Behind the Footlights and Theatre Notes From Str a tford
Ada Behan in As You Like It in Stratford receives praise from Mrs. Navarro who hosted an informal dinner for the company. Cora Urquhart Potter plans a tour England to India and Australia. Burlesque copies of a Bradiey Martins ball draw interest as costumes are bought or loaned. Yvette Guilbert contends with rivals as four singers copy her style. Fanny Davenport to headline a short twenty five week season with one new play. A humorous tale contrasts a sausage maker wife’s boiling plight with neighbors’ din. The piece ends with a note on the value of reader submissions to newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Behan
Stratford
England
Bradiey Martins
New York
Duchess of Devonshire
Yvette Guilbert
Anastasie
Londre
Duclere
Spahis
Feverish Response Of Wounded Plants Noted By Experiments
Curiosity experiments by H M Richards show wounded plants increase respiration and temperature, resembling fever. A thermo electric device tracked changes as small as one four hundredth of a degree. Potatoes show a peak in 24 hours before cooling, onions heat more intensely and evenly. Temperature rise links to greater oxygen absorption.
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H. M. Richards
Carlyle on Webster described as stiff, brilliant, blunt
Thomas Carlyle recalled meeting Daniel Webster and delivered a scathing yet admiring portrait. He called Webster a grim, tall, yellow-skinned figure with clifflike brows and wearied eyes, noting his fierce mouth and quiet, formidable presence. He conceded Webster’s cleverness and didactic manner on republican institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Carlyle
Daniel Webster
Webster
Criticism Sparks Tension Over Tennis Player’s Worth
A woman mocks a man in a white flannel suit remarking he lacks merit as a tennis player. Her cousin questions the claim, and she defends it by noting he does not turn up the bottoms of his trousers. Chicago Post report.
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Chicago Post
Barkhamstead War Record Surprises Local Census
Barkhamstead Connecticut raised a monument to dead soldiers and found it sent five more men to the continental armies in the Revolution than to the federal army in the Civil War. The Civil War enlistments totaled 125, about ten percent of the town’s present population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barkhamsted
Connecticut
When a Girl Fishes
A humorous exchange about broken engagements and choosing suitors. Mattie-So Ed ends the engagement, Helen prefers goldfish to suckers, suggesting she wants someone genuine rather than easily won.
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Mattie
Helen
Hammock Demand Sparks Bargain Between Clerk and Customer
A brief exchange shows a shopper asking to take a hammock, responding yes if two are available, prompting the clerk to agree with a curt nod. The fragment reflects a transactional moment likely from a market or shop scene with minimal context.
Making Flags by Women at Brooklyn Navy Yard
In the Brooklyn Navy Yard, twenty to thirty women sew all U S flags including stars and stripes and flags of other nations in building No 7. The skilled needleworkers retain jobs across administrations with steady wages and year round work. Each star has fixed stitches per inch and the flags undergo strict inspection.
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United States Navy
Brooklyn Navy Yard
No. 7
A Cure for Klondike Fever and New Sharon Elections
An American returning from Alaska touts a harsh dig and buffalo robe diet as a cure for gold fever. The New Sharon Starlowa paper criticizes excessive elections as a disruptive influence on business, urging stability and an end to political distractions, arguing for common sense and rest.
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Alaska
Sharon Starlowa
Machine Oils at Wagley and Smead’s Deal to 35c Per Gallon
Wagley and Smead advertise machine oils at 35 cents per gallon, promoting a low price for lubrication needs. The notice emphasizes bulk offers and local availability at their store.
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Wagley & Smead
New Surrey joins livery barn fleet for pleasant drives
Ott J. M. Reynolds announces a fine surrey addition to the livery barn inviting patrons to enjoy a pleasant drive. Also notes a house for rent by FruGarp and Brown.
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Surrey
Ott J. M.reyynolds Son
FruGarp & Brown
Live Poultry Wanted and Tourist Car to California
A local notice announces top cash for poultry at W. Ek. Hough Poultry House run by Scr ibner Co. and details a Saturday through tourist car from Marshalltown via Iowa Central and A T & S F Ry to Los Angeles with first and second class tickets honored. Booking through agents or Thomas P. Barry. An offer for a Northwestern art book priced to entice investments and homeseekers.
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California
Iowa Central Ry
Iowa Central
Los Angeles
Cal
Kansas City
Thos. P. Barry
Marshalltown
Iowa
Johnson boy saved by Chamberlain cough remedy
J A Johnson of Lynn Center Illinois says his three year old son was saved from a croup attack by Chamberlain s Cough Remedy. He sells patent medicines and chose this for his own child noting its superiority and fame for cures of croup. Sold by Wagley and Smead.
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Lain
J. A. Johnson
Lynn Center
Ill
Johnson
Chamberlain
Johnson Bros
Wagley & Smead
Chamberlains Pain Balm praised for back relief
Mr N N Osburn of Woodstock Michigan found relief from a lame back after using Chamberlains Pain Balm. The ad touts its fame in rheumatism cures and notes Walley and Smead as sellers. Also lists coal orders, a newspaper paper sale, and an autumn excursion via the Chicago Great Western Railway with one fare and two dollars round trip.
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N. N. Osburn
Woodstock
Mich
Chamberlain
Walley & Smead
Chicago Great Western Railway
Maple Leaf
Music Offer Promises Free Sheet Music for Three Performers
An advertisement invites readers to send names and addresses of at least three piano or organ performers along with ten cents or postage to receive sixteen pages of sheet music. It promotes popular songs and marches arranged for keyboard use and lists Indianapolis Popular Music Co. as the sender, noting Newton’s arcoro office and a range of fancy stationery and engraved print products for weddings, receptions, balls, parties, secret society folders, birth announcements, and church programs.
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Address Popular Music Co
Indianapolis
Ind
Newton
Arcoro Oflice
Railroads and Timetables Westbound and Eastbound Today
Railroads list time tables for the RI and P routes, detailing departures and arrivals from Monroe, Newton, Grinnell, Prairie City, Fairmount, and Des Moines Valley lines. Includes Windsor branch, freight trains, fast mail notes, and daily except Sunday operations with station calls at Baxter, Valeria, and other towns.
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A.m. P.m. P.m. P.m. Monroe
Fairmount
Prairie C'y
Thrice-a-Week New York World Offer With Record
Advertises World newspaper at one dollar weekly with sixteen pages per issue, thrice weekly schedule excluding Sundays, claiming prompt political news, impartial reporting, global correspondence, illustrations, humor, markets and household departments. Offers combined one year with The Record for 1.75.
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The
New York World
Globe
Record
Harnesses Blankets Robes At Rothrocks Bargain Store
A verse touts W. F. Rothrocks as the place to buy a harness blanket or robe with quick fitting and bargains out of sight. The rhyme campaigns the store as honest and timely value from a local retailer.
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W. F. Rothrocks
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Cora Urquhart Potter
America
Australia
India
Fanny Davenport
State Journal
Carlyle
Barkhamstead
W. EK. Hough Poultry House
W. Il
Northwestern
F. I. Whitney
G. P
T. A
Great Northern Railway
St., Paul
Miran
Pekry, Lump, Nut and
STE AM Coal
C. H. Jasper & Co
Iowa Central Depot
J. A. Metcalfe
East Side Square
Clark's Bank
West
Monroe Branch
Monroe
Des Moines Valley Division
Prairie C’y Sz
Wesst
Grinnell
Chicago
Great Western
Baxter
Valeria
Murphy
Killduffry
Ee Sully
Steer Oe
Ynnville
Lynn
Tainter
New Sharon
Lacey Seeee
Ar Oskaloosa Lv
A. H. Weber
Walnut St
Des Moines
A. M. Gehner’s
A.P Joy
Anna H. Joy
H.j.joy
Fehleisen
Winslow
New Ramer Block
Newton, Lowa
Jasper & Sons
Rasmussen
Main St East Side Square
Colorado
P. Ry
Phillips
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Sebastian
J.c.hubinger Bros
Keokuelions
Newhaven
United States
Colfax
Kellogg
Reasnor
Rethrock
Kothrocks
Doncher
Newton Harness CO
W. F. Rothrock
Colfax House [Loving Co
Lowa
Jasper County
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