Fancy Dancer Lida Gardner at Sixty-Eight Performs
Lida Gardner famed as a premier fancy dancer ages 68 and still performs with Chie and Tiny Harvey at the Palace Hip. Her career began at age five with Garder & Heming and Adam Forepaugh circuses, including a 1861 riding exhibition before Lincoln. She later starred in musical comedies with husband Billy Arnold.
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Lida Gardner
Chie
Tiny Harvey
Palace
America
Gardner & Heming
Adam Forepaugh
Washington
Lincoln
Philadelphia
Billy Arnold
Seattle
Zoo Population in Paris Is Reduced
Paris report notes empty cages at the zoo after a harsh winter of 1916 and a coal shortage. Bombardment prompted authorities to kill venomous snakes to prevent danger, and while lions were debated, bombardment ceased. Snakes killed were stuffed and placed on display.
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N. BE. AJ
Paris
Paria Zoo
Dertha
Founders Day Banquet Held by Seattle Phi Delta Theta
The Seattle Alumni of Phi Delta Theta will hold a Founders Day banquet at the New Washington hotel on Saturday March 15 at 7 p m marking the 71st anniversary of the fraternity.
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Seattle
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Greek Letter Society
New Washington Hotel
Country Cousin Tops Seattle Theatre Bills
Seattle audiences commence the week with The Country Cousin at the Metropolitan, a Booth Tarkington satire on New York society, featuring Alexandra Carlisle and an original New York cast. Also on bill are The Right and A Stitch in Time with Grace Sluff, plus Spanish dancers at Pantages and Chinese novelty at Palace Hip along with Levy’s Musical Comedy Company No 2 opening Sunday.
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Met
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the Moore
Alexandra Carlisle
Miss Allen
Seattle
Metropolitan
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Middle West
New York
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Wilkes Players
Grace Huff
Palace Hip
Levy
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Klaw & Erlanger
George C. Tyler
Metropolitan Theatre
Nancy Hrice
Miss Carlisle
New York Company
Alfred Lunt
Genevieve Tobin
Grace Hampton
Julia Stuart
Helen Holcomb
Jack Crosby
Phil Heege
George Seybolt
Theatres Mettropolitan
Alesandra Carl Hale
Stepheum
Wilkes Rece Heft
Chey Hong Wa
Ore Levy
OPTM
Moore
Theodore Kosloff
Kosloffs
Flanagan and Edwards
Rockwell and Fox
Jlaza
Grand Oper
Deext
Collette
Kate
Wiley
Lewis
White
Nolan
Mother Gray's Aromatic Leaf advertised as soothing tonic
An advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Aromatic Leaf as a remedy for headaches dizziness nervousness back pains and fatigue. It touts testimonials and laxative properties with a 60 cent price and mail order from the Mother Gray Co in Le Roy New York.
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Rample Fre
Mother Gray Co
le Roy
N. Y
Foley Cathartic Tablets Claim Superior Laxative Power
For sour stomach and indigestion the ad touts Foley Cathartic Tablets as cleansing the bowels sweetening the stomach and invigorating the liver. It promises no griping or sickness and claims endorsement by Meehan of Hancock Michigan. Sold everywhere.
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Meehan
Elm St
Hancock, Mich
Foley
Stage News Highlights Broadway Style Shows and Notables
A colorful stage roundup lists songs from The Better One and notes simultaneous Indiannapolis runs of Period and Seventeen by Booth Tarkington. It mentions Fay of Klaw Erlanger as the velvet lady Way Marbe, Henry Miller’s Moliere with Blanche Bates and Holbrook Blinn, and Laurette Taylor touring Happiness by J Hartley Manners.
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Velvet Lady
Fay
Klaw & Erlanger
New York
Way Marbe
Tienry Miller
Philip Moeller
Moliere
Mr. Miller
Blanche Bates
Madame de Montespan
Holbrook Blinn
Louis XIV
Laurette Taylor
J. Hartley Manners
Woman Bonds Champion Highlighted by Ida Baldwin
Mrs A Baldwin, lead of the 12th district Women Liberty Loan committee, reports a Lewiston Idaho case of a woman selling all district bonds after housework and daily riding a horse. Her husband, a male committee member, claimed credit but she refused, saying he did not sell a bond.
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Baldwin
12Th District
Women's Liberty Loan Committee
Spokane
Lewiston
Idaho
Mrs. Baldwin
Hamburg Tea Cold Remedy Guide
A small package of Hamburg Breast Tea is recommended from any pharmacy. Use a tablespoonful steeped in boiling water, strain, and drink a tea cupful to relieve congestion and break a cold. It purports to loosen the bowels and act quickly, is inexpensive and claimed to be entirely vegetable and harmless.
French Garde Republaine Honors U S Music At Seattle Event
The Garde Republicaine performed at the Hippodrome to a large Seattle audience, blending French and American marches with enlivened classics. Soloists Aleandre Debruille and Georges Ture received encores as Capt. Ferdinand Pollain conducted. Red Cross banners and intertwined flags framed the memorable visit amid Liberty Loan fundraising.
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Garde Republicaine
Hippodrome
M. Aleandre Debruille
M. Georges Ture
Seattle
Red Cross
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