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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
6
A long, personal letter from Bror Armin in Atlanta recounts travel, hospitality, family scenes, and reflections on wartime events. He juxtaposes home comforts with civil tensions, notes American views on the Philippines, opium, and China, and laments political divisions while praising grandchildren and daily life. He cites figures on troops, treaties, and foreign affairs, and ends with family vignettes and prayers for forgiveness.
Orth of Philadelphia has a wild pitch season, Daly’s second-base work is marvelous for Brooklyn, Collins of Boston has fifty perfect fielding games, and McCarthy is praised as Chicago’s greatest left fielder. Shecas moves to Syracuse, Schriver of Pittsburgh goes half a league without a strikeout, batting averages fall. Davis and Clark stand as the only two player-managers in the leagues. Mathewson, Bucknell alumnus, now with New York, also played football. McPhee’s eighteen-year pro record ends without a trial. Four clubs vie for the American League pennant: Chicago, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. Flick is nearly the most valuable on Philadelphia. Tebeaulsin’s revival stirs Forest City as McAleer, Pulliam considers stopping players running the pane on the Held, or risk future employment.
San Antonio woman Miss Benedette Brady reported the theft of jewels valued at $5,000 during a Frisco southbound sleeper trip from St Louis. The missing items were found hidden in a stocking between a heating pipe and wall, with uncertainty whether they were in the upper berth or under her pillow. The article also notes the first day of Indianapolis party convention deliberations and discusses wage shifts affecting labor in Nevada and California, including Japanese and Chinese workers.
Preliminary arrangements are being made for the opening of Lafayette College on September 25. The college has nine years of Model School work, four years of Regular College, and two in Post Graduate studies. It offers scholastic, professional, didactic, business, technical, industrial, agricultural, art and music courses with practical instruction and low tuition and boarding. The faculty exceeds twenty. degrees and diplomas will be awarded on graduation. The location is near the mountain foot with religious privileges and full college facilities.
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