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When Cubs last brought title to Chicago, false teeth delayed wedding in Indy

Will Higgins, and Amy Bartner
IndyStar
A clipping from Indy Star, Oct. 15, 1908, the day after the Cubs last won the World Series.

The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series was Oct. 14, 1908.

The next day The Indianapolis Star reported the victory on Page 1. "Cubs Win Pennant Easily from Tigers," the headline said. "Wherever they are talking about the world's baseball championship tonight," the story began, "they are cussing the wonderful Chicago Cubs."

Here are nine other things people might have been talking about that day (had they read the Star that day). These are headlines only, except for the "Man Says He Was Robbed" and "Horse Stealing Disease" stories and the one about the man who fell over dead a moment after saying how well he felt and the one about the mugging of the too-trusting man from a small town. Those, due to their brevity, are reprinted in full.

1) Attempts to Break False Teeth to Delay Wedding

Father, Arrested in Family Fight, Accused by Daughter, Who Says He Opposes Her Marriage

2) Expect Large Crowd

Prohibitionists Prepare to Greet Their Vice Presidential Nominee

3) Man Says He Was Robbed

Reports Loss of $28.50 in Saloon on South Capitol Avenue

Morton Conner of Rushville, Ind. reported to the police that he was robbed of $28.50 last evening in a saloon on South Capitol Avenue. He said that he went into the saloon with that much money but that when he came out he did not have one cent. Bicyclemen Ball and Simon investigated the robbery. At the saloon Ed Merchant, the proprietor, said that Conner had come into the place late in the afternoon and ordered a few drinks. He said that the man went to sleep in a chair in the saloon but that he knew nothing of the robbery.

4) This two-sentence story did not have a headline.

Evansville, Ind. — While conversing with a neighbor and remarking how well he felt, Ambrosia Light, aged 58, a contractor, fell dead. He had just eaten a hearty meal.

Old Indy neighborhood was an island of racial harmony

5) Jury Acquits Fisherman

Shelbyville Man Found Not Guilty of Dynamiting Streams

6) Four Are Injured in Hammond Saloon Riot

Man From Pennsylvania Draws Razor on Barkeeper and Beer Bottles Fill Air

7) Horse Stealing Disease

Aged Thief Pleads Guilty in Warsaw Circuit Court

Goshen, Ind. — Byron Beemus, alias Byron Palmer and Henry Wilson, 70 years old and long noted in this section as a horse thief, today pleaded guilty after the state had completed its evidence against him. Beemus has been in prison in four different states and admits horse stealing with him is a disease.

8) Civilized Sioux Indian Held on Bigamy Charge

St. Louis Woman Claims Henry Standing Bear Has Another Wife and Family

9) Tells Story of Holdup

Francis M. Curtis of Eminence, Ind. came to Indianapolis to do some shopping for his wife, having been entrusted with $5. Last night he reported to the police that the had been held up and robbed of his money on Market Street between New Jersey and East streets. He had volunteered to take a stranger to a certain address and the stranger was joined by another stranger, he said. The two strangers did the work.

Star reporters Will Higgins and Amy Bartner report not being robbed at the saloon. They spent their money on drinks. Contact Will Higgins at (317) 444-6043. Follow him on Twitter @WillRHiggins.

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