Baseball Scores Across Leagues Show Rain Delays and Big Wins
National League results include Brooklyn 2 Philadelphia 1 and Boston 3 New York 2 with rain affecting Chicago Cincinnati and Pittsburgh St Louis. American League notes Detroit St Louis rain while Chicago 4 Cleveland 1, New York 2 Philadelphia 0, Boston 3 Washington 0. International League lists Binghamton 1 11 Newark 0 6 and Toronto 9 Reading 7. Southern Association reports Chattanooga 1 Memphis 0 and Birmingham 13 Mobile 4 with Atlanta New Orleans on wet grounds. American Association covers Toledo Milwaukee postponed and Louisville Minneapolis rained out. College results show Williams 10 Colgate 2, Boston College 11 Dartmouth 0, Princeton 56 Virginia 2.
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Chicago
Memphis
Little Rock
Nashville
Birmingham
Mobile
Atlanta
New Orleans
American Association
Toledo
Milwaukee
Louisville
Minneapolis
Williams
Colgate
Boston College
Dartmouth
Princeton
Virginia
Today’s games across major leagues prompt crowded schedule
The slate features Boston at Philadelphia and New York at Brooklyn in double national color, with Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, Chicago at Cleveland, Detroit at St Louis, Washington at Boston, and New York at Philadelphia. Additional matchups include Reading at Baltimore, Jersey City, and Binghamton at Newark in regional play.
Giants Help Braves Win First Time This Season
Be Wildered Giant crew aids Boston Braves into win column for first time this season. Pirates crush Cards as Hamilton shuts them to five hits. Shawkey pins Athletics to one hit and Duffy Lewis drives in two for Yankees. Dodgers beat Phillies with Griffiths key two hits and homer. White Sox top Indians. Jackson drives clincher. Milan to leave Washington for appendicitis operation.
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Boston Braves
Pirates
Hamilton
Bob Shawkey
Athletics
Duffy Lewis
Pratt
Braves
Polo Grounds
New York
Tommy Griffiths
Dodgers
Phillies
McGree
Griffiths
White Sox
Cleveland
Jackson
Barry
Senators
Red Sox
Milan
Washington
SUSY DWARF HONEY BEES
In the East Indian Islands and Hindustan the smallest honey bees, apis florea, build tiny combs about a child’s hand with cells the size of pin heads. They produce excellent honey and wax, year round on tree branches. A rival giant bee, apis dorsata, forms combs six to seven feet long, four feet wide, weighing 300 to 400 pounds.
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The
Christian Herald
East Indian
Hindustan
Apis Florea
Star of Peace Lodge Hosts May Party
Star of Peace lodge entertained friends at a May-time party in Red Men's hall after a regular meeting. Games and prizes preceded a banquet with flags bunting and apple blossoms. Piano and vocal solos followed. Dancing lasted late. Guests came from Hartford Meriden and New Britain.
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Red Men's Hall
Star of Peace Lodge
Hartford
Meriden
New Britain
Postman 70 on the Job in Greenfield
Ira Converse, aged seventy, longtime rural free delivery mail clerk in Greenfield, if met in the United States, remains on the job after twenty years of service. He has traveled 145,236 miles six times around the world.
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Greenfield
Ira Converse
United States
Pennsylvania boxers win inter allied titles in France
Two Pennsylvania boys were named to represent the United States in the inter allied boxing contests at Paris in June after winning titles in France. Jackie Clark of Allentown took the middleweight crown defeating Ris Walters of Philadelphia, while Johnny Fundy of Pittsburgh claimed the featherweight title.
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Johnny Fundy
Pittsburg
Jackie Clark
Allentown
Pennsylvania
United States
Paris
France
Clarke
Ris Walters
Philadelphia
A. E. F. Fundy
Chauncey Olcott Delights Middlesex Audience In The Voice Of McConnell
Chauncey Olcott and an excellent company delighted a large sympathetic audience at the Middlesex theatre with George M. Cohans new comedy The Voice of McConnell. Olcott sang Irish songs in fine form and his performance showed seasoned artistry, with Gilda Leary supporting admirably. The tale follows an Irish peasant turned star, his schoolings by a famous impresario, debut in America, a love story, and a hopeful ending, under manager Henry Engel. The audience turnout signals real demand for legitimate drama in Middletown and a hope for more in the future.
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Chauncey Olcott
Middlesex Theatre
George M. Cohan
McConnell
Olcott
Cohan
Gilda Leary
America
Henry Engel
Middletown
His Parisian Wife at Middlesex with Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Ferguson stars as Fauvette a Parisian reporter in His Parisian Wife a May 12 13 Middlesex showing directed by Emile Chautard adapted by Eve Ansell The plot follows Fauvette who marries Boston lawyer Martin Wesley then faces cold Puritan in laws and cruel treatment after moving to New England Also includes Current Events a Flagg comedy The Last Battle and Alias Mike Moran
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Elsie Ferguson
Artcraft
the Middlesex
Eve Ansell
Emile Chautard
Miss Ferguson
Fauvette
Paris
Martin Wesley
Boston
Wesley
New England
Middlesex vaudeville bill with Larry Young play and acts
At Middlesex tonight and Saturday afternoon and evening the bill features Larry Young in a play about a man who seeks a society debutante. Also shown is a two reel comedy One Every Minute and four acts of vaudeville Delbanie Barra Sisters Suders and O Connor and the Dancing Serenaders in a big vaudeville feature.
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Middlesex
Larry Young
Delbanie
Barra Sisters
Suders
O’connor
Two Scotsmen Chat by Roadside About Smoking
Two elderly Scotsmen sit by the road in a cheerful smoking exchange. Donald explains that smoking one’s own tobacco is costly, while smoking someone else’s is wasteful as the pipe won’t draw when packed too tightly.
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Sandy
Donald
Strike leaders to be arraigned in massachusetts case
Lawrence Massachusetts May 9 That evidence against about a dozen strike leaders accused by a former strike committee member of conspiracy to murder and commit violence will be presented to the Essex county grand jury convening next week in Newburyport City Marshal O Brien reported after six hours of questioning Daltua the accuser testified at a strike leaders meeting on April 27 that violence was planned including killing the city marshal and creating riots An attempted shooting at the marshal s car followed and kidnappings of Nathan Kleinman and Anthony Caparo were blamed on opposing strikers The conspiracy allegedly extended to an assassination of Governor Coolidge for refusing to meet with the strike committee
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Nathan Klienman
Anthony Capraro
Daltuoa
Coolidge
State House
Babe born with six teeth in Mercer Pa
A Mercer Pennsylvania couple, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Banana, welcomed a daughter noted for having six teeth at birth, four on the upper jaw and two on the lower.
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Babe
Mercer
Joseph Banana
Grand theatre vaudeville bill Friday and Saturday
The Grand theatre presents four top city acts: Garlands comedy Clay Modeler with Havens and Frazz singing and piano, Clifford and Pearl Orrell juvenile singing and dancing, and What Women Can Do a big time novelty act. Also Gladys Brockwell in The Forbidden Room and Eddie Polo in The Lure of the Circus.
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Grand Theatre
Garlands
Havens
Frazz
Clifford
Pearl Orrell
Pearl
Gladys Brockwell
Eddie Polo
The Claw at Grand theatre starring Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball Young appears in The Claw at the Grand theatre on Monday and Tuesday. The dramatized romance follows Maurace Stair English resident commissioner and Mary Laurin as native unrest, a love triangle, a disillusioning revelation, and Kim’s fate testing Stair’s resolve.
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Clara Kimball Young
Cynthia Stockley
Charles E. Whittaker
Grand Theatre
Maurace Stair
Mary Laurin
Stair
Mary
Major “Kim
Kim
Remove Freckles with Othine Double Strength
Promotes Othine as a freckle remover guaranteeing refund if it fails. Claims early applications brighten skin and lighten lighter freckles. urges asking for double strength version sold with money-back guarantee.
Warrant Issued for Gre Detailing Tobacco Theft
A warrant was issued for Gre in connection with the alleged tobacco theft case. Authorities report limited readable details but confirm the action and target. Further filings are anticipated as investigation continues.
Blood Purifier and Spring Time Tonic Claim
The advertisement touts CELEBY KING Blood Purifier and Real Spring Time Tonic as a purely vegetable laxative tea. It claims gentle, effective cleansing of poisonous waste, quick relief, and a return to youthful feeling. It targets both adults and families, urging spring regulation of the system.
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