Comebacks Abound as Major Leagues Eye Returns
A string of veterans with prior big league experience is being given another look in spring training. Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, and Washington are among clubs lining up former players, including Carr, Morgan, Erwin, Vickers, Osteen, Towne, and others, hoping their recent minor league time has sharpened needed skills.
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Morgan
Erwin
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Rossman
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Rube Vickers
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Fred Raymor
Washington
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Goodwin
Meliride
Cleveland
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Cheech
White Sox
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Olmatead
Osteen
Towne
Gus Dundon
Boston
Ostdick
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Peterson
Barry
Hughes
Harrie
Kroh
Thoney
Gessler
Chadwick
Clarke Grifth
Brockett
Keefe
Moore
Castleton
Why East Is Master of West in Gridiron Game
A fragment from a 1910s newspaper argues the east holds edge in football after Pennsylvania defeats Michigan and Chicago over Minnesota. The piece notes western critics overstate physical superiority and credits eastern teams' prep and training for dominance despite mixed evidence.
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Why East
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Minnesota
Chicago
FULTZ'S FINE SCHOOL RECORD
Dave Fulte's brother recalls a tale from his youth about Dave's college football days. In Providence after a Crown University win, Dave, then fullback for the varsity team, greeted his father and brother amid celebrants. He proudly said he had scored four field goals in the last three games.
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Dave
Crowns University
Providence
Mrown University
Amherst
Victor Love College
Waterman — Street
University
Davy Pult
Alent
Davy
David
Lavy
Pather
Man in Nightgown Parades Through Detroit Streets
Charles Shillington a Red Cross hospital patient wandered Fort street in his night attire while believing himself to be Genevieve Van De Vere Fessenden and the czar of Russia. Crowds taunted him but a coal wagon driver helped him back to his locked steel cage as doctors consider his treatment and the fate of the anarchists he fears.
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Charles Shillington
Red Cross
Takint m
Fort Street
Shillington
Russia
Genevieve van de Vere Fessenden
Genevieve
Fourteenth Avenue
Charles
Mother Kidnaps Own Boy in Wichita Air Raid
In Paris Tennessee Grace Edwards of Wichita Kansas and her daughter abducted a ten year old boy from his school. Disguised in men’s clothing they fled by train toward Dresden Tennessee before being captured. The boy was recovered by his uncle George Willan.
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Wichita
Kun
Mien
Dresden
Mila
George Willan
Edwards
Niselyville
Lge
Nere
Luis
Liter Fern
Gorn Musher Dies Singing in Saucon Valley
William Walter of Lepark, a well known saucon Valley figure, died while working in a neighbor's corn field. He was in good spirits prior to the collapse and had a long life history in the region. Born in the Tivuee borough, he was aged 60 and resided in Allentown.
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Gorn Musher
Allentown
William Walter
Lepark
Saucon Valley
Tivuee
Farmers Own Autos Jump Into Motoring Boom
In Salina Kansas farmers increasingly own runabouts for trips to town. A southern county youth bought a fast runabout with a check from his alfalfa field, while a central Kansas farmer ordered a car for immediate use to tour prairie roads with his family. Roads are good most of the year, speeds rise, and farm life centers around regular car service and field trips.
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Salina
Kan
Kanansay
Parage
Tom Creek
Kansas
Prairies
Tennessee
Washington
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