Dramatic Flurry and West Coast Theater Notes
A lively West Coast scene features melodrama mishaps and a near escape in an Irish play The Insha vogue. Greenroom gossip covers Mme ReJane Chauncey Olcott Lionel Barrymore Mrs Potter and Mrs Leslie Carter with illness and recoveries. William A Brady plans a new comic opera According to Hoyle and Joseph Jefferson leads a celebrated tour. Nan Patterson's Panama tour ends abruptly amid objections and poor business.
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Grace Livingston Furness
Paul M. Potter
Lionel Barrymore
West
du Barry
Belasco
Richepin
Leslie Carter
William A. Brady
Hoyle
Glen McDonough
Vistor Herbert
Pixley
Birds of the Alt
Joseph Jefferson
Jefferson
John Drew
William J. Florence
McVicker’s
Chicago
Boston
Nan Patterson
Panama
Altoona
Notes on Broadway Season with Burke and Parker Clues
The season features a new play by Theodore Burt Sayre titled Edmund Burke and Fantana nearing 150 performances at the Lyric New York expected to run into summer. J F Thompson and Agnes Thompson mourns May 11 typhoid death. Effie Ellsler in Hazel Kirk revival joins next season offerings. May Irwin plans a Reginald Pinero comedy. George Ade promises a new work by August. Pinero’s A Wife Without a Smile flopped in Rome and London.
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Theodore Burt Sayre
Edmund Burke
Lyric Theater
New York
J. F. Thompson
Agnes Thompson
Effie Ellsler
Hazel
Hazel Kirk
A. M. Palmer
May Irwin
Reginald Pinero
Arthur Wing Pinero
Miss Irwin
George Ade
Pinero
Rome
London
Billy Kersand
Sam Lucas
Moses
John Drew
Augustus Thomas
Miss May Yohe
Putnam Bradlee Strong
Mayor Strong
Victoria Water
Harold Mcor
Sorson
Saved Uncle Rufus Trouble With Unruly Furnace Incident
Uncle Rufus, normally calm, stirred a misbehaving coal furnace with a poker causing a blaze. Flames, smoke, and soot filled the basement and upper rooms while his face and hair were singed. He calmly quipped he needed a shave and a haircut anyway.
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Rufus
Uncle Rufus
Val
New Uses for Hymn Books by an Uptown Pastor
A pastor humorously condemns using hymn books as table supports and narrowly avoids a larger loss of hymnals. He recalls a girl who listens to his sermon with a hymn book wedged behind her, underscoring the playful yet practical protest against wasteful church resources. A second clipping contrasts the “clean liver” virtue with the sport of drinking, linking steady conduct to career promotions and long-term happiness.
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New York Press
Chicago Tribune
Description of War Vessels in Naval Fleet
The text outlines vessel types with roles and armament. Battleships are heavily armored with large guns and emphasis on defense and offense over speed. Cruisers balance speed and armor usage. Monitors are low speed harbor defenders with revolving turrets. Gunboats are light draft cruisers. Torpedo boats are fast with torpedoes. destroyers are larger torpedo boats. Corvettes are sailing ships smaller than frigates. Dispatch boats carry swift dispatches.
The Scott Monument in Edinburgh Echoes Past and Present
The London Saturday Review describes the Scott Monument in Edinburgh as a throne-like beacon where old and new worlds cleave apart. It contrasts the bustling modern city with historic ramparts and the Castle Hill, Canongate, and centuries of war and love.
The Book of Job in Carlyle's Praise
Thomas Carlyle calls the Book of Job one of the grandest writings and a noble, universal work. He hails its enduring questions of human fate, divine ways, and timeless reconciliation in free, epic lines.
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Earth
Thomas Carlyle
Expect Too Much of a Horse in Unbiased Chinwag Transcript
A speaker likens blinders on a horse to the fear of initiation into a secretive order. The quote frames the horse as easily frightened by noises, drawing a parallel to human apprehension during mysterious ceremonies.
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Roston
Picket, Malta, Hanlon, and Yale in Sports Roundup
The Picket allegedly ran a mile and an eighth in 1:58 3-5 at Sheepshead Bay as prep for the Suburban. Malta won the Prix de Lonral and Bengal the Prix Malleret at Bois de Boulogne. J W Smith lost to W H Taylor by one hole at St Andrews. Fred Lowenthal became head football coach at Illinois. Miss Thompson won the British International golf title at Cromer. Yale lost to Princeton 18 to 2 in baseball. Southern Illinois Athletic Oratorical meet awarded to Nashville. Hanlon defeated Corbett on points. Britt signed to fight Hanlon. Haverford beat Cornell to win the intercollegiate cricket title. Cornell 90, Haverford 151 for 1 wicket. N C Hopper set a three-mile open lap world record at Minneapolis. Joe Bowker defeated Pinkey Evans in London after full 20 rounds. Hiram Woodruff trains a string of horses at Sturbridge. Australia’s two-year-old Charles Stuart ran 1:38 for a mile, a new world record. National State Congress to meet in Buffalo. officers elected from Buffalo. Four high-ranking stallions noted in race reports.
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Sheepshead Bay
W. K. Vanderbilt
Malta
Bengal
Boise de Boulogne
J. W. Smith
St. Andrew's
W. H. Taylor
Board of
Fred Lowenthal
Chicago
University of Ilinois
Miss Thompson
Margaret Curtis
Massachusetts
Cromer
Stuart
Ireland
Yale Blue
Princeton Tigers
Yale
Old Eli
Nashville
Southern Mlinois Athletic Oratorical Association
Young Corbett
Eddie Hanlon
Homan
James Britt
Hayes Valley Club
Ned Hanlon
Hanlon
N. C. Hopper
Minneapolis
the Glen
National Sporting Club
London
England
Joe” Bowker
Pinkey" Evans
Yonkers
N. Y
Bowker
Evans
Hiram Woodruff
Sturbridge Track
Almont King
William Boyd
Southbridge
Milton C
John S. Hubbard
Fiskdale
Robert B
Joseph Bebo
John L
William Powers
Australia
Charles Stuart
Jockey Club
Gladstone
America
Wallace
National State Congress
Buffalo
William Simon
Henry C. Steal
William Lautree
Henry Wolff
George J. Sticht
Alvin D. Gauff
J. Charles Eichhorn
Detroit
Max Pfister
Cleveland
Leonard Priester
St. Louis
William Siben
McKeesport
Robert Schiller
Milwaukee
American jockeys triumph and global sports notes
An American rider earns praise for guiding the Derby winner Cicero on the English turf while Ted Sloan is hailed among the best. Other items report tennis results at Queens Club, open UK golf entries, Jack O’Brien heading to the Klondike for prizefights, record pigeon speed in Lake View races, polo plans, Reno fights with Hart and Root, and track and horse breeding standings across major clubs and universities.
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America
Ted Sloan
Cicero
Maher
Lord Rosebery
Wood
Utah
W. E. Samuelson
Hopper
Queen's Club
London
England
Eustace H. Miles
Charles E. Sands
New York
Sands
United Kingdom
Willie Anderson
Apawamils
Alexander Smith
Nassau
Canada
O. F. Lyon
Toronto
Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien
Klondike
O'Brien
Lime
Lake View Flying Club
Chenoa
Sperber Bros
Craig Wadsworth
Lawrence McCreery
Paris
Wadsworth
James Gordon Bennett
Marvin Hart
Jack Root
Reno
A& Reno
Salt Lake City
Fitzsimmons
Schreck
West Point
Annapal
Prtfall
Army
Princeton
Turkeys Fattened by Machines for Market
In England turkeys are sold by weight per pound and breeders fatten birds to maximize weight. Machines pump liquid feed into the bird’s crop via a brass nozzle and tubing connected to a cylinder, delivering varying amounts as fattening progresses over three to ten weeks.
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England
Stevenson at his work David Balfour produced under adverse circumstances
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson recounts how her husband wrote parts of Kidnapped from Old Bailey trial records of James Stewart. David Balfour was drafted in Samoa amid threats of war among natives and turbulent political changes, with Stevenson fearing personal liberty restrictions and misinterpretation by white inhabitants.
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David Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
Old Bailey Court
James Stewart
Alan Breck
Samoa
Weaving of Life and Loom in Heaven Woven Tapestry
A poetic meditation on a weaver shaping a life’s colors to counter gloom. The tale depicts a loom’s warp and weft entwined with fate, revealing a heaven fashioned tapestry as the answer to sorrow. Also a nature vignette describes a mother grebe preparing a nest and guarding eggs amid lake conditions.
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Valentine March
Mother Grebe
William Beebe
Notable English Quotations and Their Origins
A compact survey of famous sayings traced to Dryden Shakespeare Prior Byron Smith Cowper Pope and Shakespearean works. It notes phrases like through thick and thin a tug of war case of Greek meet Greek as clear as a whistle fast and loose and as good as a play with origins in 17th and 18th century literature and public discourse.
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Dryden
Nathaniel Lee
Shakespeare
Matthew Prior
Byron
Wlidsmith
Cowper
Pope
Charles
Twilight's Scene of Love and Nightfall in Verse
Fragmented romantic verse depicting twilight, stars, and a lovers scene. The speaker laments fading light and urges savoring a nectar of love from a gleaming goblet. The mood blends nature imagery with an intimate, poetic plea for cherished moments.
The Man Behind the Gun and Other Odds and Ends
A miscellany of short items: a patriotic verse from the New York Press praising gunner valor, a humorous cow incident in Chatham England causing havoc and a crowd escape, Potter Sargent’s Japan magazine amid Russo Japanese War angle, a population factoid comparing world totals to the Isle of Wight, and a long-running legal suit over the brig Oliver Frances sunk by the Winooski.
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Gunner Dangoner
New York Press
Potter Sargent
Amesbury
National Bank
Tokio
Japan
Old 1790 wooden plow sent to Orono museum
Prof. Hurd receives a rare wooden plow dated 1790 as a gift from Leroy B. Nason of North Windham. The tool, built by Abiga Varney of Windham, matches the heft of the Danial Webster plow with iron plates nailed over a wooden frame and share, secured by wooden pegs.
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Hurd
Museum of the Agricultural College
Orono
Leroy B. Nason
North Windham
Abiga Varney
Windham
Daniel Webster
Twine Freight Ties Kansas Crops to Vast Supply
Fifty large freight cars carried 1 600 000 pounds of twine for binding Kansas wheat crops. The quantity could bind over 600 000 acres of grain, encircle the globe six times, or stretch from New York City to Cleveland, Ohio, with twine left over.
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Kansas
New York City
Cleveland
Ohio
Angler nets hoard of gold rings and watches from river
A North London angler fishing in the River Cowley between High Barnet and St Albans thought his hook snagged weeds but hauled ashore a sack full of jewelry. Inside lay about forty gold rings and eighty watches, mostly without cases.
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London
Eng
Cowley
High Barnet
St. Albans
Neighbors Replaced Poultry With St Bernard Guardian
An aged Adams Mass couple lost poultry to thieves last week. Neighbors visiting the couple brought not only doubled hens recovered but also presented a big St Bernard to patrol the estate edge and deter future prowlers.
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Adams, Mass
St. Bernard
Mail Delayed Thirteen Years in Chicago Box
A bundle of papers dropped behind a Chicago mailbox thirteen years ago and overlooked by the sorter. Classified as second class mail, no complaint was filed at the time and they were only recently found and distributed through regular channels to the intended addressees. The notice mentions a curious item titled Copy and cites several names connected to the collection.
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Chicago
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