Prisoner for Good Nellie Rivers Finds Love in Chicago
Ned Cooke pursues Nellie Rivers aboard a Chicago bound train after a kidnapping scare. The nurse clears her name and Ned proposes, ending in a warm, humorous reunion with Joe Lawrence and family. Queen Madge the baby provides charming interjections in the small town drama.
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Ned Cooke
Joe
Madge
Cookie
Mr. Hall
Ned
Nellie
Chicago
Murphy
Lawrence Case
Woodford
Miss Marjorie
Miss Rivers
Mr. Lawrence
Joe Lawrence
Baby Marjorie
Edward Cooke
Marjorie
Baby
Dean's Kidney Pills Credibly Aid Engineer on Big Four
The proof is in Indianapolis as H A Washbury an engineer at the Big Four railroad reports kidney weakness pain eased after using Dean's Kidney Pills. His wife bought them at Henry J Huder's drug store and he now can complete long railway lines with no inconvenience. For sale by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents Remember the name Dean's and take no substitute.
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Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
United States
Dean’s
Gods Would Destroy Them They Make Coal Barons
The Grand Rapids Press notes the saying that the gods ruin those they choose by first making them coal barons, reflecting on wealth and fate.
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Grand Rapids Press
Hoosierisms and Odd Tales From Salem Democrat
The Conway Chapel correspondent notes humorous and odd local items: a clerks quoting scripture to justify cheap sales, a 12 5 cent gingham then 28 cent yard sale, a claimed return of turkeys by Thanksgiving and Christmas, a man who boarded a freight train now dead, a Denton woman suing over a feather bed with minimal contents, the Spunky club at Muncie a new feminine group, and a Greenwood wood dealer advertising cracking good hickory kindling.
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Conway Chapel
Salem Democrat
Greenwood
Next Week’s Attractions From Theaters
Theaters announce a slate of upcoming attractions including new releases and revival screenings. Local schedules highlight showtimes and venues serving a mix of drama comedy and adventure for audiences this coming week.
Trains Collide Across Three States Kill One Wrecks
In Missoula two Northern Pacific trains collided near Butte killing a tramp and injuring five trainmen. In Prescott Arkansas Engineer A B Archibald died in a wreck. In Desplaines Illinois a Wisconsin Central wreck fatally scalded Fireman Walter Sherman with two other trainmen badly injured.
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Butte, Mont
Missoula
Desplaines
Here
Walter Sherman
Nerve Pills Offered As Cure For Nervous Headaches
Mrs. M. Hudson of Indianapolis reports Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills cure her nervous headaches and weakness. Sold at Hyder's drug store and by the Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co. Buffalo NY. 50 cents a box. Portrait and signature of A. W. Chase on every package.
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Chase
Hyder
Dr. A. W. Chase
Orpheum Vaudeville at Grand Next Week
The Orpheum show from the nation’s vaudeville circuit will perform at the Grand next week. Featured acts include McIntyre and Heath in The Man from Montana, Nick Long and Ida Line Cotton in The Critic and the Lady, Nat M. Wills tramp impersonations, Mignonette Kokin with electrical dancing, Rawson and June boomerang act, the Sterling troupe acrobats, the Melani trio musical act, and Purcell and Maynard in an operatic travesty.
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Orpheum
Grand
Orpheum Circuit Company
McIntyre and Heath
Montana
Nick Long
Idaline Cotton
Miss Cotton
Nat M. Wills
Mignonette Kokin
Rawson
June
Sterling
Melani
Purcell
Maynard
The Fatal Wedding opens in Indianapolis
The Fatal Wedding a melodrama about a church wedding opens next Monday at the Park for a week long engagement. Grace Church NYC is shown in the bridal procession with realistic scenery including a counterfeiters den and the Palisades at night a thunder storm adds drama. Indianapolis actors Will Crimmins and May McCabe headline with two child actresses ensuring a quick change.
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Indianapolis
the Park
Grace Church
New York
Rudson
Will Crimmins
May McCabe
Vanity Fair at the Empire offers six days of burlesque
The Vanity Fair company arrives at the Empire next week for six days of burlesque and vaudeville with a large costumed troupe and special scenery and electrical effects. Aerialist Ani performs The fame of life blindfolded under a potato sack amid acts by Brown Harris and Brown and others including McIntyre and Rice and the Jacksons. The opening burlesque is A coronation to Uncle Sam.
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Vanity Fair
the Empire
Brown
Harris
Ani
McIntyre and
Rice
Jacksons
Martella
Lancaster
Lyons
Held
Uncle Sam
Plays And Players Diamonds Across The Court
Virginia Harned left her Iris diamonds in a carriage at the Criterion but the driver departed with the bag. The search located the carriage and the diamonds before the second act. Mrs Patrick Campbell refused to pay for a fur hat in Boston, a deputy sheriff settling the bill to avoid arrest.
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Virginia Harned
Criterion
Iris
Miss Harned
Hawks
Patrick Campbell
Boston
Trunk labels hint at stage use for Geraldine stalls
The article notes the precise railroad and customs labels on trunks used in The Stubbornness of Geraldine, crediting Clyde Fitch for accuracy. It mentions trunks once carried from London to Paris and Switzerland, then stored at Clyde Fitch’s Fortieth Street home after visitors arrived in October. Chauncey Olcott plans a Saratoga home costing around 40000 dollars for summer use. Robert Hilliard returns to the stage with Rich and Harris, echoing a ten year old Barrymore collaboration that faltered, then revived after Barrymore’s death.
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Garrick
Geraldine
Clyde Fitch
London
Paris
Switzerland
W. Fortieth St
Chauncey Olcott
Saratoga
Robert Hilliard
Rich & Harris
Glay
Hillard
John Mason
Maurice Barrymore
Barrymore
Woman Sues Over Good Dog Led Astray By Neighbor
Mrs. Mary Fitz gerald sought a police warrant against Sam Wilson after accusing him of guiding her dog into bad company. She described the dog’s decline from a well behaved pet to a saloon frequenter and sulky drunk, alleging Wilson’s influence caused the mischief. The deputy clerk declined the warrant, and she left vowing vengeance.
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Louisville
Sam Wilson
Mary Fitzgerald
Danger Period Through Which Every Woman Must Pass
Dear Mrs Pinkham letters recount women suffering through the Change of Life and womb prolapse, praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier after six weeks or more of use. Letters from Mrs CLaRA Cnetexa of Jewett Illinois claim renewed strength and ability to work.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Clara Cnetexa
Jewett, Ill
Mrs. Pinknam
Lydi
Mra. Pinnkham
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Advertised Letters
Letters from women claim Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills cured symptoms during the Change of Life after costly medical visits and doctors offered operations. The notices praise the treatment and urge others to try it, with names and towns attached.
Curled Hair With Five Dollar Bills Case
Pearl Crouch, a Louisville resident described in the report as the only darky able to use bills as curl papers, was arrested by Patrolman Condley for grand larceny. At the station no money was found on her. at the county jail matron Kate Hayman noticed unusual curl papers and began to unroll them.
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Louisville
Pearl Crouch
Condley
Kate Hayman
Hayman
Prisoner with Hidden Money Bank Averts Swallowing Cash
A colored woman was questioned by Mrs. Hayman after $20 in coins and bills were found hidden in her mouth. The coins included two $2 bills and a one, plus two quarters and three pennies, prompting a desperate attempt to swallow the money to conceal the find.
Young bride-to-be vanishes during wedding rout in Omaha
In Omatia Nebraska on November 29 Alice Wells fled the intended wedding to Soph Banks. Dashing through Thirteenth street with veil flying she refused to marry and disappeared within minutes, leaving pursuers unable to locate her despite crowds watching near the church and at her home.
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Omatia
Neb
Alice Wells
Thirteenth St
Soph Banks
Soph
Banks
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Charles Elliot
Bean Hill Beacon
Laura Wheener
Denton
The
Spunky Club
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Empire
Little Rock
Ark
A. B. Archibald
Prescott
M. Hudson
Missouri St
Ind
Dr. A. W
Dealera
A. W
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New York City
Mies K. Lyons
Father Thomas
Decey
Lizzie Borcap
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Millville, N.J
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