Plaza to Present Full Majestic Bills This Fall
San Antonio gears up for a rich season with top vaudeville and opera. The Grand and Plaza theaters announce marquee lineups featuring Henry Savage American opera The Girl of the Golden West and stars like Forbes Robertson and Anna Held. The Royal opens soon as Fenstermaker theater adds marionette shows, promising a banquet of acts from Sothern to Bernard.
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Texas
San Antonio
San Antonio Ward
Thespia
Little Plaza
Spencer
Majestic
Royal
Fenstermaker
Gunter
American Grand Opera
Henry W. Savage
New York
Aborn
Forbes Robertson
Newark
London
Shuberts
Sothern
Marlowe
Everywoman
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Holbrook Blinn
the Boss
Kyrle Bellew
Leslie Carter
Milwaukee
Anna Held
Marie Dressler
Tillie
Francis Wilson
Victor Moore
Trixie Friganza
Paris
Jefferson de Goreis
New York Theatrical Season Faces Aged Look In 1911-12
The New York theater season opens with unconvincing zest as critics claim 1911-12 is an old fashioned run. Debuts include The Real Thing and The Girl of My Dreams while hits like Excuse Me As a Man Thinks and The Spring Maid signal cautious producer bets on popular taste and rising prices.
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Wallingford
George Evans
Lew Dockstader
al Fields
Elsie Janis
Blanche Ring
Rasther
Odiva
Udeville
Emory B. Calvert
New York
Maxine Elliott
Criterion
Gaiety
Thirty- Ninth Street
Broadway
Liberty
Anna Conda
Lee Shubert
Europe
Shubert
Congress
Sam Harris
Cohan & Harris
Sam
George M. Cohan
Christie MacDonald
Mason
Thirty-ninth Street
John Mason
August Thomas
Jesfie Busley
Ann Murdock
Charlotte Ivas
Thirty-ninth Street Theater
Rische’s Bottling Works San Antonio Promoted
The advert claims Rische’s Bottling Works in San Antonio is the only bottler of soft drinks that is fully screened and sanitary, making every bottle bearing the Rische’s name a guarantee of purity and clean liquor.
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Rische’s
San Antonio
Crooked big toes blamed for shortened life and nerves
Mrs Lillian Stuart of St Louis claims crooked great toes save about one inch per step and cut two miles daily walkers behind. She links misaligned toes to ill health and nervousness, blaming shoes and stockings for defective feet and promising demonstrations on proper walking and footwear.
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Lillian Stuart
St. Louis Times
Rischo’s San Tone Brew Tops Iron Beer Competition
Rischo’s San Tone Brew surpasses rivals in a national race, delivering a bold claim that a single bottle can persuade. The tongue in cheek note touts a city block lead over other iron brews and invites eager tasters to test the claim.
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Rischo
Rische
San Tone
Tourists Become City Pensioners as Sparrow Chorus Reigns
A San Antonio feature notes a thousand English sparrows visiting the city each day, living around a gas tank and granary where they perform daily verse reports under the evening sun. The birds, described as a booming chorus, quarrel, form factions, and even mimic human behaviors while claiming territory from other birds.
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the Alamo
San Antonio Gas and Electric Company
International and Great Northern Railway
Chamber of Commerce
Plazas
Great Company
England
Atlantic
Pacific
Dragons in folklore rooted in ancient beasts and paleontology
The article argues the dragon myth arose from real prehistoric animals and early human encounters. It links dragon lore to ceratosaurus like heads, compsognathus flight traits, dinichthys and clidastes sea wonders, and includes birds hesperornis and pterodactyl as progenitors, suggesting geology and memory shaped the dragon image across civilizations.
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Drakon
Dinichthys
Clidastes
Compsognathus
Greece
Rische's San Tone Brew Gains Local Attention
A concise report notes Rische's San Tone Brew drawing interest in the community for its tone and appeal, highlighting local flavor and potential market impact.
Cursed Man Relents as Dog Evades Watchman’s Shot
A St. Louis Post Dispatch account from Piasa Chautauqua describes watchman J R Ripley sparing a stray dog five times as it reentered the grounds. By sundown another man shot the dog, Ripley standing with averted face.
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J. R. Ripley
Piasa Chautauqua
St. Louis
Ripley
Chautauqua Reservation
Weather Changes Trigger Delirious Fits in Newark Man
George Sapko a 36 year old resident of 192 Parkhurst Avenue Newark is hospitalized with a mysterious illness described as extreme terror and fits of fury that seem linked to weather changes. Doctors note possible self-hypnotism tied to barometer shifts while Sapko prays during storms and again when weather stabilizes.
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George Sapko
Parkhurst Avenue
Newark
N. J
New York World
Sapko
Passaic River
Shuster to resign as Persian treasurer general
W Morgan Shuster of Washington plans to resign his post as treasurer general citing Anglo Russian interference over appointing Major C B Stokes to lead the treasury gendarmerie. No confirmation on reports that former shah Mohammed Ali Mirza leading an invading force has been assassinated.
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Teheran
Persia
W. Morgan Shuster
Washington, D. C
C. B. Stokes
Treasury
Mohammed Ali Mirza
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