Death of Arthur Sidman shocks theatergoers
News of Arthur Sidman’s unexpected death shocks audiences as his wife and he prepared to open a new comedy York State Folks in Chicago after summering at Higgins Beach. The Sidmans, frequent headliners with Robert Puglora’s vaudeville, had been building their first full play with manager Fred J. Wright.
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Arthur Sidman
Higgins’ Beach
Maine
York State
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Mrs. Sidman
Grand Opera House
Fred J E. Wright
Sol Smith Russell
Chariot Race Stage Machinery and Cast Details At Illinois Theater
The production moves to Chicago with a grand chariot race on stage using twelve horses and 248 feet of scenery whirled in a minute fifteen. The show features Mesala’s wheel smashing and dust filled crowds as 350 participants appear across scenes. Seat sales begin August 2 at the Illinois Theater, with mail orders urged.
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Chicago
Messala
Ben-Hur
Illinois Theater
Personal and Society notes of travel and engagement
Pebble of society life reports numerous trips and departures to Michigan and Ontario for rest and visiting friends. Miss Nellie Whelden visits Paris. Mr and Mrs Barnes go to Georgian Bay. many couples plan trips to Petoskey Walloon Lake Tippecanoe Lake and Buffalo. Engagement announced between Miss Grace Compton and Mr Albert Ransom.
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Ig Peck
Wawasee Toay
Nellie Whelden
Paris
A. A. Barnes
Georgian Bay
John Rauch
Petoskey
Mich
W. H. H. Miller
Charlevoix
K. KE. Scott
Tippecanoe Lake
Adele Wallick
Walloon Lake
William Cooper
Cartersburg Springs
Charles M. Reagan
Buffalo
New York
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Miss Daggett
Maxinkuckee
Hugh J. McGowan
Petoskey, Mich
McGowan
R. Tarkington
Frances Crum
Boston
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Elizabeth Ketcham
J. C. Sipe
Harbor Springs
Sipe
Sadie McIntosh
Michigan
Mackinac
J. M. Milles and Son
Nashville
Tenn
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Charles Balke
Niagara Falls
Donn V. Smythe
Crystal Beach
Ont
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Mable Goshorn
Clarksburg
W. Va
Chenoweth
Pressly Farm
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Broad Ripple
Caulder
Utica
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Lizzie Crane
Chicago
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Milwaukee
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Greensburg
Madison
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California
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Cambridge
Mass
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Benjamin
Walcott
Caulders
N. Y
Elizabeth Fletcher
Eudora Sanders
Graham
Sandusky
Nell Steep
Bremmermen
Della Chambers
Lillian Despo
Florence Ork
Stella Fox
Berenice Davis
Mae Egan
Grace Compton
Albert Ransom
Sampy
Woodruff Place
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Edward Potts
Los Angeles
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Ransom
Toronto
Canada
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Indianapolis Journal
Laporte
Ind
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Laporte County
Superior Junction
Wis
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Talma
Rochester
McKee
Wisconsin
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Rees
Thorntown
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J. C. Staats
Levi Rees
Staats
Indianapolis
City News Items Highlight Clergy Change and Local Incidents
The Rev. H Kellogg of Portland Ore is chosen to succeed Rev C C Lasby and will begin work here late September. In Police Court six Bungaloo gang members were fined and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse for loitering and rioting. Police-guarded services are planned at New Slope Colored Church due to rowdy behavior. Harry Vogt writes from the Philippines that he planted sunflowers, sparking local pride and curiosity. Luke Fitch faces shooting charges after an argument on West Michigan Street, though no one was struck.
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Taylor Street
Portland
Ore
C. CL. Lasby
Central Avenue
M. EB
Bungaloo
West Washington Street Show Grounds
New Slope
William Needham
Lois Taylor
Harry Vogt
Twentythird Siment Band
Philippine Islands
Carl B. Vogt
Philippines
Luke Fitch
Bismarck Avenue
Michigan Street
Sylvester Hathfold
Fitch
Hintfeld
No. 4
North
Belmont Avenue
F. M. Coxe
Shipman
United States District Court
Ma Ford
California
Ellen Starr
Illinois
Bridgeport Trust Company
George F. Gilman
Helen Hall
Joseph Hertzel
Buena Vista
Col
Hertzel
George Skinner
Revert Shuler
Allentown
Denver
Leonard G. Leasing
Samuel Verplenck
Laura Rankin
Fishkill Landing
N. Y
Verplanck
Miss Rankin
New Orleans
Judge Green
Kennebunkport
Aug
Potter
William A. Potter
United States
Italy
Plumber uncovers $2000 hidden in doorway at Stone home
Plumbers at the late Stillman Stone residence in OBMBROSH, Wisconsin, unearthed two thousand dollars hidden under a doorway step. Stone, a wealthy south side resident who died recently, left no public clue to the stash.
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Wis
Stillman Stone
South Side
Governors and Officials Clash Over Turf Exchange Probe
Chicago man Thomas Hogan and Whiting clerk George Jones met Governor Durbin amid a push to close the Long Beach Turf Exchange, nicknamed Indiana’s Monte Carlo, with Durbin weighing action. Attorney General Taylor consulted. Col Wilson warned that any prize fight would be halted and the sheriff and police urged strict enforcement. In boxing action at the Interurban Athletic Club, Eddie Sprague defeated Andy Bezenah on points in a 20 round bout, with no decision due to earlier agreement.
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Mancie
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Cincinnati
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Streator
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Alexandria
Sprague
Bezenah
John Whitaker
Cleveland
H. A. Minor
Logansport
Foley
Muncie
Col. Wilson
Delaware County
Metropolitan Police Commissioners
Captain Wirt Hurts Again In Runaway On North West Street
Captain J B Wirt aged seventy four, veteran mail carrier, suffers cuts and bruises after his horse ran away on North West street. The incident ends with mail scattered for three squares and recovered by patrols. Wirt phones Night Superintendent Buchanan, who sends assistance. He remains active on his route, with a string of past runaways noted.
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Brush May Sell Cincinnati Club Says Chicago Dispatch
A Chicago dispatch reports Ban Johnson received word from a Cincinnati businessman that John T. Brush intends to sell the Cincinnati club. Brush told a reporter he plans to remain in baseball in Cincinnati next year in any league, but believes he will stay in the National League.
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Chicago
Ban Johnson
Cincinnati
John T. Brush
Journal
Brush
Wife seeks missing husband Louisa Gallagher in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati woman, Louisa Gallagher, writes the local police to locate her husband who came here July 1 for work and has not been heard from since. She sent a letter detailing his personality and clothing, but police note he is not in the city.
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Louisa Gallagher
Cincinnati
International Typographical Union Yet to Vote on Autonomy Referendum
Birmingham August 13 The International Typographical Convention votes 81 to 76 to submit the preamble of a plan granting stereotypers and electrotypers autonomy to a referendum. Details await local unions action while publishers push arbitration and labor relations reforms amid criticism of the printers home at Colorado Springs. The union reports inadequate revenues and notes local labor troubles in various areas. A Wilneis crop bulletin reports northern corn improvement but below average yields overall with mixed prospects for late corn.
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Ala
Frederick Driscoll
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Lynch
International Typographical Union
Colorado Springs
Thomas McCafferty
International Union
Unions and store clash as clerks protest closing rules
GREAT FALLS Montana August 13 three clerks from the union were horsewhipped by Mrs William Glass owner of a local store. The Trades and Labor Council president pressed assault charges after the store was declared unfair for failing to observe a 6 oclock closing rule. Circulars asked the public not to patronize the store were being distributed nearby.
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Great Falls
Mont
Clerks’ Union
William Glass
Trades and Labor Council
Justice Safford
Glass
Vanderbilt elected as lieutenant in New York regiment
A list of brief 1900s era items notes Cornelius Vanderbilt elected lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment, National Guard of New York, and Daniel F. Sherman of Chicago filing a bankruptcy petition with assets of 5000 dollars and liabilities of 1.115 million.
Nordenskjold Dies, Arctic Explorer and Scholar
Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, famed Arctic explorer and naturalist, died in Stockholm aged about 78. Born November 18, 182, he directed the Royal Museum mineralogical department, mapped Spitzbergen, proved navigability of the Kara Sea, and in 1879 completed the Northeast Passage voyage. He authored The Voyage of the Vega and led Greenland expeditions.
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Stockholm
Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskjold
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold
Helsingfors
Sweden
Royal Museum
Spitzbergen
Kara Sea
Atlantic
Pacific
Greenland
Coal Heaver Morribie Death at Dredge Level
At the levee a dredge boat incident left Hermann a coal heaver fatally injured as a rope and windlass shifted heavy loads. The worker was pulled, crushed, and bled out, while the scene described a fatal accident on the barge and dredge operation.
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Paul
Mino
Aug
Erni
Mermann
Hermann
Oil Strike Reported Thirty Miles North Of Fort Scott
Fort Scott area oil prospectors report a heavy vein fifty miles north of the city. An expert observer says the find is genuine crude petroleum and may indicate substantial reserves in the county.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Aug
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