Hero of Ball Field Twenty Years Ago Becomes Washington Minister
In 1879 at Phillips Academy Andover Liang Chen Tung, then Pi Yuk Liang, rose as the school’s famed pitcher who introduced the curved ball. He later became Wu Ting-Fang’s private secretary and interpreter in Washington, earning a knighthood from Queen Victoria.
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Liang Chen Tung
Wu Ting-Fang
Washington
Phillips Academy
Andover
Mass
Pi Yuk Liang
Chinese College
Hartford
Conn
Boston Red Stockings
Harry
George Wright
Bond
Pi Yuk
Hartford High School
Trinity’ Collegiang
Harvard
Yale
Amherst
Liang Chen ‘Lung
Liang
Exeter
Lisng
Massachusetts
New York Times
Legation
Special Commission
Sir Liang
Li Hung Chang
Japan
Earl Ls
Lone mallard taunts shooter in tale of lead and luck
Colorado man recounts decades long pursuit of a legendary mallard at Weld County ranch. He describes missed shots, the bird's elusive flight, and his vow to end the trophy's run with a Gatling gun if needed. Also notes record radish and an accidental death scene.
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Rascal
Texas
Revised Bible tale and island sponge customs headline
A domestic scene asks about a revised New Testament as a girl speaks with a visitor while a boy notes his father altered birth dates in a family Bible. Other excerpts mention sponge gathering on an island near Rhodes, Corsican chestnut bread, cartoonish witticisms, and a jumble of market quotes on livestock and produce.
The Rum Business Defined and its Social Costs
Warnings against the liquor trade declare it the root of vice and poverty, citing Drunkenness as a key vice and its spread through crime. Reports from Cheyenne show saloon bans by Union Pacific enforcement improving stores, morals, and church engagement.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Secret Of Long Life Ad Claims Bitters Cure Many Ailments
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a remedy to regulate stomach liver and kidneys and destroy disease germs. It claims benefits for kidney troubles female complaints nervous disorders constipation and dyspepsia with promises of appetite and health improved, priced at 99 cents and sold by a local drugstore.
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Pella
Iowa
C. @ H. RIETVELD
Marion Porter
Wheeler Bros
BAKER
H. 5. du Toit
Transvaal State ‘Artillery
New Bia
Washliiigton
Colorado
E. M. Gale
Denver Post
Lone Mallard
John J. Bray
West Gloucester
Agricultural Department
Mia
Joseph
Krumfel
Altoona
Reid
Slow
Bobby
Robby
Mr. Slow
Him- In
Rhodes
Corsica
Brown University
Prof. Caswell
Chicago Market
Boston
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