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ContextThe Yankees won the American League pennant and the Cardinals the National League's, the first in the Cardinals' history; the series opens in New York. James J. Walker is mayor of New York, Rogers Hornsby plays second base for the Cardinals as well as managing them, and Herb Pennock and Bill Sherdel are the pitchers.
As printed: Prosecution of Fall, Doheny, Sinclair, Ordered Here
ContextAlbert B. Fall was President Harding's secretary of the interior and leased the Navy's oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to Harry F. Sinclair and at Elk Hills, California, to Edward L. Doheny. The District Supreme Court is the trial court in Washington; an indictment is a grand jury's formal charge, and the defendants had challenged its validity before trial.
As printed: MAGNATE HAZY IN DAUGHERTY BRIBERY TRIAL
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was attorney general under President Harding and Thomas W. Miller the alien property custodian, the official who held property seized from enemy nationals during the World War, including shares of the American Metal Company. Richard Merton is the German financier who pressed the company's claim, and Mal S. Daugherty, the former attorney general's brother, is president of a bank at Washington Court House, Ohio; a certificate of deposit is a bank's written promise to repay money left with it.
As printed: 100 SHOTS GO WILD AS 500 KLANSMEN AND FOES BATTLE
ContextGroton is a town northwest of Boston. The Ku Klux Klan, revived in 1915, had built chapters in Northern states including Massachusetts, where its open-air meetings drew crowds of opponents.
