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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
7
Yesterday sources said on good authority that the club will not retain its manager for next season. Charles Weeghman, president of the club, refused to discuss the subject.
Albert R. Tearney president of the Three-I league proposes wiping out the minor leagues and instituting a new classification system with territorial rights and reserved clauses. He urges an early meeting to discuss territorial rights classification reservation and a salary cap to stabilize finances and reorganize baseball below the major leagues.
The Dubuque Overlands defeated Waterloo three straight series at the Manabhi alleys scoring 2920 to 2590. Wiig led Dubuque with 236 and another strong 218 marked by steady accuracy as the team clinched the win. An expansive project to modernize rail lines is projected to cost about 29.06 million dollars.
A holiday suggestion recommends firearms as prized gifts for sporting friends and outlines practical gun care and technique. Readers from Middletown, Phoenix, and other locales share questions on targets, bore brushing, trigger work, chamber alignment, and firing pin issues with concise expert answers.
At the twenty eighth annual Interstate Association of Trap Encouragement meeting in Chicago the Grand American Handicap tournament for 1917 was awarded to the South Shore Country Club. Western and southern events will be hosted in St Joseph Missouri Hartford Connecticut Roanoke Roanoke Virginia and San Jose California with dates set early next year. Re elected officers include IT EL Doremug and TH Ketler with E R Shaner and Elmer E Shaner. The navy trapshooting winner may enter the national amateur championship at 100 targets. Sunday sanction for shoots approved. Pro status defined for shooters supplied by manufacturers without paying own expenses. In 1916 sanctioned shoots totaled 646 with 6,386,110 targets trapped.
Towa City report notes that 24 freshman football players were awarded numerals on Coach Barron’s recommendation. Eligible for varsity play next year are Adams Barron Black Brown Canelia Cantrell Exnn Hamilton Hartman Johnston Ke Nex McNichols Ralph Miller O'Donnell Ouren Peck Rath Remner Schaeffer Shulkin Stobley Wherry Pyles and Dubel. Tinker abandons hope in Chicago. Joseph B. Tinker, manager of the Chicago club, spoke to reporters.
The Waterloo hosts a Sunday program with Grown Up Babies and Renia impersonations plus Living Pictures Hawaiian Mussy Dance. Cast includes Harry Koler Emil Casper Anna Mack Liddy Borg Flo Golden and the Manning sisters with a lively chorus and stylish costumes. The Majestic features Darrell Han Ford and Towns in a five act vaudeville bill including Late for Rehearsal and Robbie Gordons living statues. Palace presents June Caprice and Harry Benham in The Mischief Maker and Fox photoplay with Aunt Marchand antics.
A serialized tale shows Effie defying Madame Briand's boarding school norms while a broader column bemoans wheat market distress. It notes farmers losing wealth to speculative buyers and exports, calling for restraint to align sales with actual wheat in existence. Real estate transfers list several county property changes and prices.
In Chicago the madonal credita sessions condemned big millers and board of trade wheat speculators. O D Anderson, president of the Farmers Cooperative Association of South Dakota, urged reform in "The Terminal Grain Market from the Farmers Point of View," arguing producers and consumers cannot get fair wheat prices until changes are made.
Modern science links pimples and blotches to impure blood and argues that eczema scrofula and related skin diseases worsen with bad blood. A vegetable tonic named S S S is advertised as purifying blood and cleansing the skin through the bloodstream, promising clear skin and renewed vigor.
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