Sandlot Sponsors Sought as Semi Pro Baseball Grows
In Pittsburgh in May 912 Honus Wagner recalls depression era sandlot trouble due to dwindling sponsors and more costly financing. He notes 1935 rise with the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress sponsoring 48 state tournaments culminating in Wichita finals with a 5000 dollar guarantee and a sponsor guide listing all teams and managers.
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Semi-Pro Baseball Congress publicity boosts sponsors
In 1938, Honus explains efforts to attract sponsors to semi pro baseball by offering official state titles, national advertising through a guide, and player contract protections under a national system modeled after organized baseball. Each league joining receives a trophy. benefits come from sporting goods stores or direct mail to president Raymond Dumont of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress in Wichita, Kansas.
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Mrs Alice Friend Pneumonia At Daughter's Home
Riverside May 13 Those from this vicinity attending funeral services for Joseph Hise at Richmond Tuesday were Anthony Kron Mrs Mary Kern Mr and Mrs C V Dautremont and son Clement Miss Matilda Wieland Rose Kasper Miss Mildred Schneider and Frank Bopp Mrs William Griffin and two daughters Miss Margaret Jane and Mary Gertrude have returned from a visit of a few days with Mrs Fagan at Casey Iowa Mr and Mrs Frank Droll and family of Iowa City visited here with his mother Mrs Mary M
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Clement
Matilda Wieland
Rose Kasper
Mildred Sehneider
Frank Bopp
William Griffin
Margaret Jane
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Fagan
Casey
Iowa
Frank Drol
Iowa City
Mary M
Ainsworth Senior Class to Present Mama's Baby Boy
Ainsworth May 15 The senior class play Mama's Baby Boy will be performed tonight and tomorrow in the high school auditorium. The comedy aims to elicit many laughs from the audience. Baccalaureate services are scheduled Sunday evening at the United Presbyterian church with processions, hymns, a sermon by Rev. S. Fred Sharpe, and musical selections.
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Shook Song
Rural power line project approved for 400 miles
Des Moines reports the Iowa Railroad Commission sanctioned a 1400 mile rural electrification plan for Benton County Rural Electric Cooperative with 400 miles to be constructed. Bids set for May 25 and work to begin June 10 with power from Iowa Electric and Power Co. Other rural coops gained small line expansions and related notices follow.
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Benton County Rural Electric Cooperative
State Railroad Commission
George Charlesworth
Iowa Electric and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
Hardin County Rural Electric Cooperative
Calhoun County Rural Electric Cooperative
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