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...Francisco by train went nine limber gentlemen from Louisville, Ky., winners of the American Association baseball championship, to play the San Francisco "Seals," who had taken the pennant in the Pacific Coast League. They played eight games; each won four; then came the afternoon that would decide everything. The "Colonels" from Louisville stiffened their backbones and bashed out four runs in the first inning. It looked as if they had won. For an inning they were lazy; then the "Seals" knocked two of their pitchers out of the box to win the game 9-8, the series...
Louisville, Ky...
...scene was the western tip of the Seip Mound, near Bainbridge, Ohio. The diggers, Curator Harry C. Shetrone and Director C. W. Mills of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (Columbus), and Archaeologist Gerard Fowke, of Maysville, Ky. The remains seemed to be those of royal personages among the ancient Mound Builders-a late Stone Age race that threw, up its totemic burial tumuli from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...
Eminent educators present: President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Frankfort, Ky.), foe of illiteracy; C. T. Wing, President of the National Union Of Teachers of England and Wales; Dr. P. Kuo, onetime President of South Eastern University (Nanking, China) ; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D. C., who arose and announced a World Hero Prize Competition (12 prizes, $100) open to the schoolchild essayists of the world. Any school might submit essays on twelve heroes. The competition would end on "World Goodwill...
...drug store for a strawberry sundae. There sat freckle-faced young Teacher Scopes, in his blue shirt and hand-painted bow tie, grinning with bashful curiosity at passers-by ("like the Prince of Wales," said one fanciful reporter) and listening to his proud father, Thomas Scopes of Paducah, Ky., exclaim: "John was always an extraordinary boy." Father Scopes was proceeding to uncomplimentary remarks about Lawyer Bryan when the son interrupted...