A Modern Pocahontas Headlining Grand Vaudeville
The Grand bills Amusements with A Modern Pocahontas led by Emma Rainey a Carlisle graduate and Indian chief's daughter. The act portrays a romantic tale of Cavalry Officer George Smith and Pocahontas with authentic Indian spectacle and dances amid a varied program including Four Fords Swor brothers Frank Mostyn Kelly Co and Kinodrome racing scenes and musical numbers.
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the Grand
Utah
United States
Emma Rainey
Carlisle University
Withal
George Smith
Pocahontas
Tagaunee
Smith
Four Fords
Swor Brothers
Frank Mostyn Kelly
George Kelly
Sisters de Faye
Ines
Taki
Matthews
Reece
Me Him and I at Park Theatre and The Man on the Box at Majestic
A bustling program features Hurtig and Seaman’s Me, Him and I at Park Theatre with Ed Lee Wrothe as Dr Conn Conn and partners in a Klondike chasing spoof. Also at Majestic Forepaugh presents The Man on the Box, a breezy Harold McGrath comedy about a misdirected prank and courtship.
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Him and I
Seattle
Vila
Hiram Rolla
Dawson City
Rough Western
Ternoon
The
Majestic
Harold McGrath
Henry E. Dixey
Robert Warburton
United States Army
Empire Theater Musical Mr Wise Broadways Brigadiers
The Empire Theater presents Mr Wise From Broadway a two act musical by the Brigadiers company. Rosalind May leads the cast with Miss Camp and George Norton lyrics. Johnny Wise, an insurance agent, travels to Panama aboard the American Girl yacht to quell a revolution. He defeats Don Diego and helps restore peace with union organizer Dicky Dare Devil, delivering buoyant entertainment.
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Mr. Wise
Broadway
Empire
Brigadiers Company
Sheppard Camp
George Norton
Rosalind May
Mr. Camp
Johnny Wise
Johnny
Panama
Reggie Vanderpool
Don Diego
Republic
Wise
Dicky Dare Devil
Feaure
Electrical Effects and Sensations Introduce New Act
The alio features sensational acrobats and gymnasts the Melvin Brothers Flemin and Miller the English Americans and John Neff the Brain storm Comedian presenting dramatic electrical effects and sensations.
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Melvin Brothers
Flemin and Miller
John Neff
Cortelyou May Head The Union Trust Company
The Treasury secretary George B. Cortelyou is believed to be offered the presidency of the Union Trust Company to fill the vacancy caused by Edward King’s death. If he accepts, he would be the fourth consecutive former secretary to lead a New York trust firm, following Fairchild Gage and Shaw.
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New York
George B. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Union Trust Company
Edward King
Cortelyou
Charlies G. Fairchild
New York Security and Trust Company
Lyman J. Gage
United States Trust Company
Leslie M. Shaw
Carnegie Trust Company
Canada to Keep Quarantine on U S Cattle
Quebec Dec 14 The Dominion government will maintain the quarantine against cattle from the United States through the winter. The measure will entail large expense and the agriculture department is organizing a patrol force to enforce the quarantine along the St. Lawrence and other rivers as needed.
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Quebec
United States
Department of Agriculture
Lawrence
Hazing Horror Ties Student to Tree in Riverside
In Providence Illinois on December 14, a Turner Avenue grammar school pupil tied Chester Bolton to a tree and chopped it down. Bolton fell about ten feet, the trunk crushed him, and he suffered multiple injuries while a physician treated his wounds. Authorities investigated alleged jealousy over Boltons association with a popular girl at the school.
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Providence
R. IL
Riverside
Turner Avenue Grammar School
Chester Bolton
Bolton
Nothing to conceal in the canal deal
Senator Beveridge introduced Harry Reisenberg of Indianapolis to the president. Reisenberg said he found canal related books and papers in his possession and believed there was nothing to conceal about the canal work or its purchase history.
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Washington
Beveridge
Harry Reisenberg
Indiananapolis
Isthmus
Panama
Commercial Club
Indianapolis
Reisenberg
Stop Tobacco Now with Easy-To-Quit Remedy
An anti tobacco public notice touts Easy-To-Quit as a safe vegetable remedy to erase tobacco habits. It claims nicotine dangers and offers a free trial package by mail from Rogers Drug and Chemical Co. Cincinnati Ohio, inviting readers to mail name and address.
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Rogers Drug and Chemical Co
Fifth and
Race Sts
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hardtack to be shelved in the museum
Washington reports that hardtack, long a symbol of early military rations, will be displayed in a museum alongside archaic weapons as the army favors fresh bread. A board of officers says the era of hardtack is ending and outlines how bakers will join the service with a separate train to supply bread.
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Uncle Sam
King Hardtack
Hardtack
Prosperity at Hoosier Drill Works in Richmond
Prosperity is evident at the Hoosier Drill works in Richmond Ind where the employee list is the largest in the plant history and the order book is overflowing Yesterday management contracted with Robinson & Co for moldings The Hoosier plant employs 74 molders and consumes 18 tons of metal daily.
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Richmond
Ind
Hoosier Drill Works
Robinson &Co
Hoosier Plant
His Favorite Exercise Comic Exchange
A humorous caption notes a doctor advising a patient to walk outdoors but abstain from beer. The patient asks the point of going out, highlighting the joke about exercise and drinking.
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Meggendorfer Blaetter
Pocahontas Card Party by Norwood Council
Norwood council No 152 D of P sponsors a card party at the G A R hall 222 East Maryland Street on December 14. Admission is 15 cents and includes oysters.
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Pocahontas
Norwood Council
D. of P
G. A. R. Hall
Maryland
Postal savings bill faces Senate test amid opposition
Senator Carter expects a brisk Senate debate over the postal savings bank bill with two days of priority, then the Brownsville affair. Opponents including Aldrich and the monetary commission seek currency reform first, while southern Democrats aid delay. Pressure from supporters may be needed in the next Congress if the bill fails this session.
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Ter
Postal Savings Bank
Carter
Senator Foraker
Brownsville
Aldrich
Hala
Congressional Monetary Commission
South
Senate
Restorative Treatment for Nervous Men
An advertised remedy prescribes compound balmwort, syrup sarsaparilla, essence cardio, tincture cadomene, to be mixed in a bottle and taken after meals and at night. It claims to restore vigor in men suffering nervous exhaustion and melancholia, with promises of astonishing heroic power and avoided fees.
Congress urged to curb typhoid via water safety measures
The American Medical Association urged urgent federal action citing typhoid deaths totaling about 35 000 annually and over 50 000 illnesses linked to the Ohio valley and Appalachian region. The memorial asks Congress to empower the public health and marine hospital service to prevent interstate water contamination and to unite national health agencies. Dr Wigman of the Marine Hospital Service was thanked for his work against bubonic plague.
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Phoid
Congress
Public Health and
Marine Hospital Service
United States
Wigman
Association
Popcorn Fatal to Injured Man in Kentucky Woods
Fate Smith of Tice Graves county died after a peculiar accident. He stumbled against a log injuring his abdomen while walking in the woods weeks earlier and later died after eating popcorn which triggered spasms.
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Paducah
Fate Smith
Tice
Graves County
Roosevelt Africa trip rights disputed by Scribners
The exclusive magazine and book rights to Roosevelt's forthcoming Africa journey are challenged by Charles Scribners Sons. The articles, aimed at outdoor life and adventure readers, may appear in Scribner's Magazine later in 1909 with more details to come.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Africa
Messrs
Charles Scribners’ Sons
Ner’s
Tree rustling despite still air a witty refrain
A playful exchange where one speaker notes the tree rustles with no breeze, while another accuses a neighborhood youth of stealing tears, captured in a fragment from Meggendorfer Blaetter.
Notice for gravel road bids in Cass county Indiana
The Cass county Board of Commissioners invites sealed bids for the construction and improvement of a free gravel road in Tipton township Logansport Indiana. Bids due January 4 1909 at 8 00 am with bond double the bid and sureties. Right to reject bids reserved.
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Board of County Commissioners
County of
Cass
Board of Commissioners
Cass County
the Auditor
Indiana
Board of Laborers
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Him
the Park Theater
Majestic Theater
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Astor
Crose
Canada
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Neere
Morris
Ean
Santa
Washington Street
Postal Bank
Senator Car
Postal Savings Banks Bill
ROK Congress
Appalachian
Mittee
American Medical Associa
Tion
Charles A. L. Reed
Sible
Ohio Valley
Roosevelt
Rascal
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