Little Lord Fauntleroy at Keiths Busy Boston Run
The Castle Square Theatre company staged Little Lord Fauntleroy at Keiths Boston with J H Gilmour as the Earl of Dorincourt. Johnnie McKeever as Cedric and Lilian Lawrence as the designing Minna drew praise, while Grace Atwell impressed in a first major role with a moving pathos.
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Castle Square Theatre
Dorincourt
Johnnie McKeever
Lilian Lawrence
Minna
Erroll
Grace Atwell
Miss Atwell
William Humphrey
Havisham
William Charles Masson
Hobbs
Favorite Prescription touted as women's health cure all
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe remedy for female weakness and reproductive disorders, claiming it avoids examinations and supports pregnancy and child health. It promotes Dr. Pierce as a long-time Buffalo physician and notes a new edition of his medical book with affordable paper and cloth bindings. The piece also mentions Watanabe’s acrobats opening the show.
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America
Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo, N.Y
Ais
Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N.Y
Keith's Vaudeville Bill Showcases Wide Variety of Acts
This week's Keith's offering features Mme Ida Klein singing arias from Daughter of the Regiment and a Wizard of the Nile number with the orchestra, plus an encore Phil's Secret. The Symphony Orchestra performs excerpts from Orpheus Narcissus Carmen and Dreamland. A lively farce stars Laura Biggar and Burt Haverly with balloon journeys and theatrical-manager disguises. Other acts include musical interludes by John P. Brown, acrobatic Alice, Montgomery and Stone in a blackface song and dance, Press Eldridge’s comic monologue, Smith and Campbell’s quick-witted banter, Stanley and Jackson with comedy and song, the School Boys and Girls Quintet, Annie Whitney with stereopticon visuals, Howe and Edwards in a novel comedy with music, and J W Harrington's entertaining impersonations.
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Keith’s
Mme
Ida Klein
Phil
Symphony
Nevin
John P. Brown
Miss Biggar
Arias
Alice
Keith
Montgomery
Stone
Press Eldredge
Smith
Campbell
Stanley
Jackson
Miss Jackson
Mr. Stanley
Schoolboys
Annie Whitney
Mapes
Howe
Edwards
J. W. Harrington
Montauk at the Howard and a Night of Laughs
John W. Ransone opens at the Howard in a Richard Croker impersonation that rouses laughter. The program features McIntire and Heath in Attention, Olympia Quartet with The Independent Colored Cadets, Gertie Gilson in A Nice Situation for a Girl, living gold bronze statues by the Martinis, plus a lineup of comedians and singers including Gertie Reynolds Harry Thomson Al and Mamie Anderson Nelson and Milledge and more.
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Howard Titties
John W. Ransone
New York
McIntire and Heath
Olympia Quartet
Gertie Gilson
The
Martinis
Nelson and Milledge
Gertie Reynolds
al and
Mamie Anderson
Clement and
Marshall
Lew H. Carroll
West
DeVaux
Clarice Vance
Chip
Harry Tomson
Tom Ripley
Thomas and Watson
John Weber
Mabel Casedy
Harry Armstrong
the Howard
Richard Croker
McIntire
Heath
Messrs
Keough
Randall
Sullivan
Mack
Boston
Independent Colored Cadets
Lottie
Howard
Harry Thomson
Nelson and
Milledge
California
Clement
Lew Carroll
Warry Armstrong
Boston Theatre Season Opens With Rebuilt Venues and New Leaders
The Academy of Music in Chelsea leases to Jon C. Patrick of Bristol’s Equine Paradox for five years and plans radical improvements and Boston advertising. George B. Lothrop revamps Bowdoin Square for Aug 23 opening with Blaney’s The Electrician. Grand Theatre, leased by Thomas and Watson, will open Aug 16 with Frank J. Keenan in vaudeville and stock plays. Columbia Aug 23 Tremont Aug 30 Hollis Grand Opera House Sept 6.
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Chelsea
Jon C. Patrick
Bristol
Australia
Patrick
Boston
George B. Lothrop
Bowdoin Square
Blaney
Frank J. Keenan
Mr. Keenan
Matthias
Columbia
Tremont
Hollis and Grand Opera House
Boston Theatre prepares for Uncle Tom's Cabin debut
Harkins and Barbour bring a 35 member company to the Boston Theatre for a two week run of a new faithful adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Scenery includes 16 drops and multiple set pieces with Mr Barbour directing. The production promises to omit degrading barnstorming elements.
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Boston
Harkins & Barbour
Big Playhouse
New York
Fall River Line
Mr. Barbour
Park Theatre Reopens With Mathews and Bulger Farce Stars
Park Theatre to reopen Monday evening August 23 with Mathews and Bulger, new farce comedy stars famed for clever parodies and entertaining duologue once heard in high class vaudeville settings.
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Park Theatre
Mathews
Bulger
At Gay Coney Island Musical and Chutes Attractions
The article previews a three act musical At Gay Coney Island featuring two young stars and Maurice Levi’s music, with fifteen new songs and a two week run at the Park. It also describes visitors at the Chutes with ostriches ponies and the Roxbury Cadet Band, noting afternoon visits are popular and children receive half price.
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Plymouth
Monttrrest
Winthrow Wharf
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Jordan
R. Bacon
Mgr
Gay Coney Island
Philadelphia
Sal Pn
Maurice Levi
Gay Coneygland
Roxbury Cadet
Fire works display and circus acts at Point of Pines
Tonight at the Point of Pines Pain the pyrotechnist presents a second elaborate firework show with new set pieces and humorous designs including Jocko the acrobatic monkey and Pain's performing elephant. The children's festival continues with free tickets for features and Punch and Judy with trained dogs while band concerts draw many visitors on the grounds.
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Point of Pines
Pines Theatre
Revere Beach & Lynn KR
Genta
Pain
Jocko
Doyle Williams
World Championship Trials Open At Austin & Stones
Women athletes gathered in the museum hall in Austin & Stone for a strength competition to crown the world champion. Flora LaBlanch boasted of oil bath training and proclaimed she would win, while crowds enjoyed the event, CruiKshank with 100 faces and Indian fakirs performing feats alongside vaudeville acts by Harbecks Hyde Leola Magii Rita Durand and several other acts.
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Austin & Stone’s Museum
Flora LaBlanch
Harbecks
Hyde and
Leola
Magii Brothers
Rita Durand
Winstanley Brothers
Colline Cole
Haynes
Redmond
P. G. Lowery
Greenache Brothers
Linton Sisters
Ford
Fisher
Turner
Welton
Near fatal morphine poisoning of May Richardson in Cambridge
Two year old May Richardson ate three morphine medicated cocoa butter pastilles from a box beside her sick mother in North Cambridge. The child became sleepy and confused, but prompt nurse care, cold water treatment, and hypodermic injections by a doctor saved her. she was out of danger after three hours.
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Cambridge
Little May Richardson
Raymond Richardson
Hubbard Avenue
Little May
Miss Edith Gould Dies at 18 in West End
Edith Gertrude Gould daughter of Mrs Etta B H and the late William Gould died Sunday morning at 22 Stamford Street from peritonitis after a ten day illness. She was 18 and planned to wed a member of Engine 4 ready for his September vacation. Funeral 10 o clock today from her home. Interment Harmony Grove Salem.
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Etta BH
William Do. Gould
Stamford Street
West End
Engine 4
Harmony Grove
Salems
International reactions to Sherman interview stirred press debate
The St James Gazette mocked Sherman as senile while praising U S traditions of courtesy. It recalled the Kalnoky incident and questioned why Europe has one law while America has another. The Westminster Gazette called the interview a fruity example of his saloon style. The Globe warned the U S not to boss global matters and hinted Sherman may suffer mental disturbances.
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New York World
Sherman
England
St. James Gazette
America
Kalnoky
Austria
Great Britain
Gladstone
Europe
St. James
Washington
Westminister Gazette
the Globe
Uncle Sam
United States
Death's Harvest: William L. Picknell of Boston Dies Abroad
William L. Picknell, a leading American landscape painter, died at his uncle's summer home in Marblehead aged 42. Interment will be in Everett. His career included study in Rome and Paris, exhibitions in England, and prizes such as the Lippincott prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for Morning on the Laint.
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Boston
D. 8. Ford
Devereaux Rocks
Marblehead
Rome
Inness
Paris
Leon Gerome
Ecole Des Beaux Arts
Champs Elysees
France
England
Royal Academy
New Forest
Academy
Captain Frederick Johnson Dies at 92 North Street Home
Salem August 9 Captain Frederick Johnson died at his home 183 North Street after months of illness. Born in Copenhagen June 16 1819 he went to sea at 15 and came to the United States in 1837. He commanded several noted clipper ships including the Surprise and Don Quixote and helped transport 850 Chinese passengers from Formosa to San Francisco after a Formosa incident.
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Frederick Johnson
North Street
Captain Johnson
Copenhagen
Denmark
New York
United States
Surprise
Yokohama Bay
Ringleader
Formosa
Johnson
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Simoda
Japan
Salem sailor Captain George W. Cloutman dies at 182 Essex Street
Captain George W. Cloutman of Salem died at his residence, 110 Essex Street, after a life at sea. Born in 1824, he became a pilot in New Orleans, served through the Civil War piloting U S Navy ships, and once faced Captain Semmes near the Alabama. He later ran a hack business with his brother before selling it.
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Salem
George W. Cloutman
Essex Street
New Orleans
United States
Semmes
Alabama
Clanfman
Boston & Maine
Rapid Route Travel Prices Across North American Rail Lines
A garbled note describes rail routes including the Hoosac Tunnel and St. Lawrence River lines offering travel options via Niagara Falls and direct connections to Montreal. It references a reduced fare around $20.25 and mentions Watson General Passenger and Masa. details are unclear.
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Hoosac
Niagara Falls
Tho
St. Lawrence
Rive
Montreal
Retaila A Watson
Masa
Butte & Boston Stock Moves Amid Large Trading and Swift Declines
The Aug 9 market report notes erratic activity led by heavy volume in Butte & Boston as a big bull pool pressed early gains to 26 3/8 then fell to 25 1/8 amid substantial selling by Lawson party. Reports cite expected mine development and possible high future prices, with other rails and coal stocks showing mixed results and ongoing reorganizations.
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Boston
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Butte
Boston Financial News
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Pioneer
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United States
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Copper County News
Arnold
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Dominion Coal Company
Boston & Maine
New England
Inquirer
Pinkham
Boston Stock Exchange Daily Official Sales Report
The August 9 report lists the day’s highest and lowest prices, the closing price, and the bid and asked quotes for the Boston Stock Exchange.
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Boston Stock Exchange
Tragic Hanging at Fitchburg Saw Mill Raises Mystery
In Fitchburg on August 9, Reuben Wyman 75 years old an inmate of the Lunenburg town farm was found dead hanging from a beam in a sawmill near the almshouse. His wife also an inmate disappeared after a Sunday quarrel and remains missing as searchers continue.
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Fitchburg
Reuben Wyman
Lunenburg
Wyman
Jacob Favour Celebrates 92nd Birthday in Natick
In Natick on Aug 9 at his son Richmond Favour’s home, Jacob Favour marked his 92nd birthday with grandchildren in attendance. A descendant of Huguenots, he traces lineage to Captain Cutting Favour the pioneer of Hills, New Hampshire. He credits outdoor life and moderate habits for his health, having spent years on a Ashland farm and enjoying hunting and fishing.
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Richmond Favour
Jacob Favour
France
Captain Cutting Favour
Captain Cut
Hills
N. H
Favour
Ashland
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