MABEL TALIAFERRO AND HUSBAND PLAN FALL THEATER PROJECTS
Mabel Taliaferro, popular actress, will star in Polly of the Circus again this autumn with husband Frederic Thompson managing. Thompson, founder of the New York Hippodrome, plans productions including Cinderella at the New Amsterdam. Polly opens in Chicago on Labor Day then Nashville, then a December switch for Edith Taliaferro to take over.
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Mabel Taliaferro
Polly
Frederic Thompson
Hippodrome
Jana Park
Buffalo
Coney Island
New York
Hip Podrome
Beaides
Lona Park
Uls
Mr. Thompson
Circus
Miss Taliaferro
New York Company
Chicago
Nashville
Tenn
Oloderefis
The Castellane Boys and a Custody Dispute
The Castellane family saga deepens as the Count de Castellane challenges Anna Gould's custody of the three Castellane boys after her divorce. Gould, titled the innocent party, secured custody, while the Count alleges that Prince Helle is an improper guardian and seeks to interfere with the children's guardianship amid tensions from his estranged wife’s new marriage.
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Belie de Sagan
Count de Castellane
Castellane
Mme
Anna Gould
Helle
Moving Pictures to Aid Modern Farming at Expos
A Chicago News outline reports W. Martin of Omaha demonstrates that moving pictures can educate farmers. The film shows modern planting, cultivating, harvesting equipment and on farm work at model Illinois Iowa and Nebraska farms. A lecturer explains steps while images of wheat drills self binders steam threshers and grain handling illustrate bread production from field to mill.
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Geryy
Omaha
Martin
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
West
Omha
Chicago News
Tin Can Clubs Aim to Grow New Forests Across Nation
B H Green of Monterey California promotes tin can clubs to supply forests. He claims success with tree seeds nuts and cuttings in cans including an eight year old twenty foot oak and a twelve year old thirty foot redwood. He suggests planting in cans with soil keeping it moist and letting roots grow as cans rust away.
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B. H. Green
Nonterey
Cal
United States
Dakotas
National
Green
Taft Club of Fat Men Organized in Chicago Stockyards
The Fat Man Taft Club of the Union Stockyards in Chicago is formed with 80 cattlemen and workers joining. Members must weigh at least 230 pounds, led by president Trani L Beveridge, 285 pounds, and Everett Jackson, 28, at 860 pounds and growing. The club vows unity and support for the Republican convention, describing itself as a large, manly expansionist group.
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Taft Club
Chicago
Trani L. Beveridge
Everett Jackson
Union Stockyards
New Job For Women On Carmania Aboard
The steamship Carmania hires a woman as assistant to the purser to handle questions from passengers. Miss Catherine Leith is described as capable and poised, a pioneer in this role. Other ocean liners may adopt the idea.
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Carmania
Catharine Leith
Would Join Him Ernest Renan Life of Simplicity
The great French author and academy member Ernest Renan led a simple life going to bed early and rising with the lark. When urged to attend a state ball, he initially refused but then proposed joining for a 5 a.m. supper, declaring he would rise earlier to make it his breakfast.
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Ernest Renan
French Academy
Renan
Arkansaw Ode by Olympic Sprinter James Alcorn
A Memphis Commercial Appeal poem notes University of Virginia sprinter James Alcorn wrote an ode before heading to the Olympic Games. The verses exalt Arkansas as enchanted and majestic with rivers and landscapes, claiming its beauty surpasses fairy lands and other places.
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University of Virginia
James Alcorn
Sonday
Nya
Arkansaw
Memphis
Fireside Burns and the Glasgow Alum Charity Visit
A philanthropic Indy visiting a Glasgow alumnus enters a home where the wife is washing. She asks if Burns has been read, then shows a reddened arm and a milk churn scene, declaring that after the effort Burns’ spirit remains.
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Indy
Glasgow
Must Have Had Experience in Som ervilla Journal
A fragment from Som ervilla Journal recalls a tense moment between a man and woman as she trembles at his shoulder. They notice a white blur on his coat and the man reassures her with a grim line about it brushing off. The scene conveys unease and implied peril.
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Ronsaure
Charlie
Somervilla Journal
Fragmentary note hints at literacy gaps in speech
A garbled excerpt shows a speaker asking if someone is gating without doing work and mentions stomach pain and fatigue. The text reads like a phonetic transcription of a dialect or speech pattern with names or terms unclear.
Nine Pound Turnip Stuns Lake City Growers
Nervous traveler asks speed of travel while a companion jokes. In Lake City Indiana on October 19, Stress reports growing a nine pound turnip on newly cleared ground, the largest of its kind, plus a seventeen foot corn stalk bearing five ears.
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Lake City
Stress
Short Skirt League Gains London Backing
A London society of women the Short Skirt League forms with pledges to wear abbreviated skirts. A prominent London doctor praises the movement citing concerns that street dust carries bacteria and that dust laden with germs released indoors harms health.
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London
New League
One Lesson On The Floor Incident In The Statesman
The Yonkera Statesman recalls a brief floor mishap after a sister reportedly failed to dance. A witness notes, I stepped on her foot, and she recovered with a joke about the moment. The exchange captures a lighthearted, anecdotal scene.
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Yonkera Statesman
Towne Questions Misnamed Pethorbrmua Cholly
Fragmentary chatter references misnaming Pethorbrmua as Cholly and Noah Browne in a noisy campus banter. The Dutch proverb about a good head and industrious hands is quoted as a value.
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Pethorbrmua
Noah
Browne
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