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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1913
Page
8
Thomas A Wish launches a starring tour in New York city venues. The plan includes multiple performances with high expectations for strong box office reception and critical interest from theater circles.
Special Correspondent reports Klaw and Erlanger present Potash and Parimutter at the Coburn theater with Alexander Carr and Barney Bernard in lead roles, alongside Louise Dresser and a large cast. The Longacre and Lyric houses launch new shows, including When Dreams Come True, with Philip Bartholomale and Silvio Hein, plus a slate of forthcoming London and Broadway productions, star engagements, and tours featuring Elsie Ferguson, Mary Nash, Miss Anglin, Mrs Fiske, Maude Adams, and more, signaling a busy fall theater season in New York and across North America.
San Francisco August 24 three trunks with burglary gear including acetylene tanks blow pipes electric drills mercury nitro glycerin and dynamite were seized when Clarence French George Ashton Jal O Keefe and Harvey Taylor were arrested on suspicion. Police hope to tie them to recent city safe robberies and burglaries while noting extensive loot found among the trunks. The group allegedly used trunks with built in storage for modern appliances. The men are held for investigation. The article also cites 1875 rubber consumption and present figures about supply.
Miss Erlaline Terris discusses American humor in a New York restaurant tale while Lottie Briscoe gains popularity in American Lubin photoplays. Features cover an editorial on animal cruelty in millinery, a pair of tramps misadventure at Lake Blut, the film A Brothers Loyalty with Francis X. Bushman, and a Japanesefocused Jiu Jitsu educational short.
A Chicago stationery shop owner named Fannie Heffron is recognized by Will J. Davis Jr at a movie theater box office where he recalls seeing her in Black Crook years ago in New York. He grants an advance pass exemption and shows photographs from his collection. A separate note highlights an Edison film on steel cutting with the oxygraph and other travel and military film segments from Pathe Freres.
Reports from Daily Sail and Spectator indicate Barking council tramway operations have suffered since inception. Losses last year reached around £5000 and this year show further declines, with municipal trams spending more than they take in.
Captain Canuto Leva, ex El Paso policeman and leader under Ortega, rescues eighteen wounded comrades under heavy federal machine gun fire near Juarez. He fights with Madero loyalists against Huerta, demonstrating bravery beyond the Rio Grande.
The Spectator criticizes London county council for costly tramway purchases that produced a small net surplus after fixed charges. It argues public bodies overestimated profits, favored municipalization, and should avoid capital projects that shift risks from private to public sectors. The Barking council chair proposes leasing tramways to a private company to mitigate losses.
The text argues private investors prefer bus ventures over electric tramways and questions how the London County Council can rid itself of socialist burdens. It suggests the council should accept any takeover offer, or operate the current system to achieve best economics, avoiding new capital in a failing enterprise.
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