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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1926
Page
3
Channing Pollock argues that art and culture form the primary remedy for crime, offering a panacea through creative and societal engagement. He emphasizes the transformative power of theater and the arts in shaping public morals and reducing violence.
The Washington Star notes Jud Tunkins mocks Home Sweet Home as a realtor’s idea of a national anthem, calling guessing exercises a sign of weak imagination.
The image captures a freshman 120 yard hurdle race at a Yale Harvard dual meet with runners leaping as a group. Only one complete figure is visible amid a tangle of arms and legs in mid air.
Indiana reports eighty five high school football teams. Aboat club wins Henley regatta. Dempsey set for a 450000 payday. Georgia Tech hiring Dartmouth and Harvard figures. California stadium seating to 82000 with steel frames. Ravings include Paddock stride claims and Grange home upgrades.
The notes sketch Babe Ruth as a 44 ounce bat wielding Yankee outfielder and reference him as a retired author. They note Baltimore as a top International League power, Milwaukee trying a Griggin trial, and various MLB players and managers with ages, heights, and changes across leagues. Central items include Walter Johnson’s 400th win, Pennock’s Opening Day performance, and Rhoderich Wallace’s engagement.
Benny Megaphone Meyers, veteran baseline coach for Philadelphia clubs, is known for his resonant voice and timing in guiding players. He says a coach’s remarks in late innings can sharpen a pitcher’s focus and influence the game’s outcome, a skill he treats as an art.
Ernie Nevers, famed football and baseball star, joins the St. Louis Browns as pitcher amid high expectations. Coach Glenn Warner calls him the greatest football player of all time, hoping Nevers can end a jinx on football men failing in the majors while noting the 1925 struggle of college stars in the American League.
The report recalls Harry Hampton’s performance at the Canadian Open in Toronto three years earlier. On the Lambton club ninth hole, Hampton hit into a bunker, reached the green with his third, then faced three putts. The final effort hung on the lip as he turned away in frustration.
Johnny Reider of the Springfield Missouri team hit three home runs in three official at bats on May 4 at Okmulgee Oklahoma. The next day he added two homers and two triples in five at bats at Ardmore Oklahoma. On May 6 he connected for three more home runs in four at bats establishing a world record.
Ring Jimmy Ring, the Philly hurler, joined the Giants in winter trade and has played in the big show since 1919 with Cincinnati in the World Series against the White Sox. He won one game and lost one, then moved to the Phillies in 1920 in the Rixey trade and posted an 18 win season in 1923 with the Quakertown Reds.
A University of Witwatersrand professor leads a global survey to evaluate the medicinal value of herbs and charms used in voodoo rites. Thousands of responses pour in from Africa and beyond, especially North Rhodesia, with years expected to analyze the material.
Popular overview cites a central station industry owning investments over 7.5 billion dollars and accounting for half of global electricity. Last year output reached about 61 trillion kilowatt hours with 200000 employees. It serves 18 million customers and reaches roughly 70 million people, with over 1.5 million public stockholders.
A coed at a sorority affair in the Claypool hotel praised a partner for helping during a Charleston. Her store hair loosened while she danced and slipped from her head, but the young man caught the hair and tucked it into his coat pocket, allowing the dance to continue.
A new freight locomotive is described as capable of hauling 125 freight cars across the Rocky Mountains at 50 miles per hour. It features three cylinders with six pairs of drive wheels, measures 102 feet in length, weighs 782000 pounds, and costs 105000 dollars. The engine stands 16 feet high and seven feet wide, carries 15000 gallons of water and consumes six to seven tons of coal per hour.
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for facial skin improvement. It urges applying Cuticura Ointment upon rising and retiring, then washing off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Claims include relief for poor complexions dandruff itching and rough hands.
The Greek word anemos meaning wind gives the name wind flowers to anemones. The wood anemone with white blossoms is a favorite spring wildflower and the state flower of South Dakota because it grows best in breezy locations.
A Methodist pastor in Houston warns fathers to maintain an unwavering intimacy with their sons. The Houston Post-Dispatch notes skepticism about approving such ties unless the Society for the Protection of Fathers ensures boys do not lead their fathers astray.
James Marshall who first found gold in California died in poverty and solitude in a lonely cabin near the discovery site, thirty seven years after his epochal find.
Roald Amundsen started his polar career in 1896 97 as mate on the Belgica Antarctic expedition sailing to the poles becoming the first to visit both polar regions.
A reflective line from Caesar extols the value of helping others and answering friends and the needy. It highlights virtue in leadership and the duty of aid.
An oil company dispatches a team to the National Museum to press the government about a collection of fossils found in sand deposits. The report notes the government’s stance and the industry interest in the discovery.
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