Waning Indianapolis theatre season nears end with limited dates
The season's end nears with English's last May 24 and sparse dates afterward. Way down East three nights, Stuart Robson, Mrs Carter Zara May 1 2 Mansfield May 15 Nat Goodwin Venice revival, Otis Skinner Sara Cowell LeMoyne In the Balcony May 24. Big stars draw, average shows suffer. audiences cling to familiar names while new visitors face empty seats.
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English's
Stuart Robson
Otis Skinner
Sara Cowell LeMoyne
Indianapolis
Mary Mannering
Janice Meredith
Lady Funtworths Experiment At Englishs This Week
A big week at English s features Lady Funtworths Experiment with the Daniel Frohman company on Monday and Tuesday. Hilda Spong leads an English cast in a tale of disguise, fortune, and romance revealing strong supporting turns by Lucy Pillenger Keziah and Gandy with Miss Hannah Pilmeer in a key role. The schedule includes The Bells with Barbara by Jerome K Jerome on Wednesday and Thursday, and David Garrick by Robertson on Thursday night.
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New York
San Francisco
Hilda Spong
Mary Mannering
Comany
Charles Walcott
Lady Huntforth
Ivastan
Bengal Cavalry
Dr. Carton
Lucy Pillenger
Veryone
R. Carton
Mathias
Mr. Clarke
Jerome K. Jerome
Barbara
Miss Prince
Robertson
David Garrick
Clarke
Garrick
Reston Clarke And Adelaide Prince Coming
When Creston Clarke and Adelaide Prince came to Indianapolis last season they appeared as strangers. J Clarke was an actor of extraordinary promise and had built a strong reputation in eastern cities as a legitimate stage interpreter. He made a favorable impression on local playgoers.
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Creston Clarke
Adelaide Rince
Indianapolis
J. Clarke
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman in All on Account of Eliza
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman headline at Englishs for Friday and Saturday nights and a Saturday matinee. The duo star in All on Account of Eliza set in a western New York village and featuring Lipman as a district schoolteacher and Mann as a German village board president, delivering broad wholesome comedy with sharp dialogue.
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Louis Mann
Clara Lipman
Eliza
New York
der Poard
Drusdees
Mr. Mann
Miss Lipman
Paris
Park to stage Two Little Vagrants and Sis Hopkins
Edward C. White presents Two Little Vagrants from Pierre de Courcelle at the Park theater for three days starting with a Monday matinee. The show boasts long runs in major cities and features a strong cast led by Anna Bodden and Lottie Briscoe, with Kan-Fan in the boy role. Sis Hopkins, Rose Melville’s comedy, comes to the Park next Thursday through Saturday, depicting Sis, a country girl in Posey county Indiana, and her antics with a city suitor.
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Edward C. White
Pierre de Courcelle
Park Theater
Paris
London
New York
Roston
Anna ‘Bodden
Lottie Briscoe
Ethelle Earle
Nes
Sis
Miss Melville
Postmaster General Says No Crookedness In Postal Affairs
Manila report states Postmaster-general Smith declares no crookedness in postal affairs while in Washington. mentions F W Vaille and rail service roles amid charges under audit and Philippine postal department scrutiny.
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Smith
Tashington
F. W. Vaille
Millersburg posse captures three for mill theft
In Goshen Indiana on Thursday night Archie Daggard Grover Esh and Arthur Barnes were arrested by a Millersburg citizen posse and bloodhounds after entering the Kern saw mill and taking brass fixtures.
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Daggard
Grover Esh
Arthur Barnes
Millersburg
Kern
Grand to Feature Johnstone Bennett as Headliner Next Week
Johnstone Bennett, described as the most masculine actress of her profession, headlines at the Grand next week. She performs five roles in a sketch with Antonio Williams, plus Foy and Clark offer straight comedy and special scenery. The program also features the Daly sisters dance act, imperial court Japs, monologist Johnnie Johns, trick violinist Emile Crawford, and closing comedy by Hal Merritt and Florence Murdock.
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Johnstone Bennett
Miss Bennett
Antonio Williams
Jack Herford
New York
Kittie Maginn
Hogan's Alley
Annie Nation
Toad’s Center
Tony Jungling
Eva Vassant
Butte
Mont
Foy and Clark
Will Cressy
Lizzie
Vinnie Daly
Belle
London
Daly
Dan Daly
Margaret Daly Vokes
Lucy Daly Vokes
Lizzie Daly
Imperial Court
Hal Merritt
Florence Murdock
Biograph Scenes Highlight 1900s Exposition Visuals
The exhibit features Kilpatrick riding a safety bicycle down an 80 foot pyramid at Point of Pines and back up. Other panels show the Grand Republic excursion boat during yacht races past the Columbia, Boer invasion in Cape Colony, German rail service, a Berlin train, the Call to arms in the Philippines, and a Brigadier General Frederick D. Grant portrait with McKinley. A series of comic views rounds out the collection.
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Philippines
Frederick D. Grant
Mc Winley
Indianapolis Zoo Opens For Final Week Before Move
Six days remain in the Indianapolis Zoo season before animals are moved to Buffalo. From Monday the zoo will run regular training routines and performances from dawn to night. Chiquita the living doll will host receptions at 11 p m and 4 p m daily with themed charity nights throughout the week.
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Indianapolis
Buffalo
Covenant Congregational Church
Druids
Orient Club
Zoo
Empire Theater Closes Season With Final Weekend
The Empire's season ends Saturday night with Whiaco's City Club delivering the last performances of the weeklong run at the house.
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Empire Theater
Whiaco
City Club
Desperado Burt Alvord Evades Four Posses in Virginia
A Tucson despatch reports Burt Alvord, famed train robber, eluding four pursing posses in the Southwest. Alvord, who previously fled to Mexico, was seen with a Yaqui companion near Warren ranch in the Sulphur Springs valley, then in the Dragoon mountains. Sheriffs Turner and McDonald continue tracking, while Alvord boasted of outsmarting them and of his lethal past in Cochise and Fairbank robberies.
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Billy Stiles
Alvord
Mexico
Sierra Madres
Desperado
Minas Prietas
Sonora
Warren Ranch
Sulphur Springs
Dragoon Mountains
Middlemarch Ranch
Turner
Santa Cruz County
Huachuca Mountains
McDonald
Cochise County
Southern Pacific
Cochise
Fairbank
Jeff Milton
Threefinger Jack
Wilcox
Fairbanks
Dry Goods Trust Oversubscribes First Stock Issue
The underwriting syndicate of the Associated Merchants Company over-subscribed the 5 million first preferred stock. The New Haven report notes a broad legislative charter allowing manufacturing, railways, bridges, stores, real estate, securities, and cross border operations. A smallpox case at 619 Maxwell St reported to the Board of Health.
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New York
The
Dry Goods Trust
Associated Merchants’ Company
New Haven
Maxwell St
Georgia
Reems
Board of Health
Man drinks lye by mistake and loses swallowing ability
W R Williams of Sioux City Iowa survived a lye mishap that sealed his swallowing tube. Doctors inserted a rubber tube into his stomach with a funnel to feed beef tea milk soup and porridge. He remains able bodied and continues yard work at the stockyards as doctors monitor his case.
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Sioux City
W. R. Williams
Board of Works Adopts Multiple Street Upgrades
The Board of Works approved a series of improvements including cement walks on Ar row Ave to Valley Ave and Gale Street, along with cement walks and curbs on Spruce Street and Orange Street to Pleasant Run. Gravel roadways planned on several avenues, plus brick gutters on Beech Street Valley to Lawrence. Grace land Avenue to Thirtieth Street and Nevada Street to hillsides will receive gravel roadway and walks.
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Board of Works
Arrow-ave
Hillside-ave
Valley-ave
Gale-st
Massachusetts-ave
Belt Line
Glen Drive
Twenty-eighth-st
Georgia-st
Illinois-st
McCrea-st
Spruce-st
Orange-st
Pleasant Run
Exempt from Spankings After Nitro Cap Incident
Cleveland Ohio April 13 Russell Heinbach swallowed a nitro glycerine cap while playing with caps. His mother tossed the rest into the stove causing an explosion that injured her. she is slowly recovering. Russell remains in bed asleep and is exempt from spankings.
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Cleveland
Russell Heinbach
Russell
The Wallace Circus Impresses Indiana Farmers
The Indiana Farmer lauds the Great Wallace Show to visit Indianapolis on April 2 praising B. E. Wallace as a premier horseman. It highlights 200 draft and race horses including Percherons and Kentucky thoroughbreds, with matched black carriages and gray wagons forming an imposing parade.
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The
Indiana Farmer
Indianapolis
B. E. Wallace
Wallace
Rosa Bonheur
Nurses Strike Threat Over Ball Etiquette at City Hospital
Cleveland April 13 A hospital ball drew social tension as six nurses invited to dance were ordered to serve as maids by Mrs Will Hayes. The nurses warned they would resign en masse if apologized for, highlighting class tensions amid the hospital’s embarrassments from potential nurse loss. Armstrong Park land offer attracts subscribers and promotes wholesale-plot shares. Shares $200. over 450 citizens have subscribed. contact Armstrong Park Land Co. for details.
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Huron-st. Hospital
Chamber of Commerce
Will Hayes
Armstrong Park Addition
Armstrong Park Land Co
Ingalls’ Block
Special fast Cincinnati to return train Sunday route
A special fast train from Cincinnati to return via Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dearborn & Western leaves Union Station at 7 15 a m on Sunday April 14 stopping only at Rushville Connersville and Hamilton. Return from Cincinnati at 6 30 p m.
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Rushville
Connersville
Hamilton
Union Station
Cincinnati
Pan-American Buffalo Line Adds Daily Through Service
From Indianapolis to Pan-American Exposition routes will offer through passenger service daily beginning May 5 without changing cars after leaving Indianapolis. The Ak ron Columbus route along with Pennsylvania and Erie lines will be used. For details contact W. W. Richardson, D P Agt., Indianapolis, Ind.
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Indianapolis
Pan-American Buffalo Line
Columbus
Akron
Pennsylvania and
Erie Lines
W. W. Richardson
D. P. Agt
Ind
Butter extractor workers strike after socialists join plant
In Newark New Jersey the United States butter extractor company faces a strike by 28 Swedish cheese makers and other employees after the firm hires Thompson. The Swedes, recently turned socialist supporters, announce the department is organized and pressure grows as orders pile up.
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New York
United States Butter Extractor Company
Newark
Thompson
Swedes Strike Over Socialist Affiliation Demanded at Work
A group of 28 Swedish workers walked out after being told they must join the socialist organization to keep their jobs. The factory supervisor refused negotiation, declaring no compromise and leaving the men to quit or stay out.
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Social Democratic Party
Thompson
Before and not after marriage treat abnormal conditions now
The notice urges men to seek medical treatment for a wide range of private ailments before marriage. Dr. Tomson offers rapid, permanent cures for nervous, chronic, and specific conditions including gonorrhea, gleet, stricture, varicocele, hydrocele, and syphilitic blood poison, with contact in Indianapolis.
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Tomson
Call
Stevenson
Indianapolis
Ind
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