Dolton Merchants Beat Ivanhoe 7 to 4 In Baseball Clash
Dolton Merchants evened the series by defeating Ivanhoe 7 to 4 at home while State Street Boosters beat Dolton 8 to 6. Ivanhoe led 3 to 2 until the seventh inning as Kortum and Needles sparked a rally with Ostrom Bruhn and Lambert contributing key hits.
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Dolton Merchants
Ivanhoe
Bow
State St. Boosters
State Street Boosters
Ivanhoe’s
Dalton Park
Ivanhoe Boys
Merchants
Kortum
Needles
R. Neath
C McCloskey
Hartford
Bruhn
McCloskey
Ostrom
Simnick
Jurgens
Smith
Arrows Triumph 17–0 to Run Streak at Douglas Park
The Arrows crushed Ebenezer 17 to 0 at Douglas Park to extend their winning streak to seven. Pitcher Dick Kreutzberg dominated early, yielding only two Ebenezer singles through eight innings before easing up in the ninth as Ebenezer loaded the bases but failed to score.
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Jeb
Douglas Park
Ebenezer
Dick Kreutzberg
Arrows Surge to 17-Run Win as Golgotha Looms
Krikau leads with four hits while Dick and Art Kreutzberg add three apiece as the Arrows smash 17 hits against two Ebenezer hurlers. Curtis returns from Camp Grant and could boost a chase of league leader Golgotha, who hold top spot with eight games remaining. The Riverdale Park game is set for 3.30.
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Krikau
Ebenezers
Kreutzberg
Art
Arrows
Ebenezer
Golgotha
Curtis
Camp Grant
Golgotha Riverdale
Mohawks to Play Fernwood Juniors at Riverdale Park
The Mohawks meet Fernwood Juniors at Riverdale Park next Sunday August 16 at 1 00 PM. Fernwood Juniors sit in third place in the standings.
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Mohawks
Fernwood
Riverdale Park
Fernwood Juniors
Ark Builder Mystery Ends with Proof in Ancient Text
In a lively classroom exchange, Teacher and Johnny debate the builder of Noahs Ark with Johnny offering a confident Naw. The teacher challenges the claim and hints at historical sources, prompting a corrective moment in the lesson.
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Johnny
Hoover Telegrams Turkish Leader and U S Census Note
The State department reports Hoover sent a telegram to Gazi Mustafa Kemal of Turkey for courtesy shown to American flyers. The U S Census Bureau notes negro population growth at 13.6 percent in the last decade, down from 65 percent prior. The timber board urges output restriction and easier mortgages to aid the lumber industry. Automobiles taxed over one billion dollars in 1950, 18.8 percent of value, per the AAA. President Hoover congratulates King Haakon on his sixty ninth birthday. The President says Americans join in extending cordial birthday felicitations.
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Mexico
State Department
Hoover
Gazi Mustafa Kemal
Turkey
Boardman
United States Census Bureau
Timber Conservation Board
United States
American Automobile Association
Loner
King Haakon of
Norway
St Lewis Raises to Assistant Attorney General Post
Roy St Lewis of Oklahoma City took the oath as assistant attorney general in charge of admirants alien property and war claims, a new post within the U S Department of Justice.
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St. Lewis
U. S. Post
Washington
Roy St Lewis
Oklahoma City
Vanderbilt Scion Granted Divorce on Cross Bill
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. was granted a divorce at Reno Nevada on his second wife Maister Vanderbilt’s cross bill alleging mental cruelty. The ruling follows a contested marriage ending amid family names and Nevada proceedings.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Reno, New
Maister Vanderbilt
Diamond magnate abducted on Wisconsin bus robbery
Julius Dreyfus, head of A and J Dreyfus Inc of New York, reported he was kidnapped on a Wisconsin bus between Watertown and Beaver Dam and robbed of $100,000 in unset diamonds. He was driven to a Des Plaines area and ejected after his jewels were seized. $25,000 worth remained insured. Police pursued the three or more suspected thieves from Chicago.
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Chicago
Julius Dreyfus
A. & J. Dreyfus, Inc
New York City
Des Plaines
Watertown
Beaver Daw
Wis
Des Delaines
Dreyfus
Janesville
Drexius
Smoot Defends Sugar Tariff in Senate Row
Senator Reed Smoot issued a statement through the Republican National Committee defending the two cent sugar tariff amid a clash with Senator Walter Googe of Georgia. Smoot contrasts sugar duties with cotton tariffs, arguing the farmer’s test of party agricultural rules while questioning Georgias votes on cotton and sugar duties.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Reed Smoot
Finance Committee
Walter Lo Googe
Georgia
Smoot
George
Cuba
Auto plunges into river. three drown near Sparta
Three persons drowned when a car stalled on approach to a bridge, rolled backward over the bluff and plunged into the Caney Fork River at Hodgens Tents near Sparta Tennessee. The victims were William Judd, Miss Lorene Wedlay, and Miss Hatge Parrish.
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Sparta, Tenn
Caney York
Hfodgen
Bridee
William Judd
Lorene Wedlay
HatGe Parrish
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AB Rhpoae Needles
Horton
Washington Briefs
Chapter
Public Service
Police
Public Service Company
Ottawa
Illinois
Fox River
John Scannell
Scannell
Bernadine McConnaughey
Schaefer
Britton I. Budd
Public Service Company OF
Northern Illinois
West Adams Street
C. Vanderbilt, JR
New York
Wisconsin
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