Reading at K of P hall June 25 1909 program notes
Estelle Lovelle Edmonds with local talent presents a program at the K of P hall on Friday evening June 25 1909. Contents include piano solos, readings in dialect, a male quartet, costume reading, and songs. C H Spurgeon and wife visited Drury College in Columbia Missouri and Spurgeon will return to his post next fall after a Chicago summer.
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K. of P. Hall
Estelle Lovelle Edmonds
Carrie Beals
Moon Rose Phelps Farmer Whipple
Bachelor Riley
Little Francis Eudaley
Malindy
Little Brown Baby
Dunbar
Carpenter
Cook Willie
Cook
Mae Scott
C. H. Spurgeon
Drury College
Columbia
G. C. McMath
Washington Frontage Regeneration Plan Faces Congress
Engineer Commissioner Judson denounces Washington riverfront conditions and urges a citywide regeneration plan. Congress may authorize a comprehensive scheme replacing wooden docks with stone or concrete structures, centered on Potomac park, transforming the busy river edge.
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Potomac Park
Europe
Congress
Supreme Court
Potomac
Potomac Park and Drive
Justice at Last in Heath Farm Family Tale
Horatio Heath mutters against a quiet life until a collapsed bank saves him and a brave orphan girl Lucy Heath helps summon the train. The rescued farmer learns his brother Everett’s daughter exists and, in a changed heart, seeks to restore the family wealth.
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Horatio Heath
Horatio
Hannah
Heath
Edward Byverett
Hera
Everett
Meadow Station
Heath Farm
Lucy Heath
The Russian Peasant and His Struggles
The piece portrays the moujik as a strong but poor and debt-ridden figure. It notes his stubborn resilience amid taxes and humiliation, and contrasts his cleanliness with harsh living conditions and a wandering hunger for happiness. It closes with a folkloric wedding scene where a starosta proposes an arranged marriage to a village girl.
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Nitchevo
Mousik
H. P. Kennard
Foma
Starosta
Turkey
Marten
Germany
Saturday Lawn Warmer Stirs Quiet Frustration
A playful diary style note describes mowing the lawn on a Saturday with stubborn pride and comic pain as the narrator endures a stone hit and stiff arms from repeated laps. The piece ends with a street vendor line about a Chicago news for sale hat plate and oven.
Softening of the Feet Tale From a Street Scene
Dinah cries in the street as her feet are bandaged after being struck by a Black person wielding a club on hard stone pavement. The fragment, from Everybody's Magazine, portrays a dramatic injury and public confusion.
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Dinah
Everybody’s. Magazine
Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea Spring Tonic Ad
An old advertisement promotes Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring tonic for the whole family. It claims to restore vitality and health, offering tea or tablets for 35 cents. C. E. Elliott.
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Hollister
C. E. Elliott
Bill
Rocky Mountain
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