Vaudeville and Passion Play Move Audiences at Opera House
Spectators packed Simpkins electric theatre and the Opera House last night to view vaudeville and moving pictures interlaced with ventriloquism followed by a powerful Passion Play reenactment. The crowd reacted with profound sympathy to scenes from the birth to the crucifixion and final rising of Jesus, tears and awe marking the performance.
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Opera House
Simpkins’ Electric Theatre
Herod
Jesus
Egypt
Caiaphas
Pilate
Woman Found Dead as Husband Slits Throat in London
A Swiss woman named Morger was found dead in a Nelson Square room, likely from poison, as her husband, a jewel worker, cut his throat and lay near an open razor. He survived and was taken to Guy's Hospital in critical condition. Neighbors aided the ill couple, and the landlady alerted authorities after Morger reportedly said she had gone to the holy land. The case remains under investigation with little known about the pair.
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London
Morger
Nelson Square
Blackfriars
Guy's Hospital
America
Reverend Carmichael Ends His Life After Murder
The Rev John H Carmichael pastor of three Michigan churches confessed to killing neighbor Gideon Browning with a hatchet then burning the body in Battle Run Church He later took his own life in a boarding house toilet leaving a letter to the Adair sheriff detailing dismemberment incineration and the motive of self defense and cowardice.
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Carthage
Ill
John H. Carmichael
Adair
Mich
Gideon Browning
Battle Run
Miranda Hughes
Browning
Carmichael
Tunnell Station
Chicago
All Night in a Well in Carnmarth Cornwall
An 11 year old named Katie Webber vanished from home in the evening and was found in a 40 foot well after a neighbor, deaf and unaware, alerted the girl’s eldest brother. He lowered in, freed her, and she was returned home after about 15 hours in cold water with a foot injury.
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Carnmarth
Cornwall
Katie Webber
Elp
Sayings of Mrs Solomon Confession of the Seventh Hundredth Wife
A humorous translated tale imagines Babylonian marriage tactics. A wife juggles vanity and vigilance while her husband dreads late returns. The piece riffs on marital power, secrecy, and the quiet gains of domestic harmony over nightly drama.
Plant Juice claims boost from Dillingham remedies
Advertises Dillingham's Plant Juice as a vegetable medicine for catarrh kidney liver and stomach troubles. Praises rapid local sales in Georgetown and Charlotte with testimonials from A P Phillips of Charlotte and mentions free information and vaudeville shows by Leai. Notes visitors Rhems Rhem Richardson Bourne and Richardson in Georgetown.
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Georgetown
Dillingham
West Fifth Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Charlotte
A. P. Phillips
Colonel Dillingham
Dillingham’s
Leai
F. Rhem
D. D. Rhem
Rhems
John Richardson
Plantersville
D. N. Bourne
Sampit
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Everbody
Michigan
Helen Rowland
Babylon
Selah
North Carolina
Charlotte, N
Pheniss Furniture
the People’s Bank
Georgetown, S. C
People’s Bank
The
Hartnett & Day
W. H. Robinson
Highmarket St
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