Miss Crosman Stars in The Country Girl at Grand Opera House
Henrietta Crosman returns to Grand Opera House for closing week with The Country Girl a witty seventeenth century satire. The seasoned American actress brings her artistic touch to a production praised for humor and intellectual wit as audiences near week's end.
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Miss Crosman
Henrietta Crosman
Grand Opera House
Ethel Barrymore
Maud Adams
Viola Allen
Blanche Bates
Leslie Carter
United States
Miss Cross
Old Pike
Grand
Rice and Barton Gaiety Extravaganza at Standard
Pleasing the public is key to theater amusements and the Rice and Barton Big Gaiety Extravaganza Company delivers. The refurbished show promises bright satires Broadway After Twelve and The Red Light District with the Rice and Barton stamp, at the Standard the week commencing Sunday.
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Rice and Barton Big
Rice and Barton Company
Broadway
Red Light District
Forepaughs Farewell at Olympic as Stock Company Closes
Indications point to two audiences with capacity limits for the final performances at the Olympic tomorrow. The Forepaugh Stock Company ends a season praised as the most successful in Cincinnati in years, with the final show As You Like It praised for its poetic close. Farewell receptions will follow matinee and evening shows before the curtain falls until fall.
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Cincinnati
Island Queen Excursion Boats Schedule Mentioned
The Island Queen arrives at Broadway for a popular excursion day. The Queen heads upriver on Sunday at 10 am and 4 pm to Lawrenceburg and Ayr. The Princess will operate the Pleasant and New Richmond run, departing at 9 30 am and 3 pm.
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Broadway
Hertory
Queen i
Lawrenceburg
Ayr
Rtleasant
New Richmond
Colonel I M Martin Prepares Shows for Sunday Inspection
Colonel Martin of Chester Park drives men to ready the grounds for Sunday inspection amid cool weather. He promises amusements and attractions headlined by the Tickler with other acts like the Human Roulette Wheel and Nut College, boasting higher quality than before.
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I. M. Martin
Chester Park
Martin
Colonel Martin
Nut College
Cairo
The Fool House at Walnut Promises Live Huntings
The four Huntings, featured this week at the Walnut in the new musical comedy The Fool House, are praised as a wonderful family with singing dancing tumbling and acting talent. Manager Harry Dull surrounds them with a skilled company to deliver a sparkling plot and music, elevating the show beyond their acrobatic quartet.
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Four Huntings
Cittens
Harry Dull
Traveling Salesman Gains Noted New York Engagement
The Grand presents The Traveling Salesman this week and those involved in the comedy find abundant material for profit. The determination to give the play a New York engagement is emphasized in the coverage.
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New York
Amusement Notes at Columbia Show Features Strong Man Act
Manager Ziegler secures a 1200 pound automobile to run on the Columbia stage next week. Robert Cohn will lift it with his teeth, the car carrying three men for a total of at least 1600 pounds. Dohn, from Germany, is hailed as a great strength performer. James Kelly of Kelly and Kent, once head spider in a circus, entertains Columbia audiences with his act and frequent visits to Robinson's Circus.
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Thomas W. Ross
Ziegler
Columbia
Robert Cohn
Dohn
Germany
James Kelly
Kelly and
Kent
Spider” Sin
Robinson's Circus
Robinson Circus
Kelly
Walter Mains
Robinson
Miss Kent
Sothern
Gladys Hanson
Virginia Hammond
John Major
Rolly Buckstone
Mr. Sothern
Vernor Robinson
Wss
Ite
Gibson Girl Alice Maizee to headline Standard Theater show
Alice Maizee the clever Gibson girl of the Rice and Barton Big Gaiety Company appears next week at the Standard Theater. Her fine humor and roaming experiences promise lively entertainment for local audiences.
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Alice Maizee
Gibson Girl
Rice and Barton Big Gaiety Company
Standard Theater
Ringling Brothers Show Dares with Double Somersault Automobilé
The climax features La Belle Roche in a daring double somersault automobilé act. A nervy young French woman sits in a heavy machine as it plunges through space in Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Shows.
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Ringling Brothers
la Belle Roche
Sothern and Company Visit Robinson Ten Allied Shows
Snowed crowds greet B H Sothern and his Lord Dundreary Company at the Robinson Ten Allied Shows. Governor Robinson ushers the troupe through the tent and cooking and stables areas after matinee performances despite heavy snowfall.
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B. H. Sothern
Lord Dundreary
Hobinsoén
Railway Ham Sandwich Joke Heard At Counter
A humorous exchange unfolds when a man complains of no ham in a dry railway ham sandwich. The maid counters with a smile and a pun about biting over it, turning a grocery miscue into a light moment.
Complaint Filed Over Freight Rates Between Cincinnati and Chattanooga
The Receivers and Shippers' Association of Cincinnati filed a general complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging excessive and discriminatory freight tariffs on all classes between Cincinnati and Chattanooga set by the Cincinnati New Orleans Texas Pacific Railway and the Southern Railway Company.
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Washington
Cincinnati
Chattanooga
Interstate Commerce Commission
Receivers and Shippers’ Association of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company
Southern Railway Company
Eastern
Ship 15 Transed FF Fire Island
Fire Island April 30 life saving crew at Zach's Inlet launched a surfboat in heavy seas to aid a distressed vessel outside the inlet. The square rigger fired signals of distress and struck about 10 o'clock. Winds southeast and heavy surf hampered rescue efforts. The rescuers have not returned. shore watchers doubt success.
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New York
Zach’s Inlet
Fire Island
Free Setters Visit John Robinson Circus Guests
Forty Free Setters and friends attended the John Robinson Circus as guests of Governor John Robinson and Frank Kelly. They arrived at Florence avenue and Reading road, were escorted to a tent for a Free Setter meal, with addresses by Moses Mizpah Straus and Charles Rechlenhousen Kauffman.
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John Robinson
Frank Kelly
Florence Avenue
Reading Road
Moses Mizpah Straus
Charles Rechlenhousen Kauffman
Elks Meet Tonight with Six Initiates in Cincinnati
Six candidates will be initiated at a Cincinnati Elks session led by Exalted Ruler J. S. Richardson and the new staff. Special attention centers on Esquire Joseph Dermody guiding the candidates through Elkdom rituals. Bellevue Newport and Covington Lodge members will be entertainers at the social after.
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Cincinnati Elks
J. S. Richardson
Joseph Dermody
Bellevue
Newport
Covington
Covington Woman Injured After Fall at Grand Central Depot
Miss Pearl Kramer of Greenup Street Covington fell from the first landing to the foot of the stairs at the Third Street entrance of Grand Central Depot. She was unconscious for a time and suffered a dislocated ankle. She is under care at the Grand Hotel with Dr Meade attending.
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Miss Pearl Kramer
Greenup Street
Covington
Third Street
Grand Central Depot
Miss Kramer
Grand Hotel
J. D. Meade
Annual Meeting of the Children and Sons of the Republic
The organization will hold its annual meeting tomorrow at 7 30 PM in Deece Hall Linton Street Aven ale. A programme includes club secretaries reports and music with Dr John Grant Newman delivering the address. A social time follows.
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The
Children and Sons of the Republic
Deece
Linton Street
Avenale
John Grant Newman
Robbery at Princess Restaurant on West Fifth Street
Lee Adams proprietor of the Princess restaurant at 303 West Fifth street opened for business at 5 a.m. yesterday when two men knocked him down and took $82. Samuel Campbell of Arlington Hotel at 301 West Fifth street heard the cries and with the night clerk rushed to help, but the robbers had fled. Adams sustained a bruised head and strained back. Detectives are investigating.
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Lee Adams
Princess
West Fifth Street
Samuel] Campbell
Arlington’ Hotel
Adams
Mrs Carney Hospitalized After Lunacy Hearing Breaks
In Probate Court yesterday Mrs. Carney of Riverview Place and Mr. Auburn faced a writ of lunacy. As Harry Carney testified to her condition, City Hospital reported she had been placed in an ambulance and admitted with acute mania.
City Hall Notes on Paving Crew Wages Raised
Superintendent Shipley asked the Board of Public Service to raise two paving gang workers to 2.25 and 2 dollars per day after noting their general proficiency as rakers and tampers. He warned contractors were seeking their services and the board approved the pay increase.
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Shipley
Board of Public Service
Board to choose successor to Ira D Washburn at meeting
At the next Board of Education meeting a successor to Ira D Washburn from the Teachers Pension Fund will be chosen. His term expires today. On June 1 the terms of H Raschig and Louis Rothenberg expire.
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Board of Education
Ira D. Washburn
Teachers’ Pension Fund
H. Raschig
Louis. Rothenberg Pire
Goebel Attacks Sumptuary Laws and Personal Liberty
Rep Herman Goebel of Cincinnati denounces sumptuary legislation in the House, arguing no law may regulate eating drinking or private expenditure. He cites Mill Kent Spencer and classical rulers, warns the state should not curb individual liberty, favors voluntary reforms and high license over prohibition.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Herman P. Goébel
Cincinnati
House
Kent
Herbert Spencer
Senate
Charlies V
France
Cana
Webb
Grafton
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore Sun
Baltimore
Gibbons
Satan
Indiana Doctor Killed by Train in Peru Denver Crash
Special Dispatch reports Dr. Harry Piper a wealthy Indiana physician was struck and killed by a Lake Erie & Western passenger train in Denver Peru on the evening of April 30. The accident occurred in Denver, a town in the county.
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Commercial Tribune
Peru
Ind
Harry Piper
Lake Erie & Western
Denver
Murder Accusation Faces Canadian Trial
Kamloops British Columbia April 30 Fred Tranpour a civil engineer from Cleveland Ohio has been summoned for trial on a charge of murdering George Coleman a trapper in the country north of the province on November 25 last.
Cincinnati Agency Held Unlicensed Fire Insurance Firm Warned
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune Columbus Ohio April officials announce United Insurance Agency Cincinnati operates without licenses to write fire policies for multiple named out of state companies. They warn residents against purchasing unauthorised policies via unlicensed agents and note lack of state supervision or solvency information.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Lemert
United Insurance Agency
Lyric Theater
Cincinnati
Commercial Fire Insurance Company
Houston
Tex
Madison Insurance Company
Madison
Ind
Interstate Fire
Suffolk
Indiana State Fire of
Indianapolis
Home Insurance Company of
Little Rock
Ark
Traders’ Insurance Company
Philadelphia
the Western Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Oklahoma
Illinois National
Springfield
Ill
Ne York Fire Association of
New York
Manufacturers’ Mutual of
Northwestern National
North Dakota
Ohio
Chester Chadwick
W. C. Farrar
Chadwick Refutes United Insurance Name Change Claim
Chester B. Chadwick denied that his firm is United Insurance Company and said it now operates as Farrar & Chadwick. He confirmed a recent name change and stated the firm remains licensed and a member of the Underwriters Association. He disputed claims that any agent had stated future plans to insure for the named companies.
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Chester B. Chadwick
United Insurance Company
Farrar & Chadwick
Underwriters’ Association
United Insurance Agency
Page boy prank sparks luncheon mix up in Senate
A Senate reading clerk asked a page to fetch coffee for Senator Foraker who joked to send it to his room. The chair then exploded in laughter as the head waiter Dick played along, revealing the confusion over two Senators named Dick.
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Page
Akron
Foraker
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Senate
Senator Foraker
Senator Dick
Mr. Foraker
Lord Sues for Divorce Over Attention to Negro Coachman
Henry Johnson Lord, a wealthy owner with properties in Nichols and Monroe, files for divorce from Augustine Emanuel Lord. He claims his wife favored her negro coachman, Harry Cameron, with two letters in her handwriting dated June 9, 1907 as key evidence. Mrs. Lord denies the allegations in Superior Court before Judge Robinson.
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Commercial Tribune
Bridgeport
Conn
Henry Johnson Lord
Nichols
Monroe
Robinson
Lord
Indomitable Sets Speed Records On Clyde Trials
Glasgow April 30 unofficial reports say the cruiser Indomitable during speed trials on the Clyde has reached twenty eight knots over a measured mile and twenty six and a quarter knots in the continuous steaming run. Fitted with tur shines the ship's contract speed is twenty five knots.
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Glasgow
Indomitable
Clyde
Obituary of Anna Kellogg and L S Bickford
Mrs Anna Kellogg of Kansas City Missouri died at home of pneumonia after a career designing costumes for Katy's Fall Festivities and twenty years as McVick ers Theater costumer in Chicago. L S Bickford longtime Chicago Inter Ocean associate editor died at Presbyterian Hospital following an appendicitis operation. born in Merlo Iowa thirty seven years ago. formerly with Leadville and Denver newspapers and a former Denver Times manager.
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Anna Kellogg
Kansas City
Katy
Cam
McVicker's Theater
Chicago
Bickford
Chicago Inter Ocean
Presbyterian Hospital
Merlo
Leadville
Denver
Col
Denver Times
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A Z2zabet, Parrir, Rie & Baarrrvave Gayiety Co
Rice and
Barton
Standard
Chester
LO NY
Walnut
Mr. E. H. Sothern
Ginginnatians
Receivers and Shippers’ Association
Richardson
Restaurateur
City Hall Notes
Boebel
Agalin
Edward II
Christ
Indiana
British Columbia
Queen City
Gwen
Digk
Dick Startes
Cruiser Beats
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