Jacobs Plans Banner Sports Shows for 1939
Promoter Mike Jacobs, after grossing over two million dollars last year, aims to stage multiple simultaneous sports shows next season. He plans heavy weight bouts at the San Francisco fair and another card in New York the same night, with further bets on jai alai and expansion to Boston, Hollywood, and Chicago, seeking betting machines amid varying state laws. speed promoter John A. Sloan Sr. touts dirt track racing as a major business, noting 2.5 million attendees nationwide, a fatal-accident-free six-year span, and top drivers earning up to ten thousand dollars per season.
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Ike Jacobs
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Federal Trade Commission
Elains
Ie Patman
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Liberties in Baseball Offseason Spark Debate
Goanls Mack, baseball's grand old gentleman, warns against curbing players liberties after Monty Stratton's accident. He notes many proposals to limit player freedom, questioning if contracts would ever bind players and if this would turn athletes into slaves.
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Mack
Monty Stratton
Chiesgo
White ” Sox
Niagara Falls
Olympics Move Toward Helsingfors and Detroit Bid
Officials of the American Olympic Committee accepted Finland’s invitation to the 12th Olympiad in 1930 and endorsed Detroit’s bid for the 1914 games. Gliding debuts, three sports dropped from 1936 Berlin, and Sweden plans a 275-athlete delegation by plane. Burleigh Grimes to manage the Montreal Royals for two years. Attendance at college football games rose 11 percent in 1938. Italy purges foreign terms from sport vocabulary.
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Weekly News Analysis AAA Supporters Expect Little Change in Act
A long analysis from Joseph W La Bine examines farm program support in 1949. It notes AAA enforcement likely, Farm Bureau backing, export subsidies, FHA loan expansions, and looming congressional battles over chain store taxes and international tensions. Named figures include Edward A O Neal and R N M Evans.
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Joseph W- la Bine
U.S
Cotten
Ada
New Orleans
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Basketball rule changes affect timeouts and backcourt play
Western conferences align with NCAA themes while Big Ten adopts longer timeouts for ties and substitution rules. New stipulations allow two minutes for timeouts during ties, count a timeout on substitutions after play stoppage, and permit substitutions after goals without counting as timeouts. Ball possession rules adjust with a center line treated as back court and a ten second advance limit remains.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
Big Ten
Lark
Forecast of Concordat Crisis And Vatican Nazi Policy
The item notes a forecast cancellation of the German Vatican Concordat to precede Nazi anti Catholic laws. It also mentions Japan expanding operations near Canton to bolster gains, potential Russian power shifts, and a plan to enlarge lending capacity for business. It lists FDR’s candidacy for 1944 and a request for a congressional framework of eight credit banks to aid small business.
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South Africa Language Translation of 218 Languages
A historical note claims South Abi South Africa had many languages and that a list was translated into 218 of them. It mentions a World War era figure Baron von Richtofen reputed to have destroyed enemy planes, though details are unclear and fragmentary.
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Geatt
Ash Trees in Fresno Calf 4s 20 Named
Fragmentary note references Ash Trees in Fresno California and a listing of twenty names. The readable items point to a nomenclature or classification tied to ash trees and a development site in Fresno. Further specifics are unclear due to incomplete OCR.
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Famous Anthem In Roundbill Fra Francis Scott Key
Fragmented note describes the printing and distribution of Key’s Star Spangled Banner by the Baltimore American office. It mentions a performance at the Holiday Theater and the song gaining national attention with strong energy as British forces approached Chesapeake Bay.
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Bauer
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Holliday Theater
Iris Green Pigment Derived From Flowers in Seventeenth Century Experiment
A seventeenth century note describes iris blue flowers fermented to extract pigment. The filtrate was mixed with alum to create a violet tinted pigment. A similar process used flowers to yield a blue violet pigment called iris green.
Notts Era Hints Rome Like Circus Trade Chief Exports
Fragments suggest an early Romany era in Notts with references to circus animals and notable exports. The text hints at imperial style trade and leadership, though details are fragmentary and require fuller sourcing to confirm specific events, dates, and figures.
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Notts
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