The Show Girl At Opera House On December 28
A lavish musical comedy The Show Girl arrives at the opera house Saturday December 28 with a company of fifty performers including Grace Wilson Edith Langdon Little Sutherland and Jack Curtis. Seventeen new song hits and a twenty person chorus promise high class entertainment with witty comedy and lively dancing.
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Opera House
Little Sutherland
Jady
Weber & Field Productions
Pretty Grace Wilson
Edith Langdon
Funny Jack Curtis
Harry Langdon
Sam Kline
John Kiefer
American Beauty Chorus
Somds
Fine Wolves
Ivy
Vine
Sabior
Sunshine and Lemonade cull cholera and typhoid bacteria
The piece notes lemonade’s reputed hygienic value and cites M. Riegel who reports that six grains per liter citric acid kills cholera bacillus in a half hour and typhoid in twenty four hours. Exposure to sunshine speeds this. cholera dies in five minutes and typhoid in two hours.
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M. Riegel
Archives of Hygiene
Ancient Chemistry An Ancient Method For Amalgam Formation
Ancient practice rubbed metals with salt before mercury to mimic copper sulfate reactions. Chlorine released from salt created silver chloride which the mercury attacked to form an amalgam.
A Home Made Happy by Chamberlains Cough Remedy
A mother recalls a two month battle with measles and bronchitis in her baby girl. After trying eight stores for a specific remedy with no relief, a storekeeper urged Chamberlains Cough Remedy which saved the child. Palmer restaurant offers daily shipments of the formula from New York in pints and quarts.
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Chamberlain
Geo. W. Spence
Holly Springs
N. Y
Palace Pharmacy
New York
Palmer
Theodore Hook and the Greatest Practical Joker of His Day
The text recounts Theodore Hook as a famed wit and social figure famed for practical jokes. It describes his public image, a gilded eagle prop, and a dinnerroom prank where a guest was surprised by a host impersonating Hook. The tale ends with Hook’s supposed appointment as treasurer to Mauritius with a $10,000 yearly salary.
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MxMiore
John
Ming
Hook Ted
Cileat Joler
Terry
Theodore Hook
Hook
Mauritius
New York
Presa
Liss Village Boiled Ox Barbecue Feats Local Suburb Style
A London and Southwestern railway village, Liss, hosts a remarkable barbecue where an ox is boiled whole. The carcass, placed in a brick-lined pit with crossbar scaffolding, is lowered into a large tank and boiled with vegetables for seven hours under pulleys. This method outdoes even large hotels in scale.
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Liss
London and Southwestern
England
Chronicle of incoherence in ministerial announcements
A Boston clergyman jokes about chronological order in written statements. He recalls a New Hampshire minister who announces the funeral of the late and much lamented Nexton on Wednesday at 3, and Thanksgiving services on Thursday at 11, highlighting muddled timing in public notices.
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Boston
New Hampshire
Lippincott’s
A Changed Bird
An Irishman out hunting shoots at a bluejay and finds a dead frog instead. He studies the scene with a puzzled air and quips that the bard was fine before the fibers were blown off.
Ridiculous Quaker Remarks Spark Inward Debate
A fragmentary quote from the Atlanta Competition era hints at tensions within religious circles. The speaker Mina Wise claims men display hate in church while Mind Gidday questions male hut interest. The garbled text suggests a satirical or literary snippet.
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Mind Gidday
Rews
King Oscar of Sweden A Noble Character
The death of King Oscar of Sweden notes his tall stature and blue eyes, his democratic habits, and devotion to peace. He was a scholar, translator, and musician who translated major works into Swedish and earned a French decoration for bravery. He stood as a king in soul and policy, beloved by subjects.
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Oscar
Sweden
Napoleon
Bernadotte
Europe
United States
Great Britain
Lnte
Marshhal Botte
Jie
Elim
Lved
Chemistry and Diamonds Are Not Diamonds Says Committee
Two men from a science academy committee tested crystals claimed as chemistry manufactured diamonds. The samples were brilliant but not diamond by mineralogical or chemical standards. They melted at 200 degrees, and one examiner suspects naphtaline may be the material.
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Academy of Science
Nature's Fairy Work Untouched Caves Found in Germany
The largest underground cave near Attendorn Westphalia is reported to have been discovered during quarry blasting. It features a grand hall with delicate stalactite curtains, many centimeters thick and rainbow hued in places, and side chapels and choir niches mostly white.
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Germany
Attendorn
Westphalia
The Caspian Sink and Krisnovodsk Submersion Risk
New measurements along the Trans-Caspian railway by Lieut. Col. Parlisky show the Caspian Sea level at 80 feet below ocean level. If filled to ocean level, Krisnovodsk on its shore would be submerged as its mean elevation lies about 6% to 64 feet below sea level.
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Col. Parlisky
Caspian
Krisnovodsk
Automobile Riding Promoted For Health By Scientist
Observations by Mr A Mouneyrat reported to the French Academy of Sciences claim car journeys benefit health. The study notes effects on sleep and nutrition from air quality and moderate riding.
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A. Mouneyrat
French Academy of Sciences
Anenila
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Teddy
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Kijm
John D. Rockefeller
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Carlyle Smith
Eston Meat
Merill & Williams
Atlanta
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King Oscar OF
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