Suttons theater in Butte plans fall season big New York acts
Manager Sutton touts upcoming Butte season with a first class lineup headed by A No. 1 New York attractions. He promises low prices, new sensations like A Mysterious Lady, and warns no price hikes. Ringling Bros. costs noted. county city tax split explained. Also mentions Deer Lodge picnic and a smallpox case involving Capt. Leyden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
Jin
Butte
Sutton's
West
New York
Publis
Button
Macoy Company
Wonderland
Real Estate Transfers Mention a City Lot Sale and Holiday
Col P R Dolman sold to St John's Episcopal Church two lots in block 31 for convenience of transfer dated August 18 1900. War stamps suggest a nine thousand dollar value though the deed lists one dollar. Other deeds include transfers to Guignon Berken Pincus and Noyes W P Forbis with frontages on Mercury Street and an alley. Ringling Day is celebrated as a holiday with schools dismissed in many cities to view the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. P. R. Dolman
St. John's Episcopal Church
John Noyes
W. P. Forbis
Charles Guignon
Jeanette Berken
Mercury
Wdeed
Guignan
Jeannette Beeken
Adolph Pincus
City Poll Tax Collections Reported by City Treasurer
City Treasurer Calkins sent to county commissioners a statement showing road poll tax revenue of 1,864 with 8 refunded. Republican County Convention called for Bilger Row county to meet at the Auditorium in Butte Montana at noon Saturday August 190 for nominees and to select delegates to the Republican State Convention in Helena September 6. Primaries on Monday August 20 from 6 to 8 p m. Precincts list delegate allocations and locations including retail and civic buildings with many named venues and offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calkins
Bilger Row
Butte
Montana
Helena
Congress
Retallick’s
West
Daly Street
Society Hall
Masonic Hall
North
Main Street
Sons of St. George Hall
Montana Street
Crowley & Hollands
Madam Graham Clairvoyant Parlors Crowded in Butte
The text praises Madam Graham as a top clairvoyant in Butte with daily crowds at 68 West Broadway Rooms 15 and 16. It mentions Ringling Bros circus investment, a Modern Woodmen picnic in Deer Lodge on August 19 with a $1 fare, and CHAS LANGLOIS Pride of Butte Stables offering large Tally Ho coach tours and staged rides to Crystal Springs from Granite Alaska corner.
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Madam Graham
West Broadway
Argyle
Butte
Ringling Bros’ Great Circus
United States
Deer Lodge
Crystal Springs
Chas. Langlois
Pride of Butte Stables
Granite
Alaska
Khedive Presents Poem to Victoria at Windsor Visit
The Pall Mall Gazette translates an Arabic poem by Ismail Assem offered by the khedive to the queen last week. The piece extols Victoria as sovereign and notes angels, oceans, deserts, and planets bow before her. Different reports hint the last hemistich encodes 1900, the queen’s sixty third year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Windsor
Ismail Assem
London Daily News
Misquoted phrases and corrected lines from classic works
A compact note catalogs misquotations and proper forms from Shakespeare Milton Pope and others, listing original lines and corrected versions. It notes how phrases like make double sure and the even tenor of their way appear in various texts with corrected wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope
Butler
Aleo
Benedict
Benedick
Lucifer
Vallombro
Vallombro—"Thick As Autumnal Caves That Rew Tihe Brooks In Vallombrosa,"’ (Milto
Prech
Gray
First Baby Shocks Depot Waiting Room
In a Buffalo Enquirer report a young man about 25 sits with a year-old baby in a depot waiting room. A large waiting passenger jokes that the mother abandoned the child, only to reveal the baby is his wife and their first child, provoking laughter and misread assumptions.
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Chicago
Buffalo Enquirer
Agousts to Bring French Pantomime to Season Amid Farce Actions
A French family of pantomimists and jugglers the Agousts will headline a season. The act features a private dining room set, rapid table service, and juggling of utensils by waiters. A New York restaurant setting for act two will host Otis Harlan Joseph Coyne Mamie Gilroy Nellie Lynch and Mag Lowry among a cast of sixty.
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Agoust
John J. McNulty
New York
Otis, Harlan
Joseph Coyne
Mamie Gilroy
Nellie Lynch
Mag Lowry
A Family of Destiny at Napoleon Birth House
Lloyds Weekly notes Corsican birth house Casa Buonaparte where Napoleon and his siblings were born and raised. The obscure notary family produced emperors and kings who wore crowns with pride, and were educated under Letitia Ramolino before rising to power across Europe.
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Corsica
Napoleon
Joseph
Lucien
Louia
Jerome
Caroline
Elise
Pauline
France
Spain
Louis
Holland
Westphalia
Italy
Naples
Letitia Ramolino
Lloyd’s Weekly
Misquotations and Correct Renderings in English Quotes
A reader outlines common misquotations and their proper forms including phrases like to the manner born and the tongue is an unruly member. It notes Scriptural verses on covering sins and warns that light knowledge can be dangerous.
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James
Peter
Sol Smith Russell and rival performers in early stage tours
Bol Smith Russell, once forced to quit after a season, planned a winter return but abandoned hope of acting soon. He began as a mimic with Berger company of bellringers and singers similar to Valentine Vox. Rival Whiston battled with ventriloquism and other acts, later fading due to drink.
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Bol Smith Russell
Mr. Russell
Berger
Valentine Vox
Russell
Whiston
Husserl
From Berger to Broadway A Noted Vaudeville Actor’s Rise
The article traces a performer contrasted with Russell, his marriage to a daughter of Oliver Optic Adams, and his shift from vaudeville to legitimate theatre guided by Fred G Berger. It notes his peak in New York at the Garden Theatre with A Bachelor’s Romance, wealth amassed, and Daly’s losses, including a failed later revival of Pale of a Count. Dion Bourbeault wrote the piece for him.
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Russell
Oliver Optic’ Adams
Boston
Berger Famiy
Fred G. Berger
Nik Breakdown
Chicago
Chiesa
New York
Garden Theatre
Metropolis
Daly's
Dion Bourbeault
Smoking the Queen's Pipe and Glaciation Notes
A collage of items from the London Chronicle and Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. It discusses veteran Chelsea Hospital pensions and a proposal to restrict tobacco aid to secure premises, then shifts to Hershey's glaciation notes in Northwestern California, noting valley reshaping and debates on glacial epochs, followed by scattered humorous vignettes and jokes.
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London Chronicle
Veterans of Chelsea Hospital
Broadmont
jDundrum
Jas
Norton
Financial Secretary of the Treasury
Pensionera l
Chelsea
Bulletin of the
American Geographical Society
Little Byttle
Hershey
Journal of Geology
VITT
Sierra Costa
California
Aruily
Valleya
Itershey
Butte to Anaconda Pacifi c Time Table and depots
Local time table lists departures from Butte and Anaconda depots at 4:00 a.m. 7:10 p.m. 10:00 p.m. and 8:40 a.m. 12:45 p.m. 3:45 p.m. 7:40 p.m. Great Northern and Oregon Short Line connections noted. Through trains to Portland and western points via Northern Pacific and Great Northern routes. Tickets issued for all points, with connections to Europe routes via the listed lines.
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Tetroit and Reriew
Chicago
Rio Grande Western
Colorado Midland
Denver de Rio Grane
Tras
Ww. C. M'Bride
KR. G. W. Ry
Butte
Co. FP
Paacific Wale
Anaconda
Pacific Express
Portland
All Pointe
Great Northern Raveuway
Qregos Short Line Railroad
Nor‘ Tern Pacific Railway
Connestio
St Louis
St. Louis
East Bromus
Bete
Mo Gage
Sra Heme
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Ringling Bros.’ Circus
Leyden
Polie
McZelland
Capt
A AN
H. Shep Hotsy
Pecratary
Khedive
Victoria
Sol Smith Russell
Salitornia
Detroit Journal
Ford Sportsman
Bob
Algy Botte
Polly
Wilow
WillieSay
Chicago World’s Fair
U. S. Gov’t Chemists
Price Baking Powder Con
Boulder Hot Springs
J. B. Reynolds
Keeley Institute of Dwight
Dontana
Santa FE
Denver
Utorota Springs
Puebla
Chiengia
Great Rock Island
Mbers
Lindt
Ci Springs
Pueblo mm
Fey
Wlsi
W. H. Firth
Cal
Fan. Thompson
BP. Au
Sebastian
Agile
Europe
People's
Union Pacific
Elairige
THE
Cenery
Reno
Weber Caneyons
Patpit
H. M. Clay
Union Pacific Railroad Cmpany
Salt Lake City
Utah
J. O. Wilson
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Hutte, Font
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