Minstrel Show Promises $100 Reward For Grose Lockup
Irwin bill announces Old Kentucky Minstrels closed after misrepresentation. Grose, the Handcuff King, offers $100 to anyone in Goshen who can shackle or handcuff him. Tonight Charles Landaw of the night police attempts to lock Grose up. Program features C Hickman with coon show and a monologue, Lon Cox’s lifelike reproductions, and Bentley the xylophone master. Admission 25 cents to 50 cents. matinee Tuesday tickets vary. Civic pride calls for clean sidewalks and well‑kept floors.
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Lon Cox
Bentley
Grose
Early American Country Doctors and Their Drastic Remedies
The piece profiles a self reliant 19th century physician who relied on home made recipes and drastic treatments like calomel bleeding and herbal brews. It notes limited formal training, self taught practice, and the harsh conditions of frontier medicine, including rudimentary instruments and improvised ambulances. It highlights the era’s low medical education standards and the enduring belief some skilled doctors were born rather than formally trained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tie
Materia Medica
Australia’s Cities as Models and Warnings
A commentary on Australian urban governance praising centers of human life while warning of city problems. It argues gambling and youth seeking easy gains fuel reform struggles, and the drink curse spawns slums such as the Sundhy Strand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Commonwealth
Sundhy Strand
Fortune Teller Sees Brisk Trade In Hard Times
A neighbor counts callers to a local fortune teller and, after visiting, notes brisk trade. The seer explains that in hard times people seek guidance and are willing to spend their last quarters to learn if luck may improve.
Status of the Thaws and settlement talks in New York
Colonel Franklin Bartlett, engaged by Mrs William Thaw to aid her son Harry Thaw, clarifies reports of a break in Thaw and Eve ryy Nesbit Shaw. He states the divorce evidence is untrue and that Mrs Everioy Nesbit Thaw seeks separation while the husband hopes for reconciliation. An estrangement has occurred but no violent outbreak is alleged.
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New York
Mare 10
Franklin Bartlett
William ‘Thaw
Harry 1X 'Phaw
Thaw
Everyy Nesbit Shaw
Durog
Lousceaud
Mystery surrounds disappearance of man near Athens
Birmingham reports a black man named Stay Malone was abducted from a city hall in Athens by seventy five masked men last night. No further word has been heard, and authorities are investigating the case as a possible crime.
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Birmingham
Ala
Malone
Athens
Canal Holding Them Up Near Buffalo
Five million bushels of grain await shipment to tidewater as Roper plans higher port activity. Edad men cannot close contracts until the Erie Canal opens and is ready for business on May 1.
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Buffalo
Td Roper
Tidewater
Edad
Mark Twain Daughter On Tour With Mrs Nichols
The contreatta daughter of Mark west plans an extended tour from New York to the south and west. She will be accompanied by Mrs Marc Nichols, violinist, as officials warn the public about reckless racing and expected performances.
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Mark Twain
New York
Contreatta
Mark ‘West
Aiddie West
Marc Nichols
Morphine Smuggled Into Nebraska Penitentiary Report
Governor Stetdon requested the state board to investigate reports that morphine was smuggled into the Nebraska penitentiary in Lincoln. The March inquiry seeks facts, methods, and responsible parties behind the alleged drug presence.
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Tincoln
Stetdon
Gethlic
Market quotations from Chicago Board of Trade report
The Chicago Board of Trade quotations show mixed futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with May and July contracts listed. Cattle and hog prices were reported with receipts and ranges for steers cows and hogs, along with sheep and lambs bids and live poultry and hay prices from East Buffalo and Dewning Stevens.
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Chicago
Chieves Board of Trade
Ostrom
Sige
Lionis
Indiania
Wisconsin
East Buffalo
Dewning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
East Buffie N.Y
Wether
Calver—Bost
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Irwin
Meiny Femiehr
Gnu
Girhelle
A. Puschmann
Riley
Main St
Calvary
Daniel T. Kauffman
Xiang Blose Gorden
Ind
Jenner
Buck
C. B
House Furnisher
Harry
Beck’s
The
Owl
Leininger's
Irwin Theatre
King
Musical Bently
Harry Dudley
C Rickman
Scramm and
Stormer
Animated Pictures
Los Angeles
Pices
Bette
Macvor Eharpei
Chicago Grain
Jefferson Thea
Sresulist
Charles Frohman
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
the Little Minister
Frohman
Vivian Martin
Peter. Pan
Violet Hemming
Wendy
George M. Cohan
Little Johnny Jones
Bill Keough
Clarke
Eddie Collins
Goshen
Inds
Standard
Jackson, Mich
Krex
China
Goshen, Indiana
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