Football stars who crossed to baseball's big leagues
A historian recalls Spud Chandler and many former football luminaries who tried baseball. He notes Mathewson Cochrane Collins Gehrig and others who succeeded despite football tolls and late starts, recounting Chandler’s 1941 1942 runs after a long veteran arc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spud Chandler
Georgia
Joe McCarthy
Christy Mathewson
Bucknell
Giants
Andy Freeman
California
Orvie
Cubs
Mickey Cochrane
Boston U
Mickey
Lou’ Gehrig
Columbia
Eddie Collins
The
Athletics
Reese
Collins
Vanderbilt
Dodgers
Ernie Nevers
Schoolboy Rowe
Joe Gordon
Oregon
Gordon
Ask Tuffy Leemans
Mathewson
Cochrane
Gehrig
Chandler
Alberta and Douglas in Love and Stormy Passions
A letter from an Alberta who left her husband for Douglas describes being in love and losing control. Douglas could not obtain a divorce, yet the pair fled together. Years later Douglas left. Alberta learns her husband is abroad with the medical service and she seeks to regain happiness. Kathleen Norris explains why she has no answer to this letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta
Douglas
Kathleen Norris
Silent and Busy Life of a Forbidden Love
A woman recalls a secret affair with Douglas, a married man, beginning with shy notes and culminating in a shared life away from spouses. She describes intense passion, fear, and guilt, their long delays for divorce, and her eventual move to a separate apartment as he travels for defense work, with no further contact.
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Nancy
Alberta
Jim
Douglas
Fuel Wood and Health from Dr Barton Advice
Woodland owners should release wood for war needs by burning waste timber while preserving quality lumber sources Choose fuel wood from misshapen dead or suppressed trees and tops not from good lumber trees Seek seasoning of six months and open air stacking. The second item discusses low back pain causes and treatments noting surgery and posture influence.
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Extension Forester
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Electric power urged to boost 1942 farm output
Farmers faced longer hours to hit 1942 production goals unless electricity is adopted as a labor saving device. Demonstrations show electric lights, water pressure, feed processing, fencing and milking machines cut labor at modest cost. Electricity will spur rural industry and may free time for shop work and use of electric welders to produce marketable parts.
Simple Guide to Vegetable Insect Control
A short guide explains easy vegetable pest control. It suggests making a dusting device from a tin can and cheese cloth, consulting county extension agents, and using specific insecticides like cryolite rotenone sulphur and pyrethrum dust. It covers dusting both leaf sides and applying bait for worms beetles crickets and May beetles.
Agricultural notes warn hay curing to curb barn fires
Government purchases account for four tenths of all pork and seven tenths of all lard from federally inspected plants. Shoe production last year set records and neared 100 million pairs, with 1942 expected to surpass that figure. Buy War Bonds.
Causes and remedies for leg vein discoloration and nail specks
Deep leg vein discoloration is caused by small broken blood vessels. White specks on nails can occur when one is run down. Ear itching and ringing may result from fluid buildup in the ear, high salt intake, or Eustachian tube blockage.
Mexican Motifs Brighten Tiny Kitchen Makeover
A compact kitchen redesign places a 16 inch counter under a window with fold away cream stools. Blue linoleum, cream mats and embroidered flour bag curtains bring a lively Mexican motif with figures of a flower seller and peon on a burro. Patterns and directions for similar crafts are offered by Mrs Spears Book 7.
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Fr.veryone
Mexico
Caballero
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jim Thorpe
Bobby Jones
Bob
Rowe
Ty Cobb
Cobb
Ruth
Speaker
Spurgeon Chandler
Carnesville
Yankee
Spud
Harry Mehre
By Kathleen Norris
Grantland Rice
Bell Syndicate
WNU Features
James W. Barton
Western Newspaper Union
P. M. Girard
Dallas
Texas
Archives of Physical Therapy
Dr. Barton
Sioux City
Lima
Ohio
Pete
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Austin Dobson
Rae Lice
Doan
Doans
WNU
Rome
Uncle Sam
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