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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1927
Page
5
A jumble of player moves and notes from early baseball lore. Outfielders and pitchers swap teams across leagues, including Joe Guyon from Louisville to Georgia Tech fame, Connie Mack blaming heat for a slump, and multiple trades linking Yankees, Cubs, and Orioles.
Clarence W. Wagner, noted transcontinental cyclist, begins a third U S crossing aiming to break his 38 229 mile record in 24 days 12 hours. He starts at Newport Bay near Los Angeles and will traverse California Arizona New Mexico Colorado Kansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania and New Jersey, targeting about 189 miles daily.
Pittsburgh club president Barney Dreyfuss says Donie Bush has been a successful manager this year and that he has not considered changing pilots for 1925 despite rumors.
The 1927 British Open win by Bobby Jones drew popular support among Britons. Jerry Lang, a Columbia alumnus, excels in East Coast tennis circuits. The Bellair stud, founded by George Washington, lists James Fitzsimmons as trainer. J S Phipps, wealthy American, owns forty five polo ponies worth about five thousand each. Frank Murray of Marquette never played football before coaching the team. Attaboy is the shouted line at girl athlete feats. Jones has won every major golf classic twice except the British amateur. Under Derby rules, a deceased owner requires scratching the horse. Stanford plans a bowl expansion adding 16 500 seats for 88 200 capacity. The Stanford California clash is set for November 20.
The column notes President Coolidge surveying national conditions with praise for business prospects. Mellon says capital is abundant, crops are good, autos will set sales records, and Hoover cites rising exports with lower rubber prices paid to England. An old engineer’s death highlights railroad safety and better pay.
A collage of quips and news items notes Berlin to Berlin non stop flights and a Navy skyrocket plane speed dream. It mocks royalty and politics, mentions Camden school board allowing women teachers to smoke off school property, and recalls a lifesaving tire tube incident with a doughnut complex.
Mrs. Alice Cruse suffers a serious foot infection. Dewitt Jennings and others have left for the corn belt to pursue work on the corn bump board, aiming to reach two sup- lines of earnings.
Everett Perdue visited Irvington for a Halloween prank. Travelers and locals including Ed Hartley, Frank Elifritz, Robert Caldwell, and Dean Blankinship with wife spent days in Sparta, Coulterville, and Eureka. P. J. Mojonnier purchases residence property. J. H. Cox visits from Rialto. pastors, families, and neighbors move through Patoka while planning future homes and visits.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use genuine California Fig Syrup for constipation and bowel cleansing in children. It claims the product eases colic feverish breath and diarrhea without narcotics and warns against imitation syrups with a prominent call to say California.
Dr Frank Crane argues that money alone harms children and that a proper legacy includes an orderly society, strong character, and healthy moral upbringing. He urges living as a good example, teaching, and fostering positive associations to influence offspring.
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