26 May 1909
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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1909
Page
1
An advertisement offers racing picks and a guaranteed winning system. It promises insider knowledge of race records and tracks, claiming to forecast winners at Nace Track. It lists contact details in Ogden and Salt Lake for daily race track guidance and a schedule from 9 to 10:30 am and 9 pm.
Ed Corrigan once ruled Chicago racing as the Master of Hawthorne, building tracks and clashing with rivals. Once wealthy, his fortunes sank after mounting losses and broken ventures across Hawthorne, Inglewood, Tanforan, and other tracks, ending with dwindling race colors and fading prominence.
Daily baseball brief with multiple games across cities. Leyte defeats Osuln 5 to 8 while Morgan leads in scoring. Detroit beats Washington 7 to 4, with Groom ejected in the fourth. Philadelphia shells Cleveland 13 to 3 as Falkenberg struggles. Pittsburg edges Boston 6 to 5 with two homers by Mann and Bowton’s drive. New York tops St Louis 1 to 0, Sparks and Jethe duel on the mound. Continuous summaries mention several other matchups and box scores from May games.
In Chicago, Baltics and Breenahan pair toped by Raymond and Schiel face off as umpires Vehneton and Cateack. The page recounts Brooklyn’s late rally to beat Chicago 4 3, with Sinfftaan's seventh inning gem and Grerall's clutch catch, plus other score lines from Aberdeen Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver games with limited details.
Sacramento beat Vernon 2 to 1 in 12 innings as Ferramento and Harkins drove in the decisive run. Los Angeles lost to Oakland 4 to 1 while San Francisco defeated Portland 4 to 2. Oakland and Los Angeles pitchers worked strong outings amid errorful defense.
The derby headlines a sensational race at Epsom Downs with King Edward’s odds uncertain. Sinora leads as a strong contender for the $1225 purse, while Almaeh’s colt showed rapid improvement and is billed to challenge in the classic. Sir Startin, from John B. Madden’s Kentucky farm, enters in top form after the Winter Plate efforts.
Fragmentary text references qreele and apm era, foreign and American contingents, and a king leading past the stand in a dreamt scenario. No American stable entries are present, but British and foreign crowds are described as ready to go wild if the king leads.
In Salt Lake on May 25 four favorites captured purses at the Utah track. Walk through a sequence of six races shows first race winner Jones with Firet, second race May Bride with Camera second, third race Maxapan leading Grotto second, and fourth race Rey El Bundo topping Lady Kitty with Spring Han third. Also noted are entries Canary Wer La Chata and Corrigan plus other runners.
A French group of physicians studying school children discuss the “dunce” stereotype. They argue environmental factors and poor instruction contribute to dullness, noting some bright minds lag in youth but mature into capable adults. Emphasizes careful school selection and tailored training to foster later success.
In Ploehe May 2 considerable activity marks the Prince district with Golden Prince and Gold and Silver Prince shafts. A 2y horsepower Alamo hoist with compressor is installed at the latter, ore shows at 120 feet and develops to 140 feet drift from the 400 level. Pincke King shaft deepens toward 300 feet as mineralization boosts prospecting and shipments. Prince Consolidated has shipped 100 tons of low grade manganese ore to the Tin smelter last week, with costlier shipments expected.
Salt Lake City May 25 after three months of negotiation the Bingham Mines company finally signed an ore treatment contract with the American Smelting and Refining company for ores from the Dalton and Lark mine Tigore property yields lead. after a brief diversion to Knight smelter at Tintle the ore has been sent to the AS&R smelter at Murray since May 1. Terms improved slightly for Brogham Mines though public details remain limited. The deal is expected to accelerate project progress.
Rear Admiral Sperry, famed for a reputation of dignity, watches a group of children being shown a Connecticut exhibit and remarks on their intelligence. An aide prompts a remark about what the children will tell their parents, provoking a brief exchange about whether they will report it home.
A New York business man muses that waiting tables or similar jobs offer freedom from a fixed climate. He recalls a waiter who plans to go to Paley Beach in January to work in warmer weather, a yearly habit to escape winter here, unlike the speaker who must stay.
A garbled dialogue fragment describes trouble at a house, a hidden wallet clue, a tailor’s pockets, and a quarrel sparked by a wife’s actions as the tale unfolds with misprints and unclear names, ending with a boastful line about the incident.
A highly garbled OCR snippet shows fragmented lines of verse and dialogue. Phrases reference a horn, a burst of pavale, and a directive to make it dance a dirge or march, with stray mentions of "Cartpie New to Him" and a character asking why someone stays out late. Overall appears as literary scraps rather than a coherent news item.
A chaotic fragment from a Yonkers area sports page notes a crippled game and claims of 100 percent faith in a revolutionized football event. The piece references Yonkers Starewan and a disrupted schedule with unclear details.
A garbled OCR fragment references a paper, a person named Mellow, a 24 hour period, a kneging in a park, and a warrant issued by Larian and WAST with an instruction to bring WG ENSebis, suggesting an arrest or legal notice context with unclear names and actions.
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