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Newspaper
Perth Amboy Evening News
Location
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
2
A local dealer markets Eastman FOLDING POCKET KODAKS and BOX CAMERAS with famous BROWNIES. Prices start at $1.00, Edison at $12.50 and up. Waterman and Waterman Ideal pens guaranteed, $1.00 to $3.50. Window displays invite inside options from 25c to 3.50, plus All-Eaton-Hurlbut linen offerings.
A humorous sketch from Arthur W. A'Becket about a young man joining the war office in mid 19th century Britain. He eagerly indexes a mountain of circulars, is praised for diligence, then told to stop when the chief confesses the index may never be used.
Richard Mansfield molds Margaret Anglin as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. Factory-like rehearsals, resignations, and diplomacy shape a tense cast. Anglin, a Canadian, proves temperament and beauty for Roxane while Mansfield pushes for optical ugliness for Cyrano.
A fragment includes Paul Wilstach on Roxane in Scribner's Home, Sweet Home and a sobbing old man losing his home near the joll. A passerby offers a penny and learns the home is up at the joll after twenty five years. Also travel through cocoa make instructions and light humor nuggets from London Opinion and Kansas City Independent.
A column of witty snippets and quotes appears in the Evening News including language quips about English French and Chinese, a mountain summer tale with a Scotch collie, a remark on advertising competition, a bishop's ordination anecdote, and a note on international law stating coastal states control up to three miles with beyond as common to all. More than 20,000 readers in the area.
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