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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1910
Page
16
Gretchen G. wins at a long 40 to 1 in the Lorne Handicap feature card event. The upset comes as outsiders surge past heavy favorite Odds-On Favorite, with Creston pressed to the finish.
A list of race results from Jacksonville shows horses such as Gold Dust, Zacatecas, Home Run, Lager, Earla Court, Ragman, Ford, McAndrews, Ramon Carona, Gona M, Flora Flley and others with various odds from win to place. The text notes winners and runners, with scattered comments on performance and upcoming rides.
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A garbled recap notes Bobby Cook losing at Tampa to M Andrews with surrounding mentions of placements and sprinter times. The fragmentary text names several runners including Cole Brat and Yona WA among others, with scattered odds and event cues.
The page lists numerous entries for today's races featuring horses such as Flora Billex 107 and Venatx Strame in six furlongs, with starters including Daly B Crouse Frank Patton and Syedroids. It details multiple events across fifth and sixth races, noting age groups from two years old up to open class, with several named horses and handlers mentioned in a dense, OCR-derived format.
The twelfth annual cable chess match between Great Britain and the United States opened with Americans in Brooklyn and Britons in London. Early games favored the British as Marstall held a strong position and three American games appeared hopeful for the Brits. Tomorrow’s play is expected hard fought with no late conclusions anticipated. Meanwhile Brockett plans to retire from baseball after informing Manager Stengel he will not join the New York Yankees at Athens Georgia due to an unrecoverable injury and will undergo surgery to remove his damaged knee.
A garbled OCR page lists multiple duckpin leagues and names players and scores for Postoffice surpl ies and several clubs including Commercial Duckpsy League and Interdenominational Duckpin League. The column shows team rosters, individual totals, and match results with varied point totals and placements across leagues.
A Raleigh court records Henry Spivey the first criminal legally hanged in the state for his wife’s father’s murder at Elizabethtown. Next month the first legal death by electrocution will occur at the state penitentiary under the new law, with Morrison slated as its first execution.
Mrs Platek testifies her husband beat her and she left. magistrate Corrigan orders a $3 weekly payment while noting debates on whether women need more money than men. Platek urges support that would cover hats, skirts, silk hose, and stage expenses, arguing men owe equal costs. The case highlights gender assumptions in alimony.
The Senate met briefly in routine business and favorably reported admitting Arizona and New Mexico to statehood. After adjourning, it honored the memory of late Representative Perkins of New York. Mr Depew had prepared a resolution of respect but action was postponed and adjournment occurred with no further business.
The Senate yesterday received resolutions from South Carolina ratifying the income tax amendment to the U S Constitution. Alabama’s legislature resolution is in the secretary of the Senate’s possession. Illinois favors ratification but the Senate has not yet acted. Virginia rejected the amendment while Georgia and Connecticut legislatures adjourned without action. Mississippi ratified but the Senate has not acted. The legislative move follows a few days of expected action.
A proposal calls for a status erection in honor of Januarius Aloysius MacGahan, famed for reporting Turkish atrocity against Bulgarians. Born 1841 in Ohio to Irish parents, he worked in St Louis and Brussels before joining Russian forces with General Kaufmann at Khiva.
Senate debate over a railroad measure dominates the agenda with Cummins of Iowa and Clapp drafting amendments. The plan is to keep the bill before the Senate through February, with delays and long sessions likely as insurgent and some Democratic senators align on changes. The House interstate commerce committee discussed the railroad bill amid scrutiny of its progress.
The nomination of Sidney Bieber to be collector of customs for Georgetown was favorably reported to the Senate but withdrawn by the committee after an executive session. Senator Carter denied personal involvement, a protest prompted withdrawal, and the matter will be reexamined with another favorable report possible if charges lack merit.
Baltimore wrestler Lynch defeated Washington's Joe Turner in a hard fought match for the South title. The first fall came after a lengthy struggle with a head and scissors hold, followed by a second fall amid grappling as Turner faced several close positions. Marty J Jeffries refereed the bout with Turner making several attempts to escape, but Lynch was the aggressor most of the match.
J Pierpont Morgan, in Rome for celebrations of Italy’s capital status, kept a packed schedule. He received visitors, dictating letters, viewed Vatican art with interest, dined with Princess Teapo, and accepted a loan of the Italan organization for 1911 events. He plans to stay about two more weeks.
The Pennsylvania Railroad touts all steel through trams dining cars parlor smokers baggage cars and sleeping cars praised for comfort safety and reliability. Four hundred parlor and sleeping cars will be in use by summer highlighting fireproof and bendproof construction. The standard railroad of America emphasizes first class equipment and smooth travel.
Berlin on March 11 Steiner Pilchner announced that the German Antarctic expedition will not focus on reaching the South Pole but on verifying if the continent comprises two islands separated by frozen utrails stretching from the Weddell Sea to Rosa Beach. The expedition won’t start before 1911 and plans to cross the continent’s lower western side while pole seekers move across the high ice plateaus.
Far Eastern Association medical conference today accepted that beri beri origin lies in polluted rice with experts from the Federated Malay States the Netherlands and Manila reporting experiments on polished and unpolished rice. They agreed the disease is not infectious or contagious.
The Turkish council of ministers weighs an American syndicate contract to build 1.69 miles of railway in Anatolia in exchange for mining rights within a 20 mile zone. Chester of New York, son of Rear Admiral Chester, represents the syndicate amid questions that mining value may exceed compensation offered.
A resolution introduced by Representative Rainey directs the House committee on labor to investigate labor conditions at Bethlehem Steel Company in South Bethlehem Pa. The probe covers the strike by thousands of workers and delays in government contracts for forging guns armor plate and other steel components for battleships.
Iowa farmer Secrest details his experience with a supposed Millionaires Club promoter. He invested $2000, then $7500 more to recover losses, raising $8000 before a horse race crash and alleged foul play. He and others faced accusations as federal authorities press conspiracy charges against John C Mabray and 18 associates amid fixed sporting bets.
A petition protesting acceptance of the Robert E. Lee statue in the Capitol’s memorial hall was presented to the Senate by Senator Depew on behalf of Encampment No 7 Union Veteran Legion of Honor. It urges New York delegates to oppose memorials honoring the Confederacy and to prevent erection of such tributes.
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