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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1926
Page
3
The Chicago Lyric Opera announces a series of high quality performances featuring familiar and new works. Performances include Maria Calarini and Mary Harden in lead roles with strong ensembles and conductors guiding the productions. The season promises future revivals and notable creative pairings amid a busy program.
The 1926 year of Buper Jazz is noted with Bayl Ash and Paul Ash linked to theater and world famous figures. Dorly Kenyon receives Army honorary recognition while appearing with Natatual's tie in Chicago. Mina Kenyon features as a gifted singer and writer, highlighting contribution to musical and theatrical culture.
A jumble of show listings from Madison Circle Theatre outlines a varied week. Acts include Lefty Flynn in Solving Our Trouble, Meed Hawes in Lightning Romance, Mary Carey in The Mon frou Red Gulch, Pete Morrison in Triple Action, and Lloyd Thiggher with Dorin Kenytt in The Hoe Way. Performances run over New Year’s weekend into January with multiple dates and show titles.
A fragmented recipe page lists dishes including pumpkin pie with whipped cream, custard tarts with nut garnish, cranberry ice, coconut soup, and a cake filling. It provides steps like beating eggs, adding milk, apples, and spices, plus serving ideas and hints on flavor pairings. The text preserves historical cooking terms and measurements in an OCR readable form.
A fragmented, stylistically odd passage discusses a young lady across the way and mentions German advances in synthetic gold. The text adds that large synthetic quantities would undermine value, leaving paper money still useful.
Zez Confrey famed for The Kitten on the Keys is praised as a versatile American composer. The fragmentary text describes his dinners, social hosting, and a pineapple salad recipe, noting his witty, musical persona and fondness for friends and lively gatherings.
The fragment discusses Rudi Erasmus and several biographical notes. It traces Erasmus’s early life in Welland and Hotland, his path to the monastery, dispensation to priest vows, travels to England, and later professorship at Cambridge. It notes his role in early humanist scholarship and reform, citing Wayne D. McMurray.
The article traces Guy de Maupassant born August 5, 1860 in the Seine region of France. It notes his early government clerk work, close association with literary figures like Flaubert and Tourgueneff, and his rise as a founder of modern short fiction. It highlights his youthful, pleasant demeanor, his talent for dramatic writing, and his prolific output including poems, short stories, and novels, with about thirty volumes by age forty.
The article surveys Halloween origins from pagan rites and the Christian shift to All Saints Day. It notes November 1 as All Saints Day and discusses November 2 as a later observance, influenced by Gregory IV and abbots, with efforts to redirect popular customs away from old practices.
A garbled tale recounts Blondin style rope walks over the whirlpool rapids with a 40 foot balancing pole and a live crowd including a future monarch. It mentions imitators and a 19th century challenge by Caplin Welch and others, plus a note on Mineola tax payment of 6.8 percent.
Secretary Emmerson points to a declining rate of automobile fatalities per 100000 registrations, noting 1924 saw 178 deaths per 100000, down from 178 in 1923, despite more cars and greater congestion. He urges continued safety preaching and driving precautions.
Secretary Town Bromerson says highway accident analysis shows most crashes stem from too fast driving, followed by driver inattention. Other causes include children darting, pedestrians, intoxicated drivers, rear vehicle exits, wrong side driving, defective equipment, inexperience, and close following. Overall 4 percent operator fault, 48 percent other persons, 2 percent equipment, 6 percent other causes.
A guide on choosing hats stresses fit as key. The right head size and crown alignment prevent discomfort and shifting. A hat that sits correctly stays in place, while an ill fitting one causes headaches and constant adjustments.
Church notes list services for First Presbyterian Letington and others. Missouri Synod circles meet on Warren Street, English services noted at St John’s Lutheran, pastors listed, weekly and monthly gatherings, Wartburg language class and parish meetings scheduled with times and locations.
Community Methodist Episcopal Corser Thaman and Aduiniy Street. Jonathan Thompsen pastor at 620 Hunting Avenue. Sunday morning violin service at regular Sunday gathering. Epworth League 620 p.m. Mrs Ben F Dvorak chairperson. Marjoria Stead organist. Friday rehearsals. Wednesday evening prayer, official board meets first Wednesday each month. German Baptist Church Corner Harbor Avenue and Eisen Street. Pastor Herman Kaas. Sunday services.
Church notices show services at First Church of Ghaist Sci entiot morning at 9 Lets confirm schedule for Young People's Preyer meeting at 9 45 am and evening service at 6 45 pm Ref ormed Church Harvard Street Elcin Avenue Rev Kalbfletsch 1008 Migin Avenue contact Forest F719 Park Out reads Park qarende Tntarin Street Sunday services at 10 45 am with mornings Sunday School after services Reading Room Tyh Routh Boulevard near Oak Bark myende Open weekdays 6 5 am to 6 pm Wednesday 7 10 am to 5 pm Sunday 8 am to 9 pm
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