Orpheum Attraction Stages Cheyenne Days and More
At the Orpheum the feature is Cheyenne Days with daring horsewoman Lucille Mulhall. Also featured are a comedy Mrs Potter's First by Mac M Barnes Louise Reming and Robert W Graham, the Du Gros Trio aerial and gymnastic stunts, Juggling Boys and Girls, a near musical comedy by Al and Harry Klein and Sybil Brennan, Lee Lloyd and Jay drawing room entertainment, and The Three Magic Flutes performing flute and piccolo pieces.
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Lucille Mulhall
Orpheum
Mac M. Barnes
Louise Reming
Robert W. Graham
Mrs. Potter
du Gros
Mabel Fonda
Harry Klein
Sybil Brennan
Lee Lloyd
Jay
Empress Week Features Gerald the Heavyweight Illusionist
The Empress presents Gerald the heavyweight ingester performing strength feats such as tossing fifty pound balls atop the stage. German comedian Dan Mason stars in The New Chauffeur with Florence Hughes singing. Nellie Walters and John Geiger perform In the Streets of Taly, plus Hill and Ackerman acrobats and Terry and Lambert in Foreign Types as Seen Through American Eyes.
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Empress
Gerald
Ingester
Dan Mason
Florence Hughes
Nellie Walters
John Geiger
Taly
Hill and
Ackerman
Terry
Lambert
Lois Opens Sandusky Stockdale Season With Quincy Adams Sawyer
At tomorrows matinee the Lois at Sandusky Stockdale will inaugurate the second week with Quincy Adams Sawyer, a New England type play. Myrtle Vane plays Alice and Kernan Cripps stars. Beverly of Graystark is slated to follow in a prominent Seattle stock engagement not yet seen locally.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Seattle
Myrtle Vane
Alice
Kernan Cripps
Beverly
Graystark
Railroad Jack brings new comic tramp to Seattle stage
Ann Phillips will perform a upbeat soubrette role at the Seattle theatre starting with Sunday matinée. Verne Layton joins her in a dual honors balance as the happy plucky tramp in Railroad Jack, delivering comedy and pathos in a fresh part.
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Ann Phillips
Seattle
Verne Layton
Miss Phillins
Hoot Man Sketch at the Coliseum Begins Monday
Al Foster, a noted impersonator, will headline a week long program at the Coliseum starting Monday afternoon. Catherine Stewart will present a sequence of fancy dances and a fresh photoplay film program rounds out the lineup.
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Coliseum
al Foster
Catherin Stewart
Photoplay Filma
Olympia Fire Warden Reports Low Fire Losses This Season
State Fire Warden Welty says current fire damage is minimal due to care by railroad and logging outfits. In other notes three Alaska teachers and one nurse are assigned by the Bureau of Education to the Alameda ship, two to Nushagak and two to Cheglung. A rock struck a car window injuring Marie Yonkers, manager at the Independent Telephone Co. in Olympia. A baby born to Mrs. Wm. H. Moore in Middleton weighs 14 pounds 4 ounces. Gov. Hay plans southeastern state tour August 16 to 27 visiting Portland and Astoria Centennial events. In Portland a shoemaker was killed when his car crashed from the Vancouver Viaduct.
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Olympia
Welty
Piilroad
Alaska
Alameda
Bureau of Education
An & Purse
Nushagak
Cheglung
Marie Yonkers
Independent Telephone Co
Peliee
Hay
Portland
Astoria
Olympia Marriage Licenses Show 12 822 Couples Wed
During 19 there were 12 822 couples licensed to wed as filed with the state bureau of inspection. The state collected $57 702 in license fees at $4 50 per license.
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Olympia
State Bureau of Inspection
Citizenship Papers Heard In U S District Court
Sixty five people filed final papers to become citizens before the U S district court this morning, seeking naturalization.
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U. S
VU. 8. District Court
Clergyman Returns From Mt Adama And Plans Speech
Rev A W Leonard pastor of the First M E B church returns from a climb up Mt Adama and will speak at the pub pit tomorrow accompanied by mountaineers. The Yucatan steamer will soon gain wireless telegraph apparatus before sailing. Geo F Cotterill Democrat to address at Kinnear park tomorrow on The Political Situation of Great Britain.
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A. W. Leonard
M. EB
Mt. Adama
Yucatan
Geo. F. Cotterill
Democrat
Kinnear Park
Cotterill
Great Britain
Sherman Raised to Major General on August 12 1864
News notes recount Sherman becoming a full major general. Political chatter in the North discusses Atlanta, with McClellan’s possible election. Sherman’s capture of Atlanta boosts McClellan’s electoral prospects. Frank Gallagher appeals a 16 day jail sentence for alimony default, with a $150 amount and a supersedeas bond delaying the sentence. The steam schooner Fulton beaching yields no damage and slight repaint needs. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Kamakura Maru sails with many missionaries aboard.
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Geo. Sherman
Frank Gallagher
Grand Opera House Announces Week of Vaudeville Acts
The Grand Opera House lists headliners The Tuxedo Duo burlesque ser enaders and Bingham and Cable musical marvels for next week. Master William Smith, boy vocalist, returns to Seattle after a West tour with a unique two voice act. Three new photoplays, shown exclusively for the first time in Seattle, will also be exhibited.
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Grand Opera House
Bingham and Cable
William Smith
Seattle
West
Parsifal star to lead new musical at Pantages
Homer Lind, renowned in Henry W. Savage's Parsifal, appears Monday at Pantages with his company in a new musical vehicle titled The Opera Singer. Vernon the ventriloquist and the Watermelon Trust, a comic quartet, join the bill, along with Adair and Henney and the La Keillers in Circus Eve In Mexico.
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Homer Lind
Henry W. Savage
Grandpa Shaves, Baby Nearly Severed in Razor Tryst
In Paducah Kentucky three year old Robert Browder watched his grandfather shave then climbed to the bureau and grabbed a razor and mug. He placed them on his one year old brother Mingus and tried to shave him causing a deep facial gash and near-miss with an artery. Neighbors gathered as the scene drew astonished attention.
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Grandpa
Robert Browder
Indianapolis
Paducah
Robert
Mingus
Young Sailor Springs boy runs rail line as wire wonder
James D. Branch sixteen of Sailor Springs Illinois leads the Santa Fe railroad at Dawn Texas as chief operator after learning telegraphy in play. Railroad men report a bewitched train on the Wabash between Edwardsville and Alton Illinois ran miles at forty miles an hour with no one aboard and with switches thrown itself. An engineer was killed in a wreck and was found with his hand on the reverse lever of the same engine.
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James D. Branch
Sailor Springs
Santa Fe Railroad
Dawn
Tex
Wabash
Edwardsville
Alton
Ill
Miss Celeste Parish sells brain to medical school after death
Miss Celeste Parish a teacher with a remarkable memory sold her brain after death to a medical school for examination and analysis. The price was not made public. The item also notes a near drowning involving Mrs A E Phalen and others, a new Lincoln ae principal, a 75 year old pioneer death, and a New York taxicab statistic.
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Athens
Celeste Parish
Loudenslager dies after campaign exertions in Camden
Congressman Loudenslager died today in Paulsboro after a general breakdown caused by his recent campaign efforts. In Glasgow, municipal railway carmen struck, sparking rioting and arrests as trains were attempted to run. A gag from Life notes a lost umbrella souvenir episode on a train.
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Camden
N. J
Loudenslager
Paulsboro
Glasgow
Lost Property Office
Jove
Woman Civil War Soldier Theresa Kilpatrick Dies
Nashville Tenn excitement over a game of pinochic proved fatal to Mrs Theresa Kilpatrick the sole woman soldier of the Civil War She was 78 years old.
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Nashville
Tenn
Mra
Theresa Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick
Detective Woods Captures Murder Suspect Walter Tinsley
After an eleven year pursuit in New York Detective Clinton Woods finally apprehends Walter Tinsley, the wanted man accused of murder. Tinsley had remained within New York throughout the search.
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New Y York
Clinton Woods
Walter Tinsley
Ting
New York
New York Central Lines Move Toward Single Corporation
A plan to consolidate the New York Central system into one corporation is reportedly under way in New York. The proposed merger involves hundreds of millions of dollars and aims to improve the financing of railroad operations.
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New York
Mmel
New York Central
Skyrocket romance leads to Oregon wedding
A St Louis romance sparked by a rocket letter culminated in the marriage of George Mold Jr of Alton and Sophia Hindell in Ashland Oregon. Mold, working in a St Louis fireworks factory, sent rockets to Artesia New Mexico where Bindella previously lived. Hindell found the note and replied, starting a correspondence that ended in July with their move to Oregon for their life together.
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BT. Louis
St. Louis
Ashland
George Mold, Jr
Alton
Sophia Hindell
Mold
George Bindell
Artesia
N. M
Nhen Mold
Hen hobo rides rails from North Powder to Baker
A hen in Oregon reportedly rode the rails inside a cook car for 25 miles from North Powder to Baker. The bird vanished during crew moves and reappeared aboard the car, prompting a joking boast by kitchen worker R. P. Shaughnessy about the hens adventurous journey.
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Baker, Ore
R. P. Shaughnessy
O.W. S. & N. Company
North Powder
Baker
Horses Named as the Heirs Heads of Legacy Question
In Lansing Michigan on August 12 T A Lawler assistant attorney general reports a Detroit inquiry about how to treat legacies left for Satin Slippers and Star Plex racehorses in the inheritance tax. He has not yet decided the proper ruling.
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Lansing
Mich
T. A Lawler
Detroit
A. L. Goldberg
Star Plex
Goldberg
Lawler
Strikers Return as London Trade Reopens
Strikers jubilant over Board of Trade gains end London disruption as authorities order priority for food and ice. Food ships unblocked the Thames and unloading proceeds rapidly, though many cargoes were damaged from broken hatches.
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United Press Seaconaire
London
Board of Trade
Thames
Boy Bit by Bulldog Shot by Officer Near 27th Avenue
The two year old son of Mrs. Eversoll residing at 930 27th av. So. attempted to take a bone from a bulldog owned by neighbor Guy Osborn. The dog bit the child below the right eye and was shot by a motorcycle policeman.
Local Dispute Involves Reverend Amid Dry Spell
Fragmentary notice describes neighbors of Rev. M Mio a Methodist minister seeking an injunction restraining prayers during a period of drought and heavy rain. Mention of Moore, father of corn grower Jerry Moore, appears as a related detail.
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Florence
M. Mio
Moore
Jerry” Moore
Portand Police Watch for Yeggmen En Route to Coast
Portland authorities received word that a gang of yeggmen is en route to the coast. Local business leaders are asked to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to police stations immediately.
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Portland
Plan to Attend Races at Madison Park Five Days
Residents plan a five day racing meet at Madison Park starting August 15 with Tecate as a sponsor. The event promises a clean and orderly program with multiple heats and spectator seating.
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Madison Park
Tecate
Wedding Ring Causes Death in Chicago Woman
Faithfulness to her wedding ring led to fatal blood poisoning in Mrs. Jessie Gardner after the ring embedded as her finger swelled. She refused to have it filed off, and the condition worsened until death.
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Chicago
Jessie Gardner
Clay Bricks Found Inside Tree Root in Springfield
Workmen removing an old elm tree in Springfield Massachusetts discovered a bulging root four feet underground and opened it to find two common clay bricks completely enclosed by the root.
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Springfield
Mass
Tea prices to rise amid China tea import shortage
New York tea importers forecast higher prices as Chinese tea faces a shortage. The Dragon empire crop remains strong, but growers refuse to comply with a U S law requiring imported tea to be uncolored, triggering supply concerns.
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United Press
New York
United States
Snake With Legs Found Near Norcross Poultry House
A creature described as a swake with two well developed legs and claw feet was killed at Captain W. R. Burchaells' place near Norcross Georgia. It may have belonged to the chicken family as the snakeship was near the poultry house when slain. It was dark in color.
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W. R. Burchaells
Norcross
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