Baseball contract row and Burns case shake local club
A local baseball dispute erupts as Thomas Burns sues for 15000 amid claims of misrepresentation by Captain Anson. The column critiques contract faithlessness, Burns’s leadership as manager, and calls for discipline, while noting pennant race tensions and boxing notes. Local amateurs face suspension amid procedural disputes and wider amateur issues.
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Thomas Burns
Thomas
Chicago
Guttenburg
Bures
Burns
Anson
Pittsburg
Tommy Burns
Colonel Sumpter’s Dime Dilemma in New York Dining
Colonel McBride Sumpter of Austin visits a fashionable New York restaurant. After paying a $5 bill and discovering a dime missing, he argues with a French waiter. The dispute ends comically as the colonel grins and leaves, claiming the dime was for his sick relative and tipping a quarter for charity.
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Texas
McBride Sumpter
Austin
New York
Sumpter
Indianapolis Union Convention Details And Attendance
The report outlines the Prrrasvaa Union co societies with 1275 members at Indianapolis convention. St Tomas of Braddock will not leave Idlewild on field day August 30. Misses McGarrell Bowman Kelly Dougherty McDonald Callatien depart for summer school. James F. Jüpse, National Organizer, visited on way to Indianapolis. Judge reports 97 societies this year.
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Prrrasvaa
Indianapolis
St. Tomas
Braddock
Idiewild
St. Faturis Sweepr
Lambing and Eittell
Pittsburg Union
Ma. W. H. Gutrrix
IM. A
McGarrell
Bowman
Kelly
Dougherty
McDonald
Callatien
J. A. Weldon
W. Yalmer
Turtle Creek
Scottdale
Mely
James F. Jupse
Scranton Jadez
Pittsburg
Judge
Demand for Chamberlains Calle Remedy Grows
The text notes increasing demand for Chamberlains Calle Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as trial users express satisfaction and recommend it to neighbors. Vader & Suman of Preasiste, wWrbso Newion are mentioned in connection with the advertisement.
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Vader
Bear Killings at Brain Hollow Staged by Local Hunters
Reporter recalls Bruin Hollow bear hunting chaos with Si Ainsley Pete Fletcher Joe Barnes Josh Mullin and a dog named Tiger recounting dramatic knife and auger killings and a dramatic drowning in a pool of blood. The tale ends with the narrator noting no more bear slaughters since that night.
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Rouletits
Pennsylvania
Brain Hollow
Hollow
Sons of the Forest
Brain
Si Ainsley
Joe Barnes
Pete Fletcher
Josh Mullin
Tiger
Borin
Bill
Injin Knob
Pesta
Pete
Aise
Breskin
Joe
Josh Mullen
Josh
Hoss Power
Ainsley
Pete Leteher
Jim Plunket
Bruin Haller
4 Royal Wine Glass by the First Hohenzollern
An American correspondent describes a Bohemian crystal champagne glass in the Imperial wine cellar. The chalice bears Wilhelm II’s monogram for Frederick I and is an exact replica of a royal pattern ordered for the New Palace in Potsdam. Each glass carries a 10 shilling fine for breakage.
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The
Dispatch
Frederick L
Hohenzollern
Potsdam
Why the Mississippi Runs Uphill In Theory
A reprint explains British election methods with writs, nominating rules, Australian ballot use, and counting. It compares parish and hundred divisions, previous questions in parliaments, and electors at large. The piece includes reader questions on voting rights, split tickets, and foreign subjects, plus notes on nickel steel.
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Great Britain
House of Commons
S& County
Otside
Owever
Sandwich
Canterbur
Oxford
Chester
England
Harrison
Stevenson
M. J. Parnell
Avondale
County Wicklow
Ireland
Stanley
Denbigh
Wales
Finding a Literary Pearl by William Garrison and Whittier
William Lloyd Garrison at age 20 started the Free Press and received an original poem from Quaker lad Whittier. Garrison read it, offered praise, and encouraged Whittier and his parents to support his budding talent. This initiated a lifelong friendship based on shared purpose and principles.
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Rowland
Johnson
Dixon
William Lloyd Garrison
Free Press
Mr. Garrison
Whittier
Hammer
Lapstone
East Haverhill
Pittsburg
Kittier
Mtrm
I Whitnen
Pome Avenue
Japan's Water Power Feats With American Machinery
A New York Advertiser account details a Kyoto Lake Biwa powered canal system using electric motors and American wheels dynamos and motors driving planeways rice mills mills and a watch factory plus lighting. It notes Japanese preference for U.S. electrical gear and mentions ancient asbestos cloth napkin practices and a fire resistant textile.
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Kioto
Ee Mills
Tenabe
United States
Deep Sea Explorations Shift Eastern Mediterranean Depression
Austrian government deep sea expeditions reveal greater depths in the eastern Mediterranean than previously recorded. Findings suggest the basin’s depression is deeper and its position on the map may shift from its former central location.
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Mediterranean
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Cleveland
Manaver Tebean Down
Bert
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Amin
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Mullane
St. Louis
Mc Aliffe
Jac McAuliffe
Billy Myer
McAuilitle
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Hyams
Austin Gibbon
Gibbon
Andy Bowen
Bowen
McAuiffe
MecAuliffe
J. F. Carroll
Sullivan
Mitchell
Moyer
Carroll
Oympic Club
Fitzsimmons
New Orleans
Olympic Club
Hall
Skelly
Corbett
Littte
Hail and Pritchard
Billy McCarthy
Pritchard
Jem Smith
Choynski
Europe
Smith
Joe McAuliffe
London
Cobbett
Johnson and
Fred Johnson
Ben Rowland
Busp-nnlon
Atlantic Division
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Messia, McKennan
Paul
East End
Wiseacres
At Mtio
McKenonan
Messrs
McKennan
Total Abstinence News
Dence
the Dispatch
Eza Lightnin
Rod Peddier
Royal Wine Glass
Emperor William
Wilhelm
Britain
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Cussina
House
Louisiana
Alfred the Great
Bermuda Hundred
Delaware
France
Naval
Military Academies
Parnell
J. B
Cuss Lake
William K. Clancy
Lakestreet
E. E
Philadelpha
Carnegie Steel Company
Amalgamated Association
Carnegie Company
William Garrison
Japan
Biwa
Carter
Oui Uwrau
Ford
Rome
Harper's
Paris
Central Park
Thames Embankment
Co Park
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Dom. Fontana
Fantana
Fontana
Castori
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Wylie Avenue
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