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...Teams. Of the ten clubs in the National League, two are new. Detroit bought the franchise of the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans, and St. Louis replaced Cincinnati. With franchises valued from $10,000 to $100,000, most of the clubs have this season made 20% more money than last year...
...city-owned Cincinnati Southern, a 338-mi. road between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, has returned to the city nearly $65,000,000 in revenue since its completion in 1879. Its cost: $30,000,000. Optimistically the city last week began negotiations to acquire the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad...
Stranded in Scarboro, Me., when fog grounded a Bangor-Boston airliner, Doris Duke bought a $2 ticket, climbed into a bus. At Portsmouth she had a sandwich and cup of coffee in the railroad station, thanked the driver: "I'm awfully glad you stopped here. I was starving." At Boston she was met by one of her nine cars, a $14,000 Dusenberg. whisked off to Newport...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), second of eight children, was born in Portsea, England. His father. John Dickens (the original of Mr. Micawber in David Copper field) was at the time a clerk in the navy-pay office at Portsmouth. When Charles was two the family moved to London, where he had two years' schooling before Micawberish bankruptcy overtook his father, landed him in Marshalsea Prison for debt. Nine-year-old Charles had to leave school go to work in a blacking warehouse, tying, trimming, labeling blacking pots. Weekends he visited his parents in their comfortable prison quarters...
...this time the tide was rising. Forward oil tanks and ammunition magazines were emptied onto lighters. Finally the Nelson floated off by herself and returned to her Portsmouth dock for a hasty examination before proceeding on her three-month cruise to the West Indies...