Bijou Takes Lead With 9 8 Win Over Company K
Bijou strengthened its grip on first in the National League by beating Company K 9 to 8. Key first inning hits by Mow Lambert Hill Galladay and Zacher fueled the Bijou surge, with Hull driving in Lambert. Company K mounted a late rally, but Bijou held on as Dempster and Sherry led pitchers in a high scoring but error heavy game involving Scott County Milling and Cotton Oil Mill.
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Bijou
Company K Boys
Soldiers
Dempster
Scott County Milling Company
Mow
Lambert
Hill
Galladay
Zacher
Hull
F. Swaim
Simmons
Company K
Rafferty
J. Miller
A. Swaim
Clark
V. Sherry
P. Marshall
P Marshall
J. Gilbert
V. Sher
Sikeston Tops Cairo Jaycees 24 to 5 in Softball
Sikeston All-Stars crushed Cairo Jaycees 24 to 5 as offense exploded with 28 safeties led by Roy Wagner, Puckett, and Simmons with homers. F. Jones suffered injuries delaying the game for 40 minutes after colliding with the outfielders. Dunker relieved Jones in the fifth.
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Sikeston
Jaycee Softballers
Cairo
F. Jones
North Field
Bill Simmons
Yosick
Buchanan
Dunker
Popeye” Jones
Roy Wagner
Puckett
Simmons
Rance Sherry
Fred Tope
Barthomosew
R. Sherry
Thomas Rafferty
Marvels Cigarettes Opens New Factories Addition
Stephano Brothers erect a modern eight floor expansion in Philadelphia doubling factory space and capabilities for Marvels Cigarettes. New equipment includes pneumatic tobacco handling, vacuum dust filtration, air conditioned floors, daylight on four sides, and granite terra cotta frontage. Ralph B Bencker designed the building.
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Stephano Brothers
Philadelphia
Ralph B Bencker
ISCO Trips Cotton Oil in Pirates Dark Day for Oil Mills
ISCO men defeated Cotton Oil 4 to 3 to seize top NL standing and force a deadlock with Dempsters after Bijou crushed Reid Roofing 8 to 0. Bennett earned the win for ISCO with three singles and three doubles while Bijou’s Bill Simmons fanned 11 in the final game, and Reid’s doubleheader woes continued.
St Louis Browns in Series with Red Sox
In a tight American League race, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston, and New York jostle for the lead as Boston opens a four game set with the Browns at Sportsman's Park July 26 under lights. A twin bill closes the series July 28, with a Ladies Day slated for Saturday. Boston then meets Washington and Philadelphia, with night games slated for July 30 against the Senators and August 2 against the Athletics.
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ST. Louis
Cleveland
Detroit
Boston
New York
Sportsman's Park
Boston Red Sox
Brownies
Sox
Washinon Senators
Philadelphia A’s
Senators
Mackmen
Timber Toppers Fail To Appear In Opener
Roy Wagner T Rafferty and R Sherry each had four runs while Art Swacker Mow and Simmons scored three times. Bartholomew F Tope and Puckett home twice and Mont gomery once. F Tope and Bray turned the only double play. Dexter Timber Toppers did not show for their scheduled game against Sikeston All-Stars.
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Roy Wagner
T. Rafferty
R. Sherry
Art Swacker
Mow
Simmons
Bartholomew
F. Tope
Puckett
Montgomery
F Tope
Bray
Dexter Timber
Sikeston
Navy opens new air station at San Juan Puerto Rico
As part of expansion plans for protecting the Panama Canal Zone, the Navy Department has commissioned a new air station at San Juan Puerto Rico.
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Panama Canal Zone
Navy Department
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Bertha Muzzy Bower Dies at 68 in Los Angeles
Bertha Muzzy Bower known as B M Bower author of Chip of the Flying U and numerous Western novels died July 23 in Los Angeles California at age 68. She began writing cowboy stories in 1904 while a Montana housewife with three children.
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Bertha Muzzy Bower
B M. Bower
Chip of the Flying U
Los Angeles
Calif
Montana
Cape Girardeau Canaries Visit Sikeston This Evening
Cape Girardeau Canaries travel to Sikeston to face the All-Stars in a season opener. Sikeston pitcher Harry Sikes ton will make his ninth appearance, with five wins and three losses. Jimmy Law and Henry Bennett pitch, Jay Wilson catches. Game time eight o'clock, admission five and ten cents.
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Cape Girardeau Canaries
Sikeston All-Stars
Sikeston
Jimmy Law
Cotton Oil Mill
Henry Bennett
ISCO
Jay Wilson
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Scott County
Sherry
H. Gilbert
Dempesters
Treece
Woods
Hale
Bandy
Jones
Sutton
Shrek” Jones
Eaton
Ables
Vanover
Bailey & Bailey Attorneys-at-Law
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate Bldg
Phone
Robert A. Dempster
McCoy-Tanner Building
E. J. Menstedt
Front Street
Merlin G. Anderson
Derris Malcolm
To & Sikeston
Howard A. Dunaway
Denistry
DR. Handy Smith
Applegate
Telephone
Tom L. Chidester
Peoples Bank
B. L. McMullin
Stalkcup
PF. LL. Sisson
Optometry
DR. W. M. Sidwell Optometrist Office
Welsit Mortuary
H. J. Welsh
H. S. Johnson Funeral Directors
PRT Spaperanchive
Sikeston Smothers
Cairo Jaycees
Marvel Cigarettes
Ane
Spephako Brothers
Phidaceipma, Va
Shoemen
Bijou Thomps Reid
Dace
Mbartholomew
B. Crain
Wagner
Swacker
P. Crain
D Tope
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Keasler
Ol Miss
Reid
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M. Page
Foster
Bijou Moundsman
Scherer
Mon
Watson
Clem Beal
Tech
ST. Louis Browns
RED Sox
Southeast Missouri Telephone Company
Cape Canaries
Roo
Atlas
L. D. Josyln
Charleston, Missouri
House of Representatives
DE Soto
Chrysler Corporation
DeSoto
Mich
Kellett Motor CO
N. Kingshighway
Sikeston, Missouri
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