Baseball Umpires and Crazy Players Stir 1890s Fans
The 1895 season brings strict new rules to curb abusive players while umpires must eject offenders or face fines. Chicago stays in the National League as star players like Anson and Stafford draw attention. British interest grows as England forms clubs and London hosts opening games, with Prince Albert Edward showing interest in the sport.
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Gladstone
Bismarck
Anson
Cayler
Chicago
Fional Resgue
Ike Tebeau
McGraw
Beckley
Doyle
Brodie
Latham
Tucker
Recond Paseman
James J. Stafford
Emilie
Young
I'hs
Lynch
Long
Boston
Hurst
McQuade and Botts
Billingsgate
Adrian
Galveston
Bismarcks
Ansons
Gladstones
South
London
Baseball Association
Prince of Wales
London Association
Prince Albert Edward
England
United States
Wemen
Bostons
Chicagu
Atlantic Coast
Old American Association
Ward
New Yorks
Stafford
Los Angeles
Davis
Jimmy
Augusta Club
California
New York
O. P. Catlor
Rhoda Cameron Shines in An Ideal Husband at Lyceum
Rhoda Cameron earns praise for her Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband at the New York Lyceum stock company. Rising from Daly’s chorus in 1891 she has quickly become a leading American society actress. Also notes on electric canal boats and a quip about James G Fair’s alleged family.
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Rhoda Cameron
Oscar Wilde
Lyceum Theater
New York
Miss Cameron
Augustin Daly
Cameron
Phoebe
Mrs. Briggs
Mrs. Racket
Swainsboro swindle artist J C Coleman traced across states
The swindle involved J C Coleman alias Col em an and Henry Smythe of Swainsboro. Coleman posed as a merchant sending orders for jewelry and watches via express to himself while using confederates tofront a wave of fraud across multiple towns including Hopkinsville and Macon. He was identified and pursued after an elaborate mail order scheme.
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Henry Smythe
Swainsboro
Singihe
J.C. Coleman
Athy Augusta
Ctien
Eprasame
J.C. CoLemax
W. H.C
Hopkinsville
Wachler
Tex
Catoula
Tuskahoma
I. T
San Lorenzo
Cal
Macon
Kirksville
California
Texareana
Cissy Loftus the Youngest High Priced Vaudeville Star
English girl Cissy Loftus, about 19, draws big pay in vaudeville and has mother Marie Loftus a noted singer. Her father, or husband, Justin Huntly McCarthy, is a writer and former British MP. The piece contrasts her rise with criticism of prize fighting as a money making scheme with padded reports and no real glamour.
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London
New York
Cissy
Loftus
Marie Loftus
Yvette Guilbert
Miss Loftus
Blackpool
Liverpool
Cisssy
Oxford Music Hall
Bliss Loftus
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Augustin Daly
St. Paul Globe
Mead Township Auditor Report on Accounts Sealed
Auditors certify the Mead Township accounts are correct after examining the detailed list of payments. Items include teachers' wages nine months institute attendance building repairs fuel secretary's salary treasurer's committee and a balance on hand June 1. W. R. Covsepresident and S. K MacKarry secretary attest to correctness.
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Mead Township
WL EL Henderson, Treas
Collectors’ Commission
W. RK. Henderson
Treas .Ur
W.R. Covse
K MceKarry
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James G. Fair
Windles
Feary Surythe
Turpertine and Lumber District
Georgia
Cissy Loftus
Warren la Tuition
Lal
JE. Warrastan
J. Quis
F.C. Trusler
Glade
Shedda
Nhedd
Ramblers
Clevelands
Spauldings
Fentons
Martin
Waverleys
Geo. N. Peirce & Co
Russell & Heck
Warren, PA
Warren County
Woodard
Tad
Frank W. Whitcomb
Third Street
Postoffice
olylarOffice
Tod P
ST. Neill
Hoffman Block
Samuels Bro Dry Goods Store
Liberty Enti Secon Streets
H. Perry
Warren
Water Street
Geo. Ball
Boeschein
Savings Bank Building
Humphrey & Nemoyer
Episcopal Church
J. K. Ronne
Wanamaker &Ie Brown
Celebrated Clothing
Hickory St
Warren, Penn’a
J.K. Ronne
T. Q. Slater & Co
Bissell
Milford
Goshen
Landers, Ferry and Clark
Manning, Bowman & Co’s
Pearl Agate
Winslow
Ferris
W. Jarvis
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