Peaceful Valley at Grand Stock Next Week
The Grand Stock company presents Peaceful Valley featuring Hosea Howe as played by John Maher from the Pike stock company Cincinnati. The cast includes Jotham Ford Fred Wallace Ward Andrews Hardee Kirkland Rand Alfred Fisher and others in a tale of a student waiter pursuing studies while aiding his mother.
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Peaceful Valley
John Maher
Hosea Howe
Hosea
Pike Stock Company
Cincinnati
Howe
Jotham Ford
Fred Wallace
Ward Andrews
Hardee Kirkland
Rand
Alfred Fisher
Charley Rand
Thos. Reynolds
Jack Farquhar
John Flood
Wilson
John Meister
Virgie Rand
Lotta Linthicum
Niobe Farquhar
Katherine Fisher
Phyllis Howe
Agnes Maynard
Martha Howe
Rosalie de Vaux
Joe Jefferson to Star in Rip Van Winkle at English's One Night
Joe Jefferson headlines a one night only engagement at English's performing Rip Van Winkle. The famed American actor, linked to the character for decades, remains a social and artistic fixture, admired by wealth families and college students alike. William Collier appears in On the Quiet by Augustus Thomas, praised as a master of drollery and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Jefferson
Rip van Winkie
Tondon
Fiee
Jos. Jefferson
William c Vorts
William Collier
Augustus Thomas
Collier
Bowery melodrama stars Terry McGovern in three nights
The Bowery after dark at Popular Park features Terrible Terry McGovern as the Bowery boy in a three day engagement with thrilling scenes including a prize fight in a constructed Broadway athletic club room. Hope Booth leads a strong company in War on Women with frontier life vignettes and comic interludes.
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Bowery
the Park
Terry McGovern
Terry
Newsboy
Bootblack
Broadway Athletic Club
Terry M
Wis
Hope Booth
Inauan
Goodwin and Elliott to Stage When We Were Twenty One
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott present their play When we were twenty one at English's next Wednesday night for a single performance. The popular two act drama follows four middle aged bachelors raising a son known as The Imp and features Phillis Ericson, with London engagements slated for next year.
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Nat C. Goodwin
Maxine Elliott
Goodwin
Godwin
London
Imp
Phillis Ericson
Willie Collier Arrest Record Noted in Local Diary
Willie Collier is booked for English's on Saturday next. The fragment mentions his name and a sudden rise in status, with unclear context about the offense and timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Collier
English
Willie
Collier
Empire Theatre Announces Broadway Burlesque Window
The Empire theater will host the Broadway burlesque company and its vaudeville club next week starting with a matinee on Monday. A new seasonal group features high class burlesque and vaudeville acts led by Vera Harte, Carver and Pollard, Harry LeClair, Hanley and Jarvis, Smith and Cook, and Dorothy Earle. The show opens with The birds of a gilded cage and ends with a humorous mélange and caricature on New York’s Wine and women.
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Empire Theater
Broadway Burlesque
Vera Harte
Empire
Carver
Pollard
Harry LeClair
Hanley
Jarvis
Smith and Cook
Dorothy Earle
New York
Bostock's Zoo Opens In Old Cyclorama Building
Frank C. Bostock opens a new zoo at the old Cyclorama building announcing 11 am Saturday shows. Trained wild animal acts perform in a steel den, with animals led through a runway from cages. Capt Boni Vita and Mme Morrelli headline the acts after carnival week, with cages and a balcony around the circle for the center den sights.
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Frank C. Bostock
Capt
Bonivita
Mme. Morrelli
Frank Bostock
Cares. H
Hair Turns Gray Overnight After Mountain Mineworkers Guard
In Scranton Delaware Dolcher, 38, recounts a West Virginia mountain mining meeting in 1897 where eight men with Winchester rifles surrounded him to guard against interruption. He says the fear caused his hair to turn gray by morning, though he never learned the guards’ identities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Joan
Fred Dilcher
United Mineworkers
Dilcher
West Virginia
Kanawha
Kanawha River
Wallace the untamable lion runs wild in city escape
The article describes Wallace the untamable lion at a permanent city amusement venue. It notes past escapes, trainer fatalities, and that elephants camels and a zebra are available for rides. Daily shows run 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. with carnivora feedings at 4:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Ticketing details mention Huder's drug store and season and single admission prices for adults and children.
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Wallace
New York
Huder
The House That Jack Built Headline Broadside
Stage notes report Mrs Annie Yeamans and Modjeska set to perform in Indianapolis with Broadhurst farces and a one night stay. Financial tallies show city and regional theater receipts near ten thousand dollars for Detroit Baltimore Washington and others as Modjeska and Rose Coghlan appear in upcoming vaudeville and stage programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Yeamans
Jack
Lead Pencil in Dead Man Eye in Batavia Mystery
Coroner investigates a dry Black creek death near Stafford. Patrick F. Murphy of Hornellsville, a flagman on an extra freight train, was found face down with a long lead pencil driven into his right eye, causing fatal brain injury. A possible theory suggests he might have kicked a tramp from the car.
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Batavia
Snow
Black Creek
Stafford
Patrick F. Murphy
Hornellsville
Lehigh
Murphy
Hand of Fate Haunts Brunne Family in Richmond
A string of untimely deaths haunts the Brunne family in Richmond Virginia with every member dying away from home. From 1863 through recent years the clan suffered a Civil War wound death a train accident a gun accident a naval fall a drowning fatal train strike and a suicide tied to grief now only Mrs Virginia Brunne and Davis Brunne remain cautious hoping to die of old age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Brunne
John Brunne
Annie Brunne
Jasen Brunne
John
Annie
Peter Brunne
Jasen
United States Navy
Peter
Wiliam Brunne
Jasen Brunne, Jr
Bessie Brunne
Jasten, Jr
Virginia Brunne
Davis Brunne
Farm hand captures escaped patients near Barnes farm
Snyder a farm hand at Barnes farm in Poughkeepsie New York on October 26 confronted three men hiding in an orchard with a shotgun He ordered surrender when the men fled He shot Murphy in the back a minor wound The three were detained by attendants and returned to the asylum Supt Allison paid Snyder a $125 reward for the capture
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Snyder
Barnes
Murphy
Hig
Supt
Allison
Age 84 Lived Within Five Miles of Birthplace Without Riding Rail
Mrs Eliza beth Preston of Gwynedd Pa dies aged 84 after a long life nearby her birthplace Friends Corner. She never rode a railroad despite living near the Reading railway branch and close to Philadelphia illustrating everyday life of the era.
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Yardley
Elizabeth Preston
Gwynedd
North Penn
Reading
Philadelphia
Preston
van Rellway
Fisherman Saved After 17 Hours Clinging to Capsized Skiff
Jack Applegate, a Holly Beach fisherman, clung to the keel of a capsized boat for 17 hours before a New Foundland dog alerted the crew. The boat capsized during a northeast squall 12 miles off shore. Alfred Corsen was swept away and drowned, while Applegate survived until rescue at daylight.
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Holly Beach
WN. J
Jack Applegate
Ths Place
New York
Applegate
Alfred Corsen
Corsen
Parties spar as Indiana campaign nears finish line
With ten days until the election both Republicans and Democrats in Indiana withhold figures. Democrats cite promises of 20 000 to 25 000 plurality while Republicans declare the state safely Republican. Tales of trades for Bryan votes circulate and fund disbursement jokes accompany a tense final push.
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Ther
Hawkins
Democratic State Committee
Indiana
Martin
Taggart
Bryan
Bigler
Hennly
Kern
Thomas McCoy
John Wingate
Finance Committee
Jocosely
Ancient lamp returned from Eskimo village voyage
Harvard boys record a summer expedition to Labrador keeping a stone lamp once used by Hight to light a Eskimo village over 500 years ago. They brought back walrus and bear skins bones of primitive peoples arrows pottery Eskimo footwear kyacks and lighting stones. Items will join Harvard museum or be kept as memories of the perilous journey.
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Cambridge
Mass
Peabody Museum
Harvard
Labrador
Sherman’s Will Filed for Probate in Mansfield Ohio
John Sherman’s will dated December 22 1895 with a 1900 codicil is probated. Mary Stuart McCallum receives 100000. Several relatives including Elizabeth Reese Wm T Sherman Sampson P Sherman and Hoyt Sherman receive 10000 or 100 shares of a Des Moines street railway. Kate Wellick gets 600 yearly. Kenyon College gets 5000 for Sherman Heineman park improvements. Residue split among Mary S McCallum Henry Sherman and Charles M Sherman. Estate valued at about 2 500 000.
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Fannie P Moulton
Susan B. Bartley
Hoyt McComb
Julia Huggins
Wm. McComb
Kate Wellick
Sherman
Kenyon College
Sherman-Heineman Park
Mary S. McCallum
Henry Sherman
Charles M. Sherman
Hungarian Miner Loses Savings to Mice at Iron Mine
Ignatz Beila, a Hungarian miner at the Hurd iron mine near Port Oram, saved about $300 in two bundles hidden at his shanty. Mice chewed the larger pile beyond use, while smaller bills were salvaged and sent to the U S treasury. the rest were deemed worthless pulp at a Dover bank.
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Morristown
N. J
Ignatz Beila
Hurd
Port Oram
Bella
Dover
First National Bank
Rosevear
United States Treasury
Washington
Freshman Sophomore Feud Roars at University of Denver
At the University of Denver in Denver Colorado the freshmen suffer a roasting from sophomores who publish The freshman teething ring a satirical paper. It mocks baby status and recalls the flag pole incident while promising a rival sheet from the freshmen soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Denver
Babyland
Paramount
Shopgirl Wife Becomes Drummer Boy On Stage
In Boston on October 2 1907 Mrs R H White Jr a former shopgirl who wed the son of a prominent merchant and was deserted last December has taken to the stage as a drummer boy in The Cadet Girl at the Columbia theater She says the move is to earn a living not notoriety as her husband has provided nothing since a court ordered $20 weekly support earlier he sent only 40 once and nothing since.
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Boston
Mass
R. H. White, Jr
Columbia Theater
R. H. White
New England
Lucy Bartlett
Lucy
Pyramid Pile Cure Promises Safe Rectal Relief
An ad touts the Pyramid Pile Cure as harmless and effective for piles. Suppository form absorbs at night to relieve pain and itching without cocaine or dangerous drugs. It claims quick results even in long standing cases and promotes a mailed booklet from Pyramid Drug Co. Marshall Michigan.
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Pyramid Drug Co
Marshall, Mich
United States
Pastor to edit Journal. reporter fills pulpit
Milwaukee, Oct 27 Rev. Jud son Tilsworth of Plymouth Congregational Church will edit the Journal for next Saturday’s issue. The Journal assigns a reporter to speak from the pulpit the following Sunday evening after his sermon on what newspaper men think of newspapers.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Judson Tilsworth
Plymouth Congregational Church
Journal
London decorates for returning imperial volunteers from South Africa
Sir Claude MacDonald, formerly British minister at Pekin, leaves Pekin for the coast after exchanging posts with Sir E. M. Satow, minister to Japan. A great Buddhist revival appears likely in Japan.
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Claude MacDonald
Pekin
E. M. Satow
Japan
London
South Africa
Removal Notice for Doctor's Office Move
Removal notice states Dr. B. F. Bye, formerly at 227 N. Ilinois St, moved his downtown practice to 403 N. Illinois St at the northeast corner Vers mont. Telephone numbers 152 remain in use.
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B. F. Bye
N. Ilinois St
N. Illinois St
Versmont
Finest-prepared Meal in City at St Charles Hotel
Full regular dinner two courses and business men's lunch offered at St Charles hotel in Chicago. Muel lerschoen owner. McCrea street opposite Union station.
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City
St. Charles Hotel
Chas
Muellerschoen
McCrea
Union Station
Fine California Wines and Bottled Goods Shop Ad
Clark shop at 116 North Old Street offers Schuller's fine California wines brandies and bottled goods. Merrill street store at 212 North Meridian advertises the best photographs at the lowest prices and urges patronage.
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California
Schuller's
N. Meridian-st
Clark
Chicago and North Western Railway Expands Iowa Minnesota Lines
The Chicago and North-Western Railway reports 474 miles of new trackage in Iowa and Minnesota now in operation. Promising towns along the routes serve as trade centers for well located communities. a descriptive pamphlet detailing town business opportunities is available from railway agents or W B Kniskern, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, IL.
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Chicago A North-Western Railway Company
Mos
Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago & North-Western Railway
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
Old Nurse for Children advertisement claims Winslow’s Syrup
An aged nurse markets Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup for teething babies claiming it soothes gums eases pain cures wind colic and diarrhea at twenty five cents per bottle Designed to reassure parents by promoting relief for infants in teething stages and other common ailments.
Big Four Excursions Schedule Details
Sunday October 28 the Big Four runs a special nonstop return trip Cincinnati. The Indianapolis departure is at a.m. The season’s final excursion from Champaign and Pearl & Eastern points goes Sunday October 2 with a $1.25 fare.
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Cincinnati
Indianapolis
A. m
Champaign
Pearl & Eastern
Chicago and Return On Monon Route Fare Notice
Tickets sold October 28 30 and November 1. Return limit November 5. Best time and service for travel on the Chicago Monon route. Fare is six dollars and seventy cents for the round trip with a small fare of 36.7 cents noted.
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Chicago
Vie Monon
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Sol Smith
Russell
Joe Jefferson
Nat Goodwin
Willie Collier
Veka Harte
Bostock’s Zoo
Modjeska
Viola Allen
Hartford
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Detroit
King John
Dead Man’s
Patrick Murphy
Br. Fenner
Brunnes
Virginia
Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Denver
Colo
Big Boys
Ae Te Oe
Progress
Indiana Dental College
S. W. Cor
Delaware and Chiesta
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