Conspiratorial Patience Weighs Lomaque in Paris Room
In a dim Paris office, Lomaque studies a ciphered note urging action on Danville and Tradaine while eight agents readies denouncements and arrest orders. The scene reveals a tense watch over Tradaine and his sister, with Lomaque torn between duty and doubt as night falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coxtisven
Lomaque
Danville
Lyons
Lemaque
Picard
Magtoire
Lomagine
Diewrd
Pherd
Prodaime
Rue de Clery
Pridaine
Paris
Magloire
Matolee
Tradaine
Lttle
Trudaine
Dubois
Citoyenne Dubois
France
Lemagie
Massatre
Lemagne
Louis Trudaine
Denville
Robespierre
Rue Sainte-Honore
Lomaque Rose
Rose
Theatrical Gossip on Robert Mantell and Mincie Maddern
The article chronicles Robert B Mantell born in Scotland and raised in Ireland who rose to fame in America with leading roles from Belfast to New York. It traces his early elocution prize win at fourteen, stage debuts in Belfast, break into London theater, and his rise in the United States with Davenport Pitou and Proctor manage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Mantell
Scotland
Ireland
America
Mincie Maddern
Desert Bruce Mantell
Irvine
Ayrshire
Polonius
Sir Edward Mortimer
Darwin
Geneva
Belfast Dramatic Club
Theater Royal
Iago
Belfast
Sam Johnstone
Lyceum Theater
London
Manchester's Polluted Rivers Veterans and Vessels of Waste
A reflection tracing the decline of England's rivers from clear streams like the Irwell in 1800 to polluted channels choked by factory effluent and dense urban drains. The piece laments industrial growth transforming waterways into cesspools for millions living near Manchester and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogitafpman
William Cowperta
Gentleman's Magazine
Manchester
Irwell
England
Bankers Urge Fresh Currency Policy Like Bank of England
The Bankers Monthly argues to stop circulating worn notes. It cites subtreasuries in major cities handling currency and urges only brand new greenbacks be paid out and for replacing national bank notes. It cites the Bank of England practice, noting the cost of a new bill and urging government action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Bank of
Evangelists fail to convert Eddyville residents in age of Ingersoll
In Eddyville population 1500 two thirds of local businessmen are unbelievers. Dwight Moody and two other evangelists labored for weeks with no converts until Robert G. Ingersoll lectured drawing the entire male population. Billy Sunday once preached there without success. Maj. Broderick adjourned the grand jury to hear Ingersoll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapella County
Dwight L. Moody
Eddyville
Robert G. Ingersoll
Hnddyville
Billy Sunday
The Stage World Sees Actor Hudson’s Rise and Rights Row
The piece tracks the actor Hudson’s long European and American career from early beginnings in Rochdale to a decade as a star in the United States with Matt Hanley directing his eleventh season. It notes a dispute over rights to J M Barrie The Little Minister between Barrie, American publishers, A M Palmer, and Frohman, plus Minnie Maddern Fiske returning to the stage with new plays and other notes on Henry Irving Lillian Russell Olga Nethersole and Strauss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Barrie
Mr. Parke
Tod
A. M. Palmer
Mr. Barrie
Charles Frohman
London
Barrie
Palmer Nor
Frohman
Minnie Maddern
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Olga Wolbrueck
Thomas Hardy
d’Urbevilles
Henry Irving
Napoleon
Lillian Russell
John W. Hamilton
Olga Nethersole
Richard Strauss
Frankfort Museum
Gurzenich Hall
Cologne
Birds and their beaks reveal feeding habits and names
A discussion from Popular Science Monthly explains how beak shapes indicate bird families and feeding roles. Sparrows show short stout bills for seeds, thrushes have curved bills for worms, robins dig for grubs, warblers hunt insects high in trees, and hummingbirds boast long needle bells for nectar and insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newsert
Popular Science Monthly
A Strange Complexion of a Manchester Woman
A Manchester New Hampshire woman suffers from a rare condition causing her skin and features to change color with her clothing. Her eyes stay brown and hair black while her face and hands shift hues, avoiding bright blues reds greens or yellows. Doctors cannot determine the illness and she fears notoriety, wearing subdued gray and brown garments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
N. H
Beethoven and His Romantic Entanglements
Blackwood's Magazine notes Beethoven never married and endured many love tribulations. He dedicated works to about forty women, including Bettina von Arnim Goethe, with whom he valued unreciprocated passion. He twice proposed and once learned his intended was engaged to his friend Hummel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beethoven
Bettina von Aynim
Goethe
Bettina
Hummel
Emil Naumann
Blackwood
Fine Place to Live in Baltimore Vermont
A small town vignette describes Baltimore Vermont as idyllic with six voters who can hold four or five offices each, illustrating a quaint, cluster of local governance.
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Baltimore
Cincinnati Flyer Sets Speed Record for Monon Train
The Cincinnati Flyer departs Dearborn Station Chicago at 11 50 am and reaches Indianapolis 4 37 pm then Cincinnati 7 45 pm, completing Chicago to Indianapolis in 4 47 and to Cincinnati in 7 55. The faster run marks a new Monon line record with luxury seating, parlor and dining cars. City ticket office at 232 Clark Street, Chicago.
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Monen
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
Dearborn
Monon
City
Clark Street
St. Louis
Peoria
All Points
Benton Harbor
Detroit
Toledo
Sandusky
Springfield
Dayton
Big Four
Cinnati
Central Union Station
Cicinnati
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
D. B. Martin
E. McCormick
Mann Builds Miniature Prison After Release
A wealthy man once sent to penal servitude in Birmingham reportedly grew fond of prison life. Since his release he has constructed a miniature prison with cells an exercise yard and a treadmill and allegedly works on the treadmill daily as he did while serving his sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toun
London Graphic
Hall’s Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for proof it cannot cure catarrh. The copy claims the remedy affects blood and mucous surfaces, offers testimonials, and markets internally taken tablets at 75 cents per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Xinnan & Mervin
Population of Britain from Registrar General figures
The latest registrar general returns estimate the United Kingdom population at about 39,500,000. England and Wales account for 31,000,000, Scotland 4,000,000, and Ireland 4,500,000. The net births over deaths for the first quarter of the year is 131,320.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
England and
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Cascarets-Candy Cathartic Claim Benefits
A historical advertisement touts Cascarets candy cathartic as a gentle medical discovery claimed to cleanse kidneys liver and bowels and cure cold headaches fever habitual constipation and biliousness. It promotes selling boxes at 10 25 and 50 cents with guarantees by all druggists. The text ends with a moral jab about a man who robs the poor to fight against God.
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Sister Rose
Wilkie
Collins
International Press Association
Pim Fe
Berghei
Gether
Gethouvery
Lomagne
Cria Pir PN
Omaqui
Noten
Mantell
Metropolis
Miss de Gray
Macbeth
Claude Melnotte
Leonatus Ponthumus
Cymbeline
Leicester
Amy Robsart
John Stetson
Sir Clement Huntingford
Grand Opera House
Fanny Davenport
Loris
Fedora
Fourteenth Street Theater
Guilbert Vaughn
Fifth Avenue Theater
United States
Miss Davenport
Loris, In “Iwedora.” He Had Also Opened the Lyceum Theater
Steele Mackaye
Dakala
Augustua Pitou
John Keeler
Mr. Pitow
Mombers
Mr. Elaven
Alfifend
Parrhasius
Espy Williams
Bank of England
Wo Town
Maj. Broderick
Kate Doughiss Wiggin-Riges
Philadelphia Times
John Knopp
Mt. Vernon
New York
Alien
Robert Bruce Mantell
Boston
Massille
Rochdale
Yorkshire
Hudson
Macduff
Mme, Modjeska
Tybalt
Rames and Juliet
Gustave
Camille
Mrs. George 5. Knight
Prince of Wales Theater
Birmingham
Dick Streely
Otto
Sadlers’ Wells Theater
Miss Wallis
Romeo
Orlando
Benedict
Paul
Virginia
Ernest St. Cyr
Olympic Theater
Matt Hanley
New Hampshire
Eife
Britain
Hovsrhold
Hot Springs, Va
R. P. Hall & Co
Props
Nashua
E. S. Murray & CO
Rialto
Til
Chicago Board of Trade
AME National Bank
Montreal
Cav
Morris Perfection Wellpointre B&st
Puree Ware Manufacturing CO
Casis Weekly
Stark Tree Infilions
System
Stark Brothers
Louisiana
Rocuront
H. W. Morris
Washington, D.C
U.8
Pension Bureau
Byre
Bend
L. Deane
Prin
U.& Pat
Yrek
B. WH. Woolley
Atlanta, Ga
Tess Thompson
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