Broadway Musings and City Vignettes From a Summer Walk
A rambling New York diary notes Shakespearean curiosity and celebrity profiles, fashion hats, theatre figures like Geraldine Farrar and Beatrice Lillie, plus streetscapes, radiation of radio city plans, and glimpses of Wall Street wealth. It blends whimsical observations with city landmarks and people including Pat Noonan Todhunter, Oscar Waldorf, and Jack Dempsey in a breezy, era-flavored tableau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Shakespeare
Hope Williams
Beatrice Lillie
Delicatessen Alogen
Park Avenue Club
Pat Noonan
Todhunter
Geraldine Farrar
Melrose
Mass
Pitt Sanborn
Chrysler
Paris
Hermes
Oscar
The
Waldorf
Thackery
Bob Ripley
Buster West
Eddie Foy, Jr
Charles King
George M. Cohan
Jack Dempsey
Bob Davis
Wellington Cross
Vanderbilt
Radio City
Broadway
Birh Street
Emtona touted by Elyria woman for health recovery
Mrs J Robarck of Elyria Ohio credits Emtona with a dramatic health turnaround after years of fatigue indigestion headaches and dizziness She reports appetite improvement restored nerves and full vitality following use and urges readers to consult the local Emtona representative at Muirs Cut Rate Drug Store 413 Broad Street for facts and a sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Robarck
Elyria
Ohio
Emtona
Muir
Broad Street
Beggar Man Seeks Odd Jobs After Rousing Park Encounter
A stranger from California pleads for work to eat and a bed after being shooed away with pity by two city residents in Carl Schurz Park. The writer reflects on their instinctive misjudgment and regret, noting the man’s evident honesty and fear in a bustling city environment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schurz Park
California
Sewing Club Picnic Closes Summer at Cascade Park
Local notes report Mrs Jo sephine Bryant and Am brose Rasner visiting Camp Perry with Rasner recovering from a wounded arm. The Sewing Sally Club held a Cascade Park picnic with Florence McCarty and others, then Neva Carrick visited Elyria relatives. Mrs Frank Eschtruth hosted M E church Ladies Aid divisions with a large attendance.
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Vincent
Josephine Bryant
Bobb
Ambrose Rasner
Camp Perry
Rasner
Charlie Taylor
Hazel
Dorothy
Dover
Frankie Reese
F. H. Lewis
Guelker
Vinla Keisel
West Dover
Sewing Club
Sewing Sally Club
Cascade Park
Florence McCarty
Margaret Dodd
Emma Ackerman
Kathryn McIntire
Loretta Lewis
Lois Eschtruth
George Beese
W. Beese
C. Wilford
E. Krautter
Stoughton
Local Family Reunions Highlight Pleasant Social Week
The Chambers family held its 36th annual reunion on Ford Road with many relatives from Elyria Grafton and Rocky River attending. Officers were re elected and multiple contests plus ice cream and cake followed a day of races. A Progressive Class meeting at the Abbe Road M E church also gathered for prayers reports and social time with plans for the next meeting. Poe is noted as a skilled detective writer who anticipated many plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mer
Marblehead
Reese
Nmre
F. H. Lewis
Frederick
Lorain
Emma Krautter
Myron Starr
Cuyahoga Falls
J. Karman
Todd
Frank Eschtruth
Clara Keller
St. Ignace, Mich
Robert Foster
Fell
Brura
Hedges
Chambers
H.C Chambers
Ford Road
Hattie Snyder
Elyria
Richard Chambers
H. J C. Chambers
Fred Tran
Mhdred Day
Ruth Tran
Herbert Chambers
Ethel Chambers
Harvey Chambers
Lara van Wagnen
H. C. Chambers
Horace Seeley
Maurice Tran
Grace Haynes
Edgar Gates
Ethel Kneisel
Ethel Downs
Lara van Wegnen
Harriett Seeley
Arthur Johnson
M. E. Church
Abbe Road
J Cook
J. Harnish
Morris
Wr Johnson
John Harnish
Tuliv Baldwin
F Tr. Lewis
John Cook
E. McIntire
J. G Moerris
Lewis
Papers Found Beneath Wallpaper Reveal 1873 Marietta News
A Newport house foundation yielded 76 year old newspapers including a New York Tribune from Horace Greeley era and a copy of the Marietta Register of 1873. The clippings note a “great business mood” sweeping the nation as era headlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
New York Tribune
Horace Greely
Frank D. ‘Kerr Neathere
Marietta, O
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Beekman and
Sutton Places
West S@th street
Walfare Island
East End Avenue
J. Roback
Carl Schurz
Vincent Astor
Billy B. Yan
Neva Carrick
Gladys Dunfee
Mrs. Carrick
C E McIntire
A. Johnson
Mrs. J. L. McIntire
Little Daughter
Eugenie
VR Pyleet Oee
Frank van Wasnen
Lara
Maurice
Rath
Grafton
Edgar
Ann
Harriett
Marian
May Johnson
Hel Downs
Harry and
Glen
Elytia
Ruth Sweet
Calvin Sweet
Rocky River
P. IL
Neva
Howard Carrick
A.C Haynes
Bobbie
Clyde
W. H. Chambers
June
Frank
George Chambers
Frankin Beese
Morrisy
William and
Gerald
Erbel Knetsel
Lerey
Brownhelm
Will’ Carr Af Whinaco
Ethel
George Day
Meidred Nav
Ibert Part Rose Ae
Poe
Frogville
Tom
Eas Press
Grant’s
Berets
Grant's
Grant
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