Seventh World Series clash set as rain clouds hover
Washington and Pittsburgh prepare for a decisive seventh game at Forbes Field amid drizzle and muddy grounds. Walter Johnson and Vic Aldridge are slated to duel as managers Harris and McKechnie weigh pitchers and lineups, with rain threatening delays and field conditions in play.
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Pittsburg
Walter Johnson
Victor Aldridge
Forbes
Pla
Aldridge
Johnson
Pirates
McKechnie
Pirate
Ane
Harris
Kansan
Barney
McInnis
George Grantham
Flest
Athletics
Ree
Coast League football fatality in Lincoln
Harold Winter a Cotner College senior and first string football player died after a broken neck sustained during practice yesterday in Lincoln Nebraska. The 22 year old was reported by officials to have collapsed on the field and died at the hospital. Winter had been a starter for Cotner College and his death marks a tragic end to the season.
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Lincoln
Neb
Harold Winter
Cotner
Racing Meetings Across Distinct Venues Highlight Daily Sports
Metropolitan Jockey Club closes at Jamaica while Kentucky Jockey Club meets Latonia Maryland Fair Association convenes at Lauger and Business Men's Racing Association hosts Chicago Trotting at Atlanta National AAU squash handball championships in Hollywood Cedar Rapids hosts a kennel show and Hocking Valley Kennel Club event in Lancaster Utah forecasts fair tonight and Friday.
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Jamaica
Kentucky Jockey Club
Latonia
Maryland Fair Association
Lauger
Chicago
Atlanta
Hollywood
Calif
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Kennel Association
Hocking Valley
Kennel Club
Lanchester
Question Box on Baseball Rules and Boxing
A sports column from The Pocatello Tribune lays out rule interpretations. It covers pitching changes, pitcher responsibility for runs, boxing tactics with a Swink, and runner interference when sliding into first.
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John B. Foster
Lawrence Perry
Pocatello Tribune
World Building
New York
Firestone Lands Rubber Lease in Liberia
Harvey Firestone announced a 99 year lease on one million acres in Liberia for rubber growing with a fully matured one million acre plantation. He plans to invest 100 million dollars to develop the land and establish the operation.
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New York
Harvey
Firestone
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Republic of Liberia
Africa
Political realignment in Italy tethers Maximalists to Communists
In Paris and Italian circles, Maximalist party members have forced a ruling alliance with the Communists under Moscow orders. The Aventine group, once allied with Mussolini in his socialist days, will back the Communists in a plan to overthrow the Fascist regime, possibly by violence, after deeming Aventine tactics ineffective.
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Parte
Petremist
Italy
Aventine
Communiste
Paria
Moscow
Mussolini
Weather Report for Pocatello Idaho October 15 1926
Pocatello weather report for 24 hours ending 6 am today shows 47 yesterday high, 32 low, mean 44, normal 49, precipitation 0.43 inch this month 15.49 inches since January 1. Excess 4.54 inches. Winds SW SE, humidity 84 down to 46 percent, clear skies, sunset 6:48, sunrise 6:45. Meteorologist R Temple and Harold Rathbone in charge.
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Pocatello
U. S&s. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Idaho
D'V. Tod
Y. Tod
R. Temple
Harold A. Rathbone
King George Reads Bible Daily Says Admiral Emdin
In London on October 15, Rear Admiral A Emdin stated that King George reads a chapter of the Bible daily. He spoke at Wembley in a Bible and Empire demonstration organized by the World Evangelical Alliance, denouncing Bolshevism for rejecting the Bible.
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London
Oet
George
A. Emdin
Wembley
World Evangelical Alliance
Emdin
Railmen Strike on Maryland Road
A strike by engineers firemen and hostlers on the Western Maryland railway took effect in Baltimore on October 15 after wage and conditions talks failed. About 500 workers are affected and freight trains remained idle at Hagerstown while passenger service continued with replacement crews.
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Baltimore
Western Maryland Railway
Hagerstown
Train Schedule Fragments Reflected in Rail Timetable
Rail notice lists departures and connections across routes in the region. It details trains from the South West and West with times, connections at Blackfoot, and branch-line links to Mackay and Twin Falls service points.
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Blackfoot
Mackayane
Possengers
Minidoka
Ahetnun Lenne
Nempa
Twin Falls Steamship
So Mais
J. Eegy
Benoit Wiebe
Fans Propose Million Fund for Walter Johnson
Muskogee Oklahoma October 15 A movement by baseball fans to raise one million dollars to buy Walter Johnson the Big Train of the Washington Senators is launched. Claude Williford president of the Eastern Oklahoma playgrounds association leads the plan as trustee and 55 residents contribute one dollar each in the first hour. Gabby Street formerly catcher for Johnson and now manager of a Western Association club in this area lends local support through his connection with Johnson.
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Muskogee
Okla
America
Water Johnson
Washington Senators
Claude Williford
Eastern Oklahoma
Walter
Logan of Willford
Williford
Johnson
Gabby Street
Washington
Street
Coffeyville
Kan
Dempsey Fight Prayer For Wills Plan Meets Obstacle
New York reports Floyd Johnson signed to meet Harry Wills at the Newark armory October 26 in a bout that could affect the long rumored Dempsey Wills contract. The Wills Dempsey pact bars action for a year and Dempsey calls the Johnson clash a surprise.
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Pocatello Tribune
New York
Jack Dempsey
Harry Wills
Floyd Johnson
Wills
Newark Armory
Dempsey
Jack Delaney
Paul Berienbach
World boxing chatter hints at title clash in near future
New York reports an ongoing debate over a heavyweight bout at Newark between Harry Wills and Floyd Johnson on October 26. Paddy Mullins, Wills’s manager, says Dempsey’s objection won’t affect the plan. Wills aims to stay ready for Johnson next year while Fitzsimmons confirms Dempsey and Wills signed.
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New York
Jack Dempsey
Newark
N. J
Harry Wills
Floyd Johnson
Paddy Mullins
Wills
Mullins
Floyd Fitzsimmons
Dempsey
Seaside Air Bracing Not From Ozone Study Finds
Researchers debunk the idea that seaside vitality comes from ozone. They show ozone appears only in air over 8 000 feet, not in typical sea level coastal air, shifting the presumed source of coastal vigor.
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