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chine with filling shoes. following
forces the earth around them.
Now it is a notable fact that how
ever spirited the horses may be, af-
ter few days working on the trans
planter, they seem to become &C.
customed to the requirements, and
regulate their movements apparent
ly by a peculiar click to the machine
that sounds every time a place is
made for plant.
In the outside field, there are two
acres planted to Connecticut "Broad-
Leaf and two acres l,ia,4,ed t.. = a
vana seed procured from tobacco
raised in this county several years.
In the open fields there are only
10000 plants to the acre, as the to-
bacco grows much ranker out door
than under cover.
Planting commences any time at
ter the 18th of MAY and is continued
until the LIST OF July.
Cultivation is very thorough, no
weeds being allowed to appear A
horse cultivator is run between the
rows one way and between the plants
a hand hoe is used.
When about half grown. a horse
HE is used for killing. and cultiva-
ton is continued until the plants get
so large that further work among
them would create damage.
The foreman OF the tobacco de-
partment at Pearl Brook Farm is
Thomas A. Jackson-an expert to-
bacco raiser-who has worked at the
business Of producing tobacco for
years, hence the business Is being
conducted in an intelligent up-to-
date manner.
Tobacco growers formerly had the
habit of leaving the tobacco TO grow
until it matured, then cut and hung
1t up to cure, but 1t has been found
that this was wasteful, and the
modern way is to begin picking as
soon as the lower leaves are matured
taking from three to five of the low
er leaves. This method is known as
printing" and the first picking com
menced August at Pearl Brook
farm. The second picking aboRlt
ten days later, when some four more
leaves are secured. and the third
picking yielding an average of four
leaves more occurs ten days later.
The fourth picking removes all the
leaves left on the stalk.
The same course is followed in
picking both outdoors and under
cloth.
At the time of our visit. the pick
ers were busily engaged In the work.
putting the leaves in long low bas-
kets to which rope was attached
by which to drag them into the open
field between the rows.
From the field the baskets with the
freshly picked leaves are taken to the
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etatiinlng sufficient moisture to pre-
fenf The plants becoming stunted
In raising tobacco successfully,
there is no rotation, in fact. the long
er it is raised on a piece of land
18th proper fertilization, the finer
the quality becomes.
It is a rank feeder and an acre Of
tobacco will take from the ground 400
pounds OF potash.
he tobacco produced under cloth
at Pearl Brook Farm equals that OF
the very best raised in Connecticut.
This is better than was even expect
ed as being on new grounds. the first
crop had a license TO be OF an IL
ferior quality.
The Royal Insurance company is
sues a fire policy assuming a risk of
$500 per acre up TO July l. $500 per
acre from July to July l.. $1,000
rom July 10 70 August -. S6oo from
August to September /, and 500
after September l.
This policy is based upon the fact
that if the cloth were stripped by fire
during the ripening season. from July
l. 10 August Il. the effect of the
flames would almost completely ruin
the plants. while after August 10
there would he little tobacco left in
The fields and the loss would be the
destruction OF the cloth and poles.
There is wide variation in the
value OF tho finished product raised
on the same field. and expert buy
ers can tell the quality of different
leayes and crade then without touch
ing. -.,.E
To give some idea Of tn manE Va
riatons in quality. or grades. it is
only necessary TO remark. that leaves
grown under cloth bring from 81. 90
to $500 per pound though last
season one grower produced few
pounds, sufficiently fine. TO bring $500
per pound. H. o. (
Leaves grown in the open bring
from 10 cents TO 81 90 per pound.
these figures being derived from sales
made within very recent period
Mr.. Smiths new tobacco barn. be-
fore mentioned, which will be 40x1Co,
with 20 foot posts is intended to take
care of the tobacco on five acres.
This of itself demonstrates that Mr..
Smith is satisfied with his venture,
and intends to make tobacco raising
permanent feature at his farm.
The new barn will be OF the latest
type to insure the most perfect VEN
tilation, the ventilators being so ar
ranged that one man can open or
close all the air spaces, by the work
ing of different levers, in a few
minutes.
Then by closing the ventilation on
the side. opening those in the roof
and at the bottom the air in the barn
can be quickly changed without fore
ed draft. This will be especially
beneficial at the time when the fires
are maintained on the ground inside
the barn under green tobacco, the
upward draft diffusing the heat will
hasten the willing.
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Maine is in the race and among
her various interests is engaged in
the business of handling tobacco
and rum the latter in a desultory
way through about forty bootleg ped
dlers more or less, the former in d
systematic and profitable manner, on
one Of the finest farms in Belfast,
Waldo county. How it is done will
appear as our story unfolds.
Now Belfast-strange as it may
seem to those afar Offs not cover
ed throughout its entire area with
sky-scrapers, or even less pretentious
blocks, there are great airy stretch
es of excellent farming land out in
the suburbs and in one of these sub
urban sections is place known as
Pearl Brook Farm" containing
about AIS acres-with three sets of
farm buildings the result of the con-
Solldation of three large farms under
one management-and the proprietor
Of this great farm is none other than
NJ, B. Smith, a citizen born and
raised in Belfast, with progressive
Ideas, and sufficient capital-all of
Which he has acquired by his own
unaided efforts-to carry out those
Ideas in a practical and profitable
manner.
Mr.. Smith has three places of bus
mess in the city of Hartford, Conn
where he makes money in addition
70 farming at Pearl Brook.
Just now we want to tell our read
es how tobacco came to be first
raised in New England a bit of in
efesting history In view of the Bel
iast tobacco field, for 1t looks from
me street as though Waldo county,
IN the near future, would have many
nelds of tobacco, and our farmers
would be pocketing gold dust from a
Woacco mine, more profitable and
more certain, than the average gold
mine.
In the language of the Oriental
writer behold it came to pass in the
Nrs not long ago, that a certain
uiler of the soil in the state of Con-
necucut, famous for its wooden nut
ness' and wherein shoe pegs were
"fhed into wooden oats-when oats
"mmanded a higher market by the
0uShel than shoe pegs-decided to
Tempt the gods of fate ny trial at
'sishg tobacco.
AS matter Of fact, the aforesaid
'sfher' soon found that he had liter
s'y bit off more than he could chew,
" 10 be exact, the stuff he raised
.ouid neither he chewed nor smoked.
" was only fit to be used on rheu-
uauc joints for poultices, and behold
~e husbandman looked upon the
'oih OF his hands with disgust and
helghbors looked upon him with
sreat pity.
Later his courage got renewed to
NC point of making another trial and
misery nearly always has COM
'.us others took hold with him, and
er divers failures, intermingled
mn streaks of success as difficult to
''ern as the lean in the breakfast
Wi sold by our market man and
careful study of the requirements
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ASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
al ssass ses Of &<hAzzzaI
SOUTH SOLON.

Emerson Bros. are rebuilding their
saw mill that was destroyed by fire
last spring. They intend to manu-
facture hard wood.
Corydon Felker. nov Of Gorham Tut
formerly of this town. has been lis-
iting his niece. Mrs L. c. JeWett,
the past week.
The senior class OF Solor Iigh
school. with Mr.. Vining. the purc.-
pal. his wife and Mrs Manson, as
sistant, took a straw ride last Satur-
day evening TO the home Of L. C.
Jewett's where about fifty neighbors
had met to husk the seasons crop Of
corn. A good time is reported.
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wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. In
short time had gained my average
weight and am now strong and we'll"
Mrs. SALLIE STEVENS, Z. f. D., No.
3, Box 81, Waurika, Okla.
Another Grateful Woman.
Huntington, Mass was in ner-
vous, run down condition and for three
years could find no help.
owe my present good health to
Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Blood Purifier which be-
heve saved my life.
my doctor knows what helped me
and does not say one word against it."
=. Mrs. MARI JAHETTE BATES, Box
134, Huntington, Mass.
Because your case is a difficult one.
doctors having done you no good. do
not continue to suffer without giving
Lydia Z. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound a trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases Of female ills, such as in
fammation, liberation, displacemerts
fbroid tumors. irregularities. periodic
pains, backache, that bearingdoun
feeling, and nervous prostration.
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stretched running both ways on the
posts, it forms perfect squares, to
hold up the cloth.
This wire, Mr.. Smith thinks should
be somewhat heavier, or about No. g.
Over these wires is stretched what
is known to the trade as special
cheese CLOTH" the meshes about as
large as coarse mosquito bar, but
woven from much heavier thread,
and every two feet considerable
number of threads are run close to-
gether to supply necessary strength
This CLOTH or netting, is woven
especially for the business, in webs
80 1-3 feet wide-4O0 inches-and
can be placed by two men over an
acre in day.
Most of it is made in Dalton, Ga,
and Concord, N. c., and very little
is produced in New England, Paul
Ackerlys mill at Vernon being, per-
haps, the largest producer of the
cloth in this part of the country.
The cloth is firmly attached to the
wires supported on the tops of the
wooden posts. There are thirty /
two of these posts to the acre and
as they cost only twenty cents apiece
the expense of poles and wire is not
heavy item in the equipment of a
cloth-coyered field.
Some of the cloth is made to 10
duty two years in succession but not
very much of it ,as the risk of a
heavy wind carrying it away is too
great to assume. That used on the
top one year, can be used for side
walls the next.
The price of the cloth at the pres
ent time is 2B cents per yard, which .
means that the cost of covering an
acre is for cloth top and sides $1S5.OO.
The total cost per acre for cloth |
poles, wire and labor is $3.50 90 per
acre. During the earlier years the /
cost of buying the materials and en-
closing the fields was reckoned as
high as $4,000 per acre.
With the netting placed around the
wall-forming a complete tent-not a
fly or other insect can find it's way
inside.
Around the outside, rows OF corn
are planted, near enough to the wall
to make a wind shield, when the
stalks have attained their height.
Standing inside amid the tall
plants it looks like a portion of a
miniature white world with the hor-
lion shutting down all around and so
different from anything seen besore
on a Maine farm, that it makes orc
wonder just how it came about.
The tobacco raised in this tent is
from Cuban seed The leaves are
of very fine texture, soft to the
touch as velvet, large and of a beauti-
full green color.
Nearly all of Mr.. Smiths plants
were raised from seed planted on
the farm, in hot beds, under glass
Not having quite enough last spring,
he purchased a few thousand plants
at cost of 81 90 per thousand.
Now 1t takes 10000 plants to the
acre, of the variety planted inside
the tent, and in preparing the ground
for inside or outside growing, it is
fortified with cottonseed meal, pot
ash bone, ashes, and eight cords of
stable dressing, all evenly spread
and plowed under about six inches
deep.
The plants are set with a trans
planting machine on which the men I
ride, and they are about to 6 inch |
es tall when transplanted. The ma
chine opens the ground, fixes a place
for the plant by punching a hole, In !
to which 1t pours little water, and
two men drop plants, while the ma
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a Il d s o nervous I
could n o I do any
thing. he doctors
treated me for diff
ferent things but
did me no good. /
got SO bad that l
could not sleep day
or night. While In
this condition | read
of Lydia E. Pink
bans V e &c t a BILE
c o m p o un d E, and
began its use and
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AFTER
I YEARS
SUFFERING
! Was Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Waurika, Okla.-'1 had female trou-
bles for seven YearS WAS all rlIn down
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-05
@ontreaI, Micb.
Sofaf. l y.

Sos artp. rIutiaio" ottaa tGmGn
palstoineen, min piirrdn mGbdn tte'
toia tdSltdfin.
GnIin t%erpebbdn yInttaian" toimi'
tusto ia ien Iaaiaa I%utiiafuntoa ndiI>
Id raffaiua opostoIin ianoino: Dir.
mo olfoon teiue 10 rouba SumaIaIs
ia ia meiodn .9erraItamme SeIut.
Ielta &ristufIelta."
81 pstdpdt! mia fuIoinen fano-
ma, FUN on rouba taimoan ia maan
mdliud, ia Sumaian 10 ipntiinIan,
eenneen ibmiefupun mGIiud. Sd
mdn rauban fomittaia ia rafentoia
on meibdn Wapobtaiamme ia Weris
pItdmme, SeeIus, jofa @oIsotan ris'
tind ubraitiin meiban Ipntiemme
eoestd. SdtG rauhan ianomaa pIems
nte taoSfin laoneet fuulla FUN past.
Wilen tdnd pdirudnd mpimaffaasti
iuIisii nellie fitd autuutta, ionfa
Sumala Pojasiaan on nellie mall
mistamit. S%auiun iuIimmat fiitofIe.
nj past. Wilen'iue, ia toiipon, ett'ei
opettauainen pube oIiIi
Ion9ennut fifpistDDn, uaon ettd Ie
tantoiIi runioon bebelmdn.
Nditd piirteli beiffo fiIorenne
Silma Solo.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-05
Sapanilaiicn Idbetpsiaarnoo

Sapamiiaiicm Idbetpsiaornoa.
jan .. Watanaben malta ob!eIma
IabimmdsId iuIepoiiuubesia tuIee
oIemoan ieuroofpo:
Gnii lauantoiuo, tt. z p. Italia
SbisboIm'isio.
Sunmntaino, tf. 8 p. Flo 8 aam.
l6ibbins'isld, Flo 3 ip. GpeIetb'isid,
ia Flo Z ip. 0irsiniosio, Iamoin
maanontai.iltana 0~ir9iniasio.
Siietoino, It. 10 p. @iIbertisid,
aaniauisfirfosi ia.
Eorstaina, tf. II p. Gotaiosia.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-05
DR.. A. III. Thomas.
Silma-, korva-, nena-, kurkkulaak.
Silmalasien sovittaja.
: @aalarts@at teIefopni.num
KONTTORI:
Bank of Ironwoodiu ylakerrassa.

@aalartsI atin teIefooni.numCs
ro on 492 - Ut. ia oioite Ill a..
IT,,
= Nspbtatu1nG. a. eefferiG fds
itttdipd farmi pobiois puoIeuo fuis
Sronpoob SomnIbipisIG.
Wiaosta on pubtoana peltona 30
eefferid ia loppu fannitfoo. SnnG
8 bnoneinen aiuinrafennus, iobon
tuIee bppd faiipopeIi. iiidue. Ssta
ia moi ostaa moan irtoimistoineen
eli ilmon. 2dbempi0 tieioio antoo
@mil 9iu
omistoia
8r 179 Srontpooo, Wii6.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-05
Yaiffafmmmalta.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ripin ia s..

VSuututW "p"ss~Ss" 'f"" ~ e.
%. ebtoouiien fansia emf iunnuntai'
no Sronmoobisia Flo 10 oP. ia
M~ontreolisia, Dis. Flo puoli 3 ilta'
pdiwdua.
Spntpnpt ia fastettu:
MontreolisIa, Wtid).:
Mnbrem ia Sobanna Niemen tpttp
Olga Motilba ipnt. II p. eliot. Fast
/ y. lofaf.
Wibittp apioliittoon:
Grniu tomnisIa, Sronmooo:
Sobau glrel Winttinen ia Senna
Maria Sobnion wibittiin 30 pnd
ippsf.
@alIrib y8. Wilen,
61O s. Mper It. Sronipooo, Wlid
EeIef. 436 81.
= Sausfat bGat piettimdt mr..
Sobn Mintfinen ia mis- 6enno
Sobnion (Huuttilo) ~eteldfontrilia
niime Iouontaina morTiammen Eos
tona. Wibtimiien toimittt pastori
SO. 20. Wilen. 9ddpieraina oil mel
fein foitfi tontrin oIuffaat. Silaiiuu.
teen bGdpieraita tparten oil fpnl'
mistettu moileipdpDptd ia polion
muuta bpmaltd maistunaa ia bais
iepoa fen pbtepbesid. Wielfein faifs
Ell confirm nuoret olimat ieiiomosIa
iuIbasppifino ia moriiuspiifoino
mibfimG tilaiIuuoesIa. Wtolemmat
uuoret oipat fontrin aiuttaita, mos
Iempain manbemmat pnat field bp'
min toimeentulenia maonpilieliDitd.
Nuori pori tulee alumaan mieben
fotona.
Yastori 6. q. Sooglonb, nor'
iaIaiien Gm. &utb. %ieuratunnan pap'
pima tGGad nuooen aian iotminut,
muutti tddltd Sinlep:nimiie cen pail
faan Nprtb Oafotasia, iosIa tulee
tpimimoan IitdIdisten nprialaisten
pappina. Yastori Soa9lanb On TO
TO tdGQG plonIa aifana nuofrannui
2aniauisIeurotunnan firtfoa iuma'
Ianpalpelutiin ia ~ppbdfoulua mar
ten. Saen pe%riopnania puolesta
mieupttdmd, toimelias mics, on bdn
maifuttanut tGdud palion bppdd.
SGGuG eli maanmiebiudGn ouut en'
nen bdnen tuloaan iuuri ianottonao
itiendistd firfoaista idriestpstd,
mutta mt bdnen naifututi enia faut
ia oil ioutfo 10 eofo iuuri. 2dbtD'
faarnaanIa piime iunnuntaina oil
fuuIemosIa ouut noin 60 aifaisto
ibmist6. S~eurafuntaa tulee nDt Hfi
aiafIi, fumes oman papin ebtipdi
banttimoan, boitamaan erGS pas
tori MSbIanbista, Wis. ia tulee pi'
tamddn iumalonpolpelutiia fnten
ennenfin &aniauisIeurafunnan Fir
tosIo.
Nbbdfoalu on emf funnuntaina
neutrality-suspicious. ~firfosia futen
ennenfin oltaen Flo 1 ip. Soopufaa
taas ioufoaa lopIet fouluun. Wiime
ppbdnd Ell oIut foulua ientdbben,
Fun Iuultiin Idbeipsiuarnaaia ..
Datonoben Iiiben aifaan eiiintpfpdn
firfosIamme futen enIin oil puut ais
fomus, mutta iitte oian niuffuuben
tdboen Ell iopinutfaat. Sdnen nGet
pitt 10 flo 3:lta Idbted 8esiemeriin.
- 3anFalaifemnae Irtbur Sreo'
rifIon loutfaantui tptime niifouo
@ast gorrie mainisia. pobin mann
ma, ionfa ban iai oil ettd toiien ia'
Ian fddri fatfeii. ppDrtpneend nie'
tin louffaantunut IairaaIaan.
- Wsr @alter 2iimafta Wafes
fieIbistd on bilian muuttanut poifs
fafunnauemme. 9dn on tpDsId So.
bin'in rautas ia buonefaIu' Itooriss
Ia.
= Mr 9eunaro Npfefa, iofa on
usfouiie sti polpellut tdfdldiIesid
fuomolaiiesia apteefisia A muotta,
on ndind pditpind muuttonut foti'
poitaleen Nen Yort WiGs'iin,
Winn.
Miiifiet 3orte ia &asiinen
fEn1IirnHf milne i;aIo;;Itooo mo-
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-05

= Seiupnen m%pbtaiuand, gielidn
fpuoben monba, bppd beponen
mpptGtpdnd balnalIa. GDiptad Id
bempid tietoia
SurIepn poppiiupasta.
- S9aIn feurasta. Suomen ilto.
no Ell ole euroaotpDfofousta, paan
nasta emf iunuuntaina, tf:n 8 p.,
tlo 2 ip.
= Seuran Iainofiriasto on naind
pGipind uubestaan idrjestet;p, ia
uuIia f~irioia, futen n9arbama" y.
m. Iaapuu emf tilasia boIuuisten
Iainattamafii. x.
= aatnapa faapi fe, iota Ell Wii'
me iunnuntai iltana oput noopuri'
taupunfimme rpiuipiiparien" Zone
Iertisia. ObieImosia oil paIion Eos
toiiia, ia ientatia nellie raffaita Taps
paIeita. Sai mpDsfin fuuQa POLIO
taiteeuilesia iubteesia arnotasia.
9Ieiion %pDpnn6std ioitettiin mpbs'
Elm obielman ultopuoIelta, NJ. m.
rNlarIeIieeTi". @dIioioiua faiutteIi
rYiitto" fauniita lauluiaan. Ylei-
IDd maan oil mdbdn puoIeiIesti.
- Tpttmneita mppmdmiehid baIu'
taan She HeIiable itooriin maItafa.
ouIa.
= ltnSt tuarasto idbfD.fiIttpsrau
toio. Sbe :Sulius DentSen GIec So.
- Spiuat mrtit haIutaan maibtaa
.baIfoibin. &pipfdd Idbemmin
s. g. SnopeIp &c So,
= SbbttdptpfGi mattaam! Der.
iantoiiaaao Flo 10 iunosIa IGbiee
ito iouffo miebid maitten tors
fostusmotfoue 9ruces GrpsIineiin,
U(id). Matfaon Idbiii6itten on Ioa,
aiemole niimeistddn Flo
10, iiud iuna Idbtee Flo 1910.
- Sbtud Iebmdbafa puofrotto.
rpana Sbompionin farmin pieresId
Nenportin !ufeeiia.
2dbempid tietoia hottie ioooa
Sbompionin farmiua mrs. @bos.
Rleemololto.
= neutrality-suspicious. Iefofuo.
on idienid pppoetddn iadnnbuiesh
aopumaon foifin bo~rioitutIiin, iot.
a ofpat tiistaiiin ia periontoiin, al.
aen Flo K8 italia.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1911-10-05

= Setupnen mbbtatuand, Nelidn
puoben monba, bptpd bemonen
mpptapdnd balmaua. Spiptdd Id.
bempid tietoia
Surlepn poppiiapasto.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
RoURKE GETS THREE PLAYERS
Picks Them Up at Village of Waterloo.
Iowa.

Omaha, Neb.. Feb. Pa Rourke
has purchased three new players They
are j. Kelly, R. Bowman and w. Dem
mer, and all three were purchased
from the Waterloo, Ia, club.
Kelly is a. first baseman and played
with the Red Wing club in the Min
nesota and Wisconsin league last
year. He fielded 1877 and batted 800
for the season.
Demmer is an outfieIder and played
with the same team. He folded 1856
and batted .324. third in the league,
for the season.
Bowman played with the Green Bay
team in the Wisconsin Illinois league,
and is a second baseman. He fielded
1928 and batted .254 last year.
Pa Rourke is busy sending out con-
tracts to the 1910 Omahas, who will
be in the lineup again this year.
The Rourkes will have some natty
uniforms this season. Pa has already
ordered them, and they are "beauts,"
He has picked the same colors as last
year, but the uniforms will be palmer
than they were in 1910
The home suits will be white, with
stripe of blue on the stockings, and
blue peak and letter on the caps.
The shirts will have no collars, and
there will be no letters on them. The
visiting uniforms will be of blue and
gray again. They will be of the same
style as the home suits but will have
more trimmings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
BUT NIEHoFF JOINS PIRATES.
Youngster Not Overcome by Success
Held Out


Denver, Feb. How many young
sters, or recruits as they are called,
have the nerve to return for altera-
lions the first major league contract
rendered them and get away with 1t =?
They are exceedingly few, everyone
will admit, but right here in Denver
we have an example of this exception
in Bert Niehoff. He was drafted from
Des Moines at the close of last season
by the Pittsburg club of the National
league. One naturally would expect
that the minor Lacquer would be
anxious to sign on any team just to
have a chance to make good.
This was not so in the Denver boy s
case. When he received his 1911 con-
tract from the Pirates. it was report
ed that he had returned it duly signed,
but later it developed that he had only
sent it back for alterations. Yester-
day brought him the document once
more, together with a nice little note
from his new boss. Almost every con-
cession asked by the local boy was
granted and last night he attached his
signature to the paper. and sent II
away.
President Dreyfuss evidently was
pleased by the action of the Denver
player. Probably he took the view
that a man who was SO anxious to &C
I'D as to accept any terms that might
be offered him was not worth great
deal A player who is not afraid TIC
stand up for his rights possesses the
fighting spirit that makes good base
ball material.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
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