06 Aug 1891
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Newspaper
Le Mars Weekly Sun
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1891
Page
1
A fragmentary column on music and drama discusses performers, actors and audiences. It laments gossip and wonder about lead singers and actresses, the press’s intrusion, and the desire for a quiet, distant retreat from the theater world.
Talented Kitty Cheatham of the Daly Company proves her growing stage prowess in her fifth season after leaving Nashville where her distinguished father was mayor. Her performance in Love's Labor's Lost displays talent and ambition, despite not aiming to be a great actress.
The article traces Ada Cheatham’s shift from a society role to a stage career, noting her two seasons with the McCaull Opera Company and later prominence with Daly’s troupe. It highlights her versatility with nearly thirty roles, offstage charm, and persistent drive despite occasional self-doubt and frustration over critics.
A backstage reminiscence covers a season of theatrical witticisms and misadventures. It recalls a singer's inflated vanity, a prank that backfired comically on admirers in the front row, and profiles of notable soubrettes like Annie Lewis. It also notes charitable funds, retirements, and plans for new plays and revivals in New York theater circles.
The Standard argues that personal property taxes discourage industry and fail to be fairly collected. It cites evidence from New York and Ohio showing city wealth concentrates in real estate while rural personal property is overburdened, urging farmers to reconsider the single tax idea and calling attention to historical failures.
The Duke of Marlborough tours the southern states and urges English investors to favor American enterprises, especially those with local management. He warns real value lies in real estate and railways, not distant foreign schemes, predicting unearned increments from Anglo-Saxon enterprise and rail developments.
A Belgian firm agreed to build a woolen yarn factory in Woonsocket Rhode Island, employing 500 to 1000 workers. The city will provide a site at a favorable price and exempt improvements for years, showcasing the single tax as a spur to industrial growth. The piece urges similar offers to attract manufacturers to New York.
Prof Putnam leads a vast archaeology exhibit detailing pre Columbian America and early native life. The display includes Eskimo Aleut models, Yucatan ruins casts, Fort Ancient excavations, skeletons and artifacts, maps, and examples of primitive arts and inventions to illustrate life before Spaniards.
Travelers and scientists are intrigued by a recent finding on Corsica. A miner exploring a cluster of small caves uncovered a mammoth underground chamber with a 60 to 70 foot high roof and a vast lake blocking further progress. He places the lake under the Revellata range near Calvi, fed by seawater.
A fragment describes a small grotto near Cape Revellata along a coast cave system about thirty miles long. A society of Seavants formed to explore the Plage thoroughly, with estimates guiding the work.
The census shows over 18.2 million Americans live in cities of 8000 or more, about 99 percent of large-population areas. City growth rises since 1860, with Massachusetts hosting forty seven such towns and about 90 percent of residents in them. The piece warns against urban drift harming agriculture and social life, urging action to balance development.
In a U S Court trial a young man indicted for passing a counterfeit ten dollar bill wins acquittal after defense counsel C A Baldwin substitutes a good bill and forces the bank expert to declare it genuine. Three business men had testified the note was counterfeit, but the judge orders expert testimony and the jury acquits.
A writer claims eye defects trigger headaches during sewing or reading and even neuralgia dizziness or epilepsy. Glasses may reveal new visual powers and prevent eye diseases by improving eye work and preserving long term vision.
The piece laments the English sparrow as a nuisance and notes its impact on thrushes robins and bluebirds driving them away to woods and swamps where hawks and owls prey on them. It then tallies France’s war expenditures with totals in francs and a huge postwar liquidation cost bringing the overall drain to about 3.04 billion francs.
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