Tener Plans Major League Drafting Revamp for Interest
New York December report on President Tener of the National League proposing a revised plan to boost fan and player interest. He suggests allocating post series receipts to players and distributing remaining funds among teams by finish, plus cross league drafts and shifts in player selection rules to heighten competition.
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New York
Hn K. Tener
Sus
Ubs
Tener
Brooklyn
Red Sox
Baseball
American Association
Charles Holliday Ebbets
Ebbets
Barney Dreyfus
Barney
Dreyfus
Mitchell
Fred Mitchell
Cub
Mitch
Southern Association
Nashville
Australasian Champ Fight Offered $15,000 Purse
A New Orleans promoter announced a $15,000 purse for a February carnival bout between middleweight claimants Les Darcy of Australia and Mike Gibbons. Darcy was telegraphed the offer, and Gibbons was ready to sign articles.
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New Orleans
Les Darcy
Australia
Mike Gibbons
Darcy
Gibbons
Poloists Open Series for Funston Cups
Fort Sam Houston hosted two tight polo games as the Civilian-Artillery and Sixteenth Cavalry squads opened the Funston cups tourney. Civilians led by Captain Lapham, Billie Blocker and the Meadows brothers edged the officers 7 1 2 to 6 3 4, while Number One Cavalry beat Number Two 9 1 2 to 4. A Brownsville officers’ quartet and civilian team face additional matches Thursday afternoon with the First Sixteenth Cavalry also meeting the Second Cavalry unit.
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Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Seventh
Field Artillery
Cavalry
Trent Field
Lapham
Billie Blocker
W. Meadows
Gus Meadows
Sixteenth Cavalry
Brownaville
Artillery
Sands
Peyton
Dawley
A. Meadows
Barrows
Championship Finals Set At Fort Sam Houston
The football championship game between the Third Illinois Infantry and the First Wisconsin Infantry teams is scheduled for today at Fort Sam Houston starting at 3 PM. Messner leads the Illinois side and Welsh directs Wisconsin in a battle for the Twelfth provisional division crown and the Army and Navy News cup. admission is free.
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Illinois Infantry
Wisconsin Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
Messner
Tmllinois
Wisconsin
Army
Navy News
Brice Critical After Arcadia Fracas Bond Set for Perrett
Tom G Brice 47 a prosperous Arcadia area farmer is in a Shreveport sanitarium with a fractured skull after a Sunday altercation with Floyd Poll Perrett a Waco Texas League pitcher who is under a 2500 bond at Arcadia on an assault to murder charge. Attendants report Brice in critical condition.
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Perrett
Shreveport
Tom G. Brice
Arcadia
Floyd
Poll) Perrett
Waco
Brice
Asiatic Labor Foreshadows Pacific Island Settlement
A Sydney dispatch argues that Japanese and Chinese workers are expanding across Pacific islands from Hawaii to Fiji and New Caledonia. It warns that favorable wages and strategic value draw Asians into Fiji and other colonies, risking a broader Asian-led demographic shift and intermarriage with native populations.
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Sydney
Australia
America
Pacific
Hawaii
Carolinas
New Guinea
Bismarcks
New Hebrides
Solomons
Samoa
Fiji
India
Fijis
Pelews
Carolines
Marshalls
Three
Archipelagoes
Pacific Island
New Caledonian
Ocean
Nauru
Islands
Japan
Singapore
Batavia
Honolulu
Papeete
Minnesota Infantry to meet Texas at Exposition Park
The Second Minnesota Infantry team from Llano Grande will play Texas at Exposition Park on Christmas Day replacing the Second Florida Infantry. Fans expect a tougher contest from Minnesota, a star squad of college men, as Florida departs Laredo for home. The Gulf Coast lines offer special rates and Minnesota plans to bring a regimental band and a large crowd of voters.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Florida Infantry
Texas
Minnesota Infantry
Llano Grande
Exposition Park
Laredo
Minnseola
Minnesota
Texans
Gulf Coast
Cadbury's Home Raided Amid War Suspicions
George Cadbury head of the Cadbury cocoa firm and owner of the London Daily News had his home raided by military authorities amid suspected anti war activity. The raid described as a crowning outrage by The Nation, citing his work in industrial housing and pacifist stance.
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London
George Cadbury
London Daily News
Cadbury
Miske and Dillon Sign for February Title Bout
Billy Miske of St. Paul and Jack Dillon of Indianapolis, both middleweights, have signed to fight twenty rounds in New Orleans on February 3, as announced Sunday night.
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Miske
Dillon
New Orleans
Billy Miske
St. Paul
Jack Dillon
Indianapolis
Newton Beats Coghill In Camp Deming Bout
Johnny Newton of the second Ohio infantry defeated Roy Coghill of the Wyoming infantry in a 10 round welterweight decision at Camp Deming on Sunday night.
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Newton
Coghill
Deming
N. M
Johnny Newton
Ohio Infantry
Roy Coghill
Wyoming Infantry
Camp Deming
Unjust Farmer and Hypnotism Tale From Globe-Democrat
Harvard professor Munsterbere proclaims hypnotism can diagnose disease and claims to hypnotize anyone. A visitor urges farming venture and money from vegetables to New York to which the farmer replies pessimistically about labor and risk, noting the wife won’t help with chores.
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Munsterbere
Harvard
Newark
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Dixie Social Club Xmas Night Dance at W O W Hall
Police and detective departments presented Captain Barney Welch with a mahogany recliner chair a smoking jacket a tin of tobacco and cigars as a Christmas gift. Policeman Gwinn delivered the presentation as Captain Welch called roll at the police assembly hall.
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Captain Welch
Barney Welch
Police
Detective
Gwinn
Local Advertisements and Incidents Fragment
J F Carl attorney advertises 521 Bedell building. Jeffery Cars 1.50 per hour. Menders of Men ad. Butler’s Electric Bath 515 Navarro. Tony Hobrecht injured at Brackenridge park taken to city hospital after being struck by a baseball. condition not serious. Isadors Reyes of Lytle struck by car at West Commerce and Santa Rosa. Roy Garwood arrested for driving without license. Schlesinger Schlesinger and Charles E Lee move to Prudential Building. Chiropodist Appmann at 106 W Houston St. Co buys old gold and coins at 315 Alamo plaza. O’Connell Loan Co 112 E Houston. Two theft reports: forty pounds butter from Creamery Dairy wagon near Ord and Willow. hens stolen from Mrs J C Zummult 616 S Trinity.
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Tony Hobrecht
Furnish Avenue
Brackenridge Park
Isadors Reyes
Lytle
West Commerce Street
Santa Rosa Avenue
Frobose
Roy Garwood
Creamery Dairy Company
Ord and
Willow Streets
J. C. Zummult
South
Trinity Street
Jitney collision injures pedestrian on New Braunfels avenue
Michael J. Kelley, a passerby, was struck and injured by a jitney automobile while crossing New Braunfels avenue. Police and emergency crews responded to the scene, and Kelley received medical treatment for his injuries.
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Djitney
Michael J. Kelley
New Braunfels Avenue
Corega Keeps Dentures Firm and Comfortable
Corega powder is advertised to hold dental plates firmly, prevent sore gums, and improve mouth hygiene. The claim notes gums vary and plates loosen not due to the dentist, with 25c cost and a free sample offer from Corega Chemical Co in Cleveland Ohio.
Car Hits Pedestrian. Driver Arrested for Careless Driving
A vehicle struck a man between Grayson and Mason streets at 9 Sunday night. He was taken to the base hospital and not seriously injured. The automobile driver was arrested on a charge of careless driving. Horace E. Wilson, lawyer, 516-17 State Bank Bldg. Cr. 8281. Harlandale Hot Sulphur Mud Baths ad. Kehoe Loan Co. ad. Dr. F. G. Norton chiropodist ad. Rentals and signs listed by Dulin Printing Co. Crockett 3338.
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Grayson
Mason Streets
Horace E. Wilson
State Bank
Value of a Life at Pear theater December 27 1916
Ad preview invites the public to see the Value of a Life a drama at the Pear theater on December 27 1916. The performance promotes fraternal and lodge clubs with emphasis on local interest and community involvement.
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Woodmen Sanitarium
Pear Theater
Chicago Real Estate Holdups Tied to Vice and Blackmail
A 26 000 word brief to a city sub committee by Alderman C E Merriam links haphazard development in Chicago to vice crime and real estate blackmail. It argues residential districts must be protected from industrial encroachment and cites cases where owners paid a $3000 bonus to a blackmailer on an exclusive street.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Eity Council
Judicial Committee
C. E. Merriam
Merriam
Building district plan eyed to curb decline and crime
A city brief argues that formal zoning of districts into residential and industrial zones would shield property values, lower fire risk, cut accidents to children, and improve health and safety while supporting industry. Alder Merriam notes high rents in transition areas tempt vice and crime, urging council action to authorize building districts.
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Merriam
Council Judiciary Committee
Sagger Maker Becomes Columbiana Probate Judge
East Liverpool resident Samuel W. Crawford, long a sagger maker and former railroad brakeman, has been elected probate judge of Columbiana County. A Democrat, he previously served as East Liverpool mayor and sheriff, and will assume office January 1. Crawford is noted as the first operative potter to hold the probate judgeship.
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East Liverpool
Ohio
Samuel W. Crawford
Cleveland & Pittsburg
Columbiana County
Crawford
Potter
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Schlesinger & Schlesinger
Charles E. Lee
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Appmann Bldg
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