Orpheum Vaudeville Tops Joliet Showbill
Moss and Frye deliver one of the year’s best two piece vaudeville acts with humor and encores at the Orpheum. The English Ballet sextette, Mortimer Snow, Roland and Roland, and the Traviolas also headline a varied bill. Tonight Lavender and Old Lace comes to Joliet Theatre. New Year’s Night features Sheehan English Opera Company. Grand Theater adds multiple reel features for Aeril Eagles benefit.
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Orpheum
Moss
Frye
Maliety
Mortimer Snow
Elsie Williams
Roland
Juliet
Lavender
Old Lance
Myrtle Reed
Joliet Theater
United Play Company
David G. Fischer
Miss Reed
Swanson
Sheehan
Joliet
Grand Theater
Sweet
Aeril Eagles
Wheels of Destruction
Zoo
Sacred Order of Fish
Red Margaret Moonshiner at the Drexel
A feature at the Drexel theater depicts a beautiful girl in the title role of moonshining in the Blue Ridge of Virginia. The film presents thrilling scenes as it contrasts illicit liquor with harsh mountain life and revenue officer pursuit.
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Red Margaret
Drexel Theater
Blue Ridge
Virginia
Six Princesses Face Troubled Year of Royal Marriages
A 1913-era portrait notes Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar and Archduchess Isabella among six royal women who endured failed marriages and scandals. It recounts Sophie’s tragic end after a rejected union, Isabella’s ill-fated pairing with Prince George of Bavaria, Princess Williams of Sweden fleeing to Paris, and other royal maidens whose unions were strained by politics and dynastic pressures. The piece contrasts royal loneliness with ordinary domestic happiness.
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William
Sweden
Russia
Paris
Sophie of
Saxe-Weimar- Eisenbach
von Bleichroeder
Grand Duke of
Saxony
Augustine Victoria
Manuel
Portugal
Archduchess
Isabella
Austria
Prince George
Bavaria
Eithel
Germany
Kaiser
Ernest August
Cumberland
Royal House of
Hanover
Hohenzollern
Ottilie
Ottalie
Europe
Frederick August
Ernest Ludwig
Hesse
Albert I
Monaco
Sophie
Saxe-Weimar- Eisenach
House of
Saxe-Weimar
Athens
Greece
Duke Bernard
Prince Hermann
America
New York
France
Fontainebleau
Gypsy
George
Isabella Marie
Julie
St. Petersburg
Griseldas
Stockholm
Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland
Bismarck
House of Hanover
Saxe- Weimar
Prince of Cumberland
Upper Austria
Ritel Frederick
Prince Ritel
Oldenburg
Christmas celebrates 95th birthday of world’s oldest twins
William and Samuel Muncy of Sherrie N Y celebrate their ninety fifth birthday. Born Christmas day, the twins are pictured tossing a medicine ball as proof of long life from outdoor exercise and abstinence from tobacco and liquor.
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Sherrie
History of Joliet Telephones in the 1890s
The article recalls early Joliet telephone history with Bell Telephone as a trust, its control of Chicago Telephone Co, and 12 dollar per phone rentals. It notes patent expirations allowing independent instrument makers, leading to the North Joliet Telephone Co. formation and local industry shifts. It mentions Gustavson the jeweler and Conks of Lockport as organizers, plus a health update on Trudy Beattie.
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Bell Telephone Co
Bell
Trust
Bell Company
Chicago Telephone Company
Exchange
Chicago Telephone
Bell Telephone Company
Chicago Telephone Co
Bell Telephone
Joliet
Central
Gustavson
Conks
Lockport
Northon Telephone Co
Plainfield Masonic Lodge and Pansey Chapter Install Officers
Plainfield Masonic Lodge and Pansey Chapter 239, Order Eastern Star, plan a joint installation in the Masonic hall on Dec 30 with supper at six. George Bissell of Joliet to serve as Masonic officer and Mrs Witt McKindly of Morris to conduct the Star installation. Several local notes follow about community visits, travels, and events.
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Plainfield
Raymond Powell
Odell
Ill
George Scott
John
Chicago
Alf. McCreery
Madison
Wis
C. Joe Salisbury
Geo. Salisbury
B. A. Franklin
Mary
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Moss and
Wake EN
Opera Company
H Trovatore
Martha
Drexel
Riviera
Baron von Plettenberg
Brunswick
Muncy Twins
Tampico
Mexico
Joliet Telephones
Trudy Beattie
J.C. Beattie
Ellwood
Eagle Fife and Drum Corps
Zuzu
Seattle
San Francisco
San
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