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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1907
Page
10
In Cleveland on March 29 six youngsters playing with a ball rolled it into a catch basin. They used a lighted match to locate the ball, the match dropped and released gas causing an explosion. Flames enveloped the children lighting their clothing and injuring them severely.
Amusements section highlights a varied week at the Grand with Ollie Young and Brother, Ringling Brothers style jugglers, Floddler the singer, Lea Velo trio, Dixon and Fields German Sailors, Arthur Stuart and Keeley Sisters, and a bioscope. The Rays in Down the Pike return to Park for the first half of the week, with Johany and Emma Ray starring in the popular musical farce.
Ray as Casey and Mrs Ray star in a lively Broadway style musical comedy full of disguises, witty songs, lavish sets, and a crowd of show girls. New melodrama The Cowboy Girl follows, featuring Julia Rowland in the lead with a sensational plot of missing papers and a daring heiress’s rescue.
Grace Cameron's opera company of about sixty performs Little Dolly Dimple at the Park for three days. The cast includes many familiar names from big productions. The Americans troupe headlines, offering vaudeville with Milton de Long Trio, Charles Falke, Rose Carlin, The Great Vulcan, and Dunedin Troupe of evcists, plus Mile. La Blanche.
A two act musical comedy Mixed Pickles by Dave Marion and a strong company entertain. Zeb and Zarrow, Will Ward, Melville and Toller star. Colonial Belles burlesque opening with The Baby Farm and Cohen the Count at Empire for three days. Bowery Burlesquers brings three act show next Monday at Gaiety with perilous dives and Chinatown scenes.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Heart Cure as strengthening heart nerves and muscles to ease distress and prevent strain. It claims rapid relief when doctors fail, with a testimonial from Mrs Mary C Hahler of Sullivan Missouri and a money back guarantee.
Violet McMillen headlines the booth as "the Girl" in a lavish Bowery Burlesquers show at the Gayety theater. The production boasts Lizzie Frelih, Ben Jansen, Farrell Taylor and many others with spectacular costuming, vaudeville acts, moving pictures of the Thaw-White tragedy, a 50-baboons troupe, and a new Hallelujah ballet sensation. Miss McMillen plans an auto tour of New England after summer.
Rev Jamb Updike aged 47 and a longtime evangelist of the Suristan church died in Bloomington yesterday after 39 years in ministry. He had converted about 20 000 persons during his career.
An unknown woman leaped into the Niagara river at the brink of the American falls last evening and was swept to death on the rocks. Her body was carried down toward the whirlpool. Scripps-McRae Preas Association staff report Niagara Falls New York.
Special dispatch reports Eadwir Payne cashier of the Rush County National Bank is dead in Rushville Indiana.
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