Baseball Peace Talks Hint Cubs and Cardinals Deals
The Chicago Federal league club Weeghman would take control of the Cubs and Phil Ball of St. Louis would buy the St. Louis Americans if a peace pact between organized baseball and the Federal league is signed. Officials reported progress and expected a settlement by late tonight.
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Charles Weeshmant
Chitgo
Fédéral League Club
Chicago Nationals
Phil Ball
St. Louis
St. Louis Americans
Organized Baseball
Federal League
Ban Johnson
B.B. Johnson
American League
Organized
Weeghman
Cubs
Ball
John E. Bruce
National Commission
August Herrmann
Chicago Cubs
Mr. Johnson
Ball Purchase
St. Louis National
Johnson
Baseball Has Lost Friends in Major Figures This Year
Prominent baseball figures including Albert Spalding Andrew Freedman and Tim Wurst died this year signaling a loss felt across leagues. The article notes Spalding as Father of Baseball and recalls Freedman Ward Strobel and others who shaped the sport. It mentions their deaths in California New Rochelle Toledo and Minersville and highlights Wurst’s longtime umpiring career.
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New York
Reaper
Albert Cg.spalding
California
Inia Way
al” Spalding
Andrew Freedman
New-York
Ar. Freedman
Giants
John T. Brush
Robert B. Ward
New Rochelle
Brooklyn
Charles J. Strobel
Tole
Fichteen
Strobel
Toledo Ball Club
American ‘Association
Tim Wurst
Minersville
Pal
Hurst
Empire Hippodrome Christmas Week Pictures Schedule
The Empire Hippodrome presents Stop Thief and The Vendetta as a double bill on Christmas matinee and night. From Dec 26 to 28 The Birth of a Nation plays matinee and night, with further shows through Jan 2 including The Shepherd of the Hills and Town Girl. Mary Ryan and Harry Mestayer star in Stop Thief. Mario Correlli’s The Vendetta also screens. Joseph Ilenaberg portrays President Lincoln in The Birth of a Nation, with careful detail of Lincoln’s shawl scene and signature call for 75,000 volunteers. The run includes daily afternoon and evening showings with no price increases.
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the Hippodrome
Mary Ryan
Harry Mestayer
Mario Correlli
Joseph Ilenaberg
President Lincoln
D. W. Griffith
Ilippodrome
Lincoln
Quincy Girl Makes Hit as Movie Writer
Miss Maibelle Heikes Justice, once a Quincy resident, rises as a prominent author in motion pictures. The article notes her "Bloons Center" series, rooted in American life, shaping childhood memories through Hoosier Tales adapted for screen. Justice hails from Indiana, daughter of the late James Monroe Justice, a known political figure.
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Maibelle Heikes Justice
Maibelle Seikes Justice
James Monroe Justice
Indiana
Miss Justice
Civil Service Examinations For Joliet Penitentiary
From the state civil service commission in Springfield examinations are set for leading positions in building a new Joliet penitentiary. County Clerk Billy Smith received notice for January 15, 1916, listing posts such as superintendent and assistant superintendent of construction and foremen in structural steel painting plumbing electric work carpentry ornamental iron tile heating.
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State Civil Service Commission
Springfield
Joliet
Billy Smith
Strike Settlement Soon In Clifton Copper District
Phoenix December 21 A telephone message from John L Donnelly secretary of the Miami Miners union says the belief remains strong in Clifton that the strike in the copper district since last September would soon be settled.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Miami Miners’ Union
Clifton
Villa Forces Encircled Near Chihuahua City
LAREDO Tex Dec 21 Advices from the Mexican interior say a cordon of Carranza troops has extended north of Chihuahua City where Gen Francisco Villa was last reported trying to reach the United States.
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Laredo
Tex
Interior of
Mexico
Carranza
Chihuahua City
Francisco Villa
United States
Noted Author Miss Justice Pursues Past and Future Work
In New York Miss Justice speaks in her library about childhood memories shared with men like Harrison and McKinley and Gen. Lew Wallace. She notes her sister’s chemistry work for the Allies and her aim to continue the disinfectant research, while advancing the Bloom Center and a four act drama ready for production.
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Northwest
Woods
New York
Lew ‘Wallace
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Ohio
Lew Wallace
Lusitania
Miss Justice
Chemical Laboratory
Bloom Center
Open Nostrils End a Cold Or Catarrh
A short old ad copy promises instant relief from head cold or catarrh by applying Ely's Cream Balm in the nostrils. It claims to open air passages, soothe inflamed mucous membranes, and relieve stuffed sinuses for easier breathing.
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