Western New York and Pennsylvania towns eye new league
The New York Sun notes an proposed baseball league with Olean Jamestown Corning and Cornell in New York and Bradford Meadville Greenville Kane Warren and Oil City in Pennsylvania among the prominently mentioned berth locations in the upcoming circuit.
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New York Sun
New York
Pennsylvania
Olean
Jamestown
Corning
Cornell
Bradford
Meadville
Greenville
Kane
Warren
Oil City
Warren Triumphs Over Titusville 31-9 In Football Clash
Warren High School defeated Titusville 31 to 9 on a Saturday afternoon. The game featured Warren with stars including Miller and Ingersoll while Titusville was led by Roth Felton Conoway and Galbreath. Touchdowns were credited to Miller.
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Titusville
Warren High School
Tare
Daly
Millard
Wisconsin Opens State Life Insurance For Citizens
Wisconsin begins state life insurance with policies issued after medical exams. The Insurance Department and Health Board supervise plans including ordinary life, twenty payment life, ten year endowment, and endowment at sixty five for applicants aged twenty to fifty.
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Wisconsin
Insurance Department
H. L. “Hern
State Board of Health
New Hydroaeroplane Tested by Federal Engineers
A new hydroaeroplane built at the Washington navy yard will undergo an early Potomac River test. If successful it will go to Annapolis naval station. Army Signal Corps officers Park Golder Jr Brereton are ordered to Hammond sport New York for flying instructions.
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Naval
Potomac River
Washington Navy Yard
Naval Station Corps
Annapolis
Signal Corps
Army
Joseph D. Park
Lewis E. Godier, Jr
L. W. Brereton
Hamanendsport
N. Y
Indian Chief Dies at 120 in Traverse City
The Pottawattomie elder known as Indian chief born on the Chicago river banks 120 years ago died recently in Traverse City Michigan after living in a Cedar hut for fifteen years his surviving son cared for him. He recalled early Indian wars with clear memory and was once attended by Senator Joe Manitou.
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Joe Manitou
Chicago River
Traverse City
Mich
Michigan
Illinois
Fet
Cedar
Murphy and McCullough Lead With Goal From Touchdowns
Galbreath scores as Murphy and McCullough dominate with goals from touchdowns. Umpire Mc Graw referee Klepfer and linesmen King and Ward oversee ten minute quarters.
Bedient Tops AL Pitchers With 20 Wins and .667
Hugh Rube Bedient of Falconer ranked fifth among American League twirlers last season with a .667 winning percentage. He won 20 games and lost 10 in 41 appearances, totaling 231 innings. He struck out 122, allowed 206 hits and 98 runs, with 56 walks and two wild pitches and balks.
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Hugh “Rube
Bedient
Falconer
Baskette
Cleveland
Joe Wood
Boston
Plank
Philadelphia
Johnson
Washington
Coombs
Dr Carl L Alsberg Named Chief Chemist for Agriculture
President Taft selected Dr Carl L Alsberg to succeed Tarvey W Wiley as chief chemist of the department of agriculture. Alsberg, 35, heads the poisonous plant laboratory and is a Columbia and College of Physicians and Surgeons graduate with studies in Germany. He led biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School 1906 to 1908 and was endorsed by noted scientists including Dr David Starr Jordan and Felix Adler.
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Taft
Carl L. Alsberg
Tarvey W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Alsberg
Dr. Alsberg
Bureau of Plant Industry
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Princeton University
George A. Hubert
Creased Trousers Rule for Treasury Clerks
The United States treasury sets a dress code with creased trousers as required for all clerks. An expense allowance of one dollar weekly covers pressing clothes, with caps on spending. Travel rules allow up to six dollars daily in New York and five dollars in other similar cities, plus fifty cents for tipping.
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United States Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
New York
St. Louis
Spanking For Redskins Under Warner Drill
Carlisle, Pa November 21 The Carlisle Indians adopt a tribal drill under Pop Warner to punish signal mistakes. Each miscue prompts a spanking from every teammate with Wallette first to be punished and Bergie later taking his due in the prep for the season’s closing games.
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Carlisle
Carlisle Indians
Pop” Warner
Warner
Pennsylvania
Wallette
Bergie
Duel on Lofty Trestle Ends in Death Above Valley
In Martin Pennsylvania two men fought on a 200 foot high trestle of West Penn Traction. Leon Borisch died after plunging from the girder and Jose Becera, fatally wounded, was found clinging to the trestle body work by workers who watched from the ravine.
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Martin
West Penn Traction Company
Leon Borisch
Jose Becera
Borisch
Becera
Monkey the pug buried after costly illness
In Cincinnati on November 21 a pug named Monkey owned by Mrs Harry Jackson was laid to rest in a humane society provided lot. The 20 year old dog traveled about 5000 miles with its owner and over 3000 dollars was spent on veterinary care in his final years. Four veterinarians attended, and neighbors sent flowers to the funeral.
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Cincinnati
Monkey
Harry Jackson
Humane Society
Jackson
Doctor Rebuilds Agnes Ober into Walking Child
Dr J D Singly of the Children s Hospital reports a series of operations that nearly rebuilt five year old Agnes Ober born a cripple with a crooked spine and paralyzed limbs The spine was straightened hips and knees reset and cast and braces removed now she walks unaided and is expected to become normal after recovery by surgeons notes in Pittsburg Nov 21
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Pittsburg
J. D. Singley
Children’s Hospital
Agnes Ober
Escape In Mill Race Near Carlisle During Services
Thieves attempted to loot a Lisburn mill during church services but fled as residents saw a light. More than 50 men formed a search to surround the mill with Charles S. Boyer leading the effort. The robbers escaped by wading through the mill race.
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Carlisle
Lisburn
Charles S. Boyer
Cement Awarded to Atlas for Panama Canal
The Isthmian commission in Allentown Pennsylvania awarded Atlas Portland Cement company the contract to supply all cement for completing the Panama canal. The firm had previously received the original cement contract around five years ago and has shipped about 6,000,000 barrels to date.
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Allentown
The
Isthmian Commission
Atlas Portland Cement Company
Panama Canal
Atlas Company
Child Burned to Death in Tamaqua Fire
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania on November 21 eleven year old Anderea Forte died after her clothing caught fire while she burned rubbish at her home.
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Tamaqua
Anderea Forte
Homeless Indians figure in official tally amid Congress debate
A government official says 7 977 Indians are homeless as wards of the nation. Democrats hold a House majority of 159 per unofficial clerk tallies. The item notes partisan control and a national roster while reporting a fraught political moment.
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Minnie le Valley
W. J. Bryan
House
Congress
Gladys E. Myers
Greenburg
New York
Trousseau
Christmas Circle Investment Offer Boosts Deposits
The circular promises a 50 percent bonus on all deposits up to 100 dollars made before Christmas, with escalating bonuses for higher amounts. It touts deep discounts on pianos and player pianos, a $1 joining fee refundable if no purchase, and invites readers to join immediately for full benefits.
New Democratic House to Tackle Currency Reform
Saturday report notes the new Democratic House will address currency reform as the first act of Woodrow Wilson's administration. Russia pledges support to Servia for a Adriatic port claim, while Andrew Carnegie claims he paid the state tax after deeming local assessments confiscatory. Vilhjalmur Stefansson plans another Arctic expedition to locate a possible continent. James B McNamara expresses regret over not getting General Otis per Ortie McManigal testimony in Indianapolis.
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New Democratic House
Woodrow Wilson
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Adriatic
Andrew Carnegie
New York City
Vilhimar Stefansson
Arctic
James B. McNamara
General Otis
The
Los Angeles Times
Ortie McManigal
Indianapolis
Sudden death probe and murder hunt across cities
Monday reports say Mrs. Florence Cavileer Smith of Springfield O is before a special grand jury. New York police search for a girl and three men in connection with the murder of the Springfield woman whose body was found in a Georgetown Conn mill pond. Servian parliament president says King Peter’s army stands ready to fight Austria over Adriatic port demand. Lake navigation ends Dec 1 and coal mined will ship to the Atlantic seaboard avoiding shortages in New York.
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Florence Cavileer Smith
Springfield
New York
Georgetown
Conn
Peter
Austria
Adriatic
Atlantic Seaboard
Gibson Trial Opens for Murder in Goshen New York
Tuesday's proceedings expose the murder case against Burton W. Gibson in Goshen New York as the trial begins. Separate items report a driver fainting after a car overturn near Camden New Jersey injuring seven, four fatally. Mme Calve's laryngeal infection may end her singing career according to specialists. Commander Hughes recalls his Vera Cruz defense and saving the city. A New York East Side syndicate is said to have insured the lives of Jack Rose and Bridgie Webber, courting London underwriters.
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Burton W. Gibson
Szabo
Goshen
N. Y
Camden
N. J
Mme
Calve
St. Louis
Charles F. Hughes
Des Moines
Vera Cruz
New York
Jack Rose
Bridgie Webber
Lieyds
London
Mistakenly Shot Friend Wounds Alden Soules
Alden Soules of Springfield Massachusetts is shot by a friend while mistaken for a deer and may die. Surgeons in Swedish Hospital Brooklyn remove bone pressing on brain from a seven year old boy who speaks again after birth. The U S Supreme Court rules the bathtub trust illegal and bans monopolies in unpatented product of a patented machine.
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Alden Soules
Springfield
Mass
Supreme Court of the United States
Swedish Hospital
Brooklyn
United States Supreme Court
Mrs Hetty Green to mark 77th birthday in office
Mrs Hetty Green is expected to celebrate the 77th anniversary of her birth today by attending to business in her office. A New Undertaker demonstrates strangulation test in court at the murder trial of Burton W. Gibson in Goshen New York. Gravesend Bay property owners file plans for a new breakwater to extend New York waterfront and shelter 2 000 foot piers the army engineers will review.
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Hetty Green
Atending
New York
Rosa Menschik
Burton W. Gibson
Goshen
N. Y
Roosevelt
Woodruff
New York City
Moose State Committee
Gravesend Bay
Army Division
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W. F. Frederick Piano CO
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