Bob Glenalvin A Captain Manager With a Sterling Baseball Career
Odney J. Dowling profiles Robert H. Leadley and Bob Glenalvin born January 17 1868 in Indianapolis. Glenalvin known as Bob Glenalvin played a dozen seasons with Chicago Portland Milwaukee Grand Rapids and Indianapolis second baseman and captain manager noted for multiple four hit games and high fielding percentages in 1890s Western and Pacific Northwest leagues.
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Odney J. Dowling
Bob Glenalvin
Chicago
Indianapolis
Ind
St. Joseph
Wichita
St. Josephs
Dubuque
Players’ League
Portland
Pacific Coast
Portlands
San Joses
Lange
Everitt
Chicagos
Reitz
Baltimores
Los Angeles
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Canavan
Glenalvin
St. Paul
Milwaukee Club
Milwaukee
Robert H. Leadley
George Ellis
Old Grudge Claimed Behind Postgame Exit at Washington
After Jack Doyle retired to favor O Brien he taunted Reiley on the sideline. Emslie ordered Doyle off the field for a personal remark. A park police escort led Doyle to the gate while revealing a longstanding grudge from a past Giants incident. Doyle denied throwing at the accuser and left the grounds.
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Jack Doyle
O’brien
Washington
Guy Reiley
Emslie
Jack
Doyle
Guardian
Pittsburg Club Boss Denounces Roth Accusations
The Pittsburg Pirates' management protests a New York Journal claim that a Pirates pitcher aligned with gamblers. President Kerr angrily offers $2500 to name the pitcher and prove the allegation, a claim Roth has not pursued to date.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
Pittsburg
New York Journal
Roth
Pirates
Kerr
Mr. Roth
New Yorks
Cincinnati
Freedman Attacks Umpire System and League Clique
New York Club president Freedman on Majestic voyage to Europe denounces Nick Young and John B Day over umpiring failures. He calls for action to save baseball as sport and business and accuses Byrne of Brooklyn and Brush of Cincinnati of leading a league clique opposed to the New York club.
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Freedman
New York
Europe
Nick Yonne
John
Day
Nick Young
John B. Day
Young
Messrs. Byrne
Brooklyn
Brush
Cincinnati
Cleveland grounds keeper reshapes banked base paths
The Cleveland field is described as having base paths that slope outward like a race track, with third base to home six inches higher on the outside. Slow grounders on the line stay fair, while always needing to “run up hit.” Manager Patsy Tebear and Superintendent Lawrence may be urged to level the paths. Brooklyns beat St. Louis Browns 1 to 0 on Donahue Payna.
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Cincinnati Inquirer
Cleveland
Patsy Tebear
Cleveland Ground
Patsy
Lawrence
Embryo Tornado Seen Over New Orleans Lake Pontchartrain
The Times-Democrat described a strange sky event near New Orleans at about 2:30 PM, with witnesses calling it a cyclone water spout or whirl wind. The clouded formation formed a large sickle above Lake Pontchartrain, appeared to rotate rapidly, then dissolved and vanished, leaving residents in suspense.
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New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Lake Pontchartrain
Coaling a Big Steamship Across Transatlantic Lines
The article explains standard and evolving methods for fueling large ships. Barges deliver coal by bucket from cranes controlled by donkey engines, with 48 workers aboard the St Paul and about 3,000 tons bunkered in roughly 40 hours at a cost near $1,000. It notes storage limits and efficiency limits, and contrasts modern yards with West Indian practice where women carry coal in baskets on their heads.
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St. Paul
American Line
West Indies
Vermiform cloud match with western tornado noted in report
The description links the vermiform appendix of a big grey cloud to a western tornado while meteorology suggests minimal damage due to low forward motion. After the cloud dissolved heavy rain followed, then reports of a raid on cantaloupes and turkeys at Tolerville with local farm details.
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Tere
Man Calls Paris Morgue From Drinking Spree
A man heavily intoxicated phoned the Paris morgue claiming he could not be found at home for three days and asked if JF J happened to be there, startling the official in charge.
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Paris
JF J
Soleil de Dimranche
A Fond Retrospect
A remorseful man recalls an incident from last winter and expresses a wish to forgive the boy who threw snowballs at him. The unnamed speaker reflects on mercy and reconciliation in a brief, reflective exchange.
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Washington Stax
Old Man Blocks Suitor With Sunday Priase
A Detroit Free Press tale tells of a forest avenue father who bars his charming daughter from suitors under 19 after a Sunday home visit. The young man tries to impress but is rebuffed by the father, while the mother offers mild support and hopes for a better day.
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Forest Avenue
Detroit
Free Press
Mamma
George
Papa
Holy Rollers Pontificate as Hopeful Messiah Draws Followers
N L A Eastman and Jimma Chase lead the Holy Rollers sect in Ontario and Canandaigua counties. John Bradley, a 15 year old, abandons home to preach, joining the camp near Bristol Springs and Canandaigua Lake. Authorities confront the group as converts fear hellfire and dramatic sermons rise in intensity.
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Ohn Bradley
Alice Bradley
Rochester
N. Y
Holy Rollers
South Dansville
N. Ll. A. Eastman
Jimma Chase
The
Bradley
Seneca Point
Canandaigua Lake
Eastman
Mill Village
John
Bristol
Holly Rollers
Terrible Night on a Narrow Alpine Ledge
FE A Fitz Gerald and guides Zurbriggen and Harper endured a dark, freezing night on a 14 foot by 18 inch rock ledge in the New Zealand Alps. Stones fell, candles warmed hands, boots frozen stiff, and dawn brought a slow, stiff descent after hours of peril and cold.
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New Zealand Alps
FE. A. FitzGerald
Zurbriggen
Harper
Mackintosh
An Expensive Song in a Detroit Home Sale
Exchange of witty banter over a country home purchase values a property at roughly the price of a Patti page song in the Detroit Free Press.
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Cawker
Patti
Detroit Free Press
Barrel of cider saves Chicago home in great fire
Scott Fergus of Chicago recalled to a News reporter how a barrel of cider saved a small frame house on Grant Street in North Chicago during a massive fire twenty five years ago. The owner used the cider to fight flames from cellar to doorway as neighbors fled, keeping the house intact.
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Scott Fergus
Chicago
Fergus Printing Company
Am Grant Street
Uncut Gems Metaphor from Washington Star Exchange
A voluminous contributor offers gems of thought while the editor, blue pencil ready, notes they are uncut gems. The exchange captures a literary back and forth in a newspaper setting.
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Washington Star
A Lucky Klondyke Woman Finds Riches in Yukon Gold
May J Willis of Dawson City rose from a Tacoma laundrywoman to a Yukon prospector who staked a claim at first sight of Klondike gold. Now valued at about 250000 dollars, she supports her rheumatic husband and is credited with introducing the boiled shirt to Yukon miners. She left two years ago with a prospecting party after a failed start in Dawson.
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Mays
J. W. Willis
Dawson City
Tacoma
Wash
Willis
Yukon
Frisky Bristol Cyclists Protest New Bicycle Rules
Cyclists in Bristol Pennsylvania rally against a 90-year age limit for mounting from the pedal and a 16-year limit on fancy riding on public highways. The crowd appears lively amid the dispute over the regulations.
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Bristol
Widow, 22, in Chicago drinks carbolic acid after husband dies
Grief over her husband’s death drives a 22 year old Chicago widow to attempt suicide by carbolic acid. Her condition is not serious and doctors expect she will remarry within six months.
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Chicago
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