American Plays Win Local Favor Reflecting Native Typoes
A review argues American dramas succeed when centered on local characters and settings. It highlights works like The Witching Hour The Great Divide The Man from Home The Rose of the Rancho and Father and the Boys as distinctly American in locale and type. Maxine Elliot’s My self Bettina and Her Own Way also find success, while Her Great Match flops.
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New York
Chicago
Europe
George Ade
Artie
Maxine Elliot
Bettina
Clyde Fitch
Maxine
Gratitude Spurs Fight Club Formed by Jilted Men
A Chicago group of men rejected by a local woman has organized a club to express their gratitude in unusual ways. The article notes the formation of this fraternity as a social response to heartbreak.
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Chicago
Actress Should Not Wed Says John Mason On Stage Life
John Mason, head of The Witching Hour New York company, tells Theater Magazine that actresses should avoid marriage. He argues domestic life clashes with a performer’s artistic life and notes marriages of actors often split interests. He also discusses what makes an actor great as a divine inheritance beyond technique.
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John Mason
New York
Theater Magazine
Second Comedienne
Mason
Stage Notes Highlight Frazee and Loftus Theatres
The Flower of the Ranch heads on tour under Harry H Frazee while Anglin opens an Australian tour in Sydney. Mme Modjeska backs a California quake comedy The Right Man by Sanford Treadwell. Cecilia Loftus forms a company for summer resorts and Florence Bindley stars next season in In the Nick of Time.
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Harry H. Frazee
Miss. Anglin
Her Majesty's Theater
Sydney
Henry Bernstein
Mme. Modjeska
Jules Murray
Sanford Treadwell
Califrnia
California
Herbert
Susie Cawthorne
Shuberts
Cecilia Loftus
Walking Home With You and Other Tales of Daily Life
An old comic vignette features Willie learning to observe, with family antics about a snake in the linen closet and a sharp family dynamic. A Western-style lyric recalls a walk home with a beloved, while quips and adages on life, love, and daily mishaps fill the page with humorous mores.
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Ather
Willie
Bill
Brother Bill
Railroad figures reveal year of heavy fatalities and gains
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports for the year ending June 30 1908 show 122 855 killed or injured on railways with 873 805 183 passengers carried and 1 796 486 59 tons of freight hauled. Track mileage rose by 10 892 and 2 811 miles of line were reorganized. Net earnings reached 840 589 764 and dividends totaled 308 137 924 leaving a 141 823 264 surplus. One death occurred per 1 432 631 passengers carried, with one injury per 67 012 carried.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dream Inspired Churn Patent Nets Pratt Prospect $26000
Sullivan Indiana farmer Willis Pratt, after dreaming three nights about an improved churn, built a model, secured a patent, and a Chicago churn firm offered a price set high yet unexpectedly accepted, boosting his riches by $26,000.
Pardon Arrives for Columbus Man After 18 Years
Eighteen years after George Swanston completed a one year sentence for pension law violations, a full pardon signed by President Benjamin Harrison and Acting Secretary William F. Wharton arrived at the penitentiary. The pardon letter, dated September 3, 1890, was received from St. Louis and stamped in Columbus the following day. It is likely the document lay in a post office for years.
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Columbus
George Swanston
United Stated
Youngstown
Benjamin Harrison
United States
William F. Wharton
St. Louis
Washington
Moose in a Maine town tours Bangor streets
A 700 pound cow moose wandered Bangor in the early morning, grazing on lawns and crossing Pine and Hancock streets. It swam the Kenduskeag and eluded boats before finally reaching the city landing and heading along Water Street toward Union Street Hill at speed.
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Bangor
Patrick H. Gillin
Pine and
Penobscot Street
Pine Street
Hancock
Dan Smith
Exchange Street
Btate Street
York Street
Pine
Washington
Kenduskeag
City Landing
Water Street
Pickering Square
Haymarket Square
Short Street
Union
Union Street
Bees Oust Squirrels From Box At Marion Home
Inmates at the National Military Home in Marion Indiana witnessed bees drive squirrels from a maple tree box near the laundry. The bees filled the box with honey, hung ten combs, and plan to store more before winter amid clover fields nearby.
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Marion
Ind
National Military Home
Utes Work Hard In South Dakota Amid Shifting Attitudes
Reliable reports say the Ute group moved from Utah to the Cheyenne River reservation in western South Dakota and, under Rapid City Indian School leadership, are embracing hard work. About 200 people live near the school. fifteen youths attend classes. They worked on the Crouch railroad line and the Missouri River Black Hills extension, with some delays in pay now resolved. Leaders note progress, savings toward returning to Utah, and caution over alcohol use among the men, while a few still struggle with liquor.
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Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
House
Rapid City
Black Hills
Missouri River
St. Paul
Shaved Heads Newest Fad In Washington Post Office
Washington officials and clerks adopt head shaving as a new craze. Richard P Covert leads the shaved head brigade in the supply division promoting the "Merry Widow" haircut to further popularize the trend. The fad spreads to other sections, aiming to outpace prior department crazes.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Richard P Covert
Covert
Extermination plan urged to kill all Massachusetts cats
Boston. State ornithologist Edward Howe Forbush urges the legislature to empower him to kill every cat in the state. He argues cats destroy birds, damage crops, and spread diseases such as cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other ailments. He frames the request as a measure to protect wildlife and public health.
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Boston
Edward Howe Forbush
Massachusetts
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