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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
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Rosebud in 1915 was the only FLY
ever to win the Kentucky derby.
Mort Bishop, dean of American tim
ers, has been clocking athletes for
nearly half century.
The fastest time for running a mile
is minutes II seconds, and for walk
ing 6 minutes % seconds.
Golf is Americas richest sport, 1t
being figured the game has a total in
vestment of S2,OOO,Oo0,O0O.
The largest fight gate on record was
for the Tunney-Dempsey fight at Chi
cago, which ran to $2,650,0O0.
The ban on hunting with bow
and arrow in Minnesota has been
lifted by the state legislature.
st. Paul in the past 20 years has
turned out more great ringmen than
any other city of its size in the world.
We don't know about football play
ers in Iowa, but when corn is Ia feet
tall it is out of the amateur class.
Colored golf balls have their coun-
terpart in red tennis halls, and now a
yellow baseball has reached the coun-
tiers.
Bog Gardner, once amateur golf
champion, has forsaken that game and
now is doubles champion at indoor
tennis.
Prince Pierre of Greece, grandson
of the assassinated King George, is
one Of the best hockey players and
most popular athletes in France.
AL EspinOsa, who met Bob Jones in
the playoffs of the United States open
golf championship, has three brothers
and a sister, all of them golf profess
SIGNALS.
Despite his defeat by Max Schmel
ing, Paolina Uzcldun can still main-
tain his claim of never having been
knocked off his feet for count dur
ing his ring career.
Bobby Jones announces that he
plans to play in both the British
open and British amateur champion
ships next year. His next big tourna-
ment will be the national amateur at
Del Monte. Calf, in September.
If Max Schmeling becomes heavy
weight boxing champion, he will be
the first in long time without the
letter "J' in his name. Going back.
it was Gene James Tunney, Jack
Dempsey, Jess Willard, Jack Johnson,
James j. Jeffries.
Tommy Ryan, former boxer, is now
chief inspector for the California ath.
letic commission in its southern dis.
trict.
Joe Rivers, most prominent Of the
Mexican boxers of recent years is
now refereeing IN Los Angeles and its
neighborhood.
A pension has been granted Henry
81. (Pop) Lannigan, who has served
twenty-five seasons as coach of track
and basket ball at the University OF
Virginia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
BASEBALL Ct
NOTES EN]

No major league pitcher made more
than one balk last season.
The world series twice has been de-
cided in four straight games-in 1914
and 1918.
Ed Walsh holds the strikeout rec
ord for world series game, killing
off u in 1906.
Ohio had $4,000 boys competing in
the American Legion baseball tourna-
ment this year.
Grant ellis. second baseman. has
been released by the Boston Red Sox
on option to Columbus.
pop bottle thrown at Toronto
player hit Doll Derr in the Reading
park. The unpopular player was Joe
Rabbit.
Verne (Tubby) Clemens. the for
mer st. Louis Cardinal catcher, is per-
forming in Chicago semipro circles
this season.
Burleigh Grimes first defeat of the
year was marked by an off day in the
field for the Pirates. They made
seven errors.
Mrs. Babe Ruth calls her husband
George" which puts her one up on
everybody else. Nobody has been
found who calls him Herman"
Walter Johnson, manager of the
Washington team of the American
league, will impose fine of $500 on
any of his players who play golf.
It is probable that the Portland
(Ore.) Pacific Coast league team. will
play its games in the near future at
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club
stadium.
Fred Merkle, one-time New York
Giant and Chicago club first sacker,
and author of the famous "bOne head
play" has residence near Daytona
Beach. Fla.
Shortstop Johnny White has been
sent to the Des Moines club of the
Western league under an optional
agreement, officials CT the Columbus
Senators announce.
Although the Athletics roster gives
Jack Quinn's age as forty-one, this vet
eran pitcher played on soldiers team
in Tampa during the Spanish war, and
that was 81 years ago.
With Outfielder Dan Taylor, OBJ
tanned from the Cubs. Reading has
placed him in center TO relieve Rabbit
whitman, who is moved over to right
field. Joe Kelly has been benched.
Little Rock and Nashville (South-
ern) claim record for men left on
bases in a game recently, Is being
left stranded. Nashville deserted IL
prospective scorers and Little Rock II.
Lee Meadows, veteran pitcher who
was sent to the Indianapolis club of
the American association under OPP
ton several weeks ago, mas been
given his unconditional release by the
Pittsburgh National league club.
The spit ball didn't slow up Red
Faber, Jack Quinn, Clarence Mitchell
and Burleigh Grimes, for they're still
using it. 10 years after the major
leagues decided it must go. They
were exempted because they already
were using it.
Attendance has been so bad at the
Cardinals park complaint is made
even the knotholers are poorly rep
resented.
Sammy Dyer, st. Edwards univer-
sity pitcher during the past four sea-
sons at Austin, Texas, has been signed
by the Cardinals.
Few big league players can boast
the lifetime batting average of Joe
Jackson, one of the Chicago ''black
sox." Joe hit for .553 in his big
league career.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

!. !. i: ]. !: !. !. j.
II "a ernOr of the state of H.
H w - IinOis paid a tribute TO
n II one of the principal prod
EfaExkze ucts of his state and his
eulogy upon this princi-
ES pal source of her wealth
- has become a classic in
- American oratory. The
governor was Richard J.
Oglesby, his subject was corn and this
is what he said about it:
But now again my mind turns to the
glorious corn. See It! Look on it's
ripening, waving field! See how it
wears a crown, prouder than monarch
ever wore, sometimes jauntily and
sometimes, after the storm, the digni-
fed survivors of the tempest seem to
view a field of slaughter and to pity
fallen foe. And see the pendant
caskets of the cornfield, filled with the
wine of life, and see the silken fringes
that set form for fashion and for art,
And now the evening comes and
something of time to rest and listen
The scudding clouds conceal the half
and reveal the whole of the moonlit
beauty of the night. And then the
gentle winds make heavenly harmonies
on a thousand-thouSand harps that
hang upon the borders and the edges
and the middle of the field of ripening
corn, until my heart seems to beat to
the rising and the falling of the. long
melodious refrain. The melancholy
clouds sometimes make shadows and
hide it's aureate wealth: and now they
move, and slowly into sight there
comes the golden glow of promise for
an industrious land.
Glorious corn, that more than all the
ments. Not on the shores of Nilus or
of Ind does nature dress her forms
more splendidly. My God. to live again
that time when for me half the world
was good and the other half unknown.
And now again the corn that in its
kernel holds the strength that shall
Gin the body of man refreshed) subdue
the forest and compel response from
every stubborn field, or shining in the
eye of beauty make blossoms of her
cheeks and jewels of her lips and thus
make for men the greatest inspiration
to well-doing, the hope of companion
ship of that sacred warm and well-em-
bodied soul, a woman.
Aye, the corn, the royal corn, within
whose yellow heart there is of health
and strength for all the nations! -
The corn triumphant, that with the
aid of man hath made victorious pro-
cession across the tufted plain and laid
foundation for the social excellence
that is and is to be. The glorious plant
transmitted by the alchemy of God,
sustains the warrior in battle, the poet
in song and strengthens everywhere
the thousand arms that work the pur-
poses of life. oh, that j had the voice
of song or the skill to translate into
tones and harmonies, the symphonies
and pratories that roll across my soul
when standing sometimes by night up
on the borders of this verdant sea, l
note a world of promise and then be-
fore one-half the year is gone I view
it's full fruition and see its heaped gold
await the need of man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Denote. Duplicate

Asterisks or small stars are placed
before the serial number on paper
bills which have taken the place of
defective bills 1t merely means that
the note bearing the serial number
preceded by a star has taken the place
of defective note In circulation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
In Great Comeback

The Pittsburgh Pirates, now
one of the ''big three" in the
pennant race, have achieved
distinction few teams have ever
equaled. Changing the three
most important positions on the
infield of players from the min
ors not listed in the fancy price"
class, they have worked into
winning combination. The in
field two years ago consisted of
Grantham, 1st; Adams. End;
Wright, S. S. Traynor, 3rd. The
present fnfield is: Shelly, 1st;
Grantham, End; Bartell, S. s.;
Traynor, 3rd.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
friendships Elements

There are two elements that 60 to
the composition of friendship, each
so sovereign that can detect no su-
periority in either, no reason why
either should he first named. One is
truth. The other is tenderness.-Em
erSon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Doctoring Doctors

When a doctor is III and another
doctor doctors him, does the doctors
doctor doctor the doctor the way the
doctor wants to be doctored, or does
the doctors doctor doctor the doctor
the way he wants to doctor the doc.
tori
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Speed. Slate Quarryins

The wire saw has revolutionized
slate quarrying in Pennsylvania. The
general average of cutting is about
twenty to twenty-five square feet per
hour. The travelling speed of the wire
Is about fifteen feet per second.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Han. No, Away. FuI6Iled

"The world goes on hoping said
al Ho, the sage of Chinatown. .fhaf
some man with hundreds of disfin
guished ancestors will prove himself
worthy of Observation-Disclosures Star
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Not Family English"

The English walnut is not a native
of England. but comes from the noun.
tains of Greece. from Persia and from
Afghanistan
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
Nothing to Live for Now

Now that we have gOlfometer
which records strokes honestly some
one ought to invent liarproof device
for measuring fish.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

The medieval philosopher, Roger
Bacon. worked out the principle of the
microscope.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

Although Iowa boasts that she is the
"state where the tall corn grows" not
all of the "skyscraper stalks" are to be
found there. as witness the above
scene from California. The stalk
which this western farmer is measur-
ing is 10 feet, 5 inches high.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

A pension has been granted Henry
81. (Pop) Lannigan, who has served
twenty-five seasons as coach of track
and basket ball at the University OF
Virginia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

Few big league players can boast
the lifetime batting average of Joe
Jackson, one of the Chicago "black
sox." Joe hit for .553 in his big
league career.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16
sy ELMO SCOTT WATSON

nee upon a time a gov
ernor of the state of H.
IinOis paid a tribute TO
one of the principal prod
ucts of his state and his
eulogy upon this princi-
pal source of her wealth
has become a classic in
American oratory. The
ooyarnor wac Richard I
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-16

Sammy Dyer, st. Edwards univer-
sity pitcher during the past four sea-
sons at Austin, Texas, has been signed
by the Cardinals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
BAROGRAPH CHECK
FOR SOUCEK BEGUN
Bureau to Read instrument
to Determine if Altitude
Record Was Made.

Celebration of the Paragraph which
will show whether Lieut.. Apollo Soucek
succeeded yesterday in establishing a
new world altitude record for seaplanes
was begun today at the Bureau OF
Standards. Lieut.. Soucek few from the
Anacostia Naval Air Station yesterday
afternoon to an altitude indicated by
his altimeter as between $500 and
SO. 900 feet.
Celebration OF the Paragraph may
show the altimeter reading to have been
in error. because of barometric pres
sure and temperature conditions, by
more than 1000 feet. Soucek's record
must show at least 38.323 feet to bring
him credit for an official world record.
For the first time since he began
month ago, Lieut.. Soucek yesterday
wore electrically heated goggles. His
first attempt in April was halted by the
formation OF ice on the lenses, blind
ing him. On May s, when he estab-
lished q new world altitude record OF
39l4O feet, ice again formed and while
he was temporarily blinded, the plane
fell 1000 feet in spin.
Yesterday Soucek said he had no
difficulty with his goggles, which were
designed for him by his brother, Lieut..
zeus Soucek., stationed at the fhiia-
delphia Naval Aircraft Factory.
The plane used by Lieut.. Soucek was
a wasp-motored Wright Apache, In
which he established the world record
last month. For yesterdays flight the
wheel landing gear was replaced with
pontoon and wing floats, adding about
$50 pounds to the weight Of the plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
ALLEGED RUM SEIZED
IN CHASE DISAPPEARS
Policeman Finds Case Left Behind
When Prisoner Is Sent to Sta
ton Raided on Return.

Observing a colored man delivering
what he suspected was a case of liquor,
in premises in the TOO block Of Fourth
street yesterday. Policeman ]. r.
Leach Of the sixth precinct pursued.
After chasing the man through house
and over a fence, the policeman took
him into custody, and seized a case
of alleged liquor.
Soon the man. known as Robert Mil
Ter, was on his way to the patrol box,
accompanied by Leach, who held him
by one arm and in the other carried
a half-gallon jar After turning Mil
Ter over to the patrol, Leach returned
to the establishment where he left the
case. Twelve bottles we're missing from
the contanier although no one was ap-
parently around.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
BAPTIST UNION MEETS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to Ths Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June 5.-The
Western District Association Of the
Maryland Baptist Union convened here
this afternoon at the First Baptist
Church and will continu9 tomorrow
Rev. w. c. Royal pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Frederick. is modera-
tor of the association, which has q
membership of several thousand.
The association opened with meet
ing of the Women's Missionary Societies
of the Western district, which continued
all afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
RED CROSS WILL STUDY
CHINESE FAMINE AREA
Mission, Dispatched at Request of
Hoover, Due to Reach China
in Seven or Eight Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Red Cross mission to study the
famine situation in China and report to
headquarters here is to arrive In China
during the next seven or eight DAYS,
having been dispatched at the request
OF President Hoover.
This mission will make report as
to the size of the area and the popula-
ton affected by the famine, which has
been caused by a near-failure of crops
IN some parts of the Oriental republic.
After the report is received, immediate
steps will be taken to alleviate distress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
ST. CECILIA STUDENTS
HOLD CLASS PROGRAM
Rev. J. v. Buckley Delivers Ad-
dress-Commencement Exer-
cises to Be Sunday.

Members Of the graduating class of
st. Cecilia's Academy held their annual
class night entertainment at the school
Monday night The principal address
was delivered by Rev j. v. Buckley. A
program of entertainment included the
reading of essays, vocal and instru-
mental numbers as follows:
Selections by the Cecilian Glee Club,
accompanied by Mary Smith; Nor
wegian dance, by Mary Smith and Sue
Orem; the reading of an essay by Mae
Tracy, the 1929 Laetare medalist a
recitation by Margaret Walshe, vocal
selections by Sue Orem, the reading Of
an essay by Narsas Jones and a tab
leau, presented by the graduating class,
with Hester A. Anderson reader.
The academy will hold its annual
commencement exercises next Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The graduates
will be presented with certificates of
graduation and addressed by Father
Buckley.
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30

tion was the failure of private
firm to supply logotype in guam
titles which it had agreed to sup
ply. The Treasury placed agents
in the plant where the logotypes
were being produced and offered it
every possible assistance, but with
labor trouble to complicate the sit
uation the total output was only
about one-third what had been ex-
pected. Bureau of Engraving Of
ficials, however, have now over
come that shor tage by the:r own
ingenuity, it was declared, and suf-
ficient logotypes are now available
to permit full tWenty-four hour op
Grafton on the national banknotes,
that being the only currency eff
fected.
The period of transition from
old to new money this time bids
fald to be longest in history, be-
cause, first, there is more of it to
exchange than ever before in the
annals of any nation, and, second,
because of the delays incident to
production. The type of the new
money going out still is regarded
by the Treasury as being the best
available in size and design, but
that fact apparently is not going
to hasten the end of transition. 1t
is shown by Treasury records that
even now it receives many of the
postage-sta1np' bills of Civil War
days, and officials expect that the
big bills in size will continue to
drift into the department for the
next few years in considerable
quantities.
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30
CHILD MAY LOSE EYE SIGHT
Billie Mccullough, 6, of Milford
Sticks Eye With Can-Opener

Billie Mccullough, six-year-old
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nc
Cullough, of Milford, will probably
lose the sight of his right eye as
the result of sticking the point of
a can-opener in the eye. A can
opener had been placed on the
kitchen table in their home along
the DUPONT Boulevard, and Billie
tried to open jar of fruit with it.
He succeeded in getting the can
opener caught in the rubber ring
which seals the lid. Giving it a
pull the opener broke loose from
the rubber, and the force sent the
point directly into his eye. He was
just tall enough for his eyes to be
on level with the top of the table
He has been taken to specialist
in Chester, Pa.
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30

of the awarding of the bids and
the early beginning of construc-
tion work it is practically GER
tainty that the span will be placed
with its Kent county end at Maple
avenue, the site chosen some time
ago by the Maryland Roads body.
Advocates of the foot of High
street as the desirable location for
the Kent end of the span had
fought and hoped to the last that
a shift would be made whereby the
bridge would come to that point.
The Queen Anne's county end of
the bridge, according to plans for
the structure, will be further up
stream than the point where the
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30

present span touches the Queen
Anne's shore. The money for the
bridge was authorized in the ST.
100000 bridge loan passed by the
last Legislature. The new span,
a REINFORCED concrete pilegirder
affair, will be 1,46O feet long. 1t
will have a roadway 20 feet wide
and one 5-foot walk for pedestri-
ans. The bridge will have 60
foot draw which can be lifted in
one minute and which is to be IA
feet above the water at low tide
and II feet above at high tide. The
new span will replace the present
wooden structure, which has seen
service for many years.
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30
RAINS CHECK SWAMP FIRE
Forest Bla we in Sussex Driving
Game and Snakes Out of Area

The heav y rain storm, which
swept the southern and central
section of lower Delaware, last
Tuesday, has had a tendency to
considerably check the forest fire
which has been raging throughout
most of Cypress Swamp since Oc-
tober II. According to Landreth
L. Layton, North Bedford street,
Georgetown, who owns several
thousand acres of the Cypress
Swamp area, more than 5000 acres
have been burned over. More than
half of his tract has been damaged
by the fire. Cypress Swamp is
known as the Everglades of Della
ware, and is vast area of lowland
lying in the extreme southern part
of Sussex County. In this area
the Pocomoke River has its source
This is said to be the most de-
structive fire that has originated
in that area within the past half
century. The fire has done an un-
usually large amount of damage.
Throughout the many thousands of
acres can be found turf which
reaches from five to ten feet into
the earth. 1t is stated that the
turf is on fire as well as the val
liable trees. The fire in many sec
tions has eaten its way several
feet into the ground. Rabbits and
all kinds of wild game are leaving
the area and it is said large num-
bers of snakes have been driven
out and can be found on the out
skirts of the swamp.
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30
PROHIBITION RAID AT DOVET
William Benson, William jackson
and Others Have Autos Searched

In a raid made Thursday even
ing by Federal prohibition officers
together with Dover officers, Will
liam Benson, colored, William
Jackson and negress who were
in an automobile in which there
were two or three containers of
liquor, were arrested and locked UP
in Kent county Jail. Attempts to
destroy the liquor by breaking the
jugs partly succeeded, the officers,
however, securing sufficient
amount to hold the parties to bail.
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30
RIVER SPAN TO START SOON
Construction Believed to Start This
Week Over the Chester River

Construction work on the new
Chester River bridge over at Ches-
tertown, Md, is expected to start
this week, according to an
nouncements by State Roads Com
mission officials. The contract for
the Chester span was awarded ten
days ago by the State Roads body
to the Spencer, White and Prentis
Company, low bidders on the pro-
ject with an offer of S247,745.
There were thirteen bidders for the
bridge job. With an announcement
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30

no.saaI1S A. charge Of transDo,,'
those taken in custo,ll al'i !
tempt to keep one s0oy :! b
from getting awav y. u ,&,
Policeman OIivar' , With d
was on the rlInn;na. - DOps
nose as = tba e sgerely ipiprs
standstill when isna '.iS N'i
near the house 'so ,rs u.
was supposed to bo,. .',F a
Smyrna times., 1929-10-30

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New Britain herald., 1929-02-09
TOM MIX AT PALACE

Flying in an airplane through the Grand Canyon of Arizona, the most dangerous place known to American aviators. is just one of the many unique feats of daring performed by Tom Mix, the Fox star. in his latest picture, "Sky-High." The Canyon scenes are in a class of their own, both for beauty of photography and for personal hazard to the star which they depict. "Sky-Hieh" is the at- traction at the Palace theater where it will remain until Monday. Mix is seen as an immigration officer serving on the Mexican border. On the same bill, Dorothy Devore in Better Day" She wants to keep Dale from learning of her plight.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-09
Ill summer.

III summer.
 When 'The Skull" suddenly put the house in lights it was so spooky, so the truthful publicity representa- tive ayers. that said cat. scared out of its wits by the stage hands and scenery. ran downstairs and jumped into the firebox of the furnace, un- mindful of the fact that a small fire smoldered within the half-opened door. Consequently there were many unscheduled but genuine cat calls backstage. and the cast are said to be sending each week a catnip bou- Guet 10 the dog and cat hospital at Chicago where Miss Tabby is now said to be quartered for recupera- ton!
 If that isn't what you call a story we never heard one. And no catty remarks about it, either. If you don't believe it, blame it on "The Skull" Mystery plays are liable to have al- most any kind of after effects they say. and the above proves if.