Babe Ruth Tops Yankee Stars in 1927 Season
Babe Ruth, the Incorrigible Boy of Baseball, led the New York Yankees to a pennant with a .400ish pace and 59 home runs while teammates followed his cue in a record season. His prolific hitting and smart base running powered a dominant Yankee attack and set new bases on balls records. Across the state, rains and sun improved truck crops, though pears and plums lagged due to neglect.
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Sterling
York Yankees
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Chicago Babies Safe Twice as Often Say Infants Group
Chicago is four times safer for babies now than seven years ago according to the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago. The August death rate among babies cared for by the society fell from one and thirty one hundredths per cent in 1916 to thirty five one hundredths of one per cent this year across 6515 children at 27 stations. The society’s dietitians and nurses made 8735 visits offering mothers guidance on food, dress, bathing, and child care in poorer districts.
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Associated Press
Hicago
Chicago
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago
Prosperity Drives Michigan Farmers Through Fruit and Truck Crops
Lansing October 2 report from the State Department of Agriculture notes bumper fruit and truck crops offsetting losses in hay and grain. Apple and peach crops are strong with high prices predicted, grapes set to match last year’s record, and cherries turning out well after earlier concerns. Verne M Church, state agricultural agent, confirms the favorable outlook across Michigan farms.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
State Department of Agriculture
Verne M.church
Anti trust action hits farmer in stalling division
In St Paul Minnesota attorneys for International Harvester Co filed in US District Court an answer to the attorney general about a proposed division. The firm contends that after a 1918 dissolution decree competition under the Sherman Act is now fully present and further division would raise prices for farmers on their implements.
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St. Paul, Minn
International Harvester Co
United States District Court
New Indian Tribe Found Roaming Arctic Interior
Washington Oct 2 A tribe of Indians unknown and unconnected with any known families has been discovered in the interior of Labrador. Dr Truman Michelson Smithsonian expert studied Eskimos and Indians in northern Labrador and became aware of a mysterious red tribe roaming along the icy bays.
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Washington, D. C
Labrad
Truman Michelson
Smithsonian Institution
Michelson
Washington
Labrador
Norfolk Western Train Schedule Highlights Oct 1988
Old timetable lists multiple Norfolk Western trains serving Roanoke Shenandoah Junction Berryville and Philadelphia routes with connections to Washington Memphis and New York. Parlor cars Pullman sleepers dining services and intermediate stops are noted with times and destination details. For fares and reservations contact Berryville or Roanoke agents.
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LV. Berryvili
Roanoke
Bristol
Tol
Bluefield
Pocahontas
Welch
Norton
Pullman
Williamson
Shenandoah
Memphis
Hagerstown
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
New York
Shenandoah Junction
Washington
Shenandoah Jct. Or Hagerstown
Pullman Sileeper
H. H. Burks
Berryville
W. C. Saunders
Gen’ Pass
Roanke
Arctic offshoots and a rude Irish station scene
The note describes an Arctic outpost with hostile natives and unintelligible language, then shifts to a drunken Irish station moment where a guard and driver clash over a signal. The Tatler London piece blends colonial intrigue with comic transport timing.
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Tatler
London
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Winchester
B. H. Hamman
Martinsburg
Frederick
Hamman Dollar Store
North Main Street
L. D. Clapp
Clapp
Frederick Brunswick
Virginia
Martinsburg Frederick
Brunswick
Babe” Ruth
The
Church
Wrigley
Arctic
NORFOLK @ WESTERN
S. S
Omp
C. E
Skill Craft Clothes Shop
New Theatre
Rudy
C. I. Brumback
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