Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treat for billiard lovers is scheduled for today at 8 o'clock in the Union when Jake Schaeffer will give an exhibition. He has held various billiard titles at different times and is the son of a one time champion. . . . Rex, second string catcher on the baseball team, broke his finger on the Southern trip in the Catholic U. game and will probably be out for about a month. . . . Ben Bassett, diminutive right fielder on the ball team, who comes from the Cape Cod region, was bragging to his mates on the trip to the South about his sailing abilities...
Followers of billiards will have a chance to see one of the masters of the game in action when Jake Schaefer, world's 18.2 balkline billiard champion will give an exhibition of his skill at the Union tonight in the Living Room. David McAndless of Chicago, former national amateur 18.2 balkline champion, will meet Schaefer in all the games...
...were being harassed by an active police. Chief Detective John Stege had begun an inconvenient practice of giving "house parties" at headquarters for all known gangsters picked up on sight. Capone was ready to face these changes when he returned to Chicago. He had left short, stocky, moon-faced Jake Guzick, who hides shrewd ability under a spunkless whine, in charge of the Capone gang. Guzick would make his "business report." Capone would do whatever reorganizing was necessary. The peace pact negotiated at Atlantic City was still in force. Such gang killings as had occurred were sporadic personal affairs...
...women use the candied root or the extract to soothe their periodic griping. Because Jamaica ginger gives a lot feeling to the stomach and because it contains alcohol it is like lemon extract, favorite tipple of inland drinkers unable to buy normal imported alcoholic beverages. They call Jamaica ginger "jake...
...establishments which openly display the brass rail, sawdust and an oyster-bar, barbaric symbols of a bygone age, will remove the same or be relieved of their licenses (see the Boston Herald, the Chief of Police or Ezekiel 23). Frequenters of such landmarks as the Loch-Ober Cafe and Jake Wirth's will be delighted to know that these historic features which have so often influenced their baser natures in the past, are to be relegated to the scrap heap...