Our Own Tour Folks From Warren and Ol Creek League
In May 1895 the Iron and Oil league formed in western Pennsylvania with Sharon Franklin Oil City Titusville New Castle and Warren joining. Warren entered late but soon proved strong going on a swing around the circle winning five of nine on the trip while Franklin Wheeling and Twin City faltered. The Warren club showcased deep pitching led by Bar Vickery Carrick and a brilliant infield led by A Wagner Ritchey Russell J Wagner Ballach Leamon Cooper and Rickert with Smith behind the plate. The article labels Twin City and others as quitters while praising Warren as the strongest club outside the National League.
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Iron and Oil League of Baseball Clubs
Sharon
Franklin
Oil City
Titusville
New Castle
Warren
Twin City
Pennsylvania
Wheeling
Bar
Vickery
Carrick
McGinnis
Chamberlain
A. Wagner
Ritchey
J. Wagner
Russell
Ballach
Leamon
Cooper
Rickert
Smith
Hostetter's Remedies and Local League News
An old advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventative for malaria rheumatism and other ailments, recommending it after exposure to cold damp miasma. The text also notes Franklin leaving the league, a planned independent schedule with Ou City, Titusville’s potential exit, and a four-club season with Warren likely to win the pennant.
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Hostetter
Franklin
Ou City
Titusville
Warren
Bucknell University offers courses and academy options
Bucknell University presents four study programs and an academy for boys and a ladies institute with school of music. Registrar W D Gretzinger, Lewisburg PA, lists catalogue details and a rare note on investing nearly a million dollars in the institution. Also mentions a medical patent/rheumatic cure offered by L G Noyes & Co Warren PA with a 75 cent dose.
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Bucknell University
John Howard Harris
President College
Academy For Boys
Ladies Institute
School of Music
W. D. Gretzinger
Lewisburg
L. G Noyes & Co
Warren, Pa
Canadian Campers At Camp Conewango Share Rustic Feasts And Bear Tale
Advance sheets from Camp Conewango Canada recounts fourteen tents at the lake head camp life with a Broadway style kitchen run by a Montreal chef. A dramatic bear encounter ends with a knife bound to a pole, a failed kill, and both hunters reflecting on rash action. The group later honors L R Freeman with a gold locket, pays a Thanksgiving dinner for fifty, and notes many visitors and a village like camp life before sending off the letter.
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Conewango
Can
Warren
Montreal
McAlpin
Theo Messner
Mac
O. C. Allen
L. R. Freeman
Philadelphia
Freeman
Mr. Allen
James Fisher
Jamestown
Canadian Pacific Completes Two Fast Military Trains
Montreal August 27. The Canadian Pacific Railroad has finished two special military trains of eleven cars and an engine each with capacity for nearly 400. The fast trains aim to cover the Atlantic to Pacific route in five and a half days, enabling rapid troop and supply movement across the country.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
Canadian Pacific
Atlantic
Pacific
Anarchists Released After Infernal Machine Arrests
Paris August 26 thirty anarchists arrested on suspicion in connection with the explosion that injured M Jacobsky, confidential clerk of Baron Alphonz de Rothschild, were released this morning for want of evidence. No origin for the device is known, with belief it was the act of a single anarchist rather than an organized group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Jacobsky
Baron Alphonz de Rothschild
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Ol Creek
Allegheny
Sarsaparilla
Webster’s International
Ited Fy
Gov't Printing Office
D. J. Brewer
U. 3
Supreme Court
T. Case
Penn’a
Allen & Langley
Second St
Warren, Penn’a
W. Jarvis
Water St
Morck
Morckbros
Hank
Agency of American and
Anchor Lines of Ocean Steamships
A. J Hazeltine
O. W. Beaty
G. B. Ensworth
Geo. H. Jackson
Assi Cashier
A. W. Beaty
M B. Durham
Lo R_ Freeman
LB. Wood A Stone
James Clark
A.J. Hazeltine
W. M Lindsey
T. O. Slater & Co
General Hardware
Carroll
Gurney
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