Old Lime Concert at Schoolhouse Friday Evening
A list of selections and performers for the Old Lime Concert at the Schoolhouse on Friday October 16 at 7 p m. Reading pieces include solo and duet numbers such as Hide Behind the Door When Papa Comes and My Old Kentucky Home. The program features piano solos Massa's in the Cold Cold Ground and The Sweet Bye and Bye, quartettes and choruses with names like Mesdames Reynolds Dean Hancor Newton Turner Berkeley Nobie and Kokernot among others.
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Reading
Kentucky
Newton
Dr Berk
Nellie Gray
Massa
Juanita Pansyullett
Annice Laurie
Old Farmer
Prehistoric City Unearthed in Paradon Coahuila
Archaeologist Dr. Nicholas Leon reports discoveries at Paradon in Coahuila showing a vast ancient city buried by flood debris. The site yields massive structures, a probable population near sixty thousand, and unprecedented evidence of elephants used by early inhabitants with silver rings on tusks.
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Nicholas Leon
National Museum of
Mexico City
Paradon
Coahuila
New York Herald
Cohahuila
Mexico
Verses on fishin and Gramper the busy grandpa
The selection includes a poem about fishing and chasing the biggest catch in life. It moves to Gramper a hale but rheumatic grandfather who, despite limits, remains the busiest helper on the homestead fixing mending and guiding the family tasks. The pieces end with a look toward rest and a cemetery bed.
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Chicago News
A Kingly Bullfighter Faces a Barred Horned Bull
The Portuguese king, formerly Duke of Braganza, once entered the arena incognito to face a bull with unpadded horns. A daring challenge from a courtly lady led him to try the Spanish method, but he slipped and fell. He quickly rose and vaulted the barricade to escape as the bull charged.
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Portugal
Braganza
Spain
The Bad Dream and The Country Town in Verse
A pair of poems recount a bad dream haunting a child and a nostalgic ode to the country town. The first piece by Theodosia Garrison in New York contrasts good dreams with a lingering bad one. The second reflects on country life’s quiet streets and fellowship versus city bustle as printed in the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Theodosia Garrison
New York Herald
Maids
Chicago Record-Herald
Century New Year Song Greeting in Odd Verse
A fragmented 19th century style verse salutes a town with references to a white cup and brown ale. It mentions a little maid and urges welcome, closing with a wish for a happy new year and blessings from God.
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Brewster County
GC. H. Larkin Go
Aggie Wesdames
Mesdames Reynolds, Dean and
Hancor
Miss Holland
Miss Turner
Turney
Berkeley
Ton and Dean
Misa Holland
Russell
Reynolds
Dr. Berkeley
Nobie
Grace Powe
Miss Fourqurean
Tee Eeee
Winder
Nona Garnett
Ey and Chorus
Het Kokernot
Mra
Dean
Dward Fonlks
Chihuahua
W. H. Wilson
Gramper
D. Kincarn
Velix Stapper
KJ. Altoilt
Kincald Altgelt Co
Friedman Bros.’ Shoes
Chicago
Saint Louis
Alpine
Proughs
Folsom and Wolsomn
Brewster
Presidio
Jeff Davis
Pecos Counties
Sanderson
Texas
Contracting & Building
William Daugherty
John R,sanford
William C
Douglas
Tex
Eagle Pass
Sanford & Douglas
Attorneys-at-law
Alpine and
R. B. Slight & CO
Live Stock Commission
Kansas City
Dr. Sweeden
Alpine Drug Store
KE. R. Carpenter
Albert Wilkinson
Drs. Carpenter
Mills Guilding
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