Damrosch Ellis Grand Opera Season Opens in Boston
The Boston Theatre hosted the Damrosch Ellis grand opera season debut with Faust featuring Melba as Marguerite. The crowd praised improved stage, acoustics, and seating while noting a few casting novelties and directorial changes. Upcoming performances listed include Tannhauser Barber of Seville Die Walkure and La Traviata with a second week announced and sale dates. Prominent attendees included Joshua Montgomery Sears and the Morse and O'Brien families.
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Ellis
Grand Opera
Boston
Faust
Ibos
Melba
Marguerite
Toronto
Campanini
Boudouresque
Siebel
Mlle
Public Square
Amrosch
Siegfried
Hursday
Joshua Montgomery Sears
Inches
Leopold Morse
Godfrey Morse
E. Rollins Morse
George Tebbetts
Carl O’brien
Minnie O’brien
Gertrude O’brien
Mme. de Angelis
Chopin
Morton Beal
B. F. Keith
Albee
Children’s Reefers and Ladies’ Skirts at Sale Prices
Readable items show mag nificent quality Scotch cloth reefers for ages 6 to 12 at 1.98. Ladies’ skirts from Scotch mixtures in plaids and neat effects, formerly 5 6 and 7 dollars, now 2.98.
President McKinley Parade Feted in Philadelphia
President McKinley arrives in Philadelphia at 3 50 PM to cheers. He stays with Provost Harrison and attends an informal dinner with officials and university leaders. Security is heightened with mounted police and telegraph lines link the capital and city. He will address University of Pennsylvania Washington Birthday exercises the next day.
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Philadelphia
McKinley
J. Addison Porter
Frank Thompson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Charles C. Harrison
University of Pennsylvania
C. S. Patterson
Harrison
Porter
Washington
Pennsylvania
Mr. Harrison
Henry Chapman
John C. Johnson
Hilprecht
C. Stuart Patterson
John Cadwallader
Alexander Biddle
John C. Groome
DeGraafe Fox
Barton Hopkins
Pendleton
Sturgis
Anne Thompson
Havana
Provost Harrison
Melba Triumphs In Boston Opera Reception
Mme Melba delivers a celebrated performance before Bostonians in a city opera venture seeking public support. Critics praise her voice and stage presence while noting mixed reactions to other company members and uneven vocal control in several ensemble pieces.
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Mme. Melba
Goethe
Calve
Marguerite
Spain after new warships report man two destroyers built in England
London reports that Great Britain builds six armored vessels six armored ships to be sold to foreign governments with several ships under option for Japan and others. Thomson brothers say Spain will man two remaining destroyers from Clyde bank yards not yet delivered due to payment issues.
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England
London
Great Britain
Japan
Thomson Brothers
Spain
Clyde Bank
Navy orders speed battleship work in Newport News
Orders from the Navy Department push the battleships Kearsarge and Mentudes into rapid construction at Newport News. Contractors will employ round the clock shifts, aiming to have the ships ready for active service within six months though contracts allow a year for completion.
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Newport News
Navy Department
Funeral plans for Somerville electrocution victim
The body of Felix McDonald, a young man electrocuted in Somerville Sunday, will be taken to his residence today for a service. Edward Telland is directing arrangements for the funeral.
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Felix McDonald
Somerville
Lal
Edward Teland
Money to Loan at Fair Rates on Mortgage or Real Estate
Money to loan at fair rates and upward on first mortgages or real estate in Monton and vicinity. Monthly payments cover principal and interest. Easiest and cheapest way to buy or build a home or pay off your present loan. No commissions to pay. Cooper Bank, 687 Washington St.
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Monton
Co-Opera
Bra
Washington St
Dynamite gun battery at Sandy Hook manned for first time
New dynamite gun battery at Sandy Hook is now manned with two officers and twenty five men of the Fifth Regiment of Artillery. The position lies south and west of the northern line of batteries, offering protection while its guns cover the ship channel from the bar to well up the main channel, able to reach any approaching ship.
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New York
Sandy Hook
Coast defense guns arrive for Scarborough Head fort
Two ten inch bore coast defence guns weighing 70 000 pounds each have been brought to Portland Ore for Scarborough Head at the Columbia River mouth. They will be set after excavation and join the recently placed guns at Fort Stevenson to form a formidable barrier against hostile warships.
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Portland
Ore
Scarborough Head
Columbia River
Washington
Fort Stevenson
Oregon
Columbia
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Vermont
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Pall Mall Gazette
Prince Ws
Leopold Morse& CO
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Weavers’ Association
Joint Strike Committee
Fall River
King Philip Mills
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