Louise in the Two Orphans at the Opera House Tonight
The Daily Sun notes Louise portrayed by Miss Florence Herbret in the play Two Orphans at the Opera House tonight. It adds local items including Dr T H McBride practice details and parish notices.
06 Feb 1880
Page 1
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Newspaper
Joliet Daily Sun
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1880
Page
1
The Daily Sun notes Louise portrayed by Miss Florence Herbret in the play Two Orphans at the Opera House tonight. It adds local items including Dr T H McBride practice details and parish notices.
Rev Mr Laing will lecture on Religions and the Church with other truths not told by Ingersoll. A warrant was issued Thursday for Sam Hanna's arrest after a saloon fight with Pat Fahey and another man. The Stone City Club hosts a party at Munroe's Hall with Boyne's band and Tom Creevy providing refreshments.
Merchants on Jefferson Street bustle with large spring invoices as boxes spill onto the sidewalks. The busy scene reflects renewed trade after a month of dreariness, marking a hopeful uptick in commerce.
A Chicago paper reports the engagement of Miss Carrie Deutsch daughter of F Deutsch to a prominent Waukesha Wisconsin merchant. The suitor is described as a well regarded young man linked with leading Chicago families.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Association remains in session as the secretary notes a preliminary, positive reaction. They are organizing with confidence and seem jubilant about next fall's fair. New barber C M Brooks opens on Jefferson street east of Abbott's restaurant with a plan for a cigar stand and related apparatus. The Cassiday Case cites a Supreme Court opinion limiting recovery to one official in a defalcation suit, while Board of Trustees may pursue further action. Jamies Law of DuPage sells his farm to J P Loss of Chicago for 7500 dollars.
The 7th District Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union featured Rev. Mrs. Ewalt and Mrs. J. J. Taylor tribute, plus speeches on youth labor, prohibition, and civic responsibility. Resolutions urged child welfare, Sunday school temperance lessons, distribution of temperance papers, county secretaries, and cooperation with temperance men. new officers were elected and the meeting adjourned.
A large audience greeted the Florence Herbert Combination in Joshua Whitcomb at the Joliet Opera House. Cotton as Josh and Miss Herbert as Tot drew strong applause, with Miss Herbert praised for her many roles and singing. Tonight features Two Orphans with Herbert as Louise, promising a full house.
Articles of incorporation filed with the Secretary of State reveal a $60,000 Joliet and Mendota ShortyLine Railway Co intend to build a Joliet to Mendota line with a branch toward Batavia. Principal office listed in Joliet. Corporators include Reynolds, Holset, Qook, Flelden and others from Chicago and Frankfort Station.
Seats for the Two Orphans performance are selling rapidly with box office lines expected. FP J Rapple plans a quick trip to Colorado in a few days to buy 1,000 head of cattle and invest in hogs.
Local notice reports a group inviting a gentleman described as of fair address to address a meeting. The fragment suggests a call for participation or speech, with no further details available.
A brief promotions page notes a limited time sale of New Home and Domestic sewing machines nearby Joliet with calls to visit Cal. Co an opposite Court House Ottawa Street. It also promotes California Tea Store for sugar and tea, and advertises jobs and bargains at various local shops and brands including Wilson shirts and Jackson's chewing tobacco.
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