Billie’s First Love and Stage Acts Highlight Billings Show
Eve Go stars with two other actors in Billie’s First Love a play about actors by Grace Griswold Miss Bergere shines in Madame Butterfly showing the same subtle artistry as Josephine Seager Midgley and Gertie Carlisle promote the Sarah and Sammy series with Taking a tonic Leah Russell presents Hebrew dialect stories and songs Dillon brothers parody act Hacker and Lester perform as tramp and dude bicyclists Frank Fisher and Gladys Clark offer The Phantom Staircase moving pictures complete the bill.
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Billie
Grace Griswold
Miss Bergere
Josephine
Seager Midgley
Gertie Carlisle
Sarah
Sammy
Leah Russell
Dillon Brothers
Hacker
Lester
Frank Fisher
Gladys Clark
Next Week’s Shows Spare Little Amusement
The coming week promises scant distractions aside from a horse show and vaudeville at English and the Grand. W H Crane, Primrose and Dockstader, Dan Daly, Valerie Bergere, and Maude Adams are noted names. The Grand bills include sketches, acrobats, a ventriloquist, singing acts, and a pair of paradists as featured acts.
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S. W
Crane at Englishs and Primrose Minstrels Attract Saturday
William H. Crane and company perform at English's Wednesday and Thursday in David Harum. On Saturday the Primrose and Dockstader minstrel company will be the attraction.
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William H. Crane
Over Niagara Falls melodrama to open at Park next week
Rowland and Clif ford present Over Niagara Falls at the Park in the first half of next week. The plot follows Mildred the maid of Asa Phillips, who survives a murder attempt by Phillips and an accomplice near Goat Island. The bill also features At the Old Crossroads with Estha Williams and James M. Brophy and the Bachelor Club quartet.
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Niagara Falls
Rowland & Clifford
Mildred
Asa Phillips
Gilbert Parker
Chautauqua Park
Phillips
Madaiine
Goat Island
Larnett
Ob Phillips
Madiline
Anna Edson
Taylor
Arthur C. Alston
South
Natchez
Miss
Estha Williams
James M. Brophy
Doc Kerr
Merry Maiden Burlesquers At Empire Next Week
The Merry maiden burlesquers will perform at the Empire all next week with Nellie Hanly in the cast. The company is larger and better than ever and will stage two new burlesques The Jones at the ball and The Merry maidens at the beach. The bill includes the Nelson family acrobats the Hiatts musical act the Johnson trio Spencer brothers Irish comedians and the Tourist trio a new act to Indianapolis.
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the Empire
Nellie Hanly
Jones
Nelson
Cleves, Ind. Play Based on Prairie Fires Premieres in New York
Ramsay Morris authored Ninety and nine and set a lively melodrama in Cleves Indiana near Marlow. He built the play around a prairie fire phenomenon and it was produced this week at the New York Academy of Music.
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Ramsay Morris
Cleves
Ind
Marlow
Prominent Cleves Scene Features Live Engine Drama
In Cleves Indiana a dramatic production showcases a real steam locomotive as a convincing onstage engine. The crowd at the Academy roared as the fiery hot scene played out with a creaking boiler and a full-throated response from Broadway first-nighters. The engine stay on rails, avoiding a curtain collision and preventing harm to the orchestra. The moonlit backdrop adds a blue glow to many scenes.
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Cleves
Ind
Mr. Morris
Ben Hur
Academy
Frank McKee
Indiana
Young Shelbyville philosopher impresses town youths
In Shelbyville Indiana, 18 month old James Harvey Tomlin Jr., son of school superintendent Prof. Tomlin, has become a noted child prodigy. He began speaking clearly around 14 to 15 months and can form complete sentences. He tumbles, talks and displays remarkable lung power and wit for his age, often declaring his desires aloud.
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James Harvey Tomlin, Jr
Tomlin
Shelbyville
RAPS NOT A GAME OF CHANCE
Philadelphia Oct 11 Judge Martin of criminal court ruled that those arrested for shooting craps are not within the law against setting up a game of chance. Police broke up a craps game as a crowd of colored men clashed with officers. A half dozen men were arrested and indicted for setting up a game of chance. the judge acquitted them.
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Philadelphia
Martin
Criminal Court
Hoosierisms and oddities from Hoosier news items
A Gosport man pulls a wart from a collar button lost after chasing a cow. David Ellis of Greenfield begins a world letter, hoping for a 90 day voyage. A Fort Wayne arrest reveals a dummy man scaring women, later clubs rule. Wolcottville hosts a gallon cup plan to curb coffee overorders. A small cyclone damages farms near Waterloo, corn husked neatly. other towns report fence and tree damage. McNabbville men buy shirt buttons for galluses. New Castle girl misspells a word.
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Gosport
Here
Waterloo
Pepper flavored chaos and church wine switch tale
Local church confusion erupts after Deacon Hobson faces a prank claim that he altered wine to whisky. The episode spurred a raucous post meeting spree among about two thirds of the congregation, with denial from the deacon. Martha Crandall sues for divorce citing insane jealousy and financial demands. Pike county farmer Thomas Taylor sells 70 hogs and 42 cattle for 8000 dollars. A Peru barber survives a near miss when struck by a fast express, saved by fate.
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Deacon Hobson
Monterey Bazoo
Thomas Taylor
Pike County
Washington Democrat
Colored candidate in West Virginia campaign sparks debate
In Kimball, West Virginia on October 11, labor and republican factions clash as James Knox Smith, a black lawyer from Keystone, campaigns for state lower house. Smith bills himself as lawyer and jail robber and issues bold bids for debates with all candidates amid racial tensions.
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Kimball
W. Va
Labor Party
W. G. Hunt
Welch
James Knox Smith
Keystone
Smith
Virginia
West Virginia
Ixeystone
McDowell County
Chesterfield
Webster
Dark Spellbinder Faces Unnomed Democratic Vote
Widespread support among labor voters shifts toward a dark skinned spellbinder from the Elkhorn and Tug river country as the Democratic Party makes no nomination. The labor ticket garners backing in the region.
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Elkhorn
Tug River
Democratic Party
Labor
Police pledge after count of snakes at Desplaines station
Desplaines Street Station officers signed a temperance pledge on Wednesday after a strange morning involving a store discovery and a locked satchel. A dozen rafters fled as officers inspected the valise contents, while the pledge ceremony followed for 15 temperance advocates and other officers.
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Chicago
Desplaines St
Wabal
Lieut. O'Connor
Sergeant Hawkins
Turniay Gray Wells' Hair Baleam Dye Restores Color
The article notes that Turniay Gray uses Wells Hair Baleam dye to gradually return hair to its natural color, choosing black or brown tones as it regrows.
Hold on to that which is good Cockroach Exterminator ad
An old advertisement touts Rough on Rats as the most thorough exterminator for roaches rats ants and bed bugs. It claims universal use and warns against imitators with 15c and 25c boxed products sold worldwide.
Safe pest bait recipe for roaches and ants
The text describes using Rough on Beta poison mixed with mashed boiled potatoes or dampened bread or powdered sugar to bait roaches and ants. It instructs placing the mixture in their haunts, repeating for two nights, and keeping children away, then sweeping and destroying remnants by fire to end the roach problem.
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Vaudevillians
Maid Marian
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Reginderbilt
Reginald Vanderbilt
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Greenfield
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Bluddy Murthur
Wolcottville
McNabbville
New Castle
James McDowell White
Columbus
Ohio
White Heath
Dr. Caldwell
Pogsider
Ana Will Cera
Lemoe Iiss Etreseample
Martha R. Crandall
Muncie
Charles T. Crandall
Peru
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