National League Hits Totals For 1928 Season
National League players combined 11 901 safe hits in 1928 with 2 021 doubles 518 triples and 610 home runs. Pre 1912 live ball era totals show 10 675 doubles and 1 642 triples.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1929
Page
4
Straw Hat Weather Closes Out Hats at Altom's
Flour sacks 90c per dozen and Armour pork and beans three for 25c lure shoppers. Patoka Bakery offers canned goods while Altom's advertises straw hats at half price in a summer clearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patoka Bakery
Altom’s
Giant strides made in air transport
Secretary of Commerce Lamont hailed aeronautics growth under the commerce department saying the three year old program laid the foundations for a national air transport system. Early 1929 miles flown may reach 5 million in six months with 80 000 miles of airways and 45 companies operating 400 airplanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Commerce
Commerce Lamont
Lamont
Trobe
Visitors Wreck Monkeys Nerves at St. Louis Zoo
In St Louis Missouri the zoo reports seasonal nervous breakdowns among its monkeys as summer crowds gaze at them through cage bars. The Zoological Society notes several primates collapse yearly and are sent to a rest house where only keepers remain as they recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
St. Louis Zoo
The
Zoological Society
Oice
Gem-Eating Ostriches Spur New Diamond Hunt
Samuel H. Day reports to Commerce that 70 diamonds were found in the craws of two ostriches killed in the southern Kalahari. One bird yielded 58 diamonds and the other 17, all of exceptional quality, suggesting a new diamond-hunting industry near Namaqualand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kalahari
South Africa
Samuel H. Day
Johannesburg
Department of Commerce
Namaqualand
Gold Fish Production Near Million Dollar Value
The Commerce department reports nearly a million dollars of gold fish produced in the United States last year. Hatcheries produced 21,500,000 fish as the industry traces its growth from 1878 when Rear Admiral Daniel Amen donated Japanese fish to the Bureau of Fisheries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Daniel Amen
Bureau of Fisheries
Japan
Illinois state notes on relief fund and education bills
The American Legion posts are urged to raise ten cents per member during the week of July 1. Col. Lewis K. Torbet presents a historical poster to the State Historical Society. Illinois teachers applaud bills for an eight month school year and higher teacher qualifications. Youth Robert Girndt enters a science competition as Thomas Edison seeks a successor. Governor Emmerson says he will let a Chicago sanitary district bond bill become law without his signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Illinois
David L. Shillinglaw
Chicago
Paul V. McNutt
Twenty-First General Assembly
Lewis K. Torbet
The
Sons of the American Revolution
State Historical Society
Georgia Osborne
University of Illinois
Robert C. Moore
Carlinville
Illinois State Teachers Association
Robert Girndt
Nadiuga
Thomas Edison
Emmerson
James J. Barbour
Illinois Bills Advance With No Referendum Clauses
Governor Emmerson signs bills allowing bonds without referendum and Chicago school board measures to proceed. He objects to the lack of public say by taxpayers. Bills become effective July 1. Emmerson supports a $519000 mothers pensions aid bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago School Board
William J. Stratton
Emmerson
Rena Elrod
Chicago
Illinois lawmakers pass aid bills for veterans and families
In a statement the assembly cited overwhelming workload and hundreds of bills unable to reach votes, yet the Illinois legislature approved every measure intended to assist veterans and their dependents.
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