Harrisburg Team Cancels Baseball After Sad Death
Local notes report Harrisburg Country Club residents cannot join Scranton visitors for a morning golf match at Country club grounds and a scheduled afternoon baseball game at Athletic park is canceled due to the death of a Harrisburg member’s sister. A dance follows the day’s events with handicap golf matches planned weekly and prizes awarded.
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Country Glub
Harrisburg Country Club
Country Club
Harrisburg
Athletic Park
Scranton
Notable Local Visitors and Residents Listings
Harrisburg social circle notes Miss Gilbert visits Archbald while H W Brady Jr of Trenton stays with James Blair and J B Jones from Wellsboro visits West Side friends. Numerous residents resume studies, visit Philadelphia or New York, host relatives, or travel, including Private John Redimond on furlough and Rev J V Moylan returning to Honesdale duties.
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Gilbert
Harrisburg
Archbald
H. W. Brady, Jr
Trenton
James Blair
J. B. Jones
Wellsboro
Thomas McAndrew
Byron Street
Niagara University
Frank Harrs
Hastings
Neb
A. B. Holmes
South Main Avenue
Daniel J. Hull, Jr
Twelfth Street
Clark’s Bummil
Jennie Moses
North Filmore Avenue
Philadelphia
Castelle Alexander
Lisbon
Mra. P. W. Joyce
Anna Loris
Lake Ariel
Mra. Thornwell
Mra. L. Lauman
North Sumner Avenue
New York City
Louise Lauman
Roy
North Sumter Avenue
B. M. Winton
Sanders S Avenue
Arvil Twitchell
Portland
Thomas Davin
North Prremey Avenue
Isa Fanny Townend
Wyoming
Anna Phillipe
Ben G. Phillipa
Atlantic
Ill
James A. Mellon
Clarke Brown
William Brown
Joseph Gurrell
Company B
Thirteenth Regiment
Chief Gurrell
North Ninth Street
W. H. Daniels
South Hyde Park Avenue
J. J. Daniels
Heronton
C. C. Jadwin
Patterson
Edgar Jadwin
Honesdale
C. P. Judwin
G. M. Backus
Uth
M. H. Evans
Eir
J. C., Moyer
Lafayette Street
Clifford, Mn
Jackson Street Poer
Abington Baptist Association
Antiquity and Use of Glass Through History
The text notes that glass is ancient with early evidence in Egypt and Mesopotamia. It mentions a blue opaque glass head amulet with a foregign that helps date it, and refers to rock-cut tombs in necropolises. It cites Josephus and others on its discovery, though details are uncertain, relying on attested facts.
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Elyiboution
Egypt
Hellicomus
C. Btorine
Josephus
Aemit
Plays and Players in Brief Theatrical Season
Jamee A Hearne rewrites Hearts Monk while Grace Tilkina becomes James ONeills new lead. A London melodrama Snowdrops is produced. The Rogers brothers begin a season in a John J McNally play. Edwin M Mayo plans to bring Pulnhenad Wilson to England after this seasons tour. Rose Coghlan returns to vaudeville in Between Matinee and Evening. Tim Murphy stars in The Carpetbagger with Joan Hi Blackwood as advance man. Lillian Russell will tour Berlin St Petersburg Vienna then return by Christmas. In Old Kentucky enters its sixth season with Pickaninny band. Mine Melba a famed oarswoman rows on the Thames. War revenue law taxes theatrical companies ten per state played. Ethel Mariona to play Polly Love in The Christian five acts with five locales. War plays announced include The Maine Avenged The Dawn of Freedom A Cuban Patriot A Daughter of Cuba Sunk at Santiago The Commodore A War Correspondent The Siege of Santiago Between the Lines With Dewey at Manila The Heroes of 9 Hobsons Choice and Young Miss Cuba. Lew Dockstader recovered from debt through four to five years of steady work and now owes no man. Omaha Bee praises Clay Clements A Southern Gentleman as a potential great actor and playwright.
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Grace Tilkina
James O'Neill
Indy
London
Rogers Brothers
John J. McNally
Pul'nhenad Wilson
Edwin M. Mayo
England
Rose Coghlan
Tim Murphy
Joan Hi. Blackwood
Lillian Russell
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Old Kentucky
Melbas
Thames
Cuba
Santiago
Dewey
Manila
Hobson
Lew Dockstader
Weo
Hiis
Buch
The
Omaha Bee
Clay Clement
Boyd
America
Sir Roderick's Luck in a Circus Referenced Dilemma
A Detroit Journal feature recalls Sir Roderick failing to seize the Picton Manor heir as a circus nears. He contemplates intervention while neighbors’ children are unavailable for a showgoer’s plan.
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Ming
Carambil
Sir Roderick
Picton Manor
Detroit Journal
Musical Question Box Promises Reader Music Answers
Frorester J Alfred Pennington head of Scranton Conservatory and Elm Park Church organist will answer music questions in the Saturday Tribune. Readers may send queries to Musical Question Box care of Tribune or to Professor Pennington. Only writers initials will appear.
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Frorester J. Alfred Pennington
Scranton Conservatory of Music
Elm Park
Saturday Tribune
Tribune
Pennington
Paris Church of the Trinity Organ Recital by Guilmant
In Paris at the Church of the Trinity Guilmant performs from the grand organ with the choir organist Saline now deceased. The two organs, plain song, and improvisation of a Bach fugue showcase masters and students alike in a vivid church gallery scene.
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Paris
Grande Boulevard
Themoaller
Guilmant
Saline
Mons. Guilmant
Cavaille-Col
Christendom
France
Ambrose
A. D
Greaory
Mons
Bach
Pedal Marking Snafu and Largest American Organ Debate
A reader asks about pedal marking in a Presser publication and a history of the United States' largest organ. The Chicago Auditorium organ, built in 1889 by Roosevelt of New York, is described with 109 stops, 4 keyboards, electric action, and 7 124 pipes opened by Clarence Eddy. References discuss London and Boston choirs and the value of chorus singing under skilled conductors, plus the top church tenor Evan Williams at Marble Collegiate Church in New York.
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Ansawer
Nathan H. Dole
Crowell & Co
New York
Albright Public Library
J. Ht. Millett Company
Boston
United States
Chicago
Roosevelt
Farrand & Votey
Detroit
Awell
Clarence Eddy
Evan Williams
Marble Collegiate
Peter Minnit
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
The Thirteenth's Guests Visit Camp Alger
A Washington woman hosts a party of five with a chaperone to visit Camp Alger. The guests study insignia of rank on officers aboard the train and imagine their titles as they ride toward the Thirteenth Pennsylvania regiment’s officers' mess.
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Washington
Camp Alger
Hila
Pennsylvania
Eves
Camp visit by ladies to soldiers in camp and tent life
A party of women arrives at a military camp and is greeted by officers. Convicts assigned to plant Christmas trees decorate an officer’s tent. The dinner is served with luxuries, fresh fruit, and a large chocolate cake. After guard mount, the band serenades and the visitors depart, admiring the sunset over the tents.
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Questa
Company A
War Department
Ladtice
Ludites
America
M. K. B. Washington
New York Round Trip for $3 by Lehigh Valley Rail
Tickets priced at three dollars to New York and return aboard the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Sales available at the city office 300 Lackawanna Avenue or at the Delaware and Hudson Lackawanna Avenue depot.
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New York
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lackawanna Avenue
Delaware and Hudson Lackawanna Avenue
No Time Lost Meeting Prompted By Sunday Gatherings
A fragment notes discussions among the unemployed about why Sunday meetings occur and whether the arrangement frees attendees from taking a day off work. The exchange questions whether Sunday forums are voluntary and beneficial.
Air locomotive ushers in underground coal haulage
A new air powered underground locomotive, first built in Philadelphia, is being adopted by Coxe Fras Co. at Drifton after proving safer than steam and gas methods. It uses surface air compressors to push coal through five inch pipes to stations along the mine. The article notes broader benefits for West Virginia coal exports and shifts toward anthracite on ocean liners, while honoring miners facing daily peril.
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Coxe Fras. & Co
Drifton
Philadelphia
Investigating Committees and Their Expense Critics
The piece argues critics target the expense bills of investigating committees. It notes numerous committees on treasury, miners, Capitol fire, prisons, bribery charges, oleomargarine, and more, appointed by joint resolution with governor approval. It states abuses should be blamed on individuals, not the Republican party.
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Treasury
Republican Party
Do you understand women
A Chicago Record quip notes a lieutenant’s paradox about gender understanding. The line plays on the joke that deep insight into women eludes even trained officers.
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Chicago
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Lock Maven
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Misnes Hanley
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Mia
Willis Kirkpatrick
Willard Matthews
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Miss Simpson
Pierson
Miss Turvey
Marie Reinhard
Petersburg
John C. Blatter
South Scranton
Mifflin Avenue Lutheran Church
Mr. Zitzleman
Central City
Misa Delia Lenahan
Scott Street
Edward Austin
Beranton
Father Reilly
Father Curran
East End
Mamie Lynch
A. N. Smith
Wilkes-Barre
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Vene i
Jamee A. Hearne
Hearts
Ethel Mariona
Polly Love
Deer Castle
Isle of Man
Coliseum Music Hall
Ayer
Toda
Little Gent
Congress
Alexandre Guilmant
Theodore Presser
Presser
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Eny
H. M
Barnty
Cummings
Ball and Williams
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Bos
Wales
Lke Adame
Rotell, Whitney
Ccore
Handel and Haydn Society
Apollo Club
Cecilia Club
Lf Soma
Alger
the Tribune
Jonas Long
Cardiff
West Virginia
Europe
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Great Britain
Brazilian Central Railroad
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Kanawha
W. Va
Myphant
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