CRG NOW AAW NATIONAL LEAGUE PENNANT GINGHCD
Chicago wins final game of series from Boston 7 to 2 as Claude Hendrix drives in the tying run in the seventh and starts the winning rally in the eleventh. Chicago broadens its lead in the pennant race to nine and a half games over the Giants. Pirates defeat Giants 10 to 2 at Pittsburgh as Steele dominates with pitching. Cincinnati ends a winless streak with a 3 to 1 victory over Philadelphia as Grimes and Archey perform in relief. St Louis shuts out Philadelphia 6 to 3 behind Jacobs pitching, while Williams hits a decisive homer in the third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braves
Giants
Indians
Reid Sex
Chicago
Claude Hendrix
O' Barrel
Boston
Hollacher
New York
Cutter, Welk
Phillies
St. Louis
Jacobs
Everything & i
Philadelphia
St. Lowis
Fisnher
Heathcote
Williams
Behing Jacobs
Innin
We Jacobs
Adam
Indians Take Third of Important Series With Boston
Boston August 21 Cleveland won the decisive game of the crucial series beating Boston 8 to 4 after dropping the first two. Ruth pitched seven innings for Cleveland, allowing 12 hits and scoring eight runs as Bagby Kinney and Maver supported the effort. No other games in the American League yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indians
Zed
Boston
Cleveland
Hoston
Erdas
Ruth
Bagby
Coumb Kinney
Maver
Navy Ball Team Loses Two Stars
Great Lakes naval training station baseball nine loses two key players George Halas and Paddy Driscoll due to officers material school duties. Halas excelled as a heavy hitter and noted as a winter baseball star while Driscoll earned all western and all American honors in football with Northwestern. Halas previously captained Illinois basketball before joining the navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Aus
George Halas
Paddy” Driscoll
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Halas
Driscoll
Chriscoll
Baseball material arrives for soldiers in Leavenworth camp
Leavenworth Kansas Ave 21 reports a large supply of baseball gear for soldiers as a shipment arrives. The collection includes bats stamped with the names of famous players such as Ray Schalk Ty Cobb Happy Felsch Joe Jackson Buck Weaver and Lefty Walker among others. President Charles A Comiskey owner of the Chicago Americans inspired the effort with the idea behind the equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
Ave
Ideai
Charles A. Comisker
Chicago Americans
Ray Schalk
Ty Cobb
Speaker to Join Aviation Service Plans AT MIT Today
Tris Speaker of the Cleveland team announced he would join the United States aviation service and try to qualify as an airman. He said he expected to complete arrangements to enter the aviation school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocinted Press
Boston
Washington, D. C
Tris Speaker
Cleveland American League
United States Aviation Service
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johnny Evers Guides Knights of Columbus French Tour
Johnny Evers former big league manager and player now in France will oversee athletics for the Knights of Columbus. He plans to arrange a team of major league stars to tour France after the season ends, with John McGraw promising to coach the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Evers
France
Knights of Columbus
Evers
John McGraw
New York Ants
McClain Hopes Vanish As West High Hopes Fade
Hopes of securing Fred McClain as football coach at West High have faded after his announcement of plans to enter military service within 60 days. McClain, famed as Waterloo’s “miracle man,” could direct the old rose and black gridiron squad if plans change, but war and scarce high-class coaching candidates push officials to look elsewhere. Roger Bresnahan, Toledo manager, plans to back government efforts in the nitrate plant project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred McClain
West High
McClain
Waterloo
Moe Clain
East ‘High
West
West Lad
McClaain
Wreet
Chad Dillon
East High
Illinois
National game due for Diogard National game due for Diogard
Baseball faces wartime shutdown as major leagues pause for World War II. Draft fears extend season delay with players unavailable as owners convert facilities into warehouses. Dodgers and others anticipate inactivity, with dwindling fan interest and no post season plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Charlees H. Ebbets
Brooklyn
Ebbets Field
Dodgers
The Old Girl's Revenge in a Dated Debate
A collage of light verse and social notes from a historic page includes a mock quarrel about aging between a young woman and Mother Williams, a lighthearted note on peaches, theater gossip, a Great Lakes football schedule preview amid WWI context, a local incident of a boy injured by a broken bottle, and quips about a Kaiser taunting a flunkey from a distant vantage point. The items echo early 20th century domestic and cultural life with named locales and figures.
Theatrical Offerings At Crystal Plaza And Palace Theatres
The Crystal presents Louise Glaum in An Alien Enemy a war era drama with strong plot focus and notable cast. The Plaza features Clara Kimball Young in The Reason Why a tale of a Russian refugee who masquerades as Zara and marries into English nobility. The Palace shows The Man Without a Country with two thousand soldiers from Fort Slocum bound for Fort Hamilton in a Thanhouser production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altho
Paralta
Louise Graum
Crystal Theatre
Miss Glaum
Grystal
Clara Kimball Young
Yvonne Marinoff
Elinor Glyn
Plaza Theatre
Zara
Francis Mark
Rate
Lord Tancred
Heref
Plaza
Fort Slocum
Fort Hamilton
Palace Theatre
The Man Without a Country Real Army Life Picture
A quoted line praises The Man Without a Country as a true portrayal of army life showing how sons and brothers appear after marching away to do their duty, reflecting the daily realities faced by soldiers.
Factory Employes Lighten Fellow Worker's Load
Workers at the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Works raised a purse for Frank Bartlett after a July 28 grade crossing crash that killed his two children and seriously injured his wife. Mrs Bartlett remains in Presbyterian Hospital recovering, with a home return likely in ten days to two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Frank Bartlett
Bluffett
Cedar Heights
Bartlett
Presbyterian Hospital
Barnett
Tim
Lightning destroys church between Ellsworth and Radcliffe
A Lutheran church known as the double church between Ellsworth and Radcliffe was struck by lightning Saturday afternoon and utterly destroyed. The original building dated before 1880, with a second structure added about 20 years ago, creating the double church. It remains uncertain if it will be rebuilt on the site. Also included is a note from an English biologist about yawning in fish, likening it to the human yawn but under different, strangling-like conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellsworth
Radcliffe
Lee
Tlinois
War Workers Send Foch Cable Pledge to Do Their Best
Bloomfield New Jersey August 21 The night shift of the International Arms and Fuse Company 2400 workers pledged full cooperation in ammunition manufacture after an address by Corporal Mouvet of the French Legion of Honor The cablegram to Generalissimo Foch expresses gratitude and a vow to do their part to sustain Allied forces during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomfield
N. J
International Arms and Fuse Company
Foch
Mouvet
Legion of Honor
France
Corporal Mouvet
United States Shipping Board
Jank
Ashes in Probate Case May Go to Alien Property Custodian
In New York on Aug 21 a will of Richard Mueller filed for probate directs ashes be sent to his brother George in Leipzig. Mueller died Jan 19 and his ashes remain with the undertaker as his will forbade burial by his children. Attorney William Harper questions if ashes must pass to A Mitchell Palmer alien property custodian under the alien enemy clause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George
Leipzig
Richard Mueller
Mueller
William Harpers
Alexander Avenue
The
Bronx
A. Mitchell Pallmer
Palmer
Ferguson Mfg Rebuilds Burned Plant Rapidly
Ferguson Manufacturing’s plant, nearly destroyed by fire two weeks ago, is rapidly rebuilt. The 80 by 40 foot structure will cost about 3 000 dollars. a new machine shop will be contracted after site clearance. Modern buildings with greater capacity are planned, and full output should return in over a month. Machines salvageable. Stewart Manufacturing aiding production in interim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson Manufacturing Company
So&s
Stewart Manufacturing
Ferguson
Also Mentioned on This Page
CRG
Pirates
Pittsburgh
New York Giants
Krotcher
Steele
Yarkee
Schmidt
Robins
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Grimes
Archer Tug
Cheapa
Ring and
Winge
Navy
Comiskey
Vanigh
Roger Wilt
Toledo
Roger Bresnahan
Toledo Club
American Association
Bresnahan
Government
Hun Rerdes
Iowa Machine
Army
Mother Williams
Southey
Byrnes Park
Helen Ketchum
Blackstone Theatre
Helen
John
John Limburg
Washington
Upsington
Violet
Charles
Ill
Iowa
Pasdue
Syracuse
Camp Dodge
Taylor
Custer
Funston
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Gascott
Champaign
Zuppke
Jini
Western State Normals
Kalamazoo
Mich
St. Louis U. Billikens
Dike
New Era
Lawrence Koch
Theo
Kaiser
A. LL. C
Fhaet Richie
Michael Flynn
Luther
Salutes Pvt
Wientam
Bacchus
Oscar Nelson
Swett
Walic
Geo
Buckholtz
PT Giovanaiy
Givotti
Renry Apple
Pvt
Peter Sossman
Ying
Ashes Alien Estate
U. S
Ey Geo. McManus
Bill
Faresey Almshouse
Tee
American Tasgud
Ana Washington
Detroit Ae
Thiladelphia
Chiladelphia
Bostonia
St. Loui
Ney
International News Service
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!