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The Cairo bulletin., 1911-05-22
Umpire Adams EscIsIcn.

Much has been said about the de-
cision OF Umpire Adams OF Fulton
which caused Cairo to FORFEIT their
first game Of the season after having
virtually won it,
The facts Of the case are that Full
ton was having its half of the ninth;
two men were out; a Fulton runner
was on second and a man was at bat
wita TWO strikes and two balls called
against him.
! Tae Cairo pitcher SEM a bail over
the plate acknowledged by all VINO
saw it to be a good one and Umpire
Adams so judged it and called il II
"o,r.be;" the player protested ana
Umpire Adams replied, You're out,
ycd'ya out" %*T
Then Manager Mig LangsIen Of the
Fulton team protested to Umpire
Adams and the latter changed his de
cisian calling It a "ball" ami leaving
ha man at bat and the runner on
second scored in the meantime.
The part Of Umpire Adams action
that is so unjust is to be appealed
to President Gonell is in reference
10 his change of the decision after
having announced IL positively
The grounds for the appeal are
good as it is seen Umpire Adams ac-
ted In direct violation OF spaulding's
rules for 1911, The standard In the X.
l. T. league, and the game should
DO counted as Cairo victory.
Concerning change in decision
Spaulding says on page 391, rule G3,
under the heading of mo Appeal
From Decision Based on Umpire's
Judgment"
There shall be no appeal from any
decision Of either umpire on the
ground that he was not correct In his
conclusion that battedball was fair
or foul. base runner safe or out,
a pitched ball, strike or ball, or
anyother play involving accuracy OF
judgement and no decision rendered
by him shall be reversed, except that
he beconvnced that it be in violation
of one of these rules"
Rule 81 says: IF one umpire be az.
signed his duties and jurisdiction
shall extend To all points," and rule
G5: Under no circumstances shall
a captain or player dispute the &C.
curacy of the umpires judgement and
decision on a play"
Rule G3, first quoted, shows that
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Umpire Adams change IN decision
was unmistakable, fragrant and direct
violation of the rules Of the game
and the game was ended when the
player had the third strike called
against him, there previously being
two outs and the inning being the
last half of the ninth. The score
then was 4 To 8 in favor OF Cairo.
Rule Ga says: IF but one umpire
be assigned his duties and jurisdic-
ton shall extend to all points," and
rule. G5: Under no circumstances
shall captain or player dispute the
accuracy Of the umpire's judgments
and decision on a play"
Rule 6S, first quoted, shows that
Umpire Adams change in decision
was an unmistakeable, fragrant and
direct violation of the rules tor the
game was ended when the payer had
the third strike called against him,
there previously being two outs aud
the inning being the last half of the
ninth. The score then was to 8 in
favor of Cairo.
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ton, the first game in which he called
his men off the field, will probably
cost his team fine Of not ness than
$50 President Gosnel1 is firm in his
decision that playing managers will
not assume the authority of the
league and he states that should his
team manager do such a stunt, ne
would make the manager pay the fine
instead Of the team owner. Powers
mad no right to order his men off the
field and should have gone by Un-
pire Adams decision as he had a
right to change them if he were in
error.
Our brother talks like a moss back,
Umpire Adams has no right 10 change
decisions on a question OF accuracy.
Powers called his team when I'm
pire Adams called the last Fulton
player "out, which ended the game.
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DYNAMITE.
Il Raised Rrctions Before Nobel Learn.
ed to Control Il.

Il Raised Rrotions Before Nobel Learn.
cd to Control It.
Dynamite is Greek word for pow.
der. It's chemical name is nitroglycerin.
1t was discovered in n laboratory in
Paris by A. Sobrero in 1917. Sobrcro
escaped death hundred times by the
closest margin and was never able to
learn how TO handle the explosive with
any safety
About 1850 Alfred Nobel. a Swedish
engineer. learned how TO explode the
liquid by defamation Nobel Bros, Of
Hamburg that year sent young man
to America to introduce its use to min
ers. He met with no success, and d
tin can Of the liquid left by him in a
New York hotel when thrown into the
street wrecked the hotel. iniurlng
many and causing the neighborhood to
rain glass
1t was known commercially at this
stage as "gIonlon" and blew up by nc-
cident a West indies packet 1T Colon.
killing fifty peopie and destroying
property worth million dollars. Then
its use was prohibited by law 1t will
burn Mt certain temperatures II the
quantity is small. When exploded 1t
instantly expands 10000 times: the
gases require 10000 times the space
of the liquid.
At last Nobel learned to soothe and
quiet the liquid by causing 1t to be abb
sorbed in infusotial earth. 1t was this
preparation that In 1866 was called dy-
Mantle by Nobel. When 1t explodes
the force plunges first downward and
then rebounds upward. Unless contn.
ed it has little tendency to lateral pres
sure. This is one of its great peculiar
ities.-Louisvllle Courler-Journal.
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A Primitive View Of the euIlfros


The frogs in America, it must here
be observed, make q most singular
noise, some of them being absolutely
whistling, while others croak SO loud
ly that it is difficult at times to tell
whether the sound proceeds from n
calf or frog. I have more than once
been deceived by the noise when walk
ing in meadow. These last frogs are
called bulfrogs. They mostly keep in
pairs and are never found but where
there is good water Their bodies are
from four to seven inches long. and
their legs are In proportion. They are
extremely active and take prodlgious
leaps.--From an Old Book of Travels.
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CROSSING THE BAR"
"It Came In Moment" Said Tenny.
son Of His Great Song.

son Of His Great Song.
Parallel to the thoughts on immor.
tally and the hereafter as DR.. Lowry
expressed them is Lord Alfred Tenny.
sons noble death song. Crossing the
Bar" One OF the three greatest death
songs ever written, it comes to vs. us q
sublime PRAYER. q humble petition,
sacred belief of great man.
1t was while crossing the Solent with
his son Hallam late one October's aft
ernoon that the words came to the
mind of the poet. who had just recov.
cred from a siege of sickness. Reach
ing his home, he at once sat down
and penned the lines. Showing the
poem to his son, he declared. 1T came
in a moment" Three years after the
birth of the lines Sir Alfred passed
away, but the prayer he uttered on
that memorable afternoon remains
fitting memorial not only to the Eng
llsh poet laureate, but to the memory
of those who have gone before us and
who helped to lay the foundation Of
our liberal faith and liberal education
In it are blended the unfaltering trust
and belief of all humanity.
The last lone man on this terrestrial
sphere will utter no grander words
when he sets sail to seas unknown
than those dropped as faiths anchor
by the silent man Of the yester age:
hope to see my Pilot face to face
When have crossed the bar
Songs Inspired by Sorrow" George
Leon Varney, In National Magazine.
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A Wonderful Painting.

In the Wiertz gallery in Brussels is
a wonderful painting, dating from the
time of Waterloo, called Napoleon In
He'll" 1t represents the great marshal
with folded arms and face unmoved
descending slowly to the land of the
shades. Before him, filing all the
background of the picture with every
expression Of countenance, are the
men sent before him by the unbridled
ambition Of Napoleon. Three millions
and seventy thousand there were in all
so history tells us-more than half Of
them Frenchmen. They are not all
shown in the picture. They are only
limited at. And behind the millions
shown or limited ut are the millions on
millions of men who might have been
and are not--the huge widening wedge
of the possible descendants Of the men
who fell In battle.
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MRS. HARRIET pEEcHER STOWE.

war;" There is no doubt that Uncle
Toms Cabin" had much to do with
crystallizing sentiment in both sections
of the country, though it was not writ
ten with that intention.
A new life of Mrs. Stowe has Just
been finished by her son, Charles Ed
ward Stowe, and her grandson, Lyman
Beecher Stowe. 1t goes at great length
into the circumstances under which
her famous book was written, and it
also defends the historical accuracy Of
the work and the truthfulness with
which she drew her characters.
According to her son and grandson,
Mrs. Stowe was not an extreme abo-
ltionist. She was opposed to slavery,
and she believed that there was a
large element in the south that hoped
to see the institution abolished. She
wished to be fair to the south and
for that reason gave Uncle Tom three
smasters, two of whom were kind and
one of whom had intended to give the
faithful old slave his freedom.
1t was not for some time after the
book appeared that the execration Of
the work and its author began. This
caused its circulation to increase tre-
mendously.
Mrs. Stowe knew a good deal about
slavery before she wrote Uncle Toms
Cabin" AS girl she had lived in
Cincinnati, which was the hotbed of
anti-slavery talk, the feeling being
more bitter on the border line of a
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Shooting In Pool Room.

Henry Sanders while handling a
loaded revolver in the pool room on
Commercial avenue near TT1fTy-third
street Friday night sho, another neg
70 named Mckinley Powers, the ball
passing through the victims kidneys
producing a wound that may prove
fatal. Both are young negros, Sand
ers came here recently from Paducall
Powers lives at 314 Twenty-nints ST
Il is claimed the shooting was acct
dental.
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game when he. is town sees him with
his classic nose poked between the
wire netting behind the catcher.
Wayburn and his brother Ralph were
for years the prize battery In semi
professional team in Chicago, and Ned
was the terror of all the batsmen, so
unfaillngly puzzllng were his many
curves. His dearest wish Is to see the
pennant flying from the big flagstaff at
the Polo grounds in New York, ana he
believes that his new "ragtime drop
will help to put 1t there SO does Nc
Graw, and that enterprising manager
induced Wayburn to don big Tesse-
reau's practice uniform and instruct
RUDE Marquard in its delivery.
Vanguard picked 1t up quickly, and.
with Wayburn behind the mask. pro-
tected by the Indians pad and shin
guards, he struck out the redoubtable
Mike Donlin four times running IF
any fellow Lifts that twister," said
Donlin, ''it'll be by chance. You can't
tell where 1t is at all"
Unless some other pitcher picks it
up 'the ragtime drop" will belong to
Vanguard, for Wayburn will instruct
no one else.
The picture shows Wayburn explain
ing to Marquard exactly how to grip
the ball in order to throw the rag
time drop" Marquard cost the Giants
$1,000, and for two seasons he did not
"show" anything that indicated that
he was worth what he cost. This year
he has been winning, and Wayburn
says it is his instruction that has
worked the change.
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Goes On Ways Thursday.

The big wharfboat owned by
Samuel Halliday, which sank several
weeks ago and was raised will be
taken to Mound City Tuesday and
placed on the ways there for re-
pairs, The tug Theseus, will tow the
big boat up the river The" boat
would have been taken to MOUND
City as soon as she was raised, but
the steamer Harry Lee now being
repaired She will be let into the
water Monday.
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The Epworth League OF the Meth
odlst Episcopal church was unusu-
ally Interesting Sunday evening. Miss
Mildred Sims, the leader had become
thoroughly acquainted with her sub
ject The Convicting Testimony"
brought out several strong points on
the subject Mrs. A. L. Compton's
Sunday school class of young ladies'
composed a choir, which rendered
special music for the occasion.
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MEMORIAL TO MRS. STOWE AND HENRY
WARD BEECHER.
slave state than it was farther north,
where slavery was known only the
oretically.
While in Cincinnati Mrs. Stowe Wis.,
tied the Kentucky plantation that she
afterward made the scene Of the open
ing chapters Of her book. 1t was al
so In Cincinnati that she met the ne
gro girl that she pictured as Topsy.
This girl had been freed in Louisiana
and had been sent north. Mrs. Stowe
tried to teach religion to her, and 1t
was during these efforts that much
of the conversation occurred which
was later put into the book.
After the war Mrs. Stowe went south
and lived for time in Florida The
scheme was to raise cotton with free
labor but it failed dsastrously. In
other ways the stay In the south was
q success, and everywhere Mrs. Stowe
appears to have been treated with con-
sideration. The era of abuse was over.
After cotton they tried to raise
oranges but Il frost spoiled that plan
Mrs. Stowe lost $4,000 ia this way,
and then she founded the Christian
Union with her brother, Henry Ward
Beecher, and lost most of the rest OF
her money. She kept writing not be-
cause her fame tempted her, but be-
cause the money was needed Uncle
Toms Cabin" which made so many
fortunes, never yielded her more than
a few hundred dollars
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Big Store Will be Opened.

The big store in the Marx building
of w T, Wall & Co., will be opened
to the public Thursday. This will
be the finest drygoods store within
radious oS150 miles Of Cairo. AT
present only one floor will he used,
later the other three floors will be
utilized
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beams, which also support the dial
works, gears and shafts on which the
hands are mounted. The hands are
made Of pine wood, cut from single
boards, eighteen inches wide and four
teen feet long, and fastened at the cen
ter with heavy cast bronze bearing
plates.
The striking mechanism of the
clock is connected to the time part
electrically, so that at the hour only
and eAeetly on time the clock will
strike the correct number of blows on
the great 5000 pound bell that Is In
the room below. The blows are struck
by a cast iron hammer weighing 100
pounds.
The clock is fitted with electrical
connections to control any number Of
secondary clocks that may be placed
in the building. The big timepiece Is
guaranteed not to vary more than If
teen seconds month.
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Rain or shine go to the Bijou 20
day, admission cents.
Quarterly Conference.

Rev. r. l.. Russell conducted serv-
ices yesterday at the Southern Me-,
thodlst church and will do so this
evening. At the conclusion of the
services he will hold quarterly con-
ference. All officers and members
are requested to be present.
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'You won't run any risk in lending
me a thousand francs. am writing a
novel that Is sure to go. You know
as well as / do what an imagination
have"
'Well, you'd better imagine that
have lent you the money. then"
Mele,
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CAIRO DEFEATS FULTON
IN LAST GAME OF SERIES
CONTINUED from First Page,)

CONTINUED from First Page)
caught after long run by Powers;
Langdon to Mcmillan to McGrath. No
runs.
Langdon put on bench for arguing
with Umpire Adams and Stewart put
in his place.
Cairo-Lackey walked; Vickers
Cranor popped to Cooley and Lackey
retired at second; vickers fouled to
G. Taylor, No runs.
Ninth Inning.
Fulton ]. Taylor knocked single to
left; ]. Taylor caught out playing off
first; Cooley famed Hukert to yiyo-
rich to McGrath, No runs.
The Score.
Innings 1 23 IS 7S9 r. H. L,
Cairo 01O0 4Ox Tilt
Fulton 1000 900 l. SO
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OUR SOLDIER BOYS.
Continued from First Page.)

jackson county; Capt, Edward Lew
is, Cairo, Alexander county; Captain
w, ID. Craig, Coulterville, Randolph
county; Captain d. /. Duty, Marion,
county; Captain Robert
B. Roe, Pinckneyyllle, Perry county:
Captain Amos A. Strickland, Benton.
franklin county.
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viii Give Euchre PARTY,

Mrs. Jerry Mccarthy will give
Euchre party at st. Patricks Hall,
Monday evening to which all are
cordially invited TO attend.
~ 2rcc-Sf~rTrSaf' ~T-t'---'-- zrszyT
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CLOCK WITH II FOOT DIAL.
Huge Timepiece Is Guaranteed to Be
Accurate.

Accurate.
One of the largest clocks ever con-
structed has recently been installed at
a wooden mill In Lawrence, Mass. The
dials of the clock are twenty-five feet
in diameter. and the hands are about
fourteen feet long. The machinery of
the clock weighs 10000 pounds.
The clock has gravity escapement
and is wound up every eight days.
The pendulum rod is about fifteen feet
long and weighs, together with its bob,
270 pounds.
The dials are securely braced with
heavy adjustable bolts to great |
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Analoe;es.
r." rywgy

II understand your friend jenkins
has resigned that city clerkship he
held"
Resigned? H'mw
"Oh wasn't 1t voluntary
"Well, 1t was just as voluntary as
his contributions to the campaign fund
Observation-Disclosures Press.
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Umpire Adams showed himself to
nave a stronger back bone than gen.
orally accredited with having by his
refusal III let Manager Mig Langdon
of the Fulton team bullyrag him any
more II Is hoped that Umpire Ad-
ANS win do the same in The future as
1t yesterdays game.
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"Dear teacher" wrote little Ediths
mother. please excuse Edith for not
coming to school yesterday, as she fell
In the gutter. BY doing the same you
will greatly obllge her mother"-,
Youths Companion.
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Thursday has been set aside as
ladies' day but there being no game
on that date this week an oppor-
tunity will be given suffragettes and
other lady fans to view the game
free, on Wednesday.
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spectacular conflagaration, thrilling
scenes of war sensational scene Of
Napoleon at Moscow; belching can.
mons and struggling soldiers all de.
picted in exquisite photography,
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A Wrong Opinion.

According to the Vincennes Sun
President Gosnell seems to have
formed nasty opinion OF the disput-
ed decision Of Umpire Adams at Full
ton and has the following to say con.
corning it:
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The Riddle.

woman is a riddle" remarked the
Wise Guy.
yes" agreed the Simple Mug. "She
keeps us guessing and we hate to give
her up."-Philadelphia Record.
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"FAN' INSTINCTS PITCHER.
Ruho Vanguard Learns How to Throw
Deceptive Ball.

For once in the history of baseball
''fan" has come TO the front with
suggestion which Manager McGraw of
the New York Giants believes Will be
of practical use Ned Wayburn. the
producer and stage manager always
Of an inventive turn of mind. has in.
vented 'the ragtime" drop. which. he
maintains, is virtually impossible to
hit except by the merest chance. Mr..
Wayburn is one of the most loyal fans
In the Giants long list. aud every
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Waiting.

"De man dat puts in too much time
learnln' to wait patiently" said Uncle
Eben, lis liable to git out O. practice
fob dom anything Washington
Star.
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Wanted No F-ayorites,

Shell will have no smoking In this
house. Do you understand? He-Yes;
please extend this prohibition to the
stoves. Baltimore American.
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A Neat Movlno Picture TODAY.

The story of the defeat Of Napoleon
at Moscow Will be given at the Bijou
Monday Moving pictures showing
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LITTLE KITTENS.

There will be no game Thursday
but the following day McLeansboro
segins series Of three here.
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Mrs. Stoves
Centenary to
BE Celebrated

MM LANS have already been n%Qe
EA2 in many cities for the celebra
ID ton of the one hundyedth birth
day of Mrs. Harriet, Beechel
Stowe, the author Of Uncle Toms
Cabin" She was born June IA, 1911
at Litchfied, Conn. and monument
has been erected in that town in honor
of her and her distinguished brother
Henry Ward Beecher. This monumen:
bears on its base the following inscrip
ton:
Here stood the church in which
Lyman Beecher preached, 1S10-1S26
One-half mile north stood the home
where were born Harriet Beecher
Stowe, 1911. and Henry Ward Beecher
1913. Erected by the Ltchfield Coun
ty University Club, 1908"
Mrs. Stowe was nearly fifty years
old when she wrote the book that was
destined to make her fame and caused
Abraham Lincoln to refer to her as
'the little woman that made the great
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Pitcher vickers won the praise OF
all by his clever work at the slab
yesterday.
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Time ripens all things. No man ia
born wise.--Ceryantes.
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The grand stand dubbed Manager
Curtiss Of GAINESVILLE Bull Durham"
and tile little promise to stick--Hop>
kinsyille New Era
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George .. Walker Is printing and
selling the score cards at the bar
park this season.
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Consistent roofing wins games for
the home team, as it demoralizes the
strongest nerved pitchers. Why not
form a RIOTERS Club and do the
business right?-Clarksyille Leaf
Chronicle.
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Vessels large may venture more. but
little boats should keep near Shore
Franklin.
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A good crowd is expected at the
opening game Of the new series this
afternoon Umpire Adams Is practic.
ing making decisions all his spare
time and a game fairly refereed is
anticipated.
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And the Pole Cats were shut out
Yesterday by the team from the
hoosier state.
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The Hopkinsyllle EZRA says concern.
ing the GAINESVILLE players: "We
predict right now that the ClarksvilIe
team players are going to give the
Kitty league pitchers lots of trouble
tnis season. They all swing the hlck-
DRY with telling effect. For instance,
look at yesterdays game"
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Catcher Smith is laid up at his
rooms with badly strained ankle.
He vii be forced to stay out of the
game for few days.
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A son Of pitcher Pearl Holycross
formerly OF the Cairo team was bur.
ned to death recently.
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McLeansboro begins a series OF
three games here next Friday.
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It was at first anticipated that the
new grand stand would accommodate
all of the crowds here for the games
but If the patronage continues as
good as the first three days it viii be
necessary for the association to bUild
an addition to it.
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Manager Powers" antics al Fu,-
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Today's game and all Others on
week days viii be called at $50
o'clock.
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Pitcher Roberts has been given
his release by Manager Powers. ROB
erts is a good man but two many are.
being carried on the clubs pay roll
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Bought New Auto.

f. A. Builder has purchased new
sixpassenger REQ automobile.