Plans Completed for Notable Opera Season by Chicago Company
Chicago Opera Association unveils a broad 1919 season with 28 providers, premieres, and novelties. General Director Cleofonte Campanini leads a cast including Mary Garden, Lucian Muratore, and new American sopranos, plus many foreign artists from Paris, Petrograd, Rome, and London. The tour includes a three week pre season run in western and southern cities and a January 27 1919 New York appearance.
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Chicago
Princavid
Italy
Chicago Opera Association
Paris
Trondon
Petrograd
Rome
America
Cléofonte Campinini
New York
Texington Theater
Mary Garden
Mascagni
Don Carlos
Giuseppe Verdi
Campanini
Homer Moore
St. Louis
Galti-Curei
Linda
Miss Dora Gibson
Covent Garden Royal House
London
Mile
Yvonne Gall
Paris Opera
Guido Ciccolini
Alessandro Dolei
Milan
Charles Fontaine
Lodovien Oliviero
Turin
John F. O'Sullivan
Virgilio Tazzari
Naples
Mario Valle
Bologna
Louis Hasse
Remedy for Catarrhal Deafness Promises Quick Relief
An old newspaper notice promotes a home remedy for catarrhal deafness and head noises. It cites England scientists, warns against sprays and douches, and prescribes a simple mixture of mint tincture diluted in hot water with sugar to be taken four times daily to ease Eustachian tube inflammation and improve hearing.
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Inngland
Wilson urges election of Democrats in critical period
Washington dispatch reports President Wilson appeals to voters to return a Democratic majority in both houses, warning a Republican victory would be seen as repudiation of his leadership. He stresses unity, warns against divided leadership, and frames the vote as decisive for the war effort and national policy.
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Washington, D.C
Wilson
Congress
Cavil
Senate
House
Ouy
Civi
Rtepublican Party
Germany
United States
Lam
Valuable art moved by Germans to be returned after war
London reports German wireless says valuable artworks from Cambrai Douai and Valenciennes now in German hands will be returned undamaged after the war. In New York price drops for lemons and oranges follow an investigation into alleged profiteering with prices falling from 83 to 4 a box at public auctions. Washington notes influenza situation improving with further subsidence indicated by health service reports.
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London
Cambrai
New York
Federal Food Bonrd
Priesth
Washington, D. C
Renatey
Ealth Service
French Advertise War Loan by Using American Methods
Paris opens the fourth war loan with American style ads and poster campaigns. German guns from Stryker displays near Concorde and seized aircraft surrounded by crowds. President Poincare announces the loan as Liberation, with Allied troops and Leaflets urging subscriptions as banners fly and citizens celebrate victories.
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William Cook
San Antonio
New York World
The
Presub, Co
ENOY
World Paris
Paris
Uilleries Gardens
Ausibmarine
Seine
Poinenre
Hotel de Ville
Champs Elysees
France
Sinani
Nervous breakdown recovery linked to Vegetable Compound
Newark woman Miss Fro Ketty describes a multi year nervous breakdown and daily headaches. After two years under a physician’s care she tried Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound on a friend’s tip and felt better from day one, restoring health and ending nervousness.
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Newark
N.J
Lydian E. Pinkham
Fro Ketty
South St
N. J
Lydia E. Pinktlim
Miss Kelly
Ancient Sage and Sulphur Hair Darkening Remedy
A vintage ad extols Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a natural, undetectable method to darken faded or gray hair. The potion is applied strand by strand, with results described as dark, thick, and glossy after one or two uses. It notes the product costs about 60 cents and is a common toilet item.
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Wyeth
Wyett
Get Rid of That Persistent Cough Patent Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Bormass Alverative to stop a lingering cough. It warns readers to heed the cough as a warning and claims twenty years of successful use. It notes no alcohol or drug risks and lists Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia as the manufacturer with a price of $1.60.
Unclear wartime fragment hints at battles and captured cities
Fragmentary OCR mentions Freech people in a victorious army, capture of Lille Bruges and other cities, Del and Francy with Germans, and rising pay unrest. Details are jumbled. main note is a wartime advance and public anxiety.
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Francy
Delgivin
Lille
Oxtend
Bruges
Wigval
Walker for Legislature announces candidacy in Bexar County
Announcement from D. A. Walker seeks support in Bexar County Texas for the November 5 1918 election. He pledges to deliver impartial intelligent service and to support measures benefiting the people and the county if elected. Political advertisement.
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DD. A. Walker
Bexar County
Texas
La Creole Hair Dressing Promises Restored Color
An advertisement claims a lotion can turn gray or faded hair dark and lustrous, promising immediate results. It persuades readers to buy in drug stores or mail order from Van Viect Mansfield Drug Co, Memphis, Tenn, for $1.20.
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van Viect-Mansfield Drug Co
Memphis
Penn
Olive Tablets Offer Gentle Liver and Blood Cleansing
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets promoted as a safe calomel substitute for pimples and dark breaths. The ad claims the vegetable formula cleanes blood and bowels, reduces constipation and torpid liver, and improves mood, with a nightly dose of one or two. Priced at Ric and Zic per box in drugstores.
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Edwards
Amone
Ric
Zic
Banker Die in Chicago Hotel Silence
An elderly banker in Chicago was found dead in a hotel room on October 25. Officials attributed heart disease as the cause after an apparent sudden illness. The deceased, tied to the Tafhia National Bank, held a vice presidency and was associated with the Jones Motor Car Company of Wichita. Local authorities investigated the room where the body was discovered.
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Chicago
R. di Colling
Tafhia
Nati
Hufkin, Lex
Neosident
Jones Motor Car Company
Wichita
Kay
Miss This Out Worth Mail Order Health Pack
A fragment describes sending name and address to Moley & Vod for a trial package listing Foley products including Honey and Tar Compound Foley’s Kidney Pills Foley Cathartic Tablets and remedies for coughs croup rheumatism backache kidney and bladder ailments constipation biliousness and headaches with a Chicago address and unclear sender A M L Imsehers
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Moley
Sheffield’ Avenue
Chicsgo,, H
Foley
Foley Widney
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Pietro
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