Louisiana Lou on Tour Promises Music Comedy Nightly
In New Orleans the scene of Act 1 centers on Louisa Lou Jack Konkarney and Nixon Holme with Delia as they plan dancing lessons. Lidoffski objects to mixed teaching yet Nixon partners with Louisa Lou. Jack’s clumsy dancing raises suspicions as Nixon rises to teach. Louisiana Lou plays Grend tonight with Harry Askin’s company touring after the La Salle Chicago run.
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Jack Konkarney
Jack
Louisa-Lou
Nixon Holme
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lou
Jennie Wimp
Delia
Lidoffski
Nixon
Louisa-lou Lidoffski
Louisa Lou
Niven
Grend
Harry Askin
Vollaging
Chicago la Salle
Winter family visit leads to embroidery services offered
T. E. Winter travels from Cody to Farley Iowa to visit his daughter Ellanor and mother Mrs Kate Winter. The Sisters of the House of the Good Shepherd announce availability of fine embroidery sewing mending quilting and comfort tying services.
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T. E. Winter
Cody
Farley, Iowa
Ellanor
Kate Winter
Sisters of the Hiouse of the Good Shepherd
East Dubuque Register Calls For Harsher View Of Tramps
The East Dubuque Register warns against aiding wandering job seekers called tramps. It cites ads in Milwaukee and St Louis papers promoting Dubuque as a labor market lure and urges citizens to deny shelter to undeserving applicants while distinguishing those truly in need.
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East Dubuque Register
Marshal Murray
Dubuque
Christ
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Louisiana Lou Tells A Comic Musical Comedy Preview
The La Salle Opera House in Chicago presents Louisiana Lou a new musical comedy filled with natural situational humor. Act 1 features a dancing lesson and lovers conspiracy while Act 2 offers an elopement plot and a Mardi Gras sceptre moment, with a famed wedding rehearsal adding to the humor. Old Lidoffski plans a Mardi Gras ball for Louisa Lou, despite his misgivings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Salle Opera House
Chicago
Lidoffski
Louisa Lou
Majestic to Close Season With Merry Mary Company
This Saturday evening ends the 1911 12 vaudeville season at the Majestic. Manager Rosenthal yields a short rest from variety and presents the thirty member Merry Mary company for one week at Majestic prices. The act lineup includes Jolly Fanny Rice the Three Bounding Gordons Lee and Cranston Tom Keyle and company Mons Gillette and the Dancing Gaits brothers. Afterward the Garside players open with The Power of a Woman for four nights and a matinee, staying at the Majestic for weeks before moving to the Airdome for the summer.
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Rosenthal
The
Majestic
Merry Mary” Company
Jolly Fanny Rice
Bounding Gordons
Lee and Cranston
Tom Keyle
Mons Gillette
Dancing Gaits Brothers
Merry-Mary”company
Garside Players
Garside
the Majestic
Airdome
Opening at East Dubuque Rival Ball Clubs Inaugurate Season
The East Dubuque baseball club will inaugurate the season Sunday afternoon at East Dubuque against the Dubuque Cubs, a strong local amateur team. The opener was postponed for two Sundays due to weather and diamond work. Sheehan and Ickman will form the East Dubuque battery. Von Ab and Bergman will start for the Cubs. A fast game is anticipated.
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East Dubuque
Dubuque Cubs
Sheehan
Ickman
von Ab and Bergman
Cubs
Store Enthusiasm and a Child’s Stock of Passions
A reflective aphorism urges guardians to cultivate diverse enthusiasms in youth to avoid an empty heart later. Cherbuliez emphasizes that many passions are lost along life’s path, and nurturing interests preserves vitality.
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Son
Victor Cherbuliez
Buffalo herd offered to stock Wind Cave National Preserve
The New York Zoological Society offers ten buffaloes to the American Bison Society as the nucleus herd for Wind Cave National Bison Range near the Black Hills. Congress considers establishing Wind Cave as a national game preserve to protect bison, elk, and Rocky Mountain sheep, with a $22,000 funding plan for land and fencing. Dr. W. T. Hornaday and Franklin W. Hooper endorse the gift as timely and impactful for the bill’s passage.
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New York
New York Zoological Society
American Bison Society
Wind Cave National Bison Range
Congress
Wind Cave
Black Hill
South Dakota
Rocky Mountain
United States
James Wilson
Fisher
Interior Department
Wind Cave National Park
W. T. Hornaday
The
Bison Society
Franklin W. Hooper
Dr. Hornaday
Banana Puffs And Currant Bread In Paper Bag Cooking
Mrs. O J Marshment Demonstrator presents paper bag cooking recipes. Banana puffs involve six inch square pastry with lemon coated bananas. Currant bread uses flour baking powder sugar salt currants citron peel milk and egg to form a soft dough bake in a greased pan. Do not knead this bread.
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O. J. Marshment
Stuffed Green Peppers With Liver Filling
Cut hollow peppers and blanch briefly in salted water. Stuff with liver and bread crumbs, seal in a bag, and cook for twenty minutes. Prepare liver by boiling until tender, then mash with butter and browned bread crumbs for a rich filling.
Sneeze lore from ancient Greece to England
The text recounts ancient beliefs about sneezing as omens. Gods of sneezing determined fate. timing and direction of a sneeze affected luck. Multiple sneezes altered outcomes, with various counts signaling fortune or misfortune, and joint sneezes were seen as favorable for business discussions.
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Greece
England
Odd Ingested Objects Found in Davenport Cow
In Davenport Washington a cow slaughtered recently contained steel nails a fragment of tin can and a 24 point capital O from a type font in its stomach authorities reported this unusual find as part of the animal's insides.
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Davenport
Wash
Language Lapses and a Witty Exchange at Home
A humorous exchange about language and conduct features a husband joking that his wife joined a club to study exact English while he jokes his wife would not accuse him of loose conduct if he got tight. The quip highlights domestic wordplay and social pretensions.
Porto Rico Seeks Statehood Amid U S Territorial Claims
A Porto Rican delegation in Washington presses for territorial status and eventual statehood. They cite improved Americanization, sugar industry prominence, and interlinked revenues while warning that free sugar legislation could devastate the island’s economy and local schools. The delegation seeks clear U S intentions and representation beyond a resident commissioner.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Eugenio Benitz
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Cayetano Coll Y Cuchi
House of Delegates
United States
Eevee
Louis M. Rivera
No native productions this year in Elizabethan theater
A theater manager laments the lack of native English plays this season. He notes overseas plots dominate the stage, with audiences favoring foreign works adapted by Shakespearean-era writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Shakespeare
Puck
Finest compliment to a young man comfort to parents
The Atchison Globe notes that the best praise for a young man is to call him a comfort to his parents, praising character and filial responsibility as the highest commendation.
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Atchison Globe
Irritation of Foolish Fear
A reflective line noting that causeless fear is a self tormenting propensity. The speaker, echoing Walter Scott, condemns fear as irritating busy and painful to minds weighed by anxiety.
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Walter Scott
Don’t Allow Yourself to Be Carried Away by Enthusiasm
A cautionary note urges keeping a return plan in mind before pursuing bold ventures. It advises evaluating risks and ensuring resources and safeguards are in place to avoid overcommitment.
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Abe
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