Plays and Players Highlight Active Opera and Theatre Work
Composer Alberto Franchetti writes an opera titled Marie Antoinette. George Schumann finishes a piano quintet awaiting its Leipzig premiere. Gabriel Pierne's The Children's Crusade tours many cities this season. Francesco Cilea completes Adriane Lecouvreur successor Gloria. A reimagined racing play is announced along with The Wire Tappers on the stocks. Mrs Romualdo Pacheco, author of Incog, described as a comedy of errors with three Dromies. E H Sothern plays John the Baptist in Suderman’s drama. Percy G Williams signs Ma rie Dressler for eight weeks in his houses pending Weber company road engagement.
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Alberto Franchetti
Marie Antoinette
George Schumann
Leipsic
Gabriel Pierne
Romualdo Pacheco
California
John the Baptist
Herman Suderman
E. H. Sothern
Percy G. Williams
Marie Dressler
Joe Weber
Weber Company
English Etchings and London Oddities in Brief
A royal court regulation bars smoking and dogs in the building. Pupils in English schools salute the flag only on national anniversaries. A king carriage brake handle lets the king stop the train. The Pall Mall Gazette jokes about undersized postage as a cheap safeguard. The London dog fancier George Penn is buried with four bull terriers bearing his motto. The Eligible Social club forms to aidLonely Londoners seeking companionship with a vocalist and a playwright among applicants.
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Royal Courts of Justice
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Short Stories Of Unusual World Facts And Oddities
Short, curious items note diverse topics from false teeth production to alien port entries and heavy silver nugget discoveries. It mentions shipboard comfort bags from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, plus Captain Wood’s blue shark capture off Provincetown with a mast hoop mark and wear.
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Women's Christian Temperance
Connecticut
John P. Wood
Provincetown
Prosperity Through Community in Kansas Hard Times
In a Kansas tale from the 1880s to 1900s, Ezra Williams recalls drought, typhoid, and poverty testing a family. Neighbors and local shops aid the struggle, with a hopeful recovery and a vow to burn Chicago catalogs and support nearby stores. Gov Folk denounces mail order as harmful and urges local commerce.
Notable Royals and Citizens in Early 20th Century News
The German emperor employs over 3000 servants, while Japan’s Mikado is active in hunting, fishing, and tennis. Turkish-born Hrand M. Malejan has joined Ann Arbor University’s medical department as a linguist seeking American citizenship. A Roswell couple welcomes their twelfth child, a seventh son, amid family lore. William A. Peffer remains a long-time Washington resident indexing Congress reports. A Vermont man owns a rare 1854 gold dollar from the Charlotte mint valued around $100. The Hughes family of Hughes Mill, Alabama, features seven brothers and one sister with Civil War service across generations. Harry B. Wolf of Baltimore, elected to Congress at 26, rose from newsboy to lawyer through hard work.
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Mikado
Japan
Hrand M. Malejan
Sivai
Turkey
Ann Arbor University
Joe Carper
Roswell
Tex
Carper
William A. Peffer
Washington
National Capital
Senate
Peffer
Congress
E. D. Ramsey
Vergennes
Charlotte
N. C
United States
Hughes
Hughes Milla
Ala
Harry B. Wolf
Baltimore
Mixture of Many Nations Louis Parker Dramatist
Louis N Parker the dramatist was born in France. His father was American and his mother English. His first language was Italian and he was educated in Germany.
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Louis N. Parker
France
Germany
Model of the Moment Promises Plush Winter Fashion
The New York Post notes satin sauple as a winter fabric with delightful color combinations and new oversized muffs trimmed with fur or laid with skins. It observes faultless morning gowns in tailored styles, empire and princess models remaining popular, and French modistes favoring a round or normal waist. Plaid decorates many looks, a trend warned against if overused.
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New York Post
Editorial Flings and Snippets Across Papers
A collage of quips notes the ice protection at the North Pole, New York police unrest, Washington girls and chocolate tags, and a jab at American prose from the London Academy. The Milwaukee Journal highlights local wit about poetry and prose.
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North Pole
Ice Trust
Boston Transcript
New York
Detroit Free Press
Washington Post
London Academy
Alfred Austin
Milwaukee Journal
Old Fashioned Schoolteacher and Numerous Quirky Tricks
Aitchison Globe recalls an old fashioned schoolteacher who boarded around with pupils a bold young man who boasted of a knockdown when introduced to a new girl a boy who hunted geese for their quills to fashion potato shooters and a mother who trained her little girl to bow and recite when guests arrived.
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Aitchison Globe
German Gleanings and Controversies in 1876 19th Century
The Imperial bank of Germany was founded in 1876. Germany proposes a stamp duty on railway tickets. A Hamburg dealer was fined for selling coffee with 19 percent ashes and 12 percent sand. Government claims two thirds of Saxony cattle suffer tuberculosis.
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The
Imperial Bank of Germany
Germany
Hamburg
Saxony
Bishop Holsey Endorses Peruna as Remedy for Catarrh
L H Holsey Bishop C M E Church of Atlanta Ga testifies Peruna cured his twenty year catarrh after trying many remedies. He calls Peruna a triumph of medical science and a sovereign blessing for those with respiratory diseases.
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L. H. Holsey
C. M. E. Church
Atlanta
BP. C. M. E. Church
Buy a Farm in Famous Texas Panhandle
Advertises large Texas Panhandle farms for sale with monthly excursions and Texas & Southwest Colonization Co. contact in Minneapolis Minnesota. Also promotes Lax-ets candy laxative with portable boxes sold by dealers.
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Texas Panhandle
Texas & Southwest Colization Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Bank Statement of Citizens Bank Covington Indiana 1907
Statement shows resources as of January 26 1907 with Loans and Discounts 279048 21 Overdrafts đến 0 Due from Banks and Bankers 145864 55 Currency 13067 00 Cash on hand 11117 97 Cash Items 2600 462914 06 Notary Lucas Nebeker swears to truth of the document with Assistant Cashier S P Gray signing January 31 1907.
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Citizen's Bank
Public Square
Covington
Indiana
Eevee
State of
County of
Fountain
P. Gray
Lucas Nebeker
Notice of Liquor License Application in Covington Indiana
Notice to residents of Troy township Covington and the 2nd Ward Fountain county Indiana that Welter Hunter who has lived in the city and township for over 90 days will apply to the Board of Commissioners at the March term 1007 for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in less than a quart with on premises consumption. Premises described as in the south room and other details following uncertain.
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Troy Township
Covington
Fountain County
Indiana
Hunter
Board of Commissioners’ Court
Board of Commissioners
Ane
Atty
Fect Jong Morth
Notice of land description and sale privileges request
Beginning six feet west of the southwest corner of lot 132 in Covington original plat to the Second ward city, running 132 feet north, 18 feet east, 132 feet south and 18 feet west to start. also applying to the commissioners for tobacco cigar and soft drink sales privilege.
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Landa
Covington
Takeo
Notice of Gravel Road Improvement in Mill Creek Township
Petition by fifty or more freeholders and voters of Mill Creek township Fountain county Indiana requests grading drainage and paving of a public highway from the tree gravel road at sections seven eight seventeen and eighteen to the junction at sections nineteen twenty twenty nine and thirty measured about three miles long with width increased from thirty to forty two feet to serve the town of Kingman population under thirty thousand and a gravel road debt of 23000 dollars and requests notice and action by the Board of Commissioners at the February term 1907.
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Mill Creek Township
Fountain County
Indiana
William M. Ratcliff
Board of Commissioners
Said County
State of Indiana
Barn Commissioners Court
Township Eighteen
Mill Creek
Kingman
Board of Commissionera
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T. A. Clifton
Ayer
J. O. Meth Co
Lowsll
Mass
Francesco Cilea
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Gloria
Cobalt
Black Hills
OPEN
Farmer Williams’ Lesson
Alfred C. Clark
Farmer Williams
Chicago
Kansas
Doc
Ezra
Huston
Foster
Harlow
Williams
Elsie
Folk
Jefferson City
Missouri
Mr. Williams
Les Burn
the Hall OF Fame
Holsey
Pe-ru-na
Peruna
Dustiop L. ET
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