Corbett Fitzsimmons Fight Settle Through Ease and Spirit
The Corbett Fitzsimmons match showed a businesslike agreement in New York with minimal talk from managers. Jim and Robert shook hands, planned the bout, and proved that two leading boxers can settle differences without heavy promoter meddling. Slavin’s career notes include a six round draw with Joy Butler, Kilrain win, and a future twenty round bout with Steve ODonnell as he pursues high class heavies.
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Jim
Robert
Martin Julian
Fitzsimmons
Billy Brady
Couree
Ils
Slavin
Joy Butler
Henry Baker
Jake Kilrain
Kilrain
al Herford
Baltimore
Steve O’donnell
Maspeth
Long Island
Paddy
O’donnell
Jem Smith
England
McDowell Leads Chicago Amateur Swim Stars Abroad
Chicago caysman Dro Wl McDowell, famed for Henley regatta swims, has returned home after abroad, earning praise from English aquatic critics. He plans to return to Thames waters at Putney after winter, aiming to bridge gap with English oarsmen and defend his stallion championship.
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Dro
S. McDowell
Chicago
Associa
Wls. Mwdowell
Henley
Americ
Enell
Thames
Putney Bridge
Secretaries and scorers slow to serve league clubs
Minor league secretaries and official scorers struggle to keep up pace as season nears end. President Young of the National League notes delays in compiling official averages for 188c and calls clubs to promptly submit scores from official sources to meet constitutional requirements.
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Mot Ile Oly
Young
Tvo
The Mandarin Comedy-Lux Becomes Fall Theatrical
The Mandarin a new comic opera by Henry 3B Smith and Reginald De Koven adapts Plautus theme of two lookalikes. One is Mandarin of a Chinese province the other a vagabond. Mistaken identities lead to comic misdeeds as both claim the other’s role, with marriage intrigue and law-room comedy. Also notes Lassalle’s absence linked to Jean de Reszke, and the baritone’s potential return delighting music lovers.
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Henry
Smith
Reginald de Koven
Plautus
Shakespeare
Mr. Smith
Dromios
T le
Lassalle
Jean de Reszke
Valentine Ip
John Lassalle
Abbey & Gran Opera Company
Graivs
Metropolitan Opera Company
Chicago
Valentine
Faust
Jassalle
Auditorium Hotel
Theatrical Season Sees Imitation After Big Hits
Observers note that success breeds imitators in theater with a wave of plays drawn from novels, romantic costume drama, and renewed interest in domestic themes. Olga Nethersole prepares novelties in November as Julia Marlowe Taber opens a new drama, while Joan Hare plans to avoid repackaging past hits.
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Trilby
John Hare
Olga Nethersole
Panny Davensport
Julia Marlowe Taber
Joan Hare
Paderewski Pupil Szumowski to Wed Boston Musician
Miss Antoinette Szumowski, Paderewski’s sole pupil, a Boston pianist with Polish roots, joins J. Adamuwaki of the Boston Symphony in marriage. The piece also touches on Lasalle’s stage return, various opera notes, and a mixed season outlook for New York and other cities.
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Paderewski
Antoinette Szumowski
J. Adamuwaki
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Miss Szumowski
Boston
Siberia
Academy of Warsaw
Peculiar Step Off Survey Causes Land Dispute
In western Pennsylvania two brothers measured mountain land for a mile square by stepping off opposite sides. One tall, one short, their methods led to a disputed boundary as a court found one line a mile and a half long while the other was a little over half a mile. The case highlights the flaws of metes and bounds and the old stepping method.
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May Bing
Fred
Moody
Lexington
Aubine
Maimbrino Kings
Reflector
van Zaandt
Vania
Moth Miller
Boston
Arion
Suitan
Rabenstein
Hexington
Leird
Pennsylvania
Washington Star
Monon’s 2 Fast Flyers Run Chicago to Indy and Cincinnati
The Monon introduces two fast trains from Chicago Dearborn Station at 11 50 a m to Indianapolis at 4 37 p m and Cincinnati at 7 45 p m, completing Chicago to Indianapolis in 4 47 and to Cincinnati in 7 55. The Cincinnati Flyer features day coaches, Monon high backed seats, parlor and dining cars, with city ticket office at 202 Clark Street Chicago.
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Monon
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
Dearborn
City Ticket Office
Clark Street
Philanthropic Fly Helps Tangled Comrade
A kind hearted fly notices a second fly stuck to sticky fly power. It offers aid and entangles itself in the same plight. Moral: perform charity through benevolent organizations.
An Object Lesson About a Philanthropic Fly
A compassionate fly buzzes around a room stuck to fly paper. The kind-hearted philanthropist observes the distressed insect and offers help, delivering a moral prompt about charity and deeds. The tale presents a simple, moral parable on compassion and aid.
Fragmented health advert snippet reflects old time medicine tone
A garbled excerpt advocates renewed health through a potion or remedy, contrasting it with old time medicines and cheap substitutes. The text targets educated readers and hints at skepticism toward inferior nostrums while praising genuine tonics. The readable parts imply a health claim and a call for discernment.
Odd Local Dialogs and Advertised Remedies
A garbled blend of family chat and medical testimonials features an admirer praising a tenor, a motherly remark about a college yell, and a Nebraska address. The piece includes a testimonial praising Dr Kay's Renovator for headaches and poor appetite, selling in drugstores, alongside fragmented lines about candy and a promotional jumble referencing vast oyster sales and a mansion.
Flavoring a cake after baking using exterior rub
When flavoring is forgotten in a pudding or cake the remedy is to rub the desired extract over the outside of the cake as soon as it is removed from the oven.
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething relief
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething claiming gum softening reduced inflammation and pain relief with a price of 23 cents per bottle The telegraph messengers in populous French towns are described as using bicycles to deliver telegrams nationwide
Oldest cough remedy and death by blackberry choke
An old advertorial mix mentions Coc’s Cough Balsam as the fastest cold cure while noting a fatal blackberry choking of Miss Delia Thorpe in Fairfield Conn. It cites Piso’s Cure for Consumption and Dr Kay’s Lung Balm, with side claims on world population and Jamaica’s life tree, plus Cascarets as laxative aid.
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Delia Thorpe
Fairfield, Conn
Perfectly Sara and the Post Hangers
An elderly man questions the roomful of poets about the election and the free silver movement. The poet quips that voting against Bryan early and often would keep people safe, while the old man reassures him there is no danger.
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Bryan
Chicago Times-Herald
Woman's Influence and Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound
An ornate advertisement extols women's influence on civilization and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for uterine diseases. It claims the product restores cheerfulness, cures despair, strengthens muscles, and returns women to social and domestic happiness, noting high demand from leading druggists.
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Lydia W. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
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