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Conn. family selling Lou Gehrig's home run ball
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Connecticut family is selling a baseball that New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig hit a home run with in the 1928 World Series. Elizabeth Gott, a Stamford resident, said she's selling the ball on behalf of her 30-year-old son,...Tags: Lou Gehrig, St. Louis Cardinals, Baseball, Babe Ruth, Sports
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Obituary: Eugene Young
SPRINGFIELD — Eugene Young, 95, of Conway, S.C., formerly of Marion County, died Friday. Born May 17, 1917, in Boyle County, he was a son of the late Grover Cleveland and Lettie Coyle Young. He was a graduate of Danville High School, and formerly...Tags: Giant Food, LLC
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10 things you might not know about losers
We're at a loss to explain two things: Why JPMorgan Chase took a $2 billion bath on risky trades, and how the Chicago Cubs can maintain such futility, holding the worst record in the National League. It appears to be high season for lowliness, with both...
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June 17: Author - Matthew Algeo, The President Is a Sick Man
WGN NewsMatthew Algeo Event: Tonight 7:00 p.m. Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore 7419 West Madison Street Forest Park www.thepresidentisasickman.com On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. He boarded a friend's yacht, sailed into Long Island Sound,...Tags: Jaw, WGN, Long Island Sound
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Queens HS Teacher Gets The Boot After Going Too Far In Sex-Ed Class
Staff ReporterA Queens high school teacher has been barred from city schools following allegations he got too explicit in his sex-ed classes. Students at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood had complained that science teacher Dyrel Bartee's show-and-tell crossed...Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Ridgewood, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Personal and private lives
A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute has revealed that religious Americans think a financial scandal is worse than a sexual one. The poll was conducted in the wake of several high-profile cases of politicians making headlines for their...Tags: Ethics, Jimmy Carter, Vegetarian Diet, New York, Public Officials
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Exhibit unwraps Chicago’s role as candy capital
TribLocal - ElmhurstAn exhibit chronicling the history of candy in Chicagoland doesn’t sugarcoat the ups and downs of the industry’s history. “It wasn’t ‘Willy Wonka.’ It wasn’t …... -
Remembering 'the eagle that is forgotten'
Change of SubjectJohn Peter Altgeld Reader Russell T writes: I grew up in Chicago and have been living in Aachen, Germany, for the past two and a half years. Yesterday, we had the day off for May Day, for which we have...... -
Former Union soldier edits Danville paper, courts controversy
Contributing writerIn the 1880s, a former Union army captain from Ohio named David Asbury Murphy owned the “Danville Tribune,” a local Republican newspaper. Murphy’s editorials against Democratic politicians and former Confederate soldiers earned him...Tags: Parties and Movements, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Republican Party, Slavery, Athens (Greece)
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Federal school grant program jump-starts efforts to fix troubled schools
After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst-performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, Companies and Corporations, Parties and Movements, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Brawny comfort, light delight in NYC
NEW YORK — It's easy to imagine many a sea captain sprawled out on the charred oaken floors of the Breslin, knocked cold after a brawl. The smell of smoking pig's feet wafts across black, wood tables. A bowl of onion soup floats past, oily with bone...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Dining and Drinking, Anchovies, Restaurants, Starbucks Corp.
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10 things you might not know about salt
Every winter, widespread chemical dumping leaves Chicago streets covered in sodium chloride. Here are 10 facts you don't have to take with a grain of salt:
1. Salt has seasoned English in many ways. Because Romans put salt or brine on their vegetables,...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Heart Disease, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Jordan, Dietary Supplements
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