KiNG BASEBALL BACK FROM ELBA
National pastimes and presidents frame a lively baseball feature. The piece links public passion for baseball to figures like Taft and Roosevelt, extols star players such as Wagner and Mathewson, and muses on origins from England to Native American games while celebrating the sport’s growth and cultural grip.
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Boston
Willie
Willie Beacon Street
Terry Turner
United States
Hans Wagner
Ty Cobb
Hal Chase
Christy Mathewson
Cy Young
Frank Chane
Bl Bradley
Larry Lajete
Johnny King
Mordecai Brown
Gladiators
Fetting
Wien
The Major Seeks Treatment In An Unusual Bath
A British regimental major returning to London from India visits a famed doctor who prescribes a tepid bath in a four by two foot tub with sponge cleansing and soap followed by drying with a rough towel. The patient protests it resembles a bath, but the physician insists the regimen is needed.
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India
London
Only goodness can be strong
The poem declares that wealth and land fade, power passes, and only enduring virtue remains. It counsels wisdom for the heart and soul, urging steadfastness in goodness over transient worldly fortunes. The author referenced is Richard Ifenry Stoddard.
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Richard Ifenry Stoddard
Young Louisville businessman entertains wary guest with bath mishap
A Louisville entrepreneur hosted a visiting buyer at his bachelor apartment. During a bath the guest cried for help, revealing he had soaked up all the water after accidentally displacing the stopper and draining the tub, causing a humorous moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Bill
Louisville Times
Editor Sends Writer To Stone Yard After Tale
A redirected, struggling author bursts into the editorial sanctum to present a story. The editor, busy and resigned, tells him to take the piece to the nearest stone yard, declaring it unfit for an editorial office. The scene ends with a sharp rebuke and a reminder of the office’s purpose.
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Weill
Casper
Stone Yard
Dublin cabman drinks whisky in field trip court
A Dublin cabman testified after a country trip that a fare hid a quart of Irish whisky under the cab seat and he shared it with the horse. He claimed he was not drunk but on the defensive, prompting the judge to press about his condition.
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Klaus Wagner
Pittsburg
Lajoie
Cobb
Wagner
Gus
Louisville
Paterson
N. J
Haas
Dublin
Eabby
Wanted Only Hustlers Stetson Berates Trombone Player
Theat regulars recall manager Stetson scolding a tromboneist during a rehearsal. The musician claimed nineteen bars of rest, but Stetson refused to tolerate resting and ordered the player to join in or leave.
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Stetson
Hackett recalls boastful rival at Rockland County banquet
Assemblyman John C. Hackett tells of a Rockland county banquet where he admitted poor public speaking skills. A lanky guest interrupted to claim he is the worst speaker, insisting on a public demonstration before the toast. The exchange ends with Hackett continuing his remarks.
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John C. Hackett
New York
Rockland County
The Waiter’s Mistake at the Lunch Counter
A fastidious man hurrying to a train stops for a bite at a restaurant. He notices yellow egg stains on his napkin and gasps at the napkin. The waiter, with a calm face, reveals he folded it the wrong way, not stained.
Do It Now Do It Despite Any Hesitation
Motivational note urges facing tasks head on and completing them. It frames work as a partner with divine providence, insisting that the only path to relief from reluctance is to begin and persist in honest labor.
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F. B. Meyer
A Sailor's Compliment and a Connecticut Diary Toast
The item recalls Miss Margot Tennant’s charm on a Norway cruise with Tennyson and Gladstone aboard Sir Daniel Currie’s yacht. It recounts a sailor's marriage reply to Tennant and includes a Connecticut diary quip from 1790 about roast pork and Mother Eve.
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Margot Tennant
Gladstone
Tennyson
Norway
Daniel Currie
Mr. Gladstone
Miss Tennant
Connecticut
Mother Eve
Buying an Ancestor in Wardour Street tale
The famed reviewer Abraham Hayward sought a Cromwellian era portrait in Wardour Street but balked at the price. Weeks later he learned the buyer had become Lord Houghton’s guest and the portrait, an ancestor of Houghton, would have nearly been Hayward’s own ancestor in a curious twist of fate.
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Abraham Hayward
London
Wardour Street
Hayward
Mr. Hayward
Lord Houghton
Milnes
WICKERSHAM TO SPEAK AT APPOMATTOX DAY DINNER
Attorney General Wickersham Gov. Eberhart and Judge Emory Spear headline the Appomattox day dinner in Chicago tonight. Wickersham travels with President Taft’s approval and will address on "The Administration."
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Chicago
Wickersham
Gov
Eberhart
Minnesota
Emory Spear
Georgia
Taft
Taft to Attend League Banquet at Arlington
President Taft will sit at the head table of the League of Republican State clubs banquet in Washington. Noted Republicans from across the nation will attend along with speakers Senator Lodge Representative William B. McKinley and Representative J. Hampton Moore.
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United States
Chicago
New York
Winds City
Baseball Park
Taft
Christy Mathewson
Mordecai Brown
Windy City
Mathewson
Brown
Tenney
Evers
Devil
Tinker
Chance
Fraw
Washington
League of Republican State Clubs
Arlington
Senator Lodge
William B. McKinley
J. Hampton Moore
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John D. Rockefeller
Jim Jeffries
Black Hand Society
Anson
August Sterrmann
National Commission
Supreme Court of Baseball
John A. Heydler
National League
Heydler
Frank Chance
Chicagos
Feld
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Ufe
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Patty
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Mason Transfer & Storage ‘Company
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