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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
7
In the weekly Journal Singer Bowling League match at B.S. alleys, the Buffers department defeated the LSP Builders two games to one. Finnegan led the Buffers with 180, Craven close at 174, while Walsh led the Builders with 184 in the final leg, and Frolich topped the Jets with 188.
The Clark team, known as the Howard-Clark club, won two of three games against Stephenson Car Works in a recent series. They opened with a win last week on their own streets, and last night Me mieten SW Bester led with a high score of 197 among the Clark Club players.
The Liberty A. C. football team hosts the Jerome Football Club of New York City tomorrow afternoon on South Broad street grounds. Coach Jed and Joby Nall sharpened the Libertys after a winless Kingwood A. C. match, aiming for a strong upset. The game starts at 3 15 PM.
The Belmonts prep to start the season tomorrow afternoon at Stapleton, featuring a team that went 14-6 last season and has not lost a game in years. The Belmonte will line up as follows.
Williams and Hoffaan feature in a readable fragment mentioning names and a brief local context. The note hints at a discussion or event involving both individuals and a third party, suggesting a community or school setting with limited details available.
The Orange team captured two victories in the New Jersey National tournament at Oxfordville Newark. In the finale they faced Westland, earning the decision by thirty six pins with a score of 836 900. Bury led with 204, Murray 201, and Ten Wing 200 plus. The second game, against the National Turners, was wide open, won by nearly 200 pins 081 800. Smith of the winners tallied 223 for the only double century. The West Ends defeated the National Turners in the other game.
Livingston High and Westfield High played to a 6-6 tie at Triangle Oval in Roselle yesterday. More than a hundred students from both schools witnessed a fast, hard fought game despite a sharp wind.
Clippings describe football tie contests between No. 3 and No. vein teams, with both sides claiming titles amid fumbles and local challenges. Other columns include a humorous misquote on marriage, a tale of Clara at Magara Falls, John’s fire bath mishap, and whimsical quips from magazines and newspapers.
Clay T Vances and others promote a heavy bill at the Lyric and Empire featuring Frederic Santley in The Man of the People and mixed acts by Melbourne McDowell Miss Trescott and Aldtermier Brothers. Gertle Millar returns to London next March to lead a shop girl role in a new Gottenberg production. Henry St Harris laments curtain duties while Louis Mann plans Circle Theatre season. The Submarines debut in America at the Colonial features Mabel Hite and Mike Devlin in Stealing Time.
The great Italian tragedian Maoria and his company will appear at the New Lyceum Theater on Wednesday evening. Popular prices. Also announced is Frivolities of 1918 a musical comedy opening at the New Im Theater Thursday Friday and Saturday with a large supporting cast and 16 song numbers. Matinees Friday and Saturday at popular prices.
Local cinema announces a Monday program featuring a series of motion pictures including Beane and Tesiaabale with new Bijon Annex offerings. The lineup promises the most exacting visual fare and standout titles from the theater’s seasonal rotation.
The excerpt previews a week long run of a Dey's drama by Klaw & Erlanger in Newark featuring a vivid battle scene and a plot where a mining engineer exposes his wife’s deceit. The production promises a realistic stage battle and dramatic twists amid a bustling vaudeville program at Proctor Park Place.
A vaudeville style review titled A Man's a Man opens with Robert Fitzsimmons and Mrs Fitssonia while James J. Morton adds a punchy comic turn. The bill includes Toonologue sections, a realistic Mississippi River steamboat scene, and a new idea featuring Friend and Downing with music and songs by Josephine de enly.
Miss Clara Clemens contralto daughter of Mark Twain appears for the first time in the city with Emil Holman baritone of Newark as artistic partners. She recently returned from Europe where she sang with success at several musical fetes and Paris postal stations. The concert is set for Monday evening November 16 at Wallage Hall.
garbled text indicates a local theatre in Vernon announcing an amateur night event on Friday with a new burlesque style show and a distinctive plot featuring entertainment acts.
A fragmentary note from Meriden Connecticut dated November 4 hints at New York attractions and a chaotic scene described as a spasmodic event. The wording is unclear but suggests a travel or exhibit confusion connected to Keighta or Keightsa references.
Public support boosted a local theatre venture in a quiet city, with community members filling the venue at the start of the run. The piece notes strong public endorsement and a positive reception to the venture.
Beginning last Monday night in New York Henry K Dixey and his company recently terminated a most successful engagement in The Devil in Chicago where two pirated Devils were at work.
tale recalls Mansfield fainting on opening night at St George's hall after three days without food. He had just moved to Basage club and pursued wardrobe and stage costs, then impressed but collapsed mid performance. Paul Wilstach later used the incident in a biographical note.
A garbled lunch of fragments from Milwaukees Sentinel mentions a crash and odd phrases like ecidl note to the bathroom Jvet pow. John answers softly that it was simply nine crash towels in a misread report.
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