovan pitched well for Detroit after a rough start, Dygert replaced by Waddell and Plank finished for Detroit. A tense, scoreless final stretch followed tied 1 1 in the 11th and 12th. Other scores listed include Boston Chicago 3 3 in 14 innings and NL results. Roosevelt joins Harvard football squad. Benjamin Flax drowned after falling overboard at Baltimore bound ship.
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Rossman
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Hartsel
Dh Nicholls
Seybold
Rf Pa
Davis
Murphy
J. Collis
Oldring
Schrech
Powers
Dggert
de- Cobb Troit
O'Loughlin
Connally
Turkey as Cupid's Aid in Oklahoma City Marriage
Jim Burdett and Nellie Lampheer, childhood sweethearts, wed after a gobbler mail scheme defied Nellie's father George Lampheer. The couple used birds as couriers exchanging notes until the shotgun threat and church absences ended. Governor of their home, Lampheer, faced with love, finally approved the union.
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Oklahoma
Jim Burdett
Oklahoma City
Okla
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
George Lampheer
Burdett
Nellie Lampheer
Lampheer
Nellie
Jim
Gobbler
Soft Drink Squad to Test Summer Beverages
A Washington correspondent reports Dr. Harvey Wiley will lead a "soft drink squad" from his pure food class to test summer beverages and soda fountain decoctions for deleterious effects. The War Department asked for the investigation, as canteen sales of certain soft drinks are restricted.
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War Department
Unique automobile bridge over Piru ford opens route to Ventura
The Los Angeles Times reports a new bridge over Piru ford designed for car traffic, linking the Newhall grade to Ventura and Santa Barbara. It is among the few automobile bridges worldwide with two tracks, guarded sides, and ample margin for load steering, though wagons cannot pass and cattle are prevented from using it.
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Ventura
Santa Barbara
Cal
Newhall
Los Angeles Times
Torrance
Agl
America
Metal Game Birds as Decorations Fashion Trend
Fashionable women returning from abroad bring enameled metal birds packed with gems to decor tables. A London letter notes a craze for metal game birds, including life sized pheasants, with smaller birds arranged around fruit and flowers in a market basket.
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United States
New York
London
Naval Mysteries. War Vessels Disappeared in Early U S Navy
A historical survey of vanished and wrecked U S warships from the early navy age. Accounts include the gunboat No. T lost after leaving New York in 1805, the Monongahela at Santa Cruz in 1807, the Wateree swept inland by a tidal wave in 1868, and the Saratoga vanished off the Delaware capes after a storm in 1780 while pursuing prizes.
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United States
Navy Department
Tripoli
No. T
New York
Ogelvie
Sandy
Arica
Peru
Philadelphia
James Young
Delaware Capes
Young
Old Glory in Argot: A Savannah Cook’s Flag Memory
In a New York Times vignette a small group tours Elaith during a revolution and discovers an elderly Negro cook named Georgy, who watches a tattered flag on a bamboo pole. He ties the flag to his life, recalling twenty two years aboard a Savannah steamer. He notes resolutions do not trouble him, and the flag remains a symbol of permanence.
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New York Times
Elaith
Georgy
Savannah
Futile Offer Causes Father to Yield to Youthful Romance
Nathan Harlowe resists romance for his daughter but young Jared Parker remains set on marrying Phemie. The practical father laments his influence, mentions a mahogany bureau, and admits defeat as the suitor persists, echoing a tale shared in Youth's Companion.
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Nathan Harlowe
Jared Parker
Mr. Harlowe
Phemle
Sakey
Good Times In Turkey Winters Speak Voluble Duel
A playful debate reported by the Kansas City Times features a New England journalist and a Turkish respondent exchanging jibes about winter sports and Armenian hunting parties, reflecting cultural ribbing in a short, humorous exchange.
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Turkey
Jourist
New England
Armenia
Kansas City Times
Missouri editors seek wilderness for editorial clubhouse in state
Missouri Press association selects a clubhouse committee to locate a permanent editors home in Missouri. They anticipate raising $10,000 for building and securing grounds near hunting and fishing spots, with 25 to 30 candidate sites under review as inspection tours begin between October.
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Philip Gansz
Macon
Omar D. Gray
Sturgeon
Whham Southern, Jr
Independence
Missouri
Kansan City
Colorado
Minnesota
Gasconade
Osage
Ozarks
Uncanny
Oregon County
Camden County
Gansz
Southwest Missouri Press Association
Charles E. Reid
The
Ozarks Democrat
State Association
Press Association
Association
Charles E Reid
Democrat
Ozark
Finley
John P. Campbell
Prospect News
Donlyhan
Missouri clubhouse sites urged for state press assn
Readers propose riverfront and hillside locations across Ripley Doniphan and areas near Lebanon Cam den and Holley bluff for a Missouri Press Association clubhouse. Editors advocate Current river site near Kansas City or Gravois near Versailles with favorable boating and hunting, urging a durable, reachable retreat with ample game and water access.
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Ripley
Doniphan
Paul Moon
Christian Evangelist
St. Louis
Ozarks
Hahatonka
Camden County
Spring Creek
Nisagua
Lebanon
Norman J. Colman
Colmin
Rural World
Missouri Press Association
St. Francis
Black
Gasconade
Osage
St. Francia
St Francis
de Bote
State Preas Association
Claude A Brown
Tribune
Rick Hill
Facpinville
Holley’s Bluffa
Missouri
G. N. Brydon
Advance
Swan Pond
W.W. W Kinlock
American County Republican
Versailles
Gantlemen
Missouri Prear Association
F. A. McGuire
Missouri Cash
Jackson
Hansas City
Kansas City
W W. J. Simmons
Courier
Clarence
Joré
Miasour
Lieutenant Purse killed in storm aboard battleship Hit Nois
Wire dispatches from the Atlantic squadron report two fatalities from the storm. Lieutenant John M. Purse of the battleship Hit Nois was thrown against a hatch and died. On the Minnesota a seaman, unnamed, was washed overboard.
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Furse
Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Cape Ced Bay
John M. Purse
2-Cent Rate In Effect New Fare Schedule For Pennsylvania Announced
The two cent fare rate in Pennsylvania is effective with Reading Railway adjusting its rates to meet new conditions. Until a final supreme court decision, doubt remains over the constitutionality of the new law. Also a separate report from Paterson New Jersey describes Paterson man Kiested taking poison to sleep after nights of insomnia, laudanum in a bottle prompting alarm from his wife and a visiting surgeon.
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Philadelphia
Reading Railway
Supreme Court
Paterson
N. J
John Kiested
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