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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1925
Page
1
Washington Senators edge Pittsburgh Pirates 4 to 3 before 35000 fans and President Coolidge. The win gives Washington a 2-1 Series lead as frigid wind and rain-swept conditions test both clubs at Griffith Stadium.
The Pirates defeated the Senators 3 to 4 as Ferguson earned the win and Kremer took the loss. Judge and Carey led with two base hits, Goslin hit a homer, and Traynor doubled for Pittsburgh. A lengthy game featured disputed calls, passed balls, and multiple pitching shifts across 9 innings.
The town of Lewisburg Pennsylvania marked a quiet afternoon funeral for Christy Mathewson once Bucknell University star and famed baseball pitcher. Friends and townsfolk accompanied his body to a cemetery on the town’s edge where he had courted and married Jane Stoughton.
Ossie Bluege third baseman of the Washington Senators suffers a slight relapse after being struck on the head and will not play today. Manager Bucky Harris announced as the Senators faced the Pirates in the World Series game. Kremer and Smith vs Fergu son Rueht are listed as the Pirates and Senators starting batters.
George Patrick Healey aged 27, a shell shocked veteran who changed his name to Harry Schwartz to please his fiancée Miss Ida Weinberg, is missing and wedding plans are canceled. The obstacle remains Mrs George Patrick Healey.
Cobb County grand jury indicts 63 year old Mrs. W M Carson for first degree murder in the slaying of Thomas Brown Jr at her home. Carson claims Brown threatened her life and was intoxicated. she is held without bond and faces November term trial. Brown, 23, a former service man, reportedly worked at a brick plant on the Chattahoochee River.
The American Federation of Labor urged broader use of the union label. Two resolutions called on trade unionists to buy goods bearing the label to support organized labor.
The first snow of the season fell in and near Asheville with near freezing temperatures. The higher mountains in the vicinity were covered with snow overnight and this morning.
Judge Louis H. Burns ordered bishops to show cause why they should not be restrained from sentencing Bishop William Montgomery Brown for heresy after his church conviction. The House of Bishops approved the verdict and Brown was summoned to appear Monday for sentence, with Brown stating he would not attend.
Rome Italy Oct 10 Domizio Torringiana Grand Master of the Masonic order in Italy issued an order to all lodges to hold no meetings and cease work until further notice. The move followed Fascist Masonic clashes in Florence where several persons were killed.
Finance minister Caillaux and debt funding commission arriving from the United States dock at Havre on the steamship France this afternoon after a trip to the U.S. and discussion of funding needs.
Sir Esme Howard British ambassador to the United States sails from London to resume his post in Washington. He leaves on the Aquitania from Southampton after a vacation.
Fair and slightly colder with light frost in the north and a light front in the south tonight. Sunday will be fair with a rising temperature across the state.
The state case against W. B. Cole, wealthy cotton manufacturer of Reidsville, was given to the jury at 12:40 after thirty six hours of argument. The murder charge stems from the shooting of W. W. Ormond, once the sweetheart of Cole's daughter Elizabeth.
A blaze in Jennings Florida destroyed the J. E. Bradley cotton warehouse early today. Twenty bales of cotton and 150000 pounds of lint cotton were lost along with hay and other products valued at 40000 to 50000 dollars with no insurance.
Tampa report says a British syndicate supplying Florida with English and Bahamian liquors, valued at five hundred thousand weekly, operates from Plymouth and the West Indies with overland deliveries and is harassed by hijackers as disclosed by Commander Philip Hambach, Florida prohibition administrator aide.
The Rev. Julian B. Rodgers, 68, retired Baptist minister and prominent denomination figure, died at his Jacksonville home late yesterday from paralysis. Born in Waynesboro, Georgia, he moved to Jacksonville ten years ago from Atlanta.
In Locarno Switzerland on Oct 10 German and allied statesmen approved most points of the security pact draft in a second reading. They left two major questions for Monday consideration: Germany's entry into the League of Nations and France's special guarantee for Poland.
Moscow reports eight deaths this week in the district attributed to heavy consumption of the newly legalized forty per cent vodka. A movement against the new law has begun in some quarters.
The Anti Saloon League claims European and Canadian liquor interests flood the United States with poison gas propaganda against prohibition. The Quebec commission says it would be unprofitable for Canada if the United States ends prohibition.
Washington telegrams report the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne mother of Commander Zachary Lansdowne in Greenville Ohio. The notice was received by Mrs. Zachary Landsdowne in Washington D C.
The weather outlook for Washington D C begins with a forecast of unsettled conditions this week. Rain chances increase in the midweek period with cooler daytime temperatures and lingering humidity at night.
A 65 mile per hour wind postpones the Pulitzer speed classic and other events at Mitchell Field New York. Damage from the gale toppled high wind planes and broke wing supports while soldiers removed planes to prevent accidents during takeoff.
The seventh corps area commander Major George B. Duncan retires with quarters at Omaha. Acting Secretary Dwight F. Davis extends official thanks in a letter praising his service in war and peace.
John Worthington known as the Wolf of La Salle Street rests aboard a train to Atlanta where he will enter the federal penitentiary. The piece notes he weathered four crises during the night amid frenzied financial schemes as the trip begins. GA Tech defeats Penn State in a separate brief item.
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