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As printed: VETERANS TO PITCH IN CRUCIAL GAME OF SERIES TODAY
ContextThe World Series is the best-of-seven championship between the pennant winners of the two major leagues. Grover Cleveland Alexander, pitching for St. Louis, has been in the National League since 1911; Rogers Hornsby is the Cardinals' second baseman and manager, and Miller Huggins manages New York.
As printed: DAUGHERTY CASE JURY IS STILL OUT; STUDIES RECORDS
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. A statute of limitations is the period after which a given offense can no longer be prosecuted.
ContextWuchang is a walled city on the south bank of the Yangtse, across the river from Hankow in central China. Since summer the Cantonese armies of the Nationalist movement in the south have marched north against the war lords holding the rest of the country, among them Marshal Wu Pei-fu; the dispatch was filed from Hankow yesterday.
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the pastor of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Southern California beach in May and reappeared a month later at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial; Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County and Kenneth G. Ormiston was the Temple's radio operator.
As printed: Human Bones Are Discovered in Hunt For Pirate's Treasure in New Jersey
ContextBlackbeard was the pirate Edward Teach, who raided the American coast and was killed in 1718. Burlington is an old town on the Delaware River in New Jersey.
If the Cardinals take today's game a seventh will be played, the jury in the Daugherty case is still reading its documents, and October 10 is the date named both for Wuchang's surrender and for the Cantonese bombardment.
