Saintly City social items and notices from 1908
Social columns cover The Profit and Pleasure Club Ball at Bowlby Hall on December 31, 1908 and events around year end. Mentions Santa Claus, smoking habit bars, a visit by Dr. D. P. Redd of Milwaukee, Charles Miller in charge of the Valet Tailoring laundry, and a Pilgrim Baptist church notice for December 28.
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Bowlby Hall
Santa Claus
D. P. Redd
Milwaukee
Charles Miller
Valet ‘Tailoring Co
Pilgrim Baptist Church
BE. J. Williamson
H. Richardson
Jasper Gibbs
Jennie Watson
Minneapolis
N. W
Sixth Street
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine to Host First Entertainment Dance
The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine announce an Entertainment and Dance at Tschida Hall on Tuesday evening, December 29, 1908, inviting secret society members from Duluth, Minneapolis, and St. Paul to attend and enjoy a lively evening with further announcements to come.
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Mystic Shrine
Tschida Hall
Duluth
Minneapolis
St. Paul
New Year notices and local ads pepper St. Paul pages
Local item list includes The Ideal Restaurant 341 Wabasha offering New Year dinner and smoke coal specials from Holmes & Hallowell. Also ads for Whitall street rooms for rent, laundry services, tailors, a New Year ball at Bowlby Hall, and church events at Pilgrim Baptist and St James with a large social program and invitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. W. Mackay
Hagerstown
Wabasha
Whitall Street
Payne Ave
S. Barnett
Whitall St
New Century Girls at Star Weekly Burlesque Show
The New Century Girls company at the Star, opening December 27, presents an accomplished troupe of performers under Moynihan. Known for a famed beauty chorus, the program includes two burlesques, The Hotel Thespian and Beans, promising strong entertainment for town audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Century Girls
the Star
Moynihan
Fun Makers
Race Track Notes Include Presentations and Details
Fragments mention race tracks and accompanying presentations. The readable text hints at events or segments tied to track presentations without clear names, dates, or locations. The item appears as a partial OCR snippet from a larger page.
St Paul to Host Bank President Maggie Walker Holiday Week
Mrs Maggie L Walker of Richmond Va the world s only female bank president will visit St Paul during Holiday week delivering a program at Pilgrim church Monday December 28 Admission 25 cents The Afro American notes her financial acumen and public address skills praising her pioneering role and urging support for a church pipe organ in a growing African American community
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
St. Paul
Pilgrim Church
Pioneer Press
United States
Walker
Our City
John H. Hickman
Rondo St
First entertainment and dance by Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
The Nobles invite friends to enjoy a dance at Tschida hall on December 29, 1908. They promise hospitality and friendly company, noting the presence of hard-boiled shirts and fez wearers as recognizable hosts.
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Xmas
Mystic Shrine
Tschida Hall
Strongheart at Grand Theater Promises Thrilling Show
The Next Attraction Strongheart unfolds with brisk pace and hypnotic crowd energy. A football game crisis scene, intense coaching speeches, and triumphant victory render a vivid, dramatic, patriotic tableau with strong realism and mounting joy.
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Grand Theater
Strongheart
Strongheart at Grand Opera House on New Year week
A brisk New Year engagement at the Grand Opera House features Strongheart praised for its fierce energy and brutal realism. The production runs for New Year’s week with a standard matinee next Sunday and a special matinee on New Year’s Day.
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Grand Opera House
Scriblings of a Scribbler copyright sold locally
Mrs Magmie Geraldine Williams receives copyright for Scriblings of a Scribbler a travel account Pruning Time for the Afro American and poems. Copies 25 cents with Ruth Lawrence handling sales at 566 Rondo. Also notice of Safe Deposit and Storage Vaults by North western Trust Co offering $4 per year boxes and vault storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magmie Geraldine Williams
South
Ruth Lawrence
Mayme G. Williams
Northwestern Trust Co
Endicott Arcade
Cosmopolitan Mutual Casualty and St. Paul Stove Repair
An advertisement for Cosmopolitan Mutual Casualty and St Paul Stove Repair Works at 126 W Seventh St offers stove repairs water fronts stove putty fire clay mica stove polish bolts and shakers with short notice service New and second hand stores for sale and contact numbers N W 1206 L1 Twin City 242 plus a morale-boosting verse about persistence.
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St. Paul
W. Seventh Street
N. W
Twin City
Dublin Inn promotes meals and piano lessons to patrons
Special notice invites readers to try breakfasts, dinners, and lunches at the Dublin Inn run by Harris. It lists piano instruction by Prof. W. A. Weir offered at patrons' residences or at 575 W Central Avenue.
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Harris
THE
Dublin Inn
W. Central
W. A. Weir
Sparrows odd nesting place on North Scotland railway
Jim the tame sparrow is beloved by engine drivers in a Scottish railway yard. Hatched in a locomotive stable, he was raised in the railway office, grew very tame, and now accompanies the engineer on daily rounds perched on his shoulder. At six years old, he nests in his owner's inside breast pocket, filling it with scraps.
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Jim
Scotland
National Dish of Brazil Complaints From a U S Miner
Mr R G Breeden a San Francisco mining engineer complains after eight months in South America that in Brazil the national dish is jerked beef and black beans and that most meals in South America are greasy garlic heavy and overly peppered. He notes Buenos Aires as a rare exception with meals pleasing to an American palate.
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Brazil
Ona
R. G. Breeden
San Francisco
South
South America
Buenos Ayres
United States
The Right Car Cattle Car Strands a Town Ride
In a Tennessee town a traction company still uses cars bought fifteen years ago causing rider disgust. A merchant was vexed when the motorman let a car roll past him before stopping. The conductor quipped it was a cattle car, not a freight train, as bystanders laughed at the delay.
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Tennessee
Flooding in Kansas Alleviates Alfalfa Worm Damage
Reports note water flooding the alfalfa fields along Kansas creeks and rivers is killing alfalfa worms that have plagued the crop in recent years. The worm, an inch to an inch and a half long with a hairy coating, appeared about eight or nine years ago, caused severe damage, then vanished, and has reappeared this season, preying on alfalfa leaves.
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Kansas
Social and Religious Notices From Minneapolis Ad Pages
A blend of ads and notices from Minneapolis includes rentals at 102 Bryant Ave N with Mrs. Mattie Darby, St James church Pastor's Aid Society meetings, a 7 room modern house for sale on 14th Ave South facing Powderhorn Park, legal notice of lawyer Harvey B. Burk in Boston Block, a Grand New Year wearer Ball at Paton Temple hall January 1 1909, St Paul dining options at St Louis Kitchen 31714 Wabasha upstairs, profits club Grand Ball at Bowlby Hall New Year’s Eve, and Shriners tickets sold at Atlegical Vass and People’s Barber Shop for a dance at Tschida hall December 29.
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Bryant Ave
Mattie Darby
Pastor's Aid Society of
St.James’ Church
14Th Ave
Powderhorn Park
Boston Block
Profit
St. Paul
Bowlby Hall
Cor. Sixth
Robert Streets
Shriners
Tschida Hall
Dwyer Hotel hires Charles Hill as night clerk
The Dwyer Hotel announces the appointment of Charles Hill, a well known hotel man, to oversee late callers as night clerk. The Dwyer Transfer reports success with prompt service via Nicollet 9951. A new wagon line from shops and carriages arriving by January are advertised as the best option locally.
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Dwyer Hotel
Charles Hill
Dwyer
Nicollet
Bees Master of the Road in French Bee Insurrection
In St Prieure near Chambery two beehives on a cart emptied by a farmer release of the swarming insects leads to a violent attack on the farmer the cure and oxen. Bees chase the oxen along the road while residents rescue the two men and a woman kept indoors as the highway remains under bee control.
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St. Prieure
Chambery
Ending of a Blackballing Rule at a St James Club
A famed St James street club long used to expel every candidate by blackballing abandoned the practice after a dramatic election. Supporters of a new candidate crowded in at the last moment, preventing a quorum and swiftly electing him before opposition could form. The club remains prosperous.
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St. James Street
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Bainy Paul
Minnesota
Holmes & Hallowell
Seven Corners
Carrie Dennis
Miss Zada
Crookston
City
B. de Baptiste
Gopher Lodge
Charles Wilson
W.T. Francis
Wabasha Street
J. L. Thompson
Wm. Nagel
Third Street
Jarvis
Minnesota Street
Kent's Express and Storage Co
Third St
Col
Tel
Pilgrim
Carter
Zion Presbyterian Church
Woodlawn Baptist Church
Selby Avenue
Arundel Street
J. M. Boddy
Ida Mae Johnson
Elizabeth LaRue
W. D. Carter
Misses Golden
Gillam
Loomis
Glass
Godette
Howard
Carroll Street
Susie Golden
Anderson
P. H. Anderson
Marion St
Minn
Clifford A. Smith
Eighth Street
ST. Louis
Julia Hinson
C. F. Huff
Proproietor
Pullman Palace
Profit and Pleasure Club
Valet Tailoring CO
E. Sixth Street
Tel. N. W
East Fifth Street
N. W. Main
J. W. J. Utley
James Vass
Ramsey County
Can Club
Cedar Street
E. Third Street
Phelps
Scretary Charleston
George Nichols Tha Company
Union Block
George Nichols
Cedar
St. James Church
St. James
John M. Henderson
Henderson
Dr. Henderson
Clara Lewis
Katie Williams
Ella Adams
Addie Bellesen
Electra Liggins
Blanche Charleston
Estella England
Mattie Hall
Maggie Jenkins
Mary Black
Amanda Lyles
Bessie Miller
Carrien Mills
Bettie Patterson
Sadie Johnson
Emma Parker
Nellie Pickett
Harriet Williams
Nellie Taylor
Zelia Reynolds
Mamie Anderson
Gertrude Charleston
Katie Crawford
Emma _ Blair
Cynthia Morgan
Grace Booker
Star Theater
T. H. Lyles
Wabaeha St
Twin Cities
Ady
Mecca Club
Holmes & Hollowell
State Savings Bank Fourth
Minnesota Sts
Charles P. Noyes
Prest
Kenneth Clark
V.pres
Charles G. Lawrence
Treas
Edy
Maggie L. Walker
R. S. Harris
F. D. Gamble
Cosmopolitan Mutual Casualty Co
Tame Sparrow
St. Thomas Mission
A. H. Lealtad
Harvey B. Burk
Car
Hennepin Ave
Wabasha St
N. Main
Rbrop
Tel. Cedar
the Ideal Tailors
Prop
Schoeneman Bros
Rondo Street
Western Avenue
Ceeasee
St. Paul, Minn
COD Health
Ideal Restaurant
S. J. Thompson
Tel N
Z. B. Fifteld
Agen Coal and Loop
AMR. Bank
Aurora Ave
Fourth Street
Calis
Waldo Turner
Menérick Block
St. Albans
Dale
Hass Bros. Pork and Beef Packer
U.S
St. Peter St
St. Peter Streets
Ford
Chub
Ox Marrow Co
East Kenzie
Chicago
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