Bible Institute Ends Missionaries Meeting at First Baptist
Baptist Bible Institute closes after a week long session at First Baptist Church with addresses by missionaries to distant countries. Women of the church serve lunch post adjournment. A spelling bee using bound Bibles as prizes entertains delegates, eight finalists remaining. Next year’s conference set for the first Sunday in March 1914. Riverside Restaurant advertises a big chicken dinner and supper for 25 cents.
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Baptist Bible Institute
First Baptist Church
The
Institute
Society hosts spring card party and YWCA event
Society figures hosted a green and gold card party honoring Mrs BE Reed of Chicago with 500 in play prizes and confections. The Young Women's Christian Association held an impromptu costume party with thirteen states and two countries represented, plus a vesper service led by Rev D Emory Hawk and tea hosted by Mrs EB Howe and Mrs Kokernot.
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J. Jacobus
Eugene E. Smith
BE. R. Reed
Chicago
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M. C. Wheeler
E. R. Reed
Ed Stauss
J. T. Lockhart
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J. R. Ligon
C. S. Baxter
J. J. Veazy
T. V. Wright
Harry A. Walker
T. Smassal
S. Winfred
C. O. Daunis
Ed Wolf
M. Adelman
A. G. Lockhart
N. Altman
R. Jones
R. T. Daniels
J. Frame
H. Hyman
E. Freen
Dallas
Misses Gussie Black
Pearl Fried
Eugenia Nordhaus
Nita Wolf
Tessie Smith
Young Women’s Christian Association
Mabel K. Stafford
William Penn
Priscilla
Texas
D. Emory Hawk
Travis Park
Minstrels Tonight At Grand Opera House Promises High Class Show
Neil O Brien and his great American Minstrels open at the Grand Opera House tonight under Oscar F Hodge direction. The new organization features two novelties Following the Flag and A Touch of Nature with O Brien in leading roles. Valeska Suratt and her opera company present The Kiss Waltz Sunday night and Monday, with praise from New York Boston and Chicago critics declaring it equal to Gilbert Sullivan.
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Grand Opera House
Oscar F. Hodge
Lew Dockstader
O'Brien
Valeska Suratt
New York Casino
New York
Boston
Chicago
London
Paris
Troop Lectures On Belgian Dramatist At Carnegie Hall
Prof. J. G. Carter Troop delivered his third free lecture at Carnegie Hall on Maurice Maeterlinck the Belgian dramatist. He sketched Maeterlinck life, quoted plays and discussed the philosopher's moral view noting objections to his ethics and the absence of immortality. His next talk is slated for Tuesday on Bernard Shaw.
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Carnegie Hall
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maeterlinck
Troop
Nietzsche
Bernard Shaw
Marvelous discovery born from a woman's imagination
Garrett P. Serviss recounts how widow Mrs. Pound quietly funded her nephew James Bradley. He mounted a telescope through multiple floors to observe the stars, leading to his landmark identification of the aberration of light, a result of Earth's motion, while Bradley later continued observations from a new owner and uncovered Earth's axial nutation.
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Mrs. Pound
James Bradley
Europe
Bradley
Elizabeth Williams
Riverside Market Ad Promises Wide Seafood Selection
If you seek a dining spot, Riverside offers the market’s full range including crabs shrimps lobsters Spanish mackerel pompano and KC meats. Reasonable prices claim the best Texas meal for 25 cents with daily chicken or turkey.
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Fortune Found After Death In Oregon Ill Farm Man
Chicago banker and heirs scramble for a fortune valued at over one million dollars after the death of David H. Wilson a longtime Oregon Illinois farmer with no will. He had a Chicago bank vault full of securities including railroad and bank stocks that rose dramatically in value while he paid only rent on the box. Neighbors prompted administrators leading to discovery that the farmer and the securities owner were the same man.
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Chicago
David H. Wilson
Oregon
Ill
World’s Largest Ferry Boat Under Construction at Oakland
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is building the largest ferry boat in the world at Oakland across the bay from San Francisco. The vessel will serve Port Costa and Benicia, extending 433 feet in length and 116 feet in width. It will carry two locomotives and thirty six freight cars.
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Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Oakland
Bay
San Francisco
Port Costa
Benicia
David Bispham to Sing Here With Harry Gilbert
American baritone David Bispham, famed singing actor, will appear in concert here on Tuesday evening March 11. He will be assisted by Harry M. Gilbert, composer pianist, in a program of operatic and concert selections valued by students and music lovers alike.
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David Bispham
Bispham
Harry M. Gilbert
At the Plaza A New Bill Opens Tomorrow Afternoon
The Plaza presents tonight the final performance of the current bill then opens a new program tomorrow. The act features Joseph Jefferson and the 1999 hits, Kuma Japs, Spadohie, Destiny with William Schilling and Company, Edwin Ford and Company carnival in four scenes, Holt and Duncan blackface, Gretchen Knorr pianologue, Willis and Hassan novelty Animalfanology, and Charles and Madeline Dunbar in comedy songs imitations and dancing.
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William Schilling
Edwin Ford
Holt and
Duncan
Gretchen Knorr
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Hassan
Charles and
Madeline Dunbar
Texas
Princess Theater Plays From the Manger to the Cross Again
Manager Robertson of the Princess Theater schedules another show of From the Manger to the Cross tonight to meet demand. The 1500 seat venue has drawn crowds the past two days and will also feature the Universal Weekly tomorrow night with a two reel love drama titled The Vortex.
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Robertson
Princess Theater
Universal Weekly
Edmonton considers prison farm to fund families
Edmonton leaders including Mayor Short and Judge Taylor discuss a municipal work farm for prisoners to earn wages for their families while serving sentences. Silas H Carpenter supports expert management noting crime as a disease and predicting future medical recognition. discussion targets February meeting and a model home for neglected children.
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Tail styles among park monkeys prompt puzzled exchange
A park keeper explains the difference in tails among primates at the Central Park menagerie, noting South American monkeys have tails while eastern hemisphere species do not. The visitor jokes about docking tails as a mystery to search for an explanation. Over two thousand stockholders plan a co operative grocery chain in Lorain and Himira.
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New York Tribune
Lorain
Himira
The Manicure Lady and the Mexican Dollar
A humorous dialogue set in a barber shop features the Manicure Lady and the Head Barber. They discuss news, kindness, and a polite Mexican gentleman who tips with a silver dollar, contrasting war talk and mercy with sharp wit and local chatter.
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George
Mexico
Annapolis Officers Learn Postprandial Speech Craft
Navy officers in training will start a post-prandial oratory course next week through the academic term to prepare them for speaking on public occasions. Class members will dine in Bancroft Hall and respond to toasts from the English department as part of the program. A Wright City pastor apologized to his congregation for a one hour forty five minute service, promising shorter future gatherings and thanking attendees for their patience.
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United States
Bancroft Hall
English Department
Wright City
Big Special Supper Tonight at Riverside Restaurant
A big special supper is planned tonight at the Riverside Restaurant. Patrons are invited to enjoy a featured menu with limited seating and a festive atmosphere.
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
Lysander John Appleton clutches a photograph of his missing daughter Daysey Mayme, while his wife sobs over two years without her face. They hunt through magazines until a fashion-blurb reveals spring hats that reveal hair from the head, promising a glimpse of Daysey Mayme at last.
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Lysander John Appleton
Daysey Mayme
Mrapleton
Gethsemane
Mrs. Appleton
Lysander John
Newsroom scramble and private lives amid political coverage
The editor discusses assigning reporters to cover Ian and household pets as well as country relatives visiting Washington while questioning who will cover the president. The article notes postal bank deposits exceed December 1911 levels, yet withdrawals remain minimal. A Texas goat ranch reports 10,000 goats with profits near one dollar per goat.
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Dent
Ian
Washington
Puck
Cure Eczema Claim Prompts Reader Response Notice
An advertisement-like notice from Dr J E Crete Mudn Mo urges readers to write for a free trial claim of a guaranteed eczema cure. The writer promises dramatic relief within a day and urges readers to request information to prove the claim, referencing past experiences and sources in Sedalia Missouri.
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Crete
Third National
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