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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1910
Page
4
The Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity will host a national convention from Wednesday to Friday with extensive local entertaining planned. Local sororities and young women will assist, hosting informal receptions, a banquet, and a large dancing party. Numerous local residents and guests from Madison and other cities are noted as visitors and attendees.
Indianapolis mascu line singers prepare to perform Ship Ahoy under Murat temple at Fairview. A full dress rehearsal on an artificial battleship deck showcased naval uniforms, flags, and a large cast led by Admiral Charles Mayer. Soloist Wilmine Hammann attends, with Frank Taylor Carl Emmert and Jack Ronstadt among local performers. No matinees this week.
In Pocomoke Maryland the civic club formed by local women and supporters has begun cleaning the town. A Saturday night crew of colored cleaners scours streets weeds are trimmed and six new garbage cans were installed in the business district. The fountain is repaired and running. Residents join the effort to make Pocomoke the cleanest town on the eastern shore.
B F Keith buys controlling Grand Opera House management and plans a September 5 opening with a temporary lobby. The eastern vaudeville magnate, famed for transforming variety, has built major theaters in Boston and Philadelphia and now enlarges his reach in this city.
In Boston Keith, a noted public spirited citizen, introduces the Grand Vaudeville system from his eastern houses to benefit patrons and sustain high quality entertainment. Work on the twelve story Grand office building continues without delaying the Sept five all star vaudeville opening. A temporary lobby will replace the former one and a show entrance will be unveiled by the holidays.
Berlin Aug 22 Prof Wilhelm Ostwald of Leipsic university a leading German savant has outlined a plan for universal coinage he will present in detail at a meeting of the Merchants and Manufacturers association in Berlin Ostwald argues a world coin would greatly aid business and the comfort of nations.
Mille Bergerat presented the death swing at Riverside bathing beach. An auto powered ride climbs a sixty foot incline, plunges, then circles midair before a safe stop. The act runs twice daily all week with free admission for women Monday. Also at Empire theater two comic acts, clockman and snowman, headline The Merry Whirl joining The World of Pleasure next.
William H. Burford, aged 62 years married to his wife for 62 years, walked to the family burying ground and died beside his wife’s grave. He suffered heart disease and the grief of losing his lifelong partner is believed to have broken his heart.
Mrs Nathan Brown was fatally attacked by a cow while salting cattle on a Wytheville area farm near Roanoke Virginia. She died a few hours after the incident on Friday August 22.
London reports Queen Alexandra will remain in Merlodge, Scotland for two months to oversee family affairs rather than travel to Denmark. Princess Victoria receives a health cure in Harrogate with Grand Duchess Michaelovitch of Russia, and both visit the royal pump room daily. Victoria will join her mother in Scotland after the cure and may visit Queen Maud of Norway later.
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