Baseball needs better coaching for young players, says Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice highlights a Polo Grounds junior game with 17 year olds and Joe McCarthy noting faults in youth instruction. He argues baseball trails other sports in coaching, funds, and development, citing Frank Azzarello as a standout 17 year old prospect from New Orleans among a dozen emerging players.
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Joe McCarthy
Yankees
Judge Landis
Polo Grounds
Joe
Bobby Jones
Walter Hagen
Gene Sarazen
Francis Ouimet
Chick Evans
Wish Egan
Detroit
Egan
George Weiss
Skunk Kill Leads to Murder Scare at Sandts Eddy
Police found bloody clothes on the Delaware river bank at Sandts Eddy. Investigation showed they belonged to a boy who killed a skunk and stripped to skin it for its fur, sparking a perceived murder mystery.
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Sandts Eddy
Delaware River
Navy blimp makes air history in desert rescue
In an unprecedented mercy rescue a navy blimp landed in the Imperial Valley desert to aid a parachuting flier. Ensign Porter and two crewmen helped reach the downed man, but the pilot died on arrival. The craft returned to Santa Ana after assisting Holtville rescue operations.
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San Diego
Calif
Imperial Valley Desert
Yuma
Ariz
Navy
Peter I. Culbertson
Minneapolis
Robert B. Porter
Los Angeles
Holtville
Herman Callahan
Alhambra
Leonard Craig
Pico
Porter
Callahan
Craig
Airsea Rescue Agency
Santa Ana
Sharks Drag Exhausted Men From Raft at Sea
Eyewitnesses recount sharks grabbing torpedoed Cape San Juan troop transport survivors in the South Pacific. Cape San Juan sunk by a Japanese sub with 1,429 aboard. 48 rescued by a naval air transport seaplane, then by the Meredith and a destroyer. Survivors warned of oil glare and extreme exhaustion as sharks hauled them from life rafts.
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San Francisco
War Shipping Administration
Cape San Juan
South Pacific
S. S
Edwin T. Meredith
Naval Air Transport
Meredith
Pegleg Denied at Annual Police Dance in Kankakee
Acting Chief Elmer Nelson refused Sgt. Bert Luckey's request to attend the annual police dance on his night off saying he caused a panic at last year’s event. Luckey, who uses an artificial leg, was previously involved when his wooden leg rolled across the ballroom and tripped about a dozen dancers during the 1943 rhumba.
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Pegleg
Kankakee
Ill
Elmer Nelson
Police Department
Bert Luckey
Luckey
Nelson
Joey the Indian buck dies after park zoo incident
In Prospect Park Zoo New York a year old Indian black buck named Joey teased his sister and was mauled by his father Black Rajah with 18 inch horns. Joey attempted to escape a 12 foot enclosure and broke both front legs before being euthanized with anesthetic.
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New York
Joey
Brooklyn
Prospect Park Zoo
New Patterned Frock Promises Flattering Fit and Fast Ordering
The advertisement promotes a pink seersucker two piece dress with side belts and pink pearl buttons. Patterns No. 8672 and 8622 offer sizes from 12 through 42 with yardage for size 14. High demand and wartime conditions slow some orders slightly.
Not His Choice Housewife And A Hobo No
A dialogue scene features Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones quipping about bravery and burglary. Jasper and Joan discuss life, food, and trivial ambitions. The exchange includes a joke about dirt becoming precious and a fantasy about Greenland with long nights and a glamorous date.
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Jasper
Greenland
Joan
Practical Household Tips from an Old Manual
A collection of everyday advice on cleaning and maintenance. It covers boiling water with soda to clean pots, storing small drills in an old spectacle case, wax on rockers to protect floors, using hot water for ironing damp fabric, softening ice edges for rubber bags, washing wool by hand to prevent shrinking, dissolving lye to remove rust from farm implements, repairing shoe lace tips with paraffin, making frog shapes for flower arrangements with paraffin, and oiling garden tools with tractor oil and a brush.
Quiz with Answers on Various Subjects and Trivia
A short quiz compiling questions on vocabulary geography naval terms and history. Questions ask meaning of continuity the country naming its capital after an American president why ships use knots and the term shedding leaves seasonally the price paid by Russia for Alaska and the Aleutians and who typically has the last word in naval ranks.
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Russia
Alaska
Aleutians
Answers You Asked On Shipping Rates And Timber
The list explains a knot as a speed unit not distance and clarifies phrasing for a ship's travel such as 20 knots. It notes Monrovia Liberia as a location and identifies deciduous as the term. It states a payment of $7 200 000 by the United States and records a junior officer replying Aye aye sir.
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Liberia
Monrovia
United States
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Grantland Rice
Frank Azzarello
New Orleans
Dick Callahan
Frank
Azzarello
Legion
Desert
UY Y Gus
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Nami
Sewing
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Jiffy
David Ranken, JR
School OF Mechanical Trades
Manhattan
Novel Manufacturing CO. D
U. S
John L. Collyer
B. F. Goodrich
Bfgoodrich
al Rubber
Kellogg’s
Dr. C. M. Coe, Inc
Pine ST
ST. Louis
Wes
Jeni
Ata Tin
MURIL
WTA
Swe
TAOM
Fou
Jacn
Wight
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