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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1914
Page
5
A giant house fly on a movie screen causes a panic at a fourth side nickelodeon in Pittsburgh. The audience flees in terror as the monster on screen looms, then calms when someone shouts it is only a flying machine. Several people are bruised during the rush for the door.
Chicago baseball fans learn that Johnny Evers has been deposed as Cubs manager by C Webb Murphy. Hank O Day is named Cubs manager for the ensuing year. Evers vows he will not play for Murphy and hinting at a return to Frank Chance with the Highlanders. The national commission summons Evers to New York to discuss his contract as speculation runs high.
Quincy reports the Three I baseball league will keep the same eight cities: Quincy Peoria Dubuque Davenport Decatur Danville Bloomington and Springfield. At a mid winter meeting in Quincy the schedule by J Phil Apnel was adopted with opening games set for April 23 and April 28 across multiple cities.
Frank Chance, manager of the New York American baseball team, is not worried about losing Zelder and Russell Ford to the Federal league. He has new deals in contemplation to make the Yankees stronger than they have been for years. President F Rank Varrell says Chance can spend as high as $80,000 for new men to form a team that will rank with league leaders.
An agreement stipulates that on Labor Day the visiting team will receive 50 dollars per game as base receipts, with the remaining funds allocated to the home team. The arrangement changes prior revenue sharing between visiting and home teams.
Keokuk Ta Feb 21 M F Baker president of the aviary baseball club lists players forwarded to Menger Spencer Abbott of the Indians. Signed with the Redskins for the coming season are George Renist J R Herring Ray Stewart all of Tao feka John McComas Helton Kan John Summers Charleston Ark and Louis Goitsachall St Louis. The latter tried out for a team with the Indians two years ago. Guatemala 1423 coffee crop estimated at 7 793 714 pounds. M Hennion police prefect Paris has opened a police school for recruits using cinematograph instruction.
The 1914 National League schedule sets opening on April 14 and final on October 7. Four conflicts exist, all in Chicago, on May 10 31 July 5 and Sept 13. Holiday and Saturday dates are distributed with slight Western advantage. New York Brooklyn Chicago Philadelphia and St Louis receive preferred counts of Saturdays Sundays and holidays. Dr S Bowen has moved offices to 402 Syndicate Bldg.
New York with plans for about thirty five races from June to August for the three contender yachts. The schedule includes six Newport match races July 8–14 to compare the contenders under near cup conditions. Trials off Newport August 15–22 and final trials at Sandy Hook in September precede the defense against Shamrock IV.
A Chicago club head from the American baseball league led a 70 person party to the Vatican where the pope hosted them. Dr. John Edward Jones the American consul in Genoa attended with Mr. Comiskey and the visitors were introduced to His Holiness by Monsignor Citas.
A.O Hearn and others noted the national interest in baseball during a Vatican audience with Mr Comiskey who then underwent N ray X ray testing at a medical institute with Prof U de Luca finding no serious condition.
In Houston on February 11 Raymond Batchelor aged two fell headfirst into a fifty pound wooden lard bucket and drowned. His mother had stepped inside to answer the telephone Father H F Batchelor and Mrs Batchelor reside at Twenty Fifth and Columbus streets Sunset Heights.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a natural aid to tired stomachs. It claims a tablet digests 3,000 grains of mixed food and can repair worn digestion, urging readers to buy a box for 40 cents at their druggist.
A mother left her child in a yard for about ten minutes. On return she found the baby’s feet sticking from a bucket with water just covering the face. Neighbors aided, a physician arrived over an hour later, but the child could not be saved.
The 1911 report shows the British Museum received 379,294 objects with newspapers making up 247,116 of the total. Trinidad’s population is 340,000 with 445,500 acres cultivated and 697,800 uncultivated.
Thousands seek relief from stomach upset by targeting the liver and bowels. Dr Edward’s Olive Tablets, a vegetable compound with olive oil, stimulate natural function without griping, offering quick relief with nightly doses of one or two tablets. Prices are 10¢ and 25¢ per box from The Olive Tablet Company in Columbus Ohio.
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