Maude Adams Appears in Boyish Attire on Stage
Maude Adams, renowned for feminine roles, debuts in duck trousers and a long coat in a new five act production directed by Charlies Frohman. The Baltimore premiere drew a large turnout of New York theater figures and a three minute standing ovation as Adams debuted in male attire. The audience found the attire striking yet not unbecoming, noting the ragged, string-tied costumes and covered feet.
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Maude Adams
Metress
Miss Adams
Borah Bernhardt
Louis Parker
Rosemary
Charlies Frohman
New York
Baltimore
Iss Adams
Actor John Flood T: Grand stock leading man with international stage experience
John Flood, leading man of the Grand stock company, recalls three years in London and time in Paris shaping his English accent and polish. He grew up in Philadelphia and Indiana, began on an amateur benefit in Philadelphia, then joined Daniel Frohman, Mrs. Leslie Carter, and later Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter in London and with Nat Goodwin. Flood notes London audiences’ reactions to his cowboy play and the challenge of American slang on stage.
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John Flood
Grand Stock Company
London
Paris
Flood
Philadelphia
New York
Indianapolis
Chestnut St
Daniel Frohman
Leslie Carter
Cora Urquhart Potter
Pauline
Newhouse
Colorado ‘Copper King
Mr. Newhouse
Mr. Flood
Lon
Nat Goodavin
An Interesting Revival of A Bachelor's Romance in Indianapolis
Tim Murphy stars in the title role in the revival of A Bachelor's Romance in Indianapolis on Monday evening. The actor is praised as a natural talent and the likely successor to Russell, delivering a distinct portrayal of the eccentric and kindly editor David Holmes and the mischievous Sylvia Sommers. Supporting roles feature Dorothy Sherrod and Louie Thorndyke Boucicault, with Murphy recently enjoying New York acclaim.
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David Helmes
Sylvia Sommers
Tim Murphy
English
Dorothy Sherrod Phove
Louie Thorndyke Boucicault
Tre Rhapsody
Indianapolis
New York
Murphy
Dreamy Southern Show With Primrose Attracts Crowd
Scenic curtain rises on a dawn bay scene with a stranded Mississippi steamboat and a cotton field. Primrose appears with two pickaninnies in a picturesque cabin. eight comedians entertain as Vaughn sings softly and the Dammons display acrobatics. Saturday matinee and evening engagements announced featuring Primrose Dockstader and a strong supporting cast.
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Primrose
Toft
Dockstader
Larry Dooley
Net! O'Brien
Charles Kent
Grand Stock Co to Present Box and Cox and Still Waters Run Deep
The Grand Stock Company schedules next week a double bill featuring the farce Box and Cox and the Serious drama Still Waters Run Deep. The revival introduces Mr. Potter Mrs. Mildmay and Mrs Sternheld with a plot of passion deception and marital flirtations. Still Waters demands elaborate costumes and stage settings reflecting high society life.
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Grand Stock Company
Mr. Potter
Angel of the Alley staged at Park with Mohawk star
The Angel of the Alley by Sullivan and Blair comes to the Park for three days starting Thursday afternoon. The show blends New York street realism with a love story and light comedy, featuring Go Won Go Mohawk and the Lincoln Carter frontier drama The Flaming Arrow with Indian ponies and chiefs.
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Sullivan
Blair
New York
Sing Sing
Death Cell
England
Lincoln J. Carter
Coaster
Hkenjockety
Reno
Custer
Miss Mohawk
Park
Empire Clark brothers present The Gay Travelers burlesque
The Empire theater next week hosts one of the road’s best burlesque attractions by the Empire Clark brothers with Derando Campbell Caulfield Bixley Hughes Annie Morris Coulter Starr Kelly Adams Merritt Rozelle Zella Carlton Marguerite Darling Pearl Bascombe Anna Fair Sadie Davis Marie Whitney Howe Ada Amos Marie Amos Edith Cornell Mmie Howe Norine Dunham Minnie Flossie Hughes Thomas Minnie Empire Rhinehart Amy Hart and Anna Westerfield. The show The Gay Travelers credits Harry B Marshall and Edward Bixley for the script with new scenery clever mechanical and electrical effects and an elaborate wardrobe.
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Clark Brothers
Royal Burlesquers
Empire Theater
Derando Brothers
Campbell and Caulfield
Bixley
Hughes
Annie Morris
Coulter
Starr
Kelly
Adams
Merritt
Rozelle
Zella Carlton
Marguerite Darling
Pearl Bascombe
Anna Fair
Sadie Davis
Marie Whitney Howe
Minnie Flossie Hughes
Thomas
Minnie Empire
Rhinehart
Amy Hart
Anna Westerfield
Buriletta
Harry B. Marshall
Edward Bixley
Richest Coal Mines In The World Revealed In Pennsylvania
In Evlon Pennsylvania experts tout the region as one of the richest coal belts. Last year 53 million tons were mined worth 175 million dollars seaboard. global metal outputs pale beside hard coal. Lehigh company runs ten Panther Creek mines with 1,000,000 tons yearly and veins up to 100 feet thick.
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Haz.evlon
Sit
Seaboard
California
United States
South Africa
Australia
New York
Panther Creek
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
We were 21 and Willie Collier at the cinema
A fragment notes showings of On the Quiet with Willie Collier on Thursday night Friday and Saturday nights and a Saturday matinee. The readable lines indicate theater listings and performer names for a local program.
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Willie Collier
Monahan Dominates Bookies With 60 000 Win At Westchester
A World writer portrays Monahan as a dedicated turf enthusiast who studies form for hours daily and has turned handicapping into a near science. Once ill, he rebuilt his health and wealth through racing, becoming the track's leading player after backing Godfrey at Gravesend and amassing large winnings at Westchester.
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New York
John
Monahan
Westchester
Knights of the Chalk
Ting
Godfrey
Gravesend
He Cut Greeley's Hair
Goetz recalls shaving Horace Greeley in 1872 at 15 Clinton Street Brooklyn after he was nominated for president. The barber, then 21 and living in Georgetown, described Greeley’s appearance and the few chances he had to speak with the famed editor who would later lose the election badly.
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Ter Goetz
Horace Greeley
Goetz
Clinton St
Brooklyn
Greeley
Geety
Georgetown
Four Drowned In Golovin Bay Lifeboat Incident
In Golovin bay on Sept 26, four men named Joseph Ganniach David Clancy Carpenter Wish ard and Guss drowned when a lifeboat from the steamer Albion capsized.
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Seattle
Wash
Albion
Golovin Bay
Joseph Ganniach
David Clancy
Carpenter Wishard
Guss
Intermarriage in Degeneracy Defense Noted in Ferrell Murder Case
Cleveland physicians discuss a proposed defense for Ferrell in Marysville jurist trial. They say degeneracy, linked to cousin marriages, may be proven by experts as cause of mental and brain development issues, noting heredity and generations.
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Cleveland, CO
Ferrell
Marysville
Cleveland
Royce D. Fry
H. M. Fletcher
K. W. Gurley
W. H. Herrick
J. M. Lewis
W. B. Glendining
W. H. Phillips
Practical Joker Delays St Louis Wedding
John W. Jennings of the J W Peters fish company seeks the prankster who delayed his marriage. Miss Gertrude Hatton, from St Paul, arrived as Jennings’ fiancée. A man calling himself Alois Sauter claimed to be Jennings’ stepfather and tried to block the license by alleging underage status. Jennings later obtained the license after explaining the joke.
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Louis
John W. Jennings
J. W. Peters Fish Company
Practical Joker
Jennings
St. Paul, Minn
Gertrude Hatton
St. Paul
Alois Sauter
Clarkave
Kittson Son Becomes City Billboard Inspector
Alfred 3. Kittson youngest son of Commodore Norman W. Kittson, once a prominent horse owner, is named inspector of billboards in St. Paul city building department at 60 dollars a month. He received 100600 on his twenty fifth birthday and will gain another endowment at thirty while starting work now.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Alfred 3. Kittson
Commodore Norman W. Kittson
Kittson
Increased Trade With China
Washington reports from the treasury bureau of statistics show American trade with China growing faster than with European nations. In 1892 imports from China measured 22,293,745 taels, valued at 72 cents per tael, up by 5,000,000 taels from 1898. The 1895 value stood at 5,093,182 taels.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Bureau of Statistics
China
Catarrh described as a blood disease offers new internal cure
The article explains catarrh as a spreading blood disease from head to stomach and endorses Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as a safe internal remedy. It claims the tablets remove the catarrhal poison and provide permanent relief, with drugstores selling the 50 cent packages for head throat lungs or stomach catarrh.
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Stuart
Graydon in Hard Luck After Starve Threat Letter
Lieut Graydon once of the American navy and inventor of the Graydon dynamite gun writes from London of nearing starvation and homelessness. Born in 1848 in the United States, he gained fame for his wheel inventions in Paris Vienna and London.
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London
Graydon
Paris
Vienna
London Star
United States
Portland Police to Be Abolished November First
Portland authorities announce the police department will be abolished on November 1 due to lack of funds. The city treasury has no money for salaries and protection will lapse until January 1 unless voluntary subscriptions are raised.
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Portland
Ore
Train schedule fragment with multiple routes and times
A fragmentary railway timetable lists services to Anderson Union City Cleveland New York Boston Benton Harbor St Louis Lafayette Chicago and more. It includes arrivals and departures with various station times and service names such as the Big Four and Wabash lines along with dining and parlor car notes.
Cincinnati Train Schedule Fragments
Fragmentary timetable entries show multiple Cincinnati connections with errors and partial times. Greenburg and North Vernon lines appear, listing excursion and accommodation notes and prices in a terse period-voice fragment.
Peoria and Bloomington Travel Schedule Fragment
A fragmentary timetable lists trips between Peoria Bloom and Champaign with times such as 11.50am and 6.08pm, 4.10pm and 10.35am, and an overnight 11.50pm 3.30am route.
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Peoria
Bloom
M&ex
Peoria & Bloomington
Champaign
Peoria & Bloom
Springfield and Columbus Line Schedule
Train timetable snippet notes Columbus and Springfield routes with departures and arrivals. Mentions Ohio special service and Lynn accommodation. Times listed include 5.45am 10.35pm 3.00pm 2.50pm 6.15pm 10.15am.
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Columbus & Spring
Ohio Special
Lynn Accommodation
Cincinnati Rail Schedule Fragments at City Ticket Office
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway lists service times from the City Ticket Office at 2 W Washington St. Cincinnati showing multiple trains to Detroit, Dayton, Toledo and Cincinnati interline routes. Details include morning and late afternoon departures with connections and limited express options.
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City
Washington St
Cincinnati
Det
Dayton
Dayton Lim
Toledo
Detroit
Chicago Indianapolis Seaiskills Railway Menon Route
Train schedule notes list ticket office at W Washington Chicago and multiple trains and times. Includes night express and vestibule service with departure and arrival times and a Menon accommodation option.
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Chicago
Indianapolis & Seaiskills Railway
W. Washington St
Chicago Ft
Chicago Express
Chicago Vestibule
Train Schedule Fragments for St. Louis and West Lines
Fragmentary timetable notes show TH, StL and West services with several times listed such as 7.00 pm 6 am 10.00 am and 2.15 pm 3.30 pm. Mentions include Western express and Effingham connections with undefined percentages and symbols.
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CincInnati
Greensburg
Flex
N. Ver. & Louis
N. Ver
Louis
TH. Stl
West
Sdsam
T. H
St. L
St. L. & West
Western Express
Effingham
Bt. L and West
Ind
Vernon and
Madison
Martinsv'e & Vin
Dayton & Xenia
Pittsburgh
East
Logansport
Chicago
Martinsville Ace
Knights. & Rich
Phil
N.Y
ODM Balti
Wash
Dayton & Spring
Springfield
Columbo, Ind. & Mann
Colum., Ind
Martins. & Vin
Pittsburg & East Phil. & N
Dayton and Xenia
Spencer Acc
Coone
Col
Louiss
Logans
Pennsylvania Lines Picket Offices at Stations and Corners
Schedule fragment lists picket offices for Pennsylvania Lines at key junctions including Station and corner Illinois and Washington streets Philadelphia and networks to Baltimore Washington Columbus Richmond and Louisville. Times show morning and evening departures with multiple routes and connections.
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Station
Illinois and
Washington-sts
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