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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1907
Page
3
A black leather woman's pocketbook found with astral letters and silk samples. Contents reportedly include a recipe for English plum pudding, a chamois rag, headache powders, chewing gum, ads, and clippings. It also holds a house key and was turned in to the owner.
Waterloo Theatre hosts The Man of the Hour from New York with record business and star Mabel McCune in The Girl Over There. Also on bill Yankee Doodle Spy and Humpty Dumpty pantomime, with ten original songs and an augmented orchestra.
A fragment describes a vaudeville style production featuring Buster Brown with chorus and the Buster Dog. The company supplies its own scenery and electrical effects, delivering stage pictures considered very real. Prices listed are 25 35 60 and 76 cents.
The largest American theater west of New York debuts Toyland a spectacle with a fa mous Hippodrome style toy shop set and a Faustian doll plot. At the Waterloo Saturday Jan 4 price tiers 10c to 78c for a varied bill including Frank Hurst Conservatory Orchestra and pivotal vocal and instrumental numbers.
Waterloo theatre listings show The Man of the Hour at Waterloo Theatre and continuous vaudeville at Electric Theatre. Ruth Craven known as Mrs Beck visited local friends with daughter Thelma in Nora Springs, sparking fond remarks from Waterloo residents. The play drew good houses and was well received.
The Man of the Hour will play a return engagement at the Waterloo theatre on Hridge street this evening. Early season shows drew near capacity and were well liked by hundreds who saw it. Many believe the play the best this year with a strong plot, fine actors, and fitting stage settings.
Kansas City dispatch reports Judge Wallace is near victory in the Sunday performances dispute. Grand opera houses controlled by A Judah face indictments as theatres resumed shows. The grand jury will be re empaneled to continue the crusade with a stay of execution offered on indictments if no Sunday performances occur until the supreme court rules on a test case.
Charles H L Perry known as Eugene Faralto, the so called human skeleton who toured with large circuses for sixteen years, was found dead Sunday in a hut on the city outskirts. Death from natural causes. Perry stood six feet tall and weighed about 80 pounds. The report from Providence notes his hermit life recently.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution evokes a frosty morning mood. It laments winter and hints at spring through imagery of cabins fires, moonlit rides, and sweethearts as the seasons shift from cold to warm with festive feelings.
A playful verse recalls flamboyant figures Bernard Shaw and Gee Whiz with names like Bagdad and Uncle Remus. The piece mocks dramatic pomp and verbose wit as it catalogues fanciful personas and invented acts. November references hint at publication timing.
Miss Nellie Huntington, heiress to a fortune and daughter of Colonel J T Huntington, leads Goodrich House classes in Cleveland Ohio teaching young girls and mothers to live contentedly in flats. The program centers on economy space saving and serenity with lessons in cooking sewing and housekeeping.
An article discusses apartment living and social reform with quotes about the ideal race, serene atmosphere, and rigid rules. It cites Miss Huntington promoting calm, economy, and quiet living, with emphasis on flat dwellers forming a large, though peaceful, community.
A Wyoming Valley Historical and Geological Society committee plans February 11 1908 events to mark the 100th anniversary of coal first burning in a commercial grate. Judge Jesse Fell set up the grate at the Fell Tavern in Wilkes Barre igniting stone coal, proving its domestic utility.
The New York Press notes parlor tobogganing as a winter society amusement for the ultra rich. A long polished wood incline hosts tiny rubber wheeled sleds, offering mild thrills under a roof. Mishaps occur but are rare, as society values this novel indoor whim.
Chicago society women will be portrayed in gilded frames at an winter charity gallery. Forty portraits among them Mrs Harold B McCormick as Mrs Branfoy and Mrs Honore Palmer as the Duchess of Devonshire will hang amid forest skies and ducal palaces. Mrs Henry Dibblee as Princesse de Lomballe and Mrs Hobart C Chaffield Taylor as Recamier appear, with a wealthy audience further enticed by magazine promos and a bid for subscribers.
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