Baseball Scores From New York to St. Louis and Boston
A dense score recap covering games across the circuit. New York and Pittsburg split a doubleheader with wide margins, Brooklyn beat St. Louis in a low scoring affair, Boston routed Cincinnati, and Chicago plus Philadelphia logged multiple hits with varying errors. Batteries listed for each matchup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pittsburg
Vittsbure
Maddox
Brandon
Gibson
Mathewson
Bresnahan
Needham
Dope Oes
Vittsburg
Cannitz
Leever
Vail
Wiltie
McGinnity
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Lusi
Bliss
Rucker
Dunn
RAE
Cess
Sallee
Moranlyn
Bell
Farmer
Boston
Nnati
Cincinnati
Errore
Rowan
Philadelphia
Chicago
Kling
McQuillen
Jacklitsch
Washington
Johnson
Walsh
Shaw
Sullivan
Detroit
Ee Sotk
Wits
Brrors
Chesbro
Blair
Winters
Payne
Cleveland
Arrelisnes
Donohue
Rhodes
Leimils
Slater
Powers
Powell
Smith
St. Tovis
Philadelphia Coombs
Lapp
Sineen
Spencer
National
Ex Judge Van Fleet Found Dead in California Lodging House
The body of Charles G. Van Fleet, former Colorado Supreme Court judge, was discovered in a Los Angeles lodginghouse. He had ingested cyanide of potassium and had been dead for some time. Van Fleet moved to California six years ago and lived on a ranch near San Jacinto.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Charles G. van Fleet
Supreme Court of Colorado
Judge van Fleet
California
Colorado
San Jacinto
Humor For the Scotch Gets a Highland Verdict
A clever remark about Scots in a mixed gathering drew silence until a Highland veteran spoke. He said Scots take American jokes seriously, examining them critically and laughing heartily only if they find wit. The quote contrasts quick laughter with careful judgment among Scots in the republic.
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Scotland
Republic
Highlands
New York Press
Britain Accepts Franco-Spanish Morrocan Note
Paris dispatch reports the foreign office announces Great Britain has accepted fully and without reserve the Franco-Spanish note on the Moroccan situation.
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John Bull
Paris
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Battleship Fleet Leaves Australia for Manila Run
Albany Western Australia reports the United States fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry has departed for Manila, a 3600 mile voyage with expected arrival around September 2. The move shifts battle group readiness as the squadron sails southeast toward the Pacific theater.
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Australia
Albany
Western Australia
United States
Sperry
Manila
SHORT CUTS AND THE ART OF THE QUICK LIFE
A columnist extols shortcuts in daily life urging quick efficient action. It praises terse speech, streamlined housework, machine sewing, and selective reading while warning against useless wandering and unnecessary details to conserve time and energy. The piece argues trimming steps leads to faster success with less effort.
Austrian boy meets Emperor Francis Joseph in Budapest
A Hungarian capital tale recalls a 12 year old Austrian boy in a Budapest street who waved at the emperor for six years. The emperor noticed his absence one day in April and sent a messenger. He promised to fund education and an officer career if the youth is fit.
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Budapest
Francis Joseph
The West Indies migratory crab life journey
The West Indies migratory crab is described as unique for its life cycle. It hatches in the sea, matures in fresh water, then spends the rest of its life on land.
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West Indies
Small Scholar's Wish Next Door to a Zoo
A playful verse from a Normal Instructor imagines living beside a zoo with animal friends as helpers in daily tasks. Each animal offers a fanciful aid from adder summations to geography quests, while exotic creatures provide companionship and light the night.
Telegram Game Practice in Quick Composition Activity
A classroom warm up assigns ten players or more to name alphabet letters in turn. Each writes the sequence on their sheet and crafts a ten word telegram using the ten starting letters in order. Example letters J T O R B H A E D L yield telegraph lines like Johnny tumbled off roof broke his arm send doctor immediately.
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Johnny
Had His Likes
A southern city boy voices his preference for pie over grammar in a family moment. The child admires sweets, especially cherry pie his mother bakes, and asks to eat another piece, prompting a light correction about language from his mother.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Caring for Milk and Hygiene Rules for Home Health
An old public health appeal stresses pasteurized milk, clean handling, and strict hygiene. It warns against dirt in milk and unclean bottles, urging care from milkmen and housekeepers alike. It highlights that proper milk care protects babies and underscores women's essential role in maintaining sanitary homes.
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Earth
Household Notes From Practical Homemaking Guide
Advice on choosing a heavy grape fruit and avoiding light dry fruit. Tips for polishing a looking glass with whiting, drying cloth, and cold water. Canned fruits opened early regain flavor. To peel salt ham or tongue, plunge in cold water briefly. Cabbage boiling over is prevented by stirring down and adding a walnut sized lard piece. Clean candlesticks by boiling water and drying. Dry clean lace with flour and rework. or use French chalk between book pages.
Markets Report From Chicago Board Of Trade Quotations
Chicago Sept 18 price quotes show wheat corn oats pork lard short ribs and cash sales with mixed futures. Live stock receipts in Chicago and East Buffalo with varying demand and ranges for hogs cattle sheep and calves noted.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Leon
Close
Ilinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
NO VEGETABLE INTELLIGENCE DISCUSSION AT WASHINGTON BUREAU
Washington bureau of plant industry comments on English claims of vegetable intelligence. Albert Woods acknowledges plant sensitivity to light and moisture but rejects any plant visual reproduction or mind. He jokes that such theories would not justify a society for cruelty to plants.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Francis Darwin
Harold Wager
Albert F. Woods
England
Woods
Society For the Prevention of
Mr. Woods
He Who Laughs Last
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote about a fat train passenger and a teasing passenger who jokes about yeast. The fat woman replies with a counter barb about raising and breeding, leaving the car amused and the story repeated by others.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mrs Pinkham Invites Help to Young Women for Sickness
Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts has long invited young girls to write about their sickness. She is a mother and understands. In nine cases out of ten the letters mirror the readers’ cases, offering guidance and sympathy.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted for Female Health
A nineteenth century advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ills. It cites letters from Miss Abby F Barrows of Nelsonville Ohio and Miss Elsie L Hook of Chelsea Vermont praising relief from nervousness headaches backache irregularities and menstrual pains. The copy claims thirty years of use and wide cures of displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and related symptoms encouraging readers to try it.
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Abby F. Barrows
Nelsonville
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Caro
Wetherell
Master Binks
Candy Bear
Tommy Binks
Household Notes
Foley
Foley’s
Foley & Company
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Washington, D
Frank Rogers
Studer
Sprague Correspondence School OF Law
Detroit, Mich
Tisfactory
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Lemmen
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