Yankees Show They Stand Alone In A.L. Surging Ten Wins In 12 Starts
The Yankees moved 17 1/2 games ahead as injuries to Dickey, Rolfe, and Crosetti did little to slow them. Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio slumped but the club won 10 of 12, including a 9-6 win over Boston as Lazzeri drove home two with a first-inning homer.
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Sid Feder
Associated Press
Yankees
Murderers’ Row
Lou Gehrig
Joe DiMaggio
Bill Dickey
Red Rolfe
Frankie Crosetti
Gehrig
di Mag
Yanks
Tigers
White Sox
Indians
Red Sox
Boston Gold Sox
Tony Lazzeri
Jimmy Foxx
Ruppert Rifles
Giants
Cardinals
Larry French
Cubs
Gas House Gang
Homer
Pirates
Pearson on Olympic team returns home from Berlin
Sergeant Edwin Pearson, a colored cavalryman at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is praised as possibly the best shot in the U S cavalry. He was part of the crack cavalry team at the Berlin Olympics and is the son of E H and Lizzie Pearson of East Bond Street.
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Atlantic Ocean
Berlin
Germany
Edwin Pearson
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Cavalry
Pearson
Crack Cavalry
United States Cavalry
Sgt. Pearson
E. H
Lizzie Pearson
East
Bond Street
Orrick Cemetery
James P. Reardon
Reardon
Hanna faces suspension for beating horse at Marlboro track
Peg Hanna a trainer owner prominent on half mile circuits was suspended at Marlboro race track after witnesses said he beat the horse Luculent with a chain across the flanks before the sixth race. Hanna admitted using the chain claiming it to wake the horse, not abuse. Luculent finished fourth. The case was referred to the State Racing Commission.
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Upper
Barlboro
Peg
Hanna
Marlboro
Luculent
State Racing Commission
Glutton For Punishment at New Britain Fire
Roy Herbert, 38, a New Britain waiter, was being treated for smoke inhalation after a fire. He ignored hospital rules and asked for a cigarette, then dressed and stepped outside to smoke.
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New Britain
Conn
Roy Herbert
Herbert
Loans to Farmers Grow in Shenandoah Area in 1936
Loans totaling 93935 were made to farmers in Shenandoah Frederick Clarke Warren and Page counties through the Shenandoah Production Credit Association. J K Coughton says 89 farmers received short term production loans, a sharp rise from 1935. The cooperative serves as a source of production credit at 5 percent interest plus a service charge.
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Shenandoah
Frederick
Clarke
Warren
Page
Shenandoah Production Credit Association
J. K. Coughton
Farm Credit Administration of Baltimore
Production Credit Corporation of Baltimore
Shenandoah Association
Avenging Waters at the Hable's Palace with Tarzan returns
Ken Maynard stars in Avenging Waters at Hable's Palace this Saturday with Tarzan re turns and Flash Gordon as a supplement. The Road To Glory with Frederic March Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore opens next week as a Labor Day program in Winchester with Fox News reel.
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Hable’s Palace
Ken Maynard
Tarzan
Palace
Flash Gordon
Frederic March
Warner Baxter
Lionel Barrymore
Winchester
Fox News
Notre Dame Needs Center and Quarterback for 1936
Notre Dame coach Elmer Layden warns of a tough season with 185 candidates reporting September 10. Eleven returning letter winners from 1935 plus captain Bill Smith will boost the squad, but no experienced center or quarterback is seen. Layden says only first-rate players can fill those spots or the year may bring nine long headaches.
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South Bend
Ind
Notre Dame
Fighting Irish
Elmer Layden
Ohio State
Layden
Bill Smith
Shenandoah Electric Cooperative wins wholesale power push
The Rural Electrification Administration allocated 125000 dollars to aid Shenandoah Electric Cooperative in Rockingham Augusta and Shenandoah counties to obtain wholesale power from Virginia Public Service Corporation. D W Burruss said progress halted by the utility and urged a reasonable rate or permission to install own generating equipment. Federal officials await further word from the cooperative.
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Shenandoah Electric Cooperative
Virginia Public Service Corporation
REA
Rockingham
Augusta
Shenandoah
D. W. Burruss
Virginia Cooperation Commission
Public Service Company
Burruss
Pension Group Plans Study On Virginia Old Age Pensions
Colonel Peter Saunders announces a Virginia commission to study old age pension costs. Richmond meeting September 22 will organize and set up a 20000 dollar fund for investigations. Members include Governor and House appointees, with a mandate to report to the governor sixty days before the next legislative session.
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Peter Saunders
Commonwealth
Virginia
Richmond
Peery
Price
Ashton Dovell
House of Delegates
Charles J. Smith
Roanoke College
C. H. Morrissett
Senate
Aubrey G. Weaver
Front Royal
Benjamin Muse
Petersburg
E. Blackburn Moore
Berryville
Lo Rdon White
Scottsville
Horace Edwards
General Assembly
Grim And Fritts Open Warehouse In City Territory
Oliver L. Grim formerly with Southern States Company announces the opening of a warehouse to distribute Standard Wholesale Phosphate and Acid products. Edwin Fritts, also a Southern States alumnus, joins Grim. The facility is at 320 North Cameron Street.
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Oliver L. Grim
Southern States Company
Grim
Edwin Fritts
Southern States
Cameron Street
Kissing Her Hand Triggers Expulsion in Kazan Republic
Peter Khrepko, a former sheep herder turned student, faced expulsion from a technical school in Kizil Orda Kazan Republic after kissing his sweetheart’s hand. The school director accused him of reviving feudal aristocratic traditions and expelled him. The girl Serezhechina was required to wash away any traces of the gesture from her hand.
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Moscow
Peter Khrepko
Kizil Orda
Kazan Republic
Serezhechina
Khrepko
Third Party Strides Mark American Political History
Frederic J. Haskin surveys the surge of third parties in US politics from 1872 to the Lemke candidacy, noting Liberal Republicans Labor Reform and others, their nominees and outcomes, and how third parties influenced major elections and spurred reform debates. The piece highlights Greeley, Blaine, Weaver, Bryan, Roosevelt, Debs, La Follette, and the Prohibition influence.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington
United States
Something the Sun
Republican Party
Labor Reform Party
Straight Democratic Party
Prohibition Party
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
Horace Greeley
Old
New York Tribune
Carl Schurz
America
Missouri
Hayes
Charles Francis Adamson
New Party
Cincinnati
Grant
Baltimore
Louisville
Charles O’conor
New York
Democrats
O’conor
Greeley
Congress
Blaine
James G. Blaine
Flo
Cleveland
Empire States
James B. Weaver
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Nevada
North Dakota
West
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
W. J. Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Platte
Bryan
William McKinley
McKinley
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene V. Debs
Wilson
LaFollette
Wheeler
Montana
Roosevelt
Ppa
Lemke
Brazil Arrest Fascists Leaders
Police in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia arrested numerous members of the Brazilian Integralist Action, a fascist movement. Several army officers were seized with headquarters closed in Bahia and reports claimed plans to assassinate Juracy Magalhaes, the 29 year old state governor and an army officer.
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Brazil
Rio DE Janeiro
Bahia
Brazilian Integralist Action
Juracy Magalhaes
Galilee Church of Christ Sermon and Attendance Report
The Galilee Church of Christ held services on Welltown Road with Bible School at 10 am and communion at 11 30 am led by Superintendent Charles E. McVay. Attendance and offering were good despite counter attractions. several members attended the Negro Pageant at the Church of Christ in Winchester.
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Bible School
Charles E. McVay
Church of Christ In
Winchester
Wyandotte Hen Lays Bright Red Egg in Md Farm
Forces Season New Market Maryland September 5 Murray Etzler reports his Wyandotte hen laid an egg with a bright red shell suggesting an Easter minded miscue. The quirky incident draws local curiosity and highlights poultry oddities on the farm.
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New Market
Murray Etzler
Wyandotte
Etzler
Landon Drips Through Cloudburst After Drouth Tour
Gov Alf M Landon completed a two day drought conference trip with President Roosevelt, traveling from Atchison to Topeka as a cloudburst flooded highways. Rain arrived too late to help orchards visited earlier, where Landon noted dusty roads and picked apples and grapes during personal tours of northeast Kansas.
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Topeka
Kas
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Atchison
Kansas
Landon
Winchester Bond Election Ordered for City Water Works
The Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia orders a special election for September 29 1936 to decide a bond issue not exceeding 500000 dollars to extend and improve the city water system. The ordinance was passed July 6 1936 and approved July 8 1936 with eleven council votes and the mayoral approval.
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Winchester
Virginia
Court House
Commonwealth
Benesite
Philip Williams
Common Council
C. R. Anderson
City of
State of
Corporation Court
Marshall
Anderson
Messrs. Barr
Barnett
Coble
Dellinger
Forney
Hable
Miller
Rosenberger
E. J. Snapp
Snapp
Henry
Frank H. Krebs
Banda
I. Taylor L. Barr
Taylor L. Barr
Dog Leads Way To Dead Master
Uniontown reporter describes farmer Lloyd Myers finding his son Wallace dead in a cornfield after his dog Sport led him there. Doctors cited heart disease as the cause of death.
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Dog
Uniontown
Lloyd Myers
Walter
Roy
Sport
Myers
Taylor Named Most Perfect Husband in Hollywood
Hollywood dancers pick Robert Taylor as the most perfect husband noting he is handsome and has a good sense of humor. They praise him but five of the dancers say they would never marry an actor.
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Hollywood
Robert Taylor
Taylor
Falls To Death From A Window
Farmer A. Fay Harbert witnessed a dentist extracting his daughter Ernestine’s tooth then swayed and fell 15 feet to the pavement outside, killing himself. The incident occurred in Burg West Virginia on September 5.
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Burg
W. Va
A. Fay Harbert
Ernestine
Steel Interests Are To Confer
R L Leffler of Carnegie- Steel Corp announced a general convention of employee representatives from 80 000 workers will meet September 14 in Pittsburgh. The date was set after a conference between the official and representatives from nine plants.
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Pittsburgh
R. L. Leffler
Carnegie- Oil Steel Corporation
Everybody Loves to Sing The Old Songs
An advertised song book offers 205 songs for voice and piano with historical notes. It features hymns patriotic airs college songs sea songs and body chants in 144 pages. Priced to enclose 20 cents for cost handling and postage.
Sunday Services Led by Pastor Campbell at Clearbrookee
Clearbrookee church announces Sunday worship at 10 o’clock with Henry Cline as superintendent and a 11 am service led by Pastor Campbell followed by a sermon from the pastor.
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Clearbrookee
R. B. Campbell
Henry Cline
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