Miss Thurston’s Rehearsals At Murray Hill Farm
Final rehearsals for Adelaide Thurston’s new play Contrary Mary were held at her Murray Hill New Jersey farm with the full company as guests. The schedule started at 6 am with meals and study, then rehearsals from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 to 5 pm followed by dinner and a variety of amusements. The Farm, Thurston’s country home, draws much attention and the company plans to perform at Sugar’s Theatre Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide Thurston
Mary
Murray Hill
N. J
Miss Thurston
Too Many Wives at Sugar's Theatre Features Joe Morris
Joe Morris debuts as Isidore Meyer in Kansas City style at Sugar's Theatre Saturday matinee and night. The musical comedy promises lively action and a strong company as Morris brings his vaudeville fame to the stage.
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Sugar’s Theatre
Joe Morris
Isidore Meyer
Kansas City
Pittsburg Detroit Games at Grand Street Theatre
Tomorrow after noon the Pittsburg Detroit games begin at the Grand Street Theatre and run through Thursday night with the full game shown. The program includes outdoor shots of Clarke Jennings Wagner Cobb Babe Adams Mullin and vaudeville acts He Learns the Trick of Mesmerism Suitors Competition and Why Girls Leave Home with Edison.
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Pittsburg
Detroit
Grand Street
Clarke
Jennings
Wagner
Cobb
Babe
Jones
Edison
New Theater Piece Stars Andrew Mack under Lew Fields
Annie Russell is ill at her Maine home and Marion Abbott will fill in for He ena Collier Garrick in The Patriot. Holbrook Blinn returns this season with Mrs. Fiske in Salvation Nell. The new piece stars Andrew Mack under Lew Fields direction.
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Annie Russell
Maine
Marion Abbott
Heena Collier Garrick
Holbrook Blinn
Mrs. Fiske
Andrew Mack
Lew Fields
The Season’s New Dramas and Tours
The season unveils new works by Andre Cassaigne and Rachel Crothers with Mary Manneting and Zelda Sears in key roles. Mary Quire and Olga Nethersole lead touring and reform plays while John C Slavin headlines The Hot Air Wing in Chicago. Nazimova advances The Passion Flower in November as New Theater acquires False Gods rights for American debut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilsen
Paul Nester
Andre Cassaigne
Hot Air Wing
John C. Slavin
Chicago
Mary Quire
Grace van Studdiford
Olga Nethersole
Locke
Wall Street
Mme. Nazimova
Mary Manneting
Rachel Crothers
Clyde Fitch
Zelda Sears
The
New Theater
New York
Beerbohm Tree
Brieux
Free Liver Trouble Remedy Promoted by Dr Caldwell
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a cure for liver trouble with symptoms like jaundiced eyes and skin. It claims quick relief, offers a free test bottle by mail, and invites readers to write for medical advice at 520 Caldwell Building Monticello, UL.
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John W. Lee
Pennsylvania Ave
Indianapolis
Ind
B. Flinchum
Jackson
Dr. Caldwell
Pr. Caldwell
W. B. Caldwell
Caldwell Bldg
Monticello, UL
Webb Murder Trial Back in Court After Fatal Corner Shooting
The case against Webb for murder is taken up after a lethal double shooting on a corner in front of Ruby Bell's house. Bracey died from gunshot wounds while Webb survived with minor injuries. Webb was released on bond then rearrested after a grand jury indictment. Bracey and Webb quarrel over Velma Henry led to the exchange of shots.
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Ruby Bell
Bracey
Webb
Velma Henry
H Bracey
Madison
Mr. Webb
Desperate Youths End Life After Reprimand
The body of Thomas Davidson, fourteen, was found after he killed himself in New Orleans following a reprimand from his mother. Police report he hanged himself in his home, the dates and exact location noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Thomas Davidson
Squire Hawkins Hanged Commutation Grants Life Sentence
New Orleans reports the Board of Pardons commuted Squire Hawkins from hanging for assault on Martha Allen in Rapides parish to life imprisonment. He had received a reprieve minutes before execution in Alexandria as local leaders deemed the case extenuating.
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New Orleans
Board of Pardons
Squire
Hawkins
Martha Allen
Rapides Parish
Alexandria
Death by Gas Fumes Claims Local New Orleans Man
Gas escaped from a leaking pipe caused the death by asphyxiation of E. W. Williams on Carondelet Street. Carrie Jones on the same floor was overcome but rescued in time and survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
E. W. Williams
Carondelet Street
Carrie Jones
Attempts at self destruction in New Orleans
In twenty four hours two people attempted suicide. Mollie Gardner of 1535 Customhouse street took carbolic acid and was treated at Charity Hospital where a stomach pump saved her. John Tennis, a Black man, tried to end his life by the river and was rescued by his brothers Archie and George after a hard struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mollie Gardner
Customhouse Street
John Tennis
Charity Hospital
Archie
George
Mrs Hayes ashes shipped to Richmond for interment beside Jefferson Davis
The ashes of Mrs J Addison Hayes, titled daughter of the Confederacy, are en route from Colorado Springs to Richmond Virginia for final interment beside Jefferson Davis and his wife. The urn travels with Mr Hayes and son Jefferson Hayes Davis, whose surname was legally changed to Davis. Cremation occurred in Denver after her July 18 death. Public services were held in St Pauls Cathedral. Interment planned at Hollywood Cemetery.
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Colorado Springs
Col
J. Addison Hayes
Richmond
Jefferson Davis
Hayes
Jefferson Hayes Davis
Davis
Denver
President Taft to Visit Memphis for Four Hour Stop
Large crowds greet Mr Tart as a Lee liner steamer carries the Tennessee delegation to New Orleans. President Taft arrives in Memphis at 8 am and will spend four hours touring the city, delivering an address and taking an automobile ride amid lavish street decorations.
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Lee
Tennessee
New Orleans
Memphis
Tenn
Taft
Slayers May Hang Near Delhi Murder Over Hog Theft
Moses Brock, a white farmer from twelve miles north of Delhi in West Carroll parish, was shot and killed on Saturday night by two local men Joe Gilford and Alex Hill who were returning with two stolen hogs. The pair confessed and are jailed at Floyd as a lynching threat looms.
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Delhi
Moses Brock
Here
West Carroll Parish
Joe Gilford
Alex Hill
Brock
Floyd
Johnson Ready to Sign for Jeffries Bout
Chicago October 25 Jack Johnson arrived declaring he will travel to New York to meet Jeffries and accept a winner take all division if Jeffries requests. Johnson will hear Jeffries terms and aim for a fair fight in the United States or England, rejecting any Australia bid and proposing March or April as a latest contest window.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
New York
Jeffries
Johnson
Australia
England
Allen's Fever and Pain Powders Ad
Phoenix Drug Store advertises Allen's Fever and Pain Powders for headache or neuralgia relief when other remedies fail. Local 1-tf notice.
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Allen
Phoenix Drug Store
Why Salves Fail To Cure Eczema
A newspaper ad proclaims salves clog pores and cannot reach inner skin. It promotes oil of wintergreen in D. D. D. Prescription as effective eczema treatment and offers a trial bottle at 25 cents from New South Drug Store in Chicago.
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D. D. D. Laboratories
Chicago
New South Drug Store
Show girl shot by husband to undergo operation
Mrs Evelyn Louis Short, recovering from two back wounds, will be operated on to remove bullets. The attacker, her husband William H Short, lies dead at the District morgue. The show girl, 235 years old, refused to leave the stage after a quarrel at Union station. Her mother Mrs Henry A Lewis of New York is with her. Short was born in Livingston Alabama.
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Evelyn Louis Short
Pital
Union Station
William H. Short
New York
Henry A. Lewis
No. 2
West Iith Street
Short
Livingston
Ala
Fresh Goods on Today's Train at Fox Grocer Co
The FOX GROCER CO offers citron, lemon peel, orange peel, dates plain and stuffed, Smyrna figs, evaporated apricots, chipped potatoes, almonds stuffed olives, marmalades, kitchen bouquet, green kern raisins, currants, cranberries and jelly deserts. Also crabbed by the finest candy line in the city and best buckwheat pancake flour. New nuts unavailable but coming soon. Our fish line is complete and chipped potatoes are praised as the best offered.
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FOX Grocer CO
Harmon Grooming Gains Momentum in Democratic 1912 eye
Harmon of Ohio delivers a pointed attack on the Washington tariff bill in the National Monthly edited by Norman E. Mack. His speech on Democratic Day at the Texas State Fair October 16 fuels chatter that Mack is grooming Harmon as a 1912 Democratic presidential candidate.
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Buffalo
N. Y
The
National Monthly
Norman E. Mack
Democratic National Committee
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Washington
Harmon
Dallas
Mack
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
Governor Harmon
Shreveport Fair Round Trip Low Fare Dates Listed
The V S P announces extremely low rates for the Shreveport Fair round trip Tickets on sale from October 31 to November 6 with return limits October 7 and November 6. prices include 3.50 for the first window 3.00 for a later window and 1.50 for November 38rd same day return.
Children and Adults Ticket Policy Noted
The notice states that all adults and children over 3 years must have a ticket. It specifies a policy for children under 3 and mentions a separate rate or exemption for those under 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wever
Appointment of Rev J C Toombs as financial agent
Notice states Rev J C Toombs of the Progressive Baptist Church colored has been appointed financial agent to solicit aid to complete the church before winter. The church requests support from white and colored communities and commends him as honest and trusted by the congregation.
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J. C. Toombs
Progressive Baptist Church, Colored
Toombs
Vessels Headed for Taft Naval Display at New Orleans
Port Eads La Oct 26 The battleship Mississippi and the cruisers North Carolina New York and Montana on the way to New Orleans for the Taft visit and the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water Way convention crossed the bar this morning and will anchor in the river mouth this afternoon.
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New Orleans
Port Eads
Taft
Missisippi
North Carolina
New York
Montana
Taft Visits Vicksburg as Campaign Prominence Grows
President Taft attends events in Vicksburg drawing attention to his administration. The notice references a Vicksburg advertisement in the See V. S. & P. publication and notes a 22 6¢ pricing detail.
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Taft
Vicksburg
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AD Whee
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MR. Tart
Slayers
J Distillery
Farly Times
Webb & Steele
Sole Controllers
Monroe, la
Slovely
Shreveport
Francis X. Hope
Adelaide
Edith Ellis
Grand Street Theatre
R. L. Peck
Selig
Swisher and Evans
Walter Stead
G. B. Bak
W. M. Walker
H. Harrib
Trustees
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