Empress Theatre Adds Warren Seymour In Quo Vadis Upside Down
The Empress Theatre next week features Warren and Seymour in a comedy titled Quo Vadis Upside Down with German linguistic acrobatics. LaVerne Barber players present a rural sketch The Man Who Knew Clara. Burgos performs a slack wire act. Mondane Phillips from Ha vana will sing.
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Bill
the Empress
Warren
Seymour
LaVerne Barber Players
Clara
Burgos
Mondane Phillips
Havana
The Week at the Theatres
Moore Grace Van Studdiford stars in The Paradise of Ma Metropolitan Mizzi Hajos in The Spring Maid. Seattie Billy Clifford performs in The Girl the Man and the Game. Lois The Clansman appears at Alhambra Dark. Vaudeville and motion pictures are listed at Orpheum Empress Pantages Grand venues.
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Moore
Grace van Studdiford
Ma Metropolitan
Mizzi Hajos
Seattie
Billy Clifford
The Sheehan Opera Opens at the Moore in Hoffmann Comic
The Sheehan opera company of 50 voices opens Sunday at the Moore with The Love Tales of Hoffmann a comic opera about Hoffmanns three love affairs. Verdi’s Il Trovatore is scheduled for Wednesday, with Mr Sheehan as Manrico. Stars headline a strong cast.
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Sheehan Opera Company
Moore
Sheehan
Manrico
Hoffmann
The Third Degree Comes to Seattle for Week Run
The Seattle theatre hosts a week long production starting Sunday matinee. The drama investigates police methods exposing prisoner exploitation to secure confessions. It portrays a faithful wife standing by her husband amid attempts at miscast justice.
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Seattle
Stage Show At Pantages Briefly Promises Variety
Raul Periera and his string sextet headline a traction on ages bill opening Monday. The Davis Gledhill trio of sensational cyclists perform a thrilling number. Gil Roy Haynes and Montgomery present The Good Ship Nancy Lee comedy burletta. Rudolphy and Daree perform An Episode f in a Japanese Tea Garden. Pome Telegraph Four rounds out the program.
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Raul Periera
Davis Gledhill
Gilroy, Haynes and Montgomery
Nancy Lee
Rudolphy
Daree
Luigi Del Oro to headline accordion artist feature
Luigi Del Oro, a noted accordion and foot organ performer, will headline a forthcoming feature in the arts column. The piece highlights his stage presence, repertoire, and upcoming engagements at local venues.
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Luigi del Oro
Orpheum Weekend Bill Features Rooney Bent and Varied Acts
Pat Rooney Jr and Marion Bent lead a singing and dancing sketch The Busy Bell Boy at the Orpheum on Monday. Edward F Reynolds performs a ventriloquist bit A Morning in Hickeyville. Mazie King and Claude Leighton present The Legend of the Spring in poetry song and pantomime. Pauline Moran Lynch and Zeller the three Hickey brothers and Lea Arados round out the bill.
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Pat Rooney, Jr
Marion Bent
Orpheum Theatre
Edward F. Reynard
Hickeville
Mazie King
Claude Leighton
Pauline Moran
Lynch and Zeller
Hickey Brothers
Lea Arados
Picture Show Lineup Across Venues and Films
The listing details films for Dream, Grand Opera, Lyceum, Circuit, City and Class A venues. Highlights include The Traitor Norman die Tribes in Kantara Gorge, Pathe’s Weekly No 43 The Foolishness of Jealousy and A Day at West Point Military Academy among others.
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Kantara Gorge
Algeria
Pathe's Weekly
Lyceum
West Point Military Academy
Betty
Cintra
Portugal
Atlantic City
Hal & Ford
Seven-year-old girl choked by a large blacksnake
In Port Washington a blacksnake dropped from a rafters entangling Lillian Porcher, eight years old, around the neck while she and a companion played near a school yard. The teacher freed the snake after a struggle. Lillian remains seriously ill but may recover. The serpent measured about five feet.
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New Philadelphia
Lillian Porcher
Port Washington
City proposes paymaster to issue wages at work sites
A finance committee proposal would employ a city paymaster to deliver warrants at employees' workplaces rather than forcing them to city hall each month. City Treasurer Terry estimates time loss at about 15000 dollars. Councilmen Fiesketh and Griffitha consider cash payments. A fire arising from painter materials caused 25 dollars damage to Danneberg fur store stock at 528 Union St last night.
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Terry
Fiesketh
Griffitha
Danneberg Fur
Union
Resting officer overhears starving robber plan in doorway
In San Francisco a patrol officer overhears two men plan to rob a store while one proclaims hunger. A cobblestone crashes through the adjacent window as the starving robber is arrested. Echoes discuss Africa and race in wartime terms amid chaotic street scene.
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San Francisco
Women barred from taking exams to practice law in British Columbia
A decision by Mr. Justice Morrison in Vancouver British Columbia rules that women are not entitled to take examinations or practice law in the province. The move follows a request by J. A. Nussell to admit Mina Mabel Penery Grench, a duly accredited barrister from New Brunswick.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Justice Morrison
J. A. Nussell
Mina Mabel Penery Grench
New Brunswick
Railroad doe recovers from appendicitis operation
OROVILLE California October 28 Spot a railroad doe with friends on the Western Pacific has recovered from an appendicitis operation and railroad men paid the bill. SAN FRANCISCO October 28 J Hamden Clarkendon the officer defines a lawyer's contingent fee as money the lawyer does not get if he loses and the client does not get if he wins. LONDON October 26 Real Swiss mountain climbers and a whole village from the Swiss Alps are to be transplanted to the Rocky Mountains this year by the Canadian Pacific railway company.
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Oroville
Cal
Western Pacific
San Francisco
J. Hamden-Clarkendon
London
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Street Gamin and Stranger Debate Bank Pay
A street dialogue questions bank directors pay as a boy asks for directions to a bank and a passerby offers a shilling in this vivid street scene recorded in a historical column.
Joseph W Folk Show-Me State Showman Faces Tough Start
A Portrait of Joseph W Folk as a reformer and ambitious Missouri figure. At 42 he is described as a deeply sad man seeking respect, hoping not to be derided as the Show-me man while poised to lead Republican reforms.
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Seiplo
Africa
Hannibal
Chicago Tribune
Joseph W Folk
Missouri
Joseph
Women workers to meet for Gipsy Smith campaign
A meeting of all women workers connected with the Gipsy Smith campaign will be held at the YWCA Fourth and Seneca on Sunday October 2 at 3 p.m. All young women are invited to attend.
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Seneca
Mixed Seattle civic and legal items from October dispatches
District Attorney Miller moves to remove evidence in the McNamara cases to federal jurisdiction. Commercial Club forms a real and personal property assessment committee in Seattle. An $800,000 municipal car line bond issue will have $100,000 offered for immediate sale. A bankruptcy demurrer in the Western Steel case is withdrawn, Judge Hanford orders Irondale bankruptcy. A Fremont church pastor dispute in Montana is dismissed. A motorcyclist reports his bike stolen near Second and Union. Northward gold arrivals total about one million dollars for the month with ships Northwestern bringing $100,000 from Nome and $100,000 from Atlin BH, BC.
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Council Judiciary Committee
Northwestern
Nome
Atlin
BH. C
North
Missouri Confederate Legislature Session at Neosho
The Missouri legislature at Neosho met in a brief session amid Civil War tension as Union forces threatened. Governor Claiborne Jackson spoke in person and the assembly moved toward an ordinance while Jefferson City held troops nearby. High School notes: Harold Risley elected freshman president. Clair Sanders Totem editor. Junior Draculum hosted a musical program. Broadway Midgets beat Lincoln Midgets 11 to 0 at Woodland Park.
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Missouri Legislature
Claiborne Jackson
Jefferson City
Neosay
Arkansas
Jackson
Neosho
Harold Risley
Clair Sanders
Draculum
Broadway
Lincoln
Woodland Park
Shaw to launch socialist newspaper with Sidney Webb
London reports George Bernard Shaw plans a socialistic newspaper after retirement, teamed with Sidney Webb famed for poor law reform. E W Wisewell suffered facial injuries from an emery wheel accident at Bryant Lumber mill and was treated at Noble hospital before being sent home. The University of Washington held its first all university dance of the year by the Oval Club at the gym, aiding freshmen integration. Wr. Boyes of the Seattle Tacoma Railway Co, proposing a monorail, was instructed by Judge Dykeman to let stockholders inspect the company books.
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London
George Hernard Shaw
Sidney Webb
E. W. Wisewell
Meridan Av
Bryant Lumber
Hewes
Noble
Buu
Ovel
U Gym
Wr. Boyes
Seattle Tacoma Railway Co
Judge Dykeman
Mrs Johnson Seeks Homes For Two Kittens
Mrs C A Johnson of 1423 Zistav offers two half grown kittens for adoption One kitten preferred as a Persian and the other as a fine gray kitten The third option notes a potential offspring from a full blooded Angora Call at Mrs Johnsons home Sunset East 3275 to arrange pickup or adoption.
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C. A. Johnson
Zistav
Sunset East
Mansfield family heads to California for winter
Mr and Mrs Leroy Mansfield have gone to Los Angeles and will spend the winter there and at San Diego They have sold their grocery business at 703 Seventh Avenue and plan to return in the spring A chamber of commerce meeting set for November 3 in Portland to discuss tolls on vessels flying the American flag through the Panama Canal in the Pacific Coast region.
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Leroy Mansfield
Los Angeles
San Diego
Mansfield
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
New Chamber of Commerce
Marriage Relief Follows From Wedding in Terre Haute
In Terre Haute Indiana on October 28 Katherine Otto Berordemgentiehen felde becomes Mrs Louis Kalen after marriage easing a heavy load for the bride.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Katherine Otto Berordemgentiehen
Felde
Louis Kalen
Reverend Walter Rudolph Preaches From Bed After Window-Abuse
Denver dispatch reports Reverend Walter Rudolph was thrown from a window and injured by members of his church group, yet he continues to deliver sermons from his bed, illustrating the incident's impact on local religious community dynamics.
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Denver
Walter Rudolph
West Coast Lumber Mills to Shut Down in Price Protest
Members of the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers Association voted yesterday to boost lumber prices by halting mill operations. The plan calls for a full shutdown of all mills in Oregon and Washington.
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West Coast Lummber Manufacturing Association
Oregon
Washington
Detective Bianchi arraigned in fatal arrest case
Joseph Bianchi the detective who shot and killed Frank Harris during an arrest for alleged lace curtain theft was arraigned before Judge Gay on a manslaughter charge. He was held until Wednesday to enter his plea.
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Joseph Bianchi
Frank Harris
Bianchi
Long-married Couple Reflects After 56 Years of Marriage
B. F. Wyland 81 and his wife celebrate a fifty sixth wedding anniversary in Seattle with a daughter and son living nearby, grandsons, and a great grandchild. He recalls lifelong flirting, shared hardships, moves from Iowa to Wisconsin, and Civil War service in Indiana with Lincoln’s call.
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B. F. Wyland
Av. N. W
Mother
Mra. Wayland
Mra. Wyland
Wayland
Hila
Seattle
Wisconsin
Police
Porter
Iowa
Indiana
Lincon
Wyland
New Scheme Aims to Block City Car Line
City council debates delaying municipal car line by challenging bond legality. New York attorney Maselich questions validity of the bonds while Councilman Erickson vows to press ahead, arguing voters authorized the street railway and litigation should not halt the project.
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C. B. Maselich
New York
Erickson
Masslich
Supreme Court
Beattle
Plan to curb graft by employment agencies unveiled
Councilman Hesketh and labor leaders discuss establishing public employment office branches to curb graft by private agencies. Foremen reportedly take two dollars per worker, even when hired directly, across logging camps and saw mills. Charles R. Case says the state federation of labor drafts a universal ordinance to end the practice.
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Hesketh
Bellingham- Sedro-Woolley
Seattle
Charles R. Case
State Federation of Labor
Concert and Dance by SVEA BAND at O G T Hall
SVEA BAND and ORCHESTRA present a dance event assisted by soprano ANNA at O G T Hall 1109 Virginia St Bat on October 28 1911 at 630 PM Admission 50 cents for men and 25 cents for ladies Refreshments served.
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SVEA
ANNA At_l. O
Virginia St
Bat
Gipsy Smith To Lead Seattle Parade EvangElist Returns
Gipsy Smith led a large evangelistic gathering in Seattle urging personal commitment to Christ. He challenged the wealthy and educated to move toward faith while noting the 60 000 attendance to date. The evangelist praised Rev Frank Atkinson and the meetings continued with men’s sessions planned.
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Gipsy Smith
Frank Atkinson
Tor
First United Preach Church
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