Chafing Yankees Eager To Finish World Series Game
The 1928 World Series nears its end as the Yankees, rested by rain and eager to seal victory, face the slumping Cardinals at Sportsman's Park. Waite Hoyt tops the mound for New York while Willie Sherdel tries to stave off a whitewash, with lineup shuffles debated by Bill McKechnie. Babe Ruth shifts to left field for the game, watched by a tense crowd as the drama unfolds in St Louis. In Cleveland, Oklahoma cowboy George Courtney brutalized Jack McVey in twelve rounds, signaling a strong title claim for Walker contender status.
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Sportsman's Park
Bob Meusel
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Courtney
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Cleveland
George Courtney
Jack McVey
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White Sox and Cubs Enter Decisive Chicago Series Fight
The American League White Sox and National League Cubs stand three all as both teams rest before the seventh game to decide Chicago’s city championship. The Sox, once underdogs, aim to ride Tommy Thomas to victory after a day’s rest.
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Army to Use Second String for Yale Harvard Tilt
Across the nation football news shows second-string units likely for Army against Providence with first stringers groomed for Yale and Harvard on successive Saturdays October 20 and 27. Reports from multiple campuses detail practice scrimmages, lineup changes, and tactical tweaks ahead of major November clashes.
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Treaty terms allow Philippine access for Spanish ships
By the treaty of Paris closing the Spanish American War the United States agreed to admit, for a period of ten years, Spanish ships and merchandise to the Philippine Islands on the same terms as American ships and merchandise.
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Philippine Islands
Yankees Boss Pay Scale Surges Over Cardinals
St. Louis Oct 9 1928 Yankees payroll runs about a quarter million dollars yearly with Babe Ruth at 70000 and Gehrig at 25000 to 30000 across three years. Cardwell Frank Frisch earns about 15000, Alexander tops Cardinals at 12000. The gap stems from Yankee profitability and drawing power, while the Cards trail financially. Other notes include community meetings and local social updates in Amherst and surrounding areas.
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Colonel Ruppert
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Frank Frisch
Lou Gehrig
Wale Hoyt
Herb Pennock
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Tony Lazzeri
Frisch
Grover Cleveland Alexander
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Bottomley
Haines
Alexander
Ruppert
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Birthday and social notices brighten Amherst scene
Mrs Philip Braun hosted a birthday party at Forest street for son Gerald ninth birthday with relatives from Lorain Avon and nearby towns. Guests shared luncheon and a decorated cake. At Security Benefit Association a double installation is planned Wednesday with Elyria and local officers plus Amherst team. Junior League meets at St Peters church parlor. Mrs Seymour Norton hosted a birthday dinner for daughter Mrs John McLoda Elyria with family from Lorain and Michigan. Ladies Aid of Congregational church to meet with listed hostesses. Additional notices of local families hosting gatherings follow.
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Amherst
Philip Braun
Forest Street
Gerald
Joseph Fuhrman
Lorain
George Nagel
Avon
Jacob Delphing
Chas. Krause
George Braun
Fred Ruth
Russel Marlowe
Orville Campbell
John McLoda
Elyria
Joan McLoda
E. Reichawage
Wrandotte
Michigan
Fred Pries
Mildred
H. A. Swanson
Clyde
Elmer Bischoff
Ladies Aid Society
Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational Church
Pansy Harris
Emma Hunter
Lucy Horn
Frank Snider
Florence
Wilbur
Roland
George Sablers
Flora
Carrol
Robert
Billy
Herbe
Betty Shaduck
Chester Lash
Five Best Radio Features Wednesday’s Program lineup
Listing of radio features from 1928 schedules. Wil Rogers hosts a political rally with Eddie Cantor and Robert Benchley. Air times span WEAF WJZ WOR and other networks including American Magazine Hour Palmolive Hour and United Military Band segments.
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Wil Rogers
Eddie Cantor
Robert Benchley
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WJZ
Atlantic City
WOR
United Military Band
Radio rally lined up for Smith in Democratic push
New York October 9 A list of theatrical notables Mre Maddern Fiske Augustus Thomas Wilde Collier and Ray J Hitchcock join Governor Smith supporters to headline a second Democratic rally by the Actors Authors and Artists Clubs The Columbia network led by WABC will carry the program from 11 to midnight EST with stations including WJAS Pittsburgh WADC Akron WAIU Columbus WERC Cincinnati WGHP Detroit and WMAQ Chicago The same chain will also broadcast Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania at 8 30 to 9 30 pm EST Tomorrow morning former Governor Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming will back Smith via an NBC chain from New York to Omaha with a talk from 11 36 am to noon EST. Dover and relatives were visited Wednesday by Mr and Mrs Eugene Sites. Mr and Mrs Walter Bennett of Henrietta spent Tuesday with relatives. The Murray Ridge schoolhouse PTA chicken supper Friday evening attracted about 150 guests with music by Mr Gannett and the Murray Ridge teacher. Ed Powell and guests Sherman Powell of Larnac Lake NY attended a party at P Peterman’s Elyria home Friday.
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Nellie Taylor Ross
Wyoming
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Omaha
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Dover
Eugene Sites
Walter Bennett
Henrietta
Murray Ridge
Gannett
Ed Powell
Sherman Powell
Larnac Lake
P. Peterman
Elyria
Sidelights On Prison Fire Rescue and Heroic Acts
Prison inmates and guards praise Andy Kevort of Paines for rushing back into the Naming building to save his bull terrier Tiny. Herbie Schneider, awaiting 1 to 15 years for robbery, saved the superintendent’s cash and slept in the office. Undertaker C. L. Chute and prisoner Bob Olvis aided at the debris scene. Prisoners received writing materials to contact families as crews worked amid the fire wreckage.
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Tiny
Kevort
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Herbie Schneider
Franklin County
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New Lexington
Bob Olvis
Murray Ridge social notes from SIRS Ervin Eppley
Murray Ridge items list visits and gatherings of local families. Sherman Powell and relatives travel for two week stay with Powell and Eppley families near Elyria. Other entries mention Pearl Eppley and Abbots, Sunday dinners, clam bake at Sunny Side Beach, and neighbors gatherings across Fourth Street Elyria.
Hoover States Ha Stand On Power Issue
Washington Oct 9 Hoover centers his presidential campaign on Muscle Shoals. He endorses continued government ownership and reuses nitrate plants for agricultural research and wartime needs while offering surplus power for public interest safeguards. He frames electric power as a by product with pledge of cheap consumer power.
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Alfred E. Berette
Muscle Shoals
Congress
George Norris
Nebraska
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Coolidge
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Desperate Volunteers Help Search Ruins After Fire
Prison officials ordered meals to be sent from neighboring towns as volunteers, many of them boys with burns over ears and arms, began to hunt for bodies amid the hot smoking ruins.
Robinson in California opens two day Los Angeles campaign
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic nominee for vice president, en route to Los Angeles, will address a two day California campaign starting tonight. He discusses Boulder Dam issues and replies to questions from a letter writer in Phoenix stadium, denying any Democratic platform pledge on Prohibition and asserting party restraint on the issue.
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