This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1910
Page
6
A tense scene at the Orpheum Theatre features an exchange about money and gambling. An older man challenges a man named Smith about aid given to gamblers, noting that wealth never advances him and that the house is ever hungry for a meal. The moment echoes with a ripple of applause.
Ad for a heating agent claims quick relief from pimples eczema and acne with a fifty cent preparation from Prossum Laboratories New York. The notice urges readers to write for a package and warns the product is not to be used where skin irritation could occur. In the same page a theater column reviews acts at an Orpheum bill and notes Miss Clara Shortridge Foltz appointed deputy district attorney in Los Angeles.
A slang line aw check it with your hat becomes a catch phrase from Mabel Garrison in Lulu’s Husbands by Thompson Buchanan. At the Lyceum new pictures feature Shakespeare’s Othello in moving picture form with St Elmo themes and Madame Lloyd’s solo act drawing interest.
Fragmentary market note records unclear prices and items. Mentions food costs and a numeric value around 2.06 but details are unreadable. No clear date or entity names available from the readable text.
In Seattle at the Alhambra last night, Fatinitza revived by von Suppe impressed with colorful costumes and a lively story. Newcomers George Kunkel and Prelyn Frances Kellogg drew praise, while Alda Hemmi and James Stevens enhanced the cast in this enduring comic opera.
Daphne Pollard, famed star of Beattie Circa, headlines the Pantages week as the prime donna of Hiard Lance. Leonne also scores with the Lilliputians, delivering a vaudeville stunt nearly as strong as her performance in The Belle of New York.
The program features four songs and four changes with enthusiastic encores from La Bella Napoli Troupe. Grand opera offered in a small homeopathic setting alongside Tinkham and company’s daring bicycle act and Jones, Grant & Jones’s boisterous comedy. At the Majestic The Balloon Girl entertains with a suspended balloon routine as audiences gape skyward and speculate about the trick.
At the Star a chorus of girls performs a zany sales pitch style skit with Armatrong as a detective and Dillon as a floor walker in a lively house jumble. Audiences yesterday seemed to enjoy the humor and likely draw good patronage for the run.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.