Della Fox Returns to Vaudeville Amid Stage Comeback
Lish's Grand hosts Della Fox after a dramatic revival from wave Crest hospitalization. She headlines a varied bill with Francesca Redding George Monroe Edgar Atchison Bly and others. The program includes the Oceanic steamship launch biograph reel and the village postmaster, a four act New Hampshire tale led by Archie Boyd and Angela Russell with a Wednesday matinee.
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Della Fox
Della
Wave Crest
L. I
Fhis
Miss Fox
Francesca Redding
George Monroe
Edgar Atchison- Bly
London
Charles ‘Sweet
Hal Stephens
Sonorant Brothers
Myers
Archie Boyd
Miranda
Angela Russell
New York
Fitzsimmons Tops Park Week Vaudeville Run
Robert Fitzsimmons headlines three day engagement at the Park opening Monday matinee in The Honest Blacksmith. The show features a three round bout with Ed Dunkhorst, moving pictures of the Ruhlin bout, Mrs. Fitzsimmons on stage, and a slate of leading musical comedy acts filling the vaudeville program.
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Robert Fitzsimmons
Fitz
Ed Dunkhorst
Fitzsimmons-Ruhlin
Mrs. Fitzsimmons
Bernhardt and Coquelin to Perform in Detroit March 10
Bernhardt and Coquelin will come to ish's for one romantic play L Aigion with a cast. Tickets for the Detroit engagement are priced at 1.50 2 2.50 and 3 dollars, with the top price cut from four to five dollars in past notices. Health promises bloom with pure blood and Hood's Sarsaparilla celebrated in the ad copy.
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Bernhardt
Coquelin
Ish
Detroit
Xeata
Three Musketeers at the Park with Glazier in Lead
The Park opens a three day run of The Three Musketeers starring Harry Glazier as DArtagnan. The production, a big hit last year, showcases Glazier with a smooth, vigorous performance and new business while touring through scenes at the Jolly Miller inn court queen muskeeters quarters Fort St Leon ship Briton Calais and Louis XIII throne room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jolly Miller
Fort St. Leon
D'Artagnan
Calais
Louis XIII
Alice in Wonderland at English’s Friday and Saturday
The spectacle Alice in Wonderland debuts at English’s on March 15 and 16 with 259 children in the cast. Proceeds benefit Companies 2 and 56, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and W. E. English Zouaves. Miss Hope Leonard wrote the music and rehearsals are letter-perfect. costumes and effects were sourced from New York by J I Bragg.
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Rank
Knights of Pythias
Sailor Boys
Police
Good Godmother
Miss Hope
Leonard
New York
J. .I. Bragg
Empire Burlesque Company Arrives With Star Attractions
Ed F. Rush's Victoria burlesquers open at the Empire for a three day run starting Thursday matinee. The bill features Perry and Hyland, Bryant and Saville, Nolan and White, Kennedy and Qua tielli, and a closing burlesque with Harry C. Bryant. Two acts include A Queen of the Boulevard and The Victoria's Reception, plus the added attraction The Girl in Red.
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Perry
Burns
Leo and Chapman
Bryant and Saville
Nolan and White
Hyland
Harry C. Bryant
F. Rush
Victoria Burlesquers
the Empire
Madam Morelli Plans New Jaguar Training At Zoo
Madam Morelli arrives from Baltimore with Frank Bostock to train leopards and Jaguars after her seven ferocious pets were killed in a Baltimore fire. She vows daily cage work, fears uncertainty, and aims to earn the animals trust one by one while husband Cant hae joins from Paris with 27 trained animals bound for the Pan American exposition. Mrs. Fiske set to perform Becky Sharp at the Park on April 12 and 18.
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Madam Morelli
Zoo
Baltimore
Frank Bostock
Canthae
Paris
Sousa Concert slated for Tomlinson Hall on March 18
The Sousa concert is set for Tomlinson Hall on March 18 with advance sale starting at the Park Theater on Wednesday. Downtown visitors are urged to secure tickets early as seats may be limited.
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Sousa
Tomlinson, Hall
Park Theater
Drag Killed a Girl with Heart Weakness in Lockport
Anna Pritchard aged 12 died after a headache powder containing phenacetine was given to relieve pain. Doctors cite phenacetine poisoning as the cause, noting a likely underlying weak heart that made the death unexpected and fatal.
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Lockport
N. X
Anna
David Pritchard
Fortified Home of Eccentric Bridgeport Millionaire
New York March 9 Fear of assassination prompted George Francis Gilman to fortify his palace and change his bedroom three times nightly. The Bridgeport magnate kept a strong bodyguard and loved horses music and revelry hosting soubrettes and riding in fine carriages.
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New York
George Francis Gilman
Bridgeport
Gilman
Trade balance trends from Washington to McKinley era
Treasury statistics show the nation's imports and exports by inaugural year from 1789 to 1901. Before 1877 imports usually surpassed exports. after 1876 exports exceeded imports, peaking in 1900 with a record surplus of 648.93 million dollars. From government organization to McKinley’s first term exports exceeded imports by 383.03 million, and in four years after his inauguration by about 2.15 billion.
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Washington
McKinley
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
City Board Audits Fire Department Bills Totaling 3653.46
The Board of safety audited the fire department monthly bills and payrolls on Friday, totaling 3653.46 dollars.
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Board of Safety
Fire Department
Zoo Adds Saturday Matinee and Night Schedule Change
The Zoo approves a Saturday 2 p.m. matinee for ladies and children and extends nightly hours from 7 30 to 1. Animals are fed at 26 30 nightly. Next week features Captain Bonavita and lions, Mons Boyker with gears and hybrids, Doc the baby elephant, Baby Stella in a gilded cage, Humpty Dumpty, Lorenzo’s lion hunt, Ray the chimpanzee exhibit, and Big Liz the 12 foot high eight ton elephant. Riding parties on the back and other rides are free for patrons.
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Zoo
Capt. Bonavita
Mons. Boyker
Doc
Baby Stella
Humpty Dumpty
Lorenzo
Ray
Big Liz
Grand jury pins abuses in Anderson slave labor cases
The Anderson grand jury report finds most allegations sustained but abuses limited to about 20 farmers with political clout. It details stockades run by R Miller Elias McGhee W Q Hammond and James Fowler using guards guns and whips on convicts and hired laborers. It calls for ending the leased convict system.
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Anderson, S. C
Anderson
R. Miller
Elias McGhee
W. Q. Hammond
James Fowler
Georgia
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets touted as cure for constitutional catarrh
Advertised as a constitutional remedy, Stuart's Catarrh Tablets claim to cure catarrh by affecting the blood rather than local symptoms. The 20 grain lozenges are described as safe for children and effective against associated conditions like grip, bronchitis, and consumption, with growing national and Canadian availability.
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Stuart
United States
Canada
Topeka woman charged with cutting husband’s throat
Myrtis Webster of Topeka Kansas is charged with severing her husband’s throat and is reported as alleged to be insane. In Illinois a fall of an elevator at the Moline plow works Thursday killed Arvid Burgst on and E. D. Swanson and left seven injured. In Halifax Nova Scotia a fight on a famine schooner the Admiral Dewey Thursday night resulted in Wallace Munro fatally stabbing Wim Taylor, another crew member.
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Myrtis Webster
Topeka
Kas
Moline
Arvid J. Burg‘ston
E. D. Swanson
Admiral Dewey
Halifax
N.S
Wallace Munro
Wim Taylor
Nervous Diseases Ad Ad Offers Free Electric Treatment
A historic ad asks readers to mark symptoms from a long list and send to Dr. Tomson for a free Famous New Electric Treatment. Questions cover heart pains, memory, digestion, dizziness, sleeplessness, and other nervous system complaints.
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Vy Ay SJ Invimgiel Seog
Dr. Tomson
Tomson
Stevenson
Nerewith
Paired deaths stun Dunkirk couple after final telegrams
In Dunkirk New York on March 9 George N Botsford 75 died in Oil City 15 minutes after his wife Rebecca C Botsford 73 died in Fredonia. The deaths followed a sequence of telegrams reporting the spouses ill and then deceased. Their son Fred G Botsfora of Cleveland was summoned to Fredonia and then learned of his father’s collapse.
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Dunkirk
N. Y
George N. Botsford
Rebecca C. Botsford
Fredonia
Ol City
Botsford
Fred G. Botsfora
Cleveland
Oil City
Rebecca
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Syracuse
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Bishop Remedy Co
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VIA
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