Durant Heiress in Love With Naval Inventor Faces Rival Manager
Frances Durant, heiress of Durant Steel, loves Lieut Sommers who has designed a new naval gun. Manager Pinckney, favored by Frances but jealous of Sommers, schemes to advance his own Rhinestrom gun with old employee Marsh as the inventor. Tension builds as casting times and secret royalties loom amid romantic entanglements.
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Durant Steel, Works
Lieut
Sommers
United States Navy
Durant Works
Frances
Edward Pinckney
Pinckney
Marsh
Venter
The Forging of the Big Gun Chapter VII
Foreman Smith, drunk, disrupts Sommers gun smelting driving workers. He rushed the gun into the furnace three hours early endangering the weapon. O Leary and workers scramble to salvage it as midnight nears and tempering awaits.
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Smith
Sommers
O'Leary
Rheumatism Cure Warned In Simple Home Formula
A 19th century remedy prescribes one ounce compound syrup Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris compound, and half a pint of whiskey to be taken before meals and at bedtime. Drugstores supply ingredients. Proponent claims acids cleared from blood and health restored after a few doses.
Foreman Smith Overruled In Gun Casting Controversy
After a tempering delay, foreman Smith pushes the Rhinestrom gun ahead three hours, prompting warnings from O Leary. Pinckney, impressed by Sommers, risks the project by placing Sommers in charge while Smith battles alcohol and pride amid tense shipyard pressure.
O Leary at the Sommers gun works threatens boss and romance
In a steel yard scene O Leary defends himself from a drunken foreman and faces a call to the office. Lucy Smith explains the danger to the gun project while Mazie O’Brien teases engagement plans as O Leary confronts personal worry about his father. (To Be Continued.)
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Proving Ground
Smith
Pinckney
Gun Pinckney
O'Leary
O’leary
Lucy Smith
Mazie O'Brien
Sommers
Lucy
Mazie O’brien
Father
Fashionable suffrage push linked to New York society
Dorothy Dix critiques the Equal Franchise Society, led by Mrs. Mackay and other prominent women, for making woman suffrage fashionable among New York's elite. She argues fashion and wealth will drive broader acceptance, empowering poor women to demand voting rights while cautioning against trivializing the cause.
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New York
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Equal Suffrage
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Henry Miller
Frederick Nathan
Rollo Ogden
Simkhovitch
Charles Sprague Smith
John Stanchfield
Henry Villard
Egerton Winthrop
Stephen 8. Wise
Providence
Hyman
Clarence Mackay
Gould
Aldrich
Goelet
Brennan
Ann Bloomer
Fifth Avenue
Avenue A
Bird Centre
Browning
The Last Resort and a Question to the Captain
A scene recalls a halted journey as a crew asks the captain why the vessel paused. The fragment hints at a moment of pause or crisis at sea or on a voyage. No further details are provided in the readable text.
Amusements: Courthope's Tearful Meeting in Yucky Jim
The Grand stage sees Jane Courthope move audiences in the heart wrenching meeting scene of Yucky Jim with a mother and lost child. A lone cough breaks the stillness, but Courthope regains control and sustains sympathy as the scene resolves. Under Southern Skies praised as a top road attraction, reflecting truth and southern life. School Day days at Park Theater feature Gus Edwards musical with 86 performers led by known names including Timberg Priest Keno and Lynn.
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Jane Courthope
Sierra Nevada
Cascades
Teddy
Parker
Gus Edwards
The
Park Theater
Circle Theater
New York City
Herman Timberg
Janet Priest
Joe Keno
Agnes Lynn
Milfred Berrick
Park Theater to Stage Under Southern Skies Plays
Lottie Blair Parker's series continues with Under Southern Skies at Park Theater across Thursday Friday and Saturday with daily matinees. The work, first titled Way Down South, originated as Way Down East’s sequel and later premiered in London in 1901 under both titles before settling on Under Southern Skies here.
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the Park Theater
Lottie Blair Parker
New England
Forepaugh Stock Delivers Strongheart at Majestic with Salomy Jane Plan
The Forepaugh troupe impresses with Strongheart at the Majestic, praised for elegant sets and a vivid football scene. Next week Eleanor Robson stars in Salomy Jane, Bret Harte inspired and crafted by Paul Armstrong, hailed as a standout production in stock theater.
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Majestic
Eleanor Robson
Salomy Jane
California
Bret Harte
Sierras
Paul Armstrong
Golden West
Forepauga
Dogee
Madison Clay
Golden California
Irish Patriot Lectures Arrive From Ireland
Mies Cathleen Matthews, a native of County Clare Ireland, has arrived in the country to deliver lectures on Irish patriots and Irish industries.
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Mies Cathleen Matthews
County Claire
Ireland
Yankee Doodle Girls at the Empire Theater
Empire Theater presents Yankee Doodle Girls as part of a leading burlesque bill with sparkling costumes and a lively quartet. The opening skit At the Springs leads to Seeing Indianapolis a broader, elaborate show replete with novelty acts and a cast including the Grotesque Randolphs and the Sevens in a new sketch No Mans Ville.
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Empire Theater
the Empire
The
Springs
Indianapolis
Randolphs
Sevens
No-Mans-Ville
Collins
Hawley
Gladstone Sisters
Davis
Hazelton
New Gaiety Colored Amateur Night Gains Popular Stage
New Gayety presents colorful amateur night alongside an excellent bill of five vaudeville acts and two reels. The show features singing dancing and humorous performances with no change in admission prices.
Meaning of cution in states prompts death penalty humor
A classroom exchange turns on the word cution with the pupil joking that it signifies the way people are put to death in some states. The line reflects the era's playful mispronunciations and shorthand for capital punishment.
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Harold
Puck
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