Wild West Exhibition Amazes London Society Crowd
A London Society chronicle describes the American Exhibition drawing vast crowds to West Brompton where Buffalo Bill, Cardinal Manning, and a procession of fashionables mingle with a curious display of Red Indian war dances and tribal color. The arena creates a grand mosaic of faces and spectacle as spectators become part of the show.
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West Brompton
London
Cardinal Manning
Buffalo Bill
Abbey Announces Dual French Star Engagements in America
Henry Ek. Abbey plans a long term tour with Coquelin the elder and Jane Hading. Coquelin will debut under Abbey Schoeffel Grau in London this October then tour to New York in December after Irving's engagement ends. Hading will join after Coquelin's tour is underway with a later introduction to the United States.
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Henry Ek. Abbey
Bernhardt
Patti
Abbey
Coquelin
Theater Francais
France
Sarah Bernhardt
The
Francais
New York Times
Wilson Barrett and Chicago Society explore Pullman City
In an interview with the London Topical Times Wilson Barrett recalls how busy men escorted him from offices to pleasures. In Chicago he meets inventor George Pullman who offers a tour of Pullman City and a luxury luncheon aboard a special train.
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Wilson Barrett
London
Topical Times
Chicago
Pullman
Liberty
Pullman City
Prince of Denmark draws Chicago society to see Hamlet
On first visiting Chicago the speaker received polite inquiries about his Hamlet performance. Later a woman asked when he would perform again and announced plans to attend in Louisville. The next morning fifteen couples from Chicago arrived by special train to fulfill their promise to see him.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Louisville
Prince of
Denmark
Mary Anderson Faces Disruptive Students at Edinburg Lyceum
The Edinburgh Lyceum Theater faced a chaotic night as students jeered and interrupted the performance of A Winter's Tale. Miss Mary Anderson remonstrated with the rioters after they refused to accept her prize distribution citing rehearsals. The incident drew sharp criticism from the London Dramatic Review.
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Mary Anderson
Edinburg Lyceum Theater
Mme
Marie Roze
Edinburg
Miss Anderson
London Dramatic Review
Stage Notes and Society Scribbles
Mary Andrurson is expected home this week. Errin Evisuienr will open her season in Mr. Horace Wall's opera house in New Haven, September 1. Helen Davvray is said to be worth nearly a million dollars from mining interests and real estate speculation.
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Patti
Drakes Magazine
Errin Evisuienr
Horace Wall
New Haven
Helen Davvray
King of the Sawdust Game Confesses to New York Reporter
The notorious confidence man explains the evolving scam once led to weekly hauls of up to $15,000. He details elaborate layouts, steerers, and counterfeit money swaps, with a dramatic show of false safekeeping and substitution before the victim departs town. He claims immense greed and heavy expenses drive ongoing operations.
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New York
Sam
Turner
Ieat
Iit
Sub-Treasury
Wall Street
Aniline Promises Cure Amid TB Fear
A Russian pathologist Prof. Kremianski notes aniline kills the comma bacillus linked to consumption. He warns promising cures are not new and many friends still fall to the disease, the terrible destroyer.
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Kremianski
Wise old men who live long and useful lives list
A table of eminent figures who died at seventy or later is offered as proof that long life can accompany continued usefulness. Names span Chatham to Fontenelle with brief closing quotes about wisdom and beginnings.
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Paris
France
United States
America
Fred Douglas
Inter Ocean
Lord Chatham
Petrarch
Copernicus
Spallanzani
Boerhaave
Gall
Dinnicus
Charlemagne
Samuel Richardson
Allan Ramsay
John Locke
Necker
Charles Darwin
Thorwaldsen
Handel
Frederick the Great
Jenner
Haydn
Dugald Stewart
Bossuet
Thomas ‘Telford
Joseph Banks
Lord Beaconsfield
Galileo
Corneille
William Harvey
Robert Stevenson
Henry Cavernish
Plato
Wordsworth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kant
Thiers
William Cullen
Buffon
Edward Young
Edward Coke
Lord Palmerston
Arnauld
Wellington
Goethe
Victor Hugo
Voltaire
Talleyrand
William Herschel
Cato the Wise
Newman
Benjamin Franklin
Jeremy Bentham
Earl Russell
Edmund Halley
Carlisle
John Wesley
Michael Angelo
Sophocles
Titian
Fontenelle
New York Home Journal
Unlucky Friday Tales and Tabor House Ballads
A fragment from a Southern newspaper piece recounts superstition about Friday travel and bad luck with tales from Betsy Freshours and family. It also includes a humorous note on Tabor's Opera House in Denver and Leadville, and a light quip about a family in Texas comparing false hair teeth and tongues.
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Miss Freshours
Betsy Hamilton
Atlanta Constitution
Dallas
Texas
Nancy
Becky Ann
Joe
Malindy Ann Jones
John Henry Scrubtree
Oman
Betsy
Pink
Law
Tabor
Shakespeare
Denver
Leadville
Thespis
Italy
Mr. Tabor
Minneapolis Journal
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Chicago Society
Mary
Mary Andrurson
Sawdusyz
Lamartine
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