Meistersingers Return in New Scenic Vaudeville Setting
The Meistersingers played six weeks at Keith's Theatre last summer and return with elaborate scenery showing Rangeley Lakes and pine forests. Isabelle D Armond and Billy Gaston entertain with polished performances. McDonald and Donovan provide Irish comedy. The troupe is billed as a summer special attraction.
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Meistersingers
Keith’s
Keith
Rangeley Lakes
Isabelle D’armond
Billy Gaston
Miss D’armond
McDonald
Donovan
Variety bill features Prince Flora at Orpheum Theatre
Patrons yesterday enjoyed a diverse program at the Orpheum Theatre with Prince Flora the African monkey as headliner for the week. The opening acts include Waring, Dave Austin and company, Teddy Du Pont, Victorine and Zolar, Dick Ferguson, Azard Brothers, and Creighton's dogs.
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Orpheum Theatre
Prince Flora
Monkey Wonder
Waring
Dave Austin
Globe Theatre Week Attracts With Vaudeville And Pictures
The Globe Theatre offers an unusually attractive weekly programme featuring The Four Hawa ins in a novel instrumental act Lightning Weston and his cartoons Alfredo and Pearl the Lander brothers singing and dancing and a Rays song review. The lineup kept the house in good humor with many notable features.
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the Glove
Haiwains
Lightning Weston
Alfredo
Pearl
Lander Brothers
Rays
Scenic Temple presents vaudeville acts and Japanese troupe
Four vaudeville acts and illustrated songs plus new motion pictures offered this week at Scenic Temple at Berkeley street and Warren avenue. Headliners are Fugi Japs, a clever Japanese acrobat troupe that drew big crowds yesterday afternoon and evening. The slide for life is a sensation.
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Scenic Temple
Berkeley Street
Warren Avenue
Bass Point and Nahant Line Sees Extra Trips
Heavy traffic on the Bass Point and Nahant line forces the two large steamers to make additional trips. Harbor sail from Otis wharf to Bass Point and Nahant remains a popular excursion.
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Bass Point and
Nahant
Bass Point
Otis Wharf
Bowdoin Square Theatre Hosts Irish Comedian Pat White
Pat White the popular Irish comedian headlined at Bowdoin Square Theatre in a vaudeville show that drew a large crowd. His return to the city drew friends from burlesque as Violet Mascotte and her Review Girls performed lively songs with many favorites among the ensemble.
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Pat White
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Violet Mascotte
May Belmont
Alice Dudley
Florida de Lisle
Blanche de Corret
Mae Osborne
Trish
George Lauder
Revere House
Scollay Square
Boston
Tremont Temple Hosts Dominion Day Audience for Durbar Run
On the hottest day Tremont Temple remains crowded as 2000 Canadians and British groups attend the Durbar in Kinemacolor. The show runs at 65 degrees ideal cooling, now in its seventh week of success.
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Tremont Temple
Park Theatre Gains Audience With Popular Summer Prices
Public approval of summer prices boosts attendance at the Park Theatre. The showings are praised as wonderful, educational, and entertaining, drawing a wide audience to daily matinees and evening screenings.
Gordon's Olympia Revival Delights Audiences
Crimmins and Gore, old time favorites, revived their comedy What Are the Wild Waves Saying to an attentive Olympia crowd this week. The pair drew strong laughs with familiar patter and timing, delivering a brisk, period-friendly performance.
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Gordon’s
Olympia
Crimmins
Gore
Tremont Theatre Opens Fourth Week for Miss Lloyd
Last evening marked the start of the fourth week for Miss Lloyd at Tremont Theatre in Boston. She drew strong applause by delivering performances that pleased the crowd and she managed to fix it to the satisfaction of her audiences.
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Miss Lloyd
Boston
Alice Lloyd E
Lionel Walsh
Night at Norumbega Park Delights Evening Audience
In the open air theatre at Norumbega Park the Knight Brothers and Sawtelle drew repeated applause. The Wiltorts the up side down gymnasts impressed the crowd. Saona the lightning change artist amazed spectators. Faust and Faust the French clowns kept audiences roaring with laughter.
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Norumbega Park
Knight Brothers
Sawtelle
Man-fish Enoch Dives Awe Audiences At Rustic Theatre
At Lexington's Rustic Theatre this week a large crowd watched Enoch the man fish perform underwater feats. He eats drinks smokes and carries out several remarkable actions while submerged, drawing strong spectator reaction.
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Lexington
Enoch
Paragon Park Surges to Record Attendance This Season
Paragon Park reports unprecedented attendance with crowds in the palm garden both afternoon and evening. The cabaret week features include Mlle Clara Valleria, Mme Cuture, Mlle Clarice, Omar the whirling Dervish, the Norries, Octavia Neal, the Guat amala serenaders, Mile Fi Fi, the Twilight chorus, Palm Garden orchestra and Mace Gay's military band among about 76 artists.
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Palm Garden
Mlle
Clara Valleria
Mme. Cuture
Clarice
Omar
Durbar
India
Norrie Sisters
Octavia Neal
Guatemala
Mile. Fi Fi
Mell Eastman
Miss Wood
Twilight Chorus
Palm Garden Orchestra
Mace Gay
Medford Boulevard Summer Theatre Presents Stellar Vaudeville Bill
Manager J. W. Gorman unveils a top tier vaudeville lineup at Medford Boulevard Summer Theatre with a show praised for excellence in all details this week.
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Medford Boulevard
Summer Theatre
J. W. Gorman
Two Lowell Men Held for Robbery
Edward Smith and Guy D. Nichols of Lowell were held for the grand jury in police court by Judge Duff in bonds of $2000 each, which they could not furnish, and were jailed. They are charged with robbing Patrick J. Collins of Cypress street Brookline and beating him with a blackjack on Cambridge street in the West End. It is alleged the men took $60 and a watch and part of a chain. Collins was badly hurt and treated at the relief station.
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Guy D. Nichols
Lowell
Duff
Patrick J. Collins
Cypress Street
Brookline
Cambridge Street
West End
Collins
Am erican Federation of Sex Hygiene Formed in Albany
The American Federation of Sex Hygiene Inc with its principal office in New York was incorporated in Albany on July 1 to educate the public about physiology and hygiene of sex and to prevent vice and its diseases. Directors include Robert W Hebbard Delcevare King Dr Arthur T Cabot and Dr Thomas N Hepburn.
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Albany
N. Y
American Federation of Sex Hygiene, Inc
New York
Robert W. Hebbard
State Board of Charities
Delcevare King
Arthur T. Cabot
Boston
Thomas N. Hepburn
Hartford
Delay Deportation Of Wong Hoy Ching Stowaway Case In Boston
Wong Hoy Ching a Chinaman stowaway on the steamer Arabic bound for England is not to be deported as planned. He claims Boston as his birthplace and American citizenship. Former Congressman Joseph F. OConnell will represent him. decision expected in two weeks.
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Wong Hoy Ching
White Star
Charlestown
England
Ching
Boston
Joseph F. O’connell
New Havener Elected President of Reading Printing Co
Alexander Troup, manager of the New Haven Union, was elected president of the Reading Printing Company, publishers of the Reading Telegram and Reading Times. Walter F. Dumser, recently with the New Haven Union, was named editor and general manager.
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Reading
Penn
Alexander Troup
New Haven Union
Reading Printing Company
Reading Telegram
Reading Times
Walter F. Dumser
Dole urges ballot on union for Boston Elevated carmen
Rev Charles F Dole of Jamaica Plain writes to Boston Elevated Railway president General Bancroft proposing an Australian ballot to gauge workers support for a union. He suggests including current and former employees and argues public opinion would reflect genuine employee sentiment and goodwill.
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Charles F. Dole
Jamaica Plain
William A. Bancroft
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Mr. Dole
Bancroft
Carmen
Courtesy and union rights in Jamaica Plain 1912 letter
A June 29 1912 letter from General William A Bancroft argues for employee right to organize and questions managements handling of a public franchise company strike He suggests using a ballot to gauge union support and asserts public interest in ensuring skilled safe service and fair treatment of workers
Strikers Appeal From Court Sentence
Five striking conductors faced Judge Parmenter in police court for rioting after a meeting of striking carmen at the Grand Opera House near Dovers and Washington streets. Two received Deer Island House of Correction terms one year and eight months, both appealing and held on 800 bail for Superior Court. William Kenney of Dorchester Street South Boston got one year. Frank J Rice was sentenced for interfering with a conductor.
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House of Correction
Trainmen Wage Increase At Twin City Rapid Transit
President C G Goodrich announced a voluntary wage hike at Twin City Rapid Transit in Minneapolis covering 2000 trainmen, a near ten percent rise. The move follows no strike action and applies to current staff.
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Minneapolis, Minn
C. G. Goodrich
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
June Sets Record for Driest Month at Local Weather Office
The month of June was the dryest ever recorded at the local weather office with total precipitation of 0.27 inch. Normally June brings 3.03 inches. Only 24 months have had less than one inch of rainfall since opening, the previous low being September 1884 at 0.3 inch.
Pro Marathon Stars at Scotch Picnic
The amateur track and field committee for the Scotch picnic at Caledonian Grove on Saturday Aug 8 under the Boston Caledonian Club plans an elaborate prizes scheme under AAU rules and aims to attract entrants including Americans in Sweden for the Olympics. The 10 mile professional race features Tom Longboat Billy Queal Ted Crooks and possibly Alfred Shrubb and Fred Cameron with $326 awarded to the first four finishers.
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Boston Caledonian Club
Sweden
Tom Longboat
Billy Queal
Ted Crooks
Alfred Shrubb
Fred Cameron
Mutiny Warrants Against Antilles Engine Room Crew
Federal authorities issued warrants charging revolt and mutiny against 45 engine room crew members of the Southern Pacific ship Antilles who struck Saturday in solidarity with the National Transport Workers after the vessel departed her dock in New Orleans on July 1.
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Southern Pacific
Antilles
National Transport Workers
Australian rider breaks unpaced mile world record in Salt Lake
Alfred Goullet of Australia rode unpaced one mile at the Salt Palace track in Salt Lake City last night, clocking 1 minute 52 seconds to smash the world mark by a fifth of a second.
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Utah
Alfred Goullet
Australia
Salt Palace
Goullet
Fishing fleet at T wharf reports varied catches and prices
A fleet of 25 vessels at T wharf offered dealers a wide supply of fish with mackerel scarce and pricey. Listed were netters Tillian Little Fannie and Sarah with mackerel, James & Esther Rita A. Viator Hockomock Eliza A. Ben ner Viking and Reliance with swordfish and other species. Haddock cod hake pollock halibut scrod haddock and cask were itemized with weights and dealer prices. also noted are the Success heading to New York, ships at East Boston and banana cargo updates.
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Little Fannie
Sarah
James & Esther
Rita A. Viator
Hockomock
Eliza A. Benner
Viking
Reliance
Mina
Edith Silveira
Shipping News Full of Arrivals and Movements on July 2
The July 2 shipping notes list arrivals of steamers and schooners from Britain, Denmark, and Canada including Canadian, Bullock, Dania, Helen, Nordstjernen, Progreso, Nacoochee, and many more. Cleared and sailed vessels cover Arabic, Florence, Governor Dingley, City of Augusta, Corozal, and numerous tugs and barges with destinations including Newport News, Baltimore, New York, and Portland.
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de Young
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Hattie H. Barbour
New Bedford
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Scituate
Scranton Pitcher Strikes Out 22 in 13 Innings Win
In a 13 inning game at Scranton Pierce the Scranton pitcher struck out 22 batters and earned a 1 to 0 victory over Wilkes Barre. He fanned 15 in nine innings.
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Scranton
Wilkesbarre
Pierce
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