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As printed: ST. LOUIS PARK FACILITIES INADEQUATE FOR HUGE CROWD OF OVER 35,000 SEEKING ADMITTANCE
ContextThe World Series is the best-of-seven championship between the American and National League pennant winners; after two games at the Yankee Stadium the teams moved to Sportsman's Park, the Cardinals' home grounds. Rogers Hornsby plays second base for St. Louis as well as managing the club, and Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri bat for the Yankees.
ContextRockwood is a coal and iron town in east Tennessee where the Roane Iron Company works the mines, and Austin Peay is governor of the State. "After damp" is the suffocating gas left in the workings after an explosion, and to "brattice" is to wall off a section of a mine to control the air.
ContextA levee is an earthen embankment built to hold a river out of the land behind it; Beardstown sits on the Illinois River, and the Sangamon runs past Springfield, the Illinois capital. The American Red Cross was then the chief organizer of civilian disaster relief in the United States.
As printed: Witness Ryan Tells Of Kidnapping Probe In Case of Evangelist
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the evangelist of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Santa Monica beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped and had escaped across the Mexican desert; Kenneth G. Ormiston was the Temple's radio operator and Mrs. Kennedy is the evangelist's mother. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial, and a grand jury hears evidence in secret before any charge is brought.
As printed: 'PEACHES' QUITS RICH HUSBAND FOR MOTHER
ContextEdward W. "Daddy" Browning is a New York real-estate man whose marriage last April to 16-year-old Frances Heenan, known as "Peaches," was fought by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and followed closely by the newspapers. Kew Gardens is a residential section of Queens, on Long Island.
