Chiggers and Early Missouri Fish Plans Highlight 19th Century Sports
A reader-friendly piece notes chigger dangers and home remedies for campers and anglers. It then recounts Missouri’s 1879 fish commission efforts, including stocking salmon and carp, and concludes with rising bobwhite concerns and optimism from soil conservation efforts.
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A’s Pennant Hope Fades in Early Season Shuffle
Connie Mack faces a rough start as the Athletics stumble through six weeks of play. Injured arms and slugging slumps sap their pennant dreams, with strong rotation and veteran leadership under pressure. The piece weighs Mack’s legacy, comparing historic Athletics and Yankees lineups while noting timing as a key theme in sport.
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Red Sox
Tigers
Indians
Dilinger
Brissie
Coleman
Kellner
Scheib
Fowler
Hooper
Athletics
Mack
Cochrane
Grove
Earnshaw
al Simmons
Lefty Grove
Connie
Bender
Coombs
Plank
McInnis
Collins
Barry
Baker
Simmons
Yankee
Baseball
Ruth
Gehrig
Earle Combs
Bob Meusel
Pennock
Mr. Mack
Waddell
Bush
Ruth-Gehrig
The God of Jacob Can Turn Black into White
A 1950 sermon notes conversion as a divine change of heart. It compares a Minneapolis grocer's customer paying a debt after revival to biblical Jacob, once deceitful, who becomes a new man after an all night struggle with God. The piece argues true religion tests whether God can transform a mean, clever person.
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Esau
Jacob White
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Brook Jabbok
Egypt
Padan-Aram
Abraham
Isaac
Hadacol Promises Health Boost for Family in Cincinnati
Mrs. Edward H. Newton of Cincinnati credits Hadacol with improving her husband and three year old nephew’s health by correcting vitamin deficiencies. The ad notes vitamins B, B, Niacin and Iron, plus minerals, and offers a money back guarantee with trial and hospital sizes priced at 1.25 and 3.50.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
LeBlanc Corporation
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Kibitzer and constitutional bodies query set
A kibitzer is a bystander who offers unsolicited commentary. The Congress of the United States consists of two bodies: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The expression would rather be right than president is popularly attributed to a political commentator or columnist. attribution varies. The plural of chateau is chateaux or chateaus.
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Treasure Island Author Identification Quiz
An onlooker at a card game who advises the players. The Senate and the House of Representatives. Henry Clay. Chateaux. Robert Louis Stevenson.
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House of Representatives
Henry Clay
Chateaux
Robert L. Stevenson
Mealworms as a new tool in nutrition studies
Prof. G S Fraenkel of the University of Illinois told the Institute of Nutrition in Atlantic City that mealworms can aid nutrition research. He cited discovery of a new growth vitamin designated SRT t and noted mealworms require little food, enabling large experimental subject pools with minimal use of purified nutrients.
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G.S. Fraenkel
University of Illinois
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