Buster Browns Comedy At Grand Opera House Jan 17
The Grand Opera House will host a special engagement of the farcical comedy based on Buster Brown with the Outecault adaptation. A large company, ballet, chorus, scenic effects, and elaborate lighting promise a strong draw for families and adults alike. The show opens January 17 with New York and Chicago runs noted.
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New York Herald
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A Modern Miracle
A dramatic recovery story from Woodford Tenn describes Mrs Mollie Holt's near death from lung illness. Doctors had limited hope as she lay in critical decline while family kept vigil for forty eight hours before Dr Kings New Discovered Medicine revived her.
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J. O. R. Hooper
Woodford
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Lottie Blair Parker’s plays in city spotlight tonight
Tonight the city presents two Parker works. Way Down East has been staged here before earning praise, while Under Southern Skies is slated for presentation and highlighted as a standout American drama. The piece underscores Parker as a leading figure among women dramatists.
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Lottie Blair Parker
Little Girl Scalp Injury From Cream Separator
Four year old daughter of George Nagle was caught in a cream separator mechanism last week and scalped. Doctors report her condition precarious and she is not expected to recover.
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Doon
Jan. T
George Nagle
Prisoner Badly Burned at Fort Des Moines
Will Beard, an Army prisoner at Fort Des Moines, was severely burned while building a fire with kerosene. The kerosene exploded and his clothing caught fire. He was taken to the hospital and is not expected to recover.
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Ila
Will Beard
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Ile
Feature of Under Southern Skies to Include Plantation Melodies
One of the features of Lottie Blair Parker's Under Southern Skies will be a sextette of trained voices rendering plantation melodies famous a generation ago. The melodies draw hearty applause and remain popular today.
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Lottie Blair Parker
Sand grains determine road bed firmness at Cape May
Chauffeurs walk Cape May beach and compare sand textures. One notes the finer the grain, the denser the packing and firmer the road bed, citing Long Branch and Asbury Park sands as coarser and less packable. The only exception is a place called Onnowh in Whittdelphit Bulletin.
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Cape May
Whittdelphit Bulletin
Hokusai on aging as mastermaker of art
The piece cites Hokusai’s belief that mastery arrives late in life. From age six to seventy-five he notes vast progress, predicting further gains at eighty and beyond. He claimed future works would bring life to every line, and died in 1849 at eighty-nine.
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Dora Amsden
Hokusai
Funeral March Sparks Tears From Mahler to Rossini
Meyerbeer’s son wrote a funeral march in grief for his father. He urged Rossini to play it. Rossini performed it with such emotion that tears filled his eyes. He then explained he wept wishing the son’s father had written the piece, not the son.
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Meyerbeer
Rossini
Nilsson On Patti And A Baghdad Malady
Christine Nilsson candidly ranks singers including herself and Albani while excluding Patti. The piece notes a rare absence of stage jealousy. It also describes the Baghdad date mark disease common in Turkish Asia, lasting a year and leaving a date-shaped scar, with hyposulphite of soda offering some relief.
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Mme. Albani
Mme. Patti
Mme, Patti
Nilsson
Patti
Wigels
Bagdad
Aleppo
Turkish Asia
Valley Lilies and Orange Blossoms in Wedded Bliss
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts valley lilies with orange blossoms, as one speaker asks about beauty and another favors orange blossoms, after which he sails into the “sea of wedded bliss” alongside his partner.
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Tlardy-Grace
Insolent Tenant Kicks Landlord After Rent Refusal
Paris Journal notes a dispute in which a tenant declines payment and conveys defiance not in words but by physical action, culminating in the landlord being kicked downstairs. The report frames the event as a local quarrel reflecting tensions over rent obligations.
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Paris Journal
The Merit of Good Work, A Matthew Arnold Thought
The great thing is to produce nothing you would be ashamed to have come to light. Whether it does become public or not, the concern is to act with integrity and quality in your work as Arnold emphasizes.
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Matthew Arnold
Walk O Nights Doctor Remedy for Sleeplessness
A simple home remedy suggests counting to fall asleep but the patient cannot count because the baby is the distraction. The riddle-like remark notes a playful twist about sleeplessness and a baby.
No true honor in fear and awe says Montalgue
A quotation attributed to Montalgue warns that honor based on fear or awe from others is not genuine. The line suggests hollow esteem comes from intimidation rather than merit or virtue.
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Montalgue
Winter Clearance Sale Highlights Warm Clothing and Accessories
With 70 wintry days ahead the store promotes a clearance sale on men's heavy cotton sweaters, duck coats, coats blanket lined, Mackinaw coats, fleece jersey shirts, leather mittens, fleece underwear, wool socks, and ladies and children fleece wear. Also offering robes, flannellettes, wrappers, dresses, and yard goods. Tinware and graniteware priced for practical needs. Summer proof thrift and durable fabrics emphasized for cold weather.
The Ifair on Womans Vanity and Divorce Satire
A collection of humorous observations about women, dress, marriage, and divorce from a late 19th or early 20th century voice. The text jokes about fashion, fertility of gossip, and the social dynamics around matrimony, divorce courts, and bachelor life. It notes evolving attitudes with references to the London street railways and automotives.
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Adam
Garden of Eden
London County Council
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