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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1917
Page
1
The schedule lists games this week featuring Balt Lake against Portland, Angeles visiting Oakland, and San Francisco at Vernon with several teams on the road.
Salt Lake reports Dill iBeroband’s Lees start a seven game series against Walter McCredie’s Portland club. The piece notes uneven form, struggling defenses, and prior head‑to‑head results as the race for the pennant tightens in the Pacific Coast League.
Indianapolis Aug 6 National Amateur Baseball Association outlines fall playoff structure for four divisions East South West Central West. Lowry of Indianapolis bans four sectional directors and adopts elimination format with games set for September 16 to October 23 across Omaha Minneapolis Lincoln St Paul Detroit Louisville Indianapolis and Pittsburg. Final champions, with Houston advancing through rounds, to be decided later, next meeting slated for Louisville in February.
Ohio Aug. 6 Peter Pointer the 3 year old pacing colt from Ohio won the main stake with a 2 05 time in a swift 3309 Eyhowe heat. Walter Cochato kept pace but Pointer led the final duel after a dramatic finish. The program awards a 3400 purse for the 2:03 pace and lists other heats with Woodman and Ramco among notable runners.
Berlin reports a Liberal press volley over Chancellor Michaelis and his Prussian ministry selections. Newspapers view the reappointment as partial and not systemic, with Vorwaerts praising reformist intent while Tageblatt sees the ministers as capable but not expanding parliamentary power. League standings and team alignments appear in the same era’s political and athletic briefings.
American League results from Chicago Philadelphia St Louis and New York with rain delays. St Louis won 1 0 in a ninth inning squeeze and Washington edged St Louis in eleven. Philadelphia beat Chicago 4 2 as Mendrit's error plagued the Cubs. Mogridge sparked New York to a Detroit win with multi hit game. Burns drove in four for Detroit. Philadelphia also beat Chicago 4 0 with Pelser and Madlans home run scenes.
Washington August 2 Continued decrease in express company profits shown in April statistics. Total operating income fell from $7,014,000 to nearly $9,000,000 in expenses, with overall April income at $160,950, a drop of over 60 percent from 1916 figures while gross revenues rose about $2,600,000. Only Northern and Southern lines reported profit gains. Adams operated at a loss.
A damaged OCR fragment presents Nancy's tense home scene with her mother urging rest and quiet. The text shows Nancy resisting authority, claiming a desire to stay up, revealing early family friction and a child’s defiant response in a Chicago newspaper excerpt.
In Malad District residents report distant aircraft sounds and sightings last night. Witnesses say the planes were seen by several people and may be the same craft previously observed near Ogden, fueling speculation about their origin and purpose.
Mrs Blanca de Saulles held in county jail for the murder of her former husband John Longer Saulles. After three physicians examined her, her attorney announced the plan to seek hospital removal as her life was endangered in prison. The Saulles family prepared to travel from Valparaiso to New York with relatives to aid her, aiming to secure custody of their children.
Washington Aug 7 The Men’s Christian Association ship ment of tobacco for American troops in France has been lost Paris reports no suitable tobacco to replace it Red Cross council accepted Liggett Myrra to donate 1 600 000 cigarettes 20009 packages and 10000 cuts of dieting tobacco for the soldiers France will admit the tobacco free of duty and other articles for the troops Provo Aug 6 H C Jet reports cost of site for federal hatchery at Springville total 21031 80 with 20500 from government Board considers additional contributions Magna county assessor seeks verified balance sheet copy for Utah Waho Sugar company December 30 1916 and notes unsatisfied value and factory details Read more.
A jumbled column sketches Jack London in conversation with a noted samaritan musician and recollections of childhood food and rescue. It then shifts to a noisy passenger in a railway car and a witty exchange about Turkey and Constantinople. Other vignettes depict Mrs Drady’s legal peril, a quarrel in a marriage, a comic exchange over a kiss and smoke, a lawyer’s boastful line, and a note on unequal pay for women schoolteachers in Ireland.
Nero the elephant of the Ringling Brothers tour is described as a seasoned traveler, having crossed the Atlantic and visited many regions. The piece notes his size, temperament, and the miles he has logged, alongside a schedule for when elephants will enter the show after the rain ends.
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