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...near the Susquehanna River within a few miles of Shamokin Mountain, it will be the first Federal penal institution in the northeastern quarter of the U. S. Not casually was Lewisburg selected for the honor. Abundant fuel and water supplies, the joint accessibility by many railroads from Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the eastern seaboard, healthful climate, a long agricultural season for working convicts and the persuasiveness of Senator David Aiken Reed were all factors in the choice. Also, Lewisburg is the seat of the Federal Court in the Middle District...
...Indianapolis one night last week, big floodlights poured metallic glare over a baseball field under a pitchblack sky and the Cincinnati "Reds" played an exhibition game with the Indianapolis "Indians." It was the first night game ever played by a major league team. The lights turned the field to a vividly unreal color, like grass in a postcard, against which the figures of the players stood out sharply three-dimensional. Both teams were hitting well but the red-legged fielders were uncertain judging distances and fumbled. In the fourth Bob Meusel struck out with the bases full. Cincinnati was leading...
...conditions, players could not switch from one team to the other. 3) All old-time managers, opposed to change on principle, dislike the experiment, say it "sounds the knell of baseball." Of the 16 big league managers, only two, Gabby Street, St. Louis "Cards" and Dan Howley, Cincinnati "Reds," are slightly interested...
...Klein, prosperous Cincinnati lawyer, hastened to the station, was less astounded to find his vagrant friend James Eads How there than to see him so decrepit. They sped to the Klein home. A doctor was summoned...
...long stubborn adherence to a skimpy vegetable diet (a plate of pea soup was often his whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow...