Cannon Ball Baker Across Continent Telegram Report
Telegraphs recount Cannon Ball Baker and Templar racing coast to coast. Messages from New York to Los Angeles detail arrival times, speeds averaging over 41 miles per hour, police escort in Columbus, mud and weather delays, and final record time six days seven hours.
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Telegram
New York
Col. Atkinson
U. S. Army
Baker
Philadelphia
Washington
Wheeling
W. Va
Csimabes
Ohio
Cannon Ball
Columbus
Heart of City
Richmond
Ind
Indianapolis
Templar
Telegram Eight
Kansas City
West T
Dodge City
Kansas
Syracuse
la Junta
Colo
Trinidad
Albuquerque
N. M
Needles
Legram
Los Angeles
Cal
Ci West
H. W. Anderson
Scouts Put In Hard Work At City Fair
Scouts ran provision and refreshment stands with firemen on a split basis and rented cots and blankets. Receipts rose at the fair grounds and a tennis tournament on Kern's court will award a silver cup. Councilmen Nelson Page Barton Heist and others set rules and judge events including swimming tests and lifesaving. Hundreds of visitors visited the scout building and aided the American Legion in entertaining the Hagerstown ball team.
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Kern
Nelson Page
McCauley
Baker
Potts
Taylor
Cornwell
Gray
Barton
Heist
Page
Regenberger
American Legion
Hagerstown
Express Line Asks Increase To Meet Wage Board
The American Railway Express Company asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to raise express rates to cover the Railroad Labor Board wage award of 73.8 million dollars. It also seeks a 20 percent rise on milk and cream rates to match railroad increases. The petition shows a projected annual deficit of about 76.38 million dollars, covered by a government guarantee to September 1 but needing higher rates afterward.
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Washington
Railroad Labor Board
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Railway Express Company
Express Company
Ruths Injury Not So Bad
Babe Ruth twisted his right knee sliding into second base in yesterday's game. An X ray showed no fracture or torn ligaments, only a wrench, suggesting he may be able to play today.
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Cleveland
Babe” Ruth
New York
Remarkable Meteor Sighted In Early Evening Flight 1919
Observers note a long horizontal track of about 135 miles seen in the early evening of October 21 1919. The meteor's path started over a point twenty miles northeast of York England and extended thirty miles southwest of St Valery France. It traveled at roughly 33 miles per second with an average altitude near 74 miles.
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York
England
St. Valery
France
Scientific American
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Berryville, Va
Frank M. Reynolds
Winchester
Shenandoah Motor Co
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Lloyd Plaster
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H. W. Ebert
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WM. M, Lupton
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