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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1912
Page
1
The article notes a shift away from playing managers in both the American and National Leagues as 1912 approaches. It lists six active playing managers led by Bresnahan Dooin Wallace Callahan Stahl Wing and discusses how declining numbers reflect future full-time managerial roles from the bench.
The piece notes famous old time playing managers like Frank Chance and Jake Clarke fading from the field while others mix on the bench. It contrasts styles from Wallace, Tenney, and Farrell with clubs such as the Yankees Naps and Athletics, highlighting Connie Mack as a long standing exception.
A wide-ranging note on archie wahn a Michigan sprinter of renown and the waning of big time track at universities. The piece covers Detroit baseball at Bennett Park with 30 000 capacity plans mentions the Players union reform ideas and the national commission, plus aging figures and boxing and sailing tangents.
The United States Geological Survey and Maine authorities are collaborating to produce a tapeograph map of Maine measuring 82 feet long by 20 feet wide for a regional display.
The Crystal Ice and Fuel company began cutting ice at the Wash-Duro pond as cold weather lingers. They plan about 19 600 tons for 1912 with a large crew working day and night to mark off and store ice along the river banks.
In Chicago on January 9 Fred Gilmore, White's manager, claims the featherweight title after Abe Attel fails to meet Jack White for a scheduled New Orleans bout. Gilmore says White met the legitimate 122 pound limit and Attel balked, alleging Attel welched and fears a longer bout.
Waterloo poultry fans celebrated at Cedar Rapids last week as Amos Vogt won second place with Barred Plymouth Rocks. The event highlighted local exhibitors in a competitive show.
A list from the office of Clarence J Loftus describes patents granted to Iowans including Gustaf M M Anderson Waterloo oilman for tools like a combination level and plumb device and a mail box attachment by Elmer Clark Sheldon a folding sled Oliver Crutchfield Ottumwa and other filings from Des Moines Graettinger Oskaloosa and Davenport among others plus a note on Tom Green County land leases and Moran capital group plans. Paraguay climate note added.
Local reports state Louis Marietta, who passed five checks for 29.80 on Waterloo merchants last July, is serving an indeterminate sentence of one to fourteen years in Chester. He was arrested in Quincy for the same offense and fled within forty eight hours. Police and the County Attorney plan to seek indictment at the current grand jury session to bring him back for charges. Losses came from U. T. K. Shoe Co. Waterloo Shoe Co. A Geismar W C Koht & Son and Stolt Bros.
Thomas Jefferson will perform Rip Van Winkle at Waterloo on Friday with matinee and night showings. The production marks 65 years since the first Jefferson staging and is touted as the most elaborate version yet with a top supporting company. An Australian athlete in Europe is noted for extraordinary heart control.
An old advertisement touts Musterole as a quick relief for chest cold symptoms and a pneumonia preventer. It claims powerful results for sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup and other pains with a mustard ointment formula sold by druggists or mailed from The Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio.
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