Idle actors flood Union Square as season plans unfold
New York correspondents say Union Square fills with idle actors daily, clustered near the East side and in front of the Union Pacific Hotel. Traveling companies have returned, managers prepare next season, and most work occurs between 11 and 8 with the job system replacing steady companies, signaling a bleak outlook for young actors.
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Union Square
New York
Hartford Times
Union Square Hotel
Union Pacific Hotel
Dramatic Bureaus
Boston
Hot Day Sensation Reports Grilling Weather Oddity
A Griswold Street citizen conducts a test on imagination vs thermometer. He lights a stove at 9 am and notes a dramatic 31 degree rise since 10 pm, with a weather report predicting northerly winds and a severe front. A customer endures the heat beside the stove, planning to wear a thicker coat after feeling 109 degrees later.
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Griswold Street
Cyon
Detroit
Diseases Peculiar to Students at Harvard College
President Eliot told the Massachusetts Medical Society in Boston that Harvard seniors suffer a peculiar nasal throat and lung illness preventing prayers for six months. The disease worsens with year in college, spares meals, recitations, and late-night travel, and is certified by society members.
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Eliot
Harvard College
Massachusetts Medical Society
Boston
Harvard
Collo
Marsachusetts Medical Society
Perfected Butter Color Aids Consistent Dairy Hue
Advertisement notes that July or August milk color runs lighter than June unless Wells Richardson Co Perfected Butter Color is used to maintain a steady golden shade. It is described as safe as salt and gives a rich color like dandelion blossoms. druggists sell it for a dollar per unit.
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Wells
Richardson & Co
Son of Daniel Webster Revealed as Washington Figure
A Chicago paper recounts Bobey, born Robert Webster in Washington in 1820 to Charlotte Goodrick, a mulatto, and a hotel keeper’s daughter who served Mrs. Clay. Webster later fled from slavery, gained freedom in 1863, and claimed kin to Daniel Webster. he faced misfortune and sought damages for garbled origins.
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Chi
Bobey
Daniel W
M Robert Y
Fsancey
Robert Webster
Gadsby's Hotel
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourth Street
Washington City
Charlotte Goodrick
Virginia
Gadsby
Charlotte
Billy Bullard
Fredericksburg
Washington
Daniel Webster
Mr. Webster
Robert
Clay
Una
Colonel Yancey
Georgia
Sherman
Fletcher Webster
Bob
Ne Ae
Atlanta
Dickens and a Bank Debacle and Gad's Hill Auction News
A Hartford correspondent recounts a fond emblem of enterprise involving a Batterson lad who covered a bad check with seven dollars from his own pocket and then withdrew funds from a bank. The piece also recalls Charles Dickens final improvements to Gad's Hill and the possible sale by his son. The narrative closes with a odd note about a miner finding a dead cat in Town Gulch.
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Hartford
Springfield Epublican
Battersons
A8 & Lad
Newark
Jad
Triumh
Dickens
Katie
Charles Dickens
God's Hill
Gad's Hill
Gad’s Hill
Charles
Charles di
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Te Mtory
Chicago
Town Gulch
Lews
Hagan
Moline
Moline Wagon Company
Moline, Illinois
Dr. Marshall
Dental
Perry Street
Davenport
Coma
Illinois
Simon Hirsch
Main Street
Gent
J. M. Christy
Steam Bakery
Rock Island
Man
Liniment
Eiseneus
Chivege
H. F. Moeller
Stset and
Western Avi
M. T. Davisson
New
Bryant & Stratton Business College
Sue Lidridge
W. If
Valentine
Cireclar
Lillibridge & Valentine
Iowa
John Hoyt
Steinway, Stock and Emerson
Morrie’ Dew Lore
Brady Street
Davenport Town
J. C. Wallace
Schumacker
Burdett
J.A. Wallace
Brady St
DR. J. Munson
DE Witt
Davenpory
Mason & Smith
Chigago Medical College
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