Dugan Refuses to Join Braves Despite Waiver Move
New York December 25 In a waiver transfer Dugan star third baseman of the New York Yankees said he would not accept the move to the Boston Braves He prefers to finish with a club having post season chances and may seek a return to real estate baseball may lure him back next spring but he will not play for the Braves Officials indicated Dugan may seek an unconditional release to join Cubs Tigers or Dodgers Boston has added Maranville Harper Collins and other players from Chicago as part of the Hornsby deal and Lester Bell remains the Braves third baseman though unsettled by Hornsby departure
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New York
Joe” Dugan
New York Yankees
Boston Braves
Dugan
Braves
Chicago Cubs
Detroit Tigers
Brooklyn Dodgers
Boston
Rabbit Maranville
George Harper
Pat Collins
Rogers Hornsby
Lester Bell
Bell
Hornsby
Lost Baseballs in Suit Against Ball Club in Carolina
In Columbia South Carolina December 25 an exhibit of 160 baseballs is admitted in a damage suit before the state supreme court. J R Peden Greenville property owner sues Furman University and the Greenville club of the South Atlantic association for $5000 damages and an injunction to stop professional baseball at the university owned property near his home. The balls were collected as evidence of those knocked over the fence into his property. The complaint alleges crowds climbed onto his roof to view games without admission. An exhibition game in March 1927 nearly turned tragic when Clarence Allen a Jersey City International rookie pitcher was stabbed during a scuffle with Peden family members in an effort to recover balls into their grounds.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina Supreme Court
J. R. Peden
Greenville
Furman University
Greenville Club
South Atlantic Association
Lessee Ball Club
Peden
Clarence Allen
Jersey City Internationals
Al Binger Plans Three Bouts in New Year
New York newspaper report states featherweight Al Binger has signed with Madison Square Garden matchmaker Tom McArdle for three bouts against leading contenders. McArdle aims to pit him against Bud Taylor Andre Routis and either Johnny Dundee or Phil Rosenberg in the new year.
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New York
al Binger
Tom McArdle
Madison Square Garden
Mc‘Ardle
Bud Taylor
Andre Routis
Johnny Dundee
Phil Rosenberg
New Yorker
Dan O Leary Plans Record Walking Spree in California
Dan O Leary, a pedestrian who claims numerous world walking records, is in California this winter. He plans many short walks in record times, showcasing his endurance and pace.
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Dan O'Leary
California
Christmas notes and local visits on Cedar Rapids streets
City brief listing holiday greetings and movements as Cedar Rapids residents gather. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Bickel, Mr. and Mrs. Becker, Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, Lyle Anderson, Carl Webbeking, G. C. Rima, P. E. Ritz, L. Koepke, and Mary C. Koepke. An auto theft was recovered. a boots theft reported. Hope C. Martin Cigar Co remembered Waterloo officers with cigars. J L Limbert ill with double pneumonia. Irvin Blough in serious condition.
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J. L. Limbert
Washington Street
The Christmas Sacrifice and Miscellaneous Notes
A fragmentary collection recalls a Christmas verse and scattered items. Mentions racing forms, concerns about nine pins becoming tenpins for safety, golf, politics in Mexico, a theatre closure in New York, and Bernard Frazier as track captain elected constable at Wakarusa. The piece closes with holiday wishes to Governor Al Smith and a quip about unused alibis.
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O Bernard Frazier
University of Kansas
Wakarusa
New York
AL Smith
Auto crash victims and intoxicated driver in 1928 court notes
At Presbyterian hospital Samuel McGuire remains hospitalized after a Sunday evening car collision at Ninth and Lafayette streets with a fractured skull and other injuries. Earlier A L McIntyre of Morrison was arrested for driving while intoxicated after colliding with Kenneth Keyes at Lafayette and Fifth. The board of supervisors held its final 1928 meeting and adjourned sine die as they prepare to reorganize in 1929 with J R Rector to take office. Local dentist Dr 5S F Heverly advertises at 606 Black Hawk Building.
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A.L. McIntyre
Morrison
Bert Douglass
Kenneth Keyes
Cortlandt Street
Lafayette
Fifth Streets
McIntyre
Samuel McGuire
Sycamore Street
Ninth
Lafayette Streets
St. Francis Hospital
McGuire
Board of Supervisors
East
Waterloo Township
Trees So Plentiful Lawn City Dealers Give Them Away
Cedar Falls on Christmas Day saw a glut of Christmas trees with merchants handing out free specimens. Signage read Take One as remaining stock dwindled. A Bancroft greenhouse had shipped 9,000 trees earlier in December, while buyers in Waterloo township sought large trees for cash.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Bancroft
Azo
George Call
Waterloo Township
Waterloo
Woman of Cedar Falls Dies Unexpectedly at Home
Mrs. Louise Schligel, 77, a Cedar Falls resident, died of a heart attack at the Western Old People’s Home on Monday at 4 p.m. while reading Christmas mail. She had resided there eight years and had no prior illness.
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Cedar Falls Home
F Corrier
Cedar Falls
Louise Schligel
Western Old People’s Home
Stars bid for East West charity clash at Kezar Stadium
San Francisco reports the fourth annual East West charity football game pitting top post college stars against each other. Eastern names include Walter Holmer and Howard Marpster, while Biff Hoffman and Marvin Speicher headline the West. The event gathers famed players from Northwestern Nebraska Carnegie Tech Stanford Army and more, with 40 000 expected at Kezar Stadium.
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San Francisco
Walter Holmer
Northwestern
Blue Howell
Nebraska
Howard Marpster
Carnegie Tech
Biff’ Hoffman
Stanford
Army
Marvin Speicher
West Coast Army Service Eleven
Shriners’ Crippled Children’s Hospital
Host Dead After Christmas Party Shooting Scrape
Chicago December 25 Albert Senoff aged 35 died in hospital from gunshot wounds after a Christmas Eve party at an apartment hotel. He was found dying in a room beneath the party site. Police could not determine how the wounds were inflicted. Hotel attendants denied hearing shots while noting a quarrel with guests. The wounds suggest not suicide.
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Chicago
INS
Albert Senoff
Senoff
Dismissal of Klan Ouster Suit Draws Gilliam Objection
Noblesville Indiana December 25 Arthur L Gilliam attorney general files an objection to a motion to dismiss his suit to oust the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana The objection was filed before Judge Fred Hines in circuit court The motion notes the same objections have twice been overruled once in a demurrer and once in a plea of abatement
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Noblesville
Ind
U.P
Arthur L. Gilliam
Ku Klux Klan
Indiana
Fred Hines
Woman pleads not guilty to assault with intent to murder
Daisy Luka 31 of Grimes Indiana appeared in Des Moines municipal court and pleaded not guilty to assault to commit murder in the stabbing of Mrs Olive Claypool. She posted 700 dollars bond and awaits a hearing on December 31. Claypool suffered minor cuts in the incident.
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Des Moines
Daisy Luka
Grimes
Olive Claypool
Claypool
Town founder Horace Phelps dies in Deep River origins
Davenport Iowa reports Horace Phelps founder of Deep River in 1865 has died today. Burial will be at Deep River on Thursday.
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Davenport
Horace Phelps
Deep River
Christmas Cartoon Spurs Father Home for Tree
Chicago, Dec 25. Emory Westlake Jr. 3, played at his mother’s home after a local paper ran a cartoon titled Tragedy of the Divorce Court showing a father gazing at his children’s Christmas presents. Westlake, sued for separate maintenance by his wife Marie Westlake, spoke with lawyers. Mrs. Westlake agreed to a Christmas truce for the child though no reconciliation occurred. Westlake is the son of the late Emory W. Westlake, a wealthy packer. cruelty was cited in the suit.
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Chicago
U.P
Emory Westlake, Jr
South Side
Marie Westlake
Emory W. Westlake
Packer
Man dies as roadhouse burns in Christmas Eve fire
Chicago report says Frank Chambers, 29, died from burns after Lafayette Gardens roadhouse exploded while he tried to light a gasoline stove. The fire, which destroyed the closed venue before a scheduled reopening, caused about 20000 dollars in damage.
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Chicago
Frank Chambers
Lafayette Gardens
Chambers
Bank Robbery in Fenton Nets $1200 Says Police
State bank officers report a robbery yesterday netted $1,200 while $1,400 remained untouched. Two men carried out the crime, according to police, with investigation continuing.
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Fenton
State Bank
Bank bandit trio held in Hennepin jail
Three men F H Coleman Ashland Wisconsin Frank Monroe Duluth Minnesota and John Zeries Dubuque Iowa were captured after a Maple Plain Minnesota bank robbery and taken to Hennepin county jail in Minneapolis awaiting disposition Monroe 24 and Zekes 24 confessed while Coleman allegedly held out Police expect confessions from all three and plan further interrogations aided by Iowa authorities and Maple Plain bank officials
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F. J. Coleman
Ashland
Wis
Frank
Monroe
Duluth
Minn
John Zeries
Dubuque
Maple Plain
Hennepin County
Minneapolis
Zekes
Coleman
White City
Waterloo
Earle Brown
Iowa
Brown
Courier
Zieres
Peabody in Good Condition After Johns Hopkins Operation
George Foster Peabody, retired banker and philanthropist of New York, underwent surgery at Johns Hopkins hospital yesterday. A family member reports he passed a good night and his condition this morning is excellent. Reads from Baltimore telegram dated December 25.
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Baltimore
George Foster Peabody
New York
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Salvation Army Delivers Toys and Food to Indianapolis Needy
In Indianapolis on Christmas Day thousands of underprivileged children received toys, food and other essentials from the Salvation Army and partner groups acting as Santa Claus, bringing cheer to the city's poor.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Salvation Army
Santa Claus
Milliner Bernice Rush Arrested in Mexican Shooting
In Mexico City Miss Bernice Rush an American milliner was arrested in connection with the shooting of General Benavente a Mexican merchant after a quarrel. Benavente wounded seriously.
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Mexico City
U.R
Bernice Rush
Genera Benaventa
Benavente
Conde Nast to Wed Miss Foster in South Carolina
New York reports Conde Nast publisher, 54, will marry Leslie Foster, 26, of Lake Forest Illinois, this Saturday in Aiken South Carolina. Foster is noted as socially prominent in Chicago suburb.
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Conde Nast
New York
Ins
Leslie Foster
Lake Forest
Ill
Aiken
S. C
Firemen Celebrate Christmas Dinner at Central Station
Firemen on duty at Central station held a large Christmas dinner. Entz Bros donated two chickens and Campbell Baking Company two cakes. The men presented Chief Roy Tiller and Mrs. Tiller with a set of fireplace tools.
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Central Station
Entz Bros
Campbell Baking Company
Fire Department
Roy Tiller
Tiller
Archbishop Lang Improves After Illness in Canterbury
Canterbury reports Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang, head of Canterbury, shows apparent improvement after an internal inflammation attack causing pain since Friday. Doctors monitor condition as Christmas Day updates note his steadier state and continued treatment.
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Canterbury
England
U.R
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Lady Santa Claus Delivers Gifts by Airplane in Sioux City
Mrs. Arthur S. Hanford Jr. flew Christmas gifts to about 25 friends in Sioux City Iowa to avoid Santa’s delay from lack of snow. Packages were dropped from an airplane onto lawns and porches in a festive air.
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Sioux City
Arthur S. Hanford, Jr
Santa Claus
Cheerful Carols and Christmas Oddities From Towns
Across multiple U S towns a string of light holiday items appears. In Wales a choral society chose a local tune. in Albany a girl hangs stockings to avoid Santa’s notice. Guthrie marks Uncle Sloan’s 116th Christmas and birthday. Ormond Beach plans a tree at Neighbor John’s house, John D Rockefeller Sr.. Dallas notes skeptics doubt Santa unless whiskers are real.
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Ormond Beach
Fla
John
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Santa Claus across the world in holiday scenes
Chicago stubs in Santa’s checkbook total a vast 200 million. In West Palm Beach gifts reach hurricane victims with a Christmas dinner. Paris cafes and Parisian homes celebrate while New York directors aim to fill stockings with dividends totaling 250 million. Santa appears in Tokio and in department stores.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Santa Claus
Everglade Country
New York
Wall Street
Fight at Eve Party at Lottie Pickford Home
A Christmas Eve party at Lottie Pickford’s Hollywood home ended in a fist fight involving Jack Daugherty Jim actor and Daniel E. Jaeger young capitalist. Police found Jaeger with a bitten finger and the house in disarray. Jaeger accuses actor of provoking the brawl. guests say the scuffle began after attentions toward Miss Pickford.
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Hollywood
Cal
Dee
Lottie Pickford
Mary Pickford
Jack Daugherty
Daniel E. Jaeger
Jaeger
Barbara la Mar
Miss Pick
East States Enjoy Balmy Christmas Day
New York and much of the east experienced a mild Christmas as temperatures rose toward the upper forties. City officials forecast a climb to about 45 degrees by mid afternoon, marking a gentle, record-remembered holiday in the region.
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New York
U.P
New York City
Weather Bureau
City Hall Crowd Gifts Thompson $2000
Chicago December 26. Mayor William Hale Thompson received a $2000 Christmas gift from Cabinet and City Hall staff. The presentation was delayed pending Mrs. Thompson's recovery from an illness and she will decide how the money is spent.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Thompson
Guests Flee Hotel Fire in Chattanooga
A fire at the Glenn hotel on Market Street in Chattanooga Tennessee today caused heavy damage to the hotel and an adjacent building. Estimated losses reach $100000. Over 60 guests escaped unharmed as firefighters brought the blaze under control.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
U.R
Glenn
Market Street
Sprague Brother Headed to West Point from Dallas
Mortimer E. Sprague Army captain has a younger brother Howard Sprague at Oak Cliff High School Dallas who is called the one-man team. He has received an appointment to West Point and will enter next year.
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Mortimer E. Sprague
Army
Howard
Oak Cliff High School
Dallas
Tex
West Point
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