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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
1
Six men sealed in a new submarine craft surpassed the prior underwater stay record off Long Beach California. They descended yesterday morning and telegraphed they would remain submerged until the afternoon. The previous 24 hour mark was set by the United States submarine Octopus in 1907.
The June luncheon of the Canadian Club features Henri Bourassa arguing the French language and French-Canadian distinctiveness protect the Dominion from political absorption by the United States. He notes closer US-Canada ties than with Britain and warns English-only Canada could merge morally and intellectually with a 100 million-strong neighbor.
The funeral for Albert Chandler aged 52, a granite cutter, was held from Water Street Halwell Maine on Tuesday afternoon May 13 with Rev. Fred W. Stanley officiating. Bearers were George Cole William Wedge W. G. McGray and Wilbur Sproul. He leaves a widow one daughter Doris A Chandler of Mt. Albion P E I six brothers and two sisters.
A Paton’s carload of furniture arrives with side boards dressers commodes parlor tables and tables for bedroom kitchen and extension use. The stock, bought before the current advance, will be sold at auctionlike prices open for quality furniture and general house furnishings.
In Paris the French women keep youthful hair with Parisian Sage sold by Geo E Hughes on a no cure no pay plan. The remedy, praised for dandruff and hair restoration, is advertised as boosting lifelike shine in one week and comes in 60 cent bottles. The Central Drug store offers soda and notes clean service.
Montreal June 11 C F Montague Chambers of St John arrives with W F Hackman to seek 50 000 from the London Daily Mail for an Atlantic crossing planned for late August or September. He cites Brindjonc des Moulinais Paris to Warsaw flight as proof and says water crossings face fewer eddies than land routes.
Theaters announce a twelve act weekly vaudeville lineup at F F Proctor's 125th Street Theatre with Edison’s Peerless Talkies and a parade of acts led by Lowell and Esther Drew in At the Drug Store and others. Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre features The Modern Svengali headlining a diverting bill with Luigi Del Oro, Gertie Gilson, Emma De Castro, and Kinemacolor plays.
The program features The Great Barnetti in feats of prestidigitation, Harry Botter and company in The Matrimonial Blizzard, The Three Likings, The Be Anos, Grace Dixon, Kennedy and Kramer, and a mix of talking, singing, and dancing acts plus black and white photo plays. June dates highlighted.
A Proctor's Fifth Avenue program for the week of June 9 showcases Emma Dunn billed as the most versatile on stage in Making Good. Grace Edmond returns to vaudeville, joined by Elphye Snowden Marl Benham Paul Morton Naomi Glass Doris Wilson and Ismed in a line of singers and dancers offering My Lady of the Bungalow and related acts.
B F Keiths Union Square Theatre in New York limns a cooling Vaudeville week with Poole Ventilating System palm fans and cracked ice. Headliners include Miss Lillian Shaw and Mr Paul Dickey as the June 16 program shapes up with Shaw delivering dialect song and story and new material.
A Turkish piano virtuoso will perform aiming to entertain. The program includes Howard's Animal Novelty, Graham Dent Co. in The Packing Day, Three Oberita Sisters with electronically enhanced dances, and Williams and Rankin premier cornetists.
Vinie Daly, Boston musical comedy favorite, returns to the stage at B F Keiths Theatre Boston on Monday afternoon. She has just come from Europe and previously starred with George M Cohan in George Washington Jr and other productions. She has spent the past two years studying grand opera abroad.
A local citizen brandished a razor but claimed the event was not suicide, instead thinking of corn pain. His wife reportedly bought Putnam's Corn Extractor and hid the razor, claiming the product cures in 24 hours and costs 25 cents at dealers.
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