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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
6
Local attractions report new motion pictures at Proctor's Bijou Dream this afternoon and evening with daily changes. Illustrated songs total four per show and update on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Today's program features three singers performing six popular song hits.
Savoy Theatre presents Henry Miller’s The Servant in the House in New York, marking its 100th metropolitan show with a July 4 matinee. Ashton Stevens lauds the summer run as extraordinary while critics applaud the play’s moral themes amid a busy season. Two-dollar seats invite audiences to glimpse a spiritual drama amid the watermelon season and hot weather chatter.
On Monday evening the summer's biggest theatrical event unfolds as the Shubert Lew Fields review titled The Mimic World debuts in the historic Casino. Writers Edgar and team present a metropolitan bow for a new revue-and-satire evening of comic performances and musical interludes.
The review centers on The Mimic World in Paris inspired settings and a large cast of about 150 with 43 speaking parts. It highlights The Witching Hour and The Three Twins musicals at Herald Square Theatre, with strong mentions of Bexsie McCoy and Clifton Crawford. Luna Park in Coney Island prepares for Fourth of July crowds with new shows, rides, and feats including Blondin the acrobat and Queenie cubs at Boatock menagerie. Destruction of Jerusalem debuts at Brighton Beach Kew Amphitheatre as the season's highlight.
At the New Jersey G A R encampment in Asbury Park on June 27 the majority backed a condolence to Grover Cleveland’s death and approved continued support for veterans reforms. resolutions named Ullman as junior vice commander and Dan as medical director, while officers and delegates to Toledo were chosen. The convention favored keeping Confederate battleflags from being returned and urged pension increases. a medal for Civil War veterans was urged to include sailors and Marines and colored volunteers. Rosabelle Casner of Asbury Park raised 168 dollars for the soldiers monument and received a gold medal, and auxiliary groups held animated meetings with speeches and presentations.
The Veteran Zouaver commanded for over forty years by General Madison Drake will march in Bound Brook during the Fourth of July celebration at Beechwood, invited by Silas P. Drake. The unit made a historic trek to Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Washington, Alexandria, Mount Vernon, Arlington and Fort Myer, and will join a major Philadelphia parade in October during Old Home Week.
Mr and Mrs Joseph C Packard of SAF Wentfield avenue were surprised by relatives from Brooklyn Newark Westfield Jersey City North Carolina and this city who gathered to honor their thirty four year wedding anniversary at their home. Mrs Packard is renowned as a veteran and captain in local veterans groups. The evening featured music singing and dancing with Miss Marie Packard performing selections.
Mr Conlan of Houston York praises Electric Hitters as a prime family medicine for dyspepsia liver issues and weak backs. It is offered with a guarantee at YY & Graham's drug store located at 101 street WC.
A social evening drew many guests including Mr. and Mrs William Jewell Krank Bonnell and Mrs Lulu McAlister, with Aupixus Hoflinda playing piano. Dancers enjoyed refreshment late, as local families from Jersey City Newark Brooklyn and nearby areas joined the event.
More than ten delegates from branches statewide attend the thirty second annual convention of the New Jersey State Council of St Patrick's Alliance of America to be opened at 9:00 A.M. in Kaghn Hall Newark with State President Patrick McAlhone of Paterson presiding. A committee led by John J Gavigan is organizing arrangements along with Hobert McConnell James J Mee Manus James A Friant John Sugrie and P Honey treasurer of the Newark district.
A rare morning partial eclipse lasting about three hours will begin before 10 and end near 7 as Mercury Venus Mars Neptune and Jupiter appear in close proximity. Astronomers note the star Areturas moving toward Earth at over 300000 miles per second and advise smoked-plants as a cheap observing aid.
Mira Bexuedarvik hosted a graduation party at 150 Jonques Street for about twenty friends. The event featured daisy and black class colors, singing, dancing, and games with piano music by Hattie Kauffman. Guests included Hattie Kauffman, Lene Fisher, Agnes Rosas, Elsie Melhig, Jennie Wager, Elsie Hens, Anna Kaimer, Sadie Pivehke, Lola Andrews, Van Jaggren, Albert Hoffacker, Louie Gallaudet, Harold Coltan, Gussie Hoffacker, Winfield Dalla, and John Millmore.
Astor Sycceon continues attendance at Wagon Kale and Kemper's Paid in Full now in its fifth month at the Astor Theatre. Other Broadway houses show boarded fronts with new announcements as comic seasons arise. Paid in Full proceeds through winter with strong heart and character drawing led by Walter, Captain Williams, Jimay Smith, and Joe Brooks. Wednesday matinees at popular prices appeal to suburban dwellers.
The readable text shows a disjointed fragment discussing a sum of 180009 dollars, a feast, and references to locations and people including San Bra central and Jase. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR. The item appears to be a brief public or financial notice with names and numbers partly legible.
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