The Theaters Today Schedule and Market Notes
Today’s listings show English’s Primrose and Dockstader Minstrels at 2 15 and 8 15 p m Grand Vaudeville at 2 15 and 8 15 p m At the Cross Roads and Park features include Lazare by Otis Skinner with Maud Durbin in the company and The Vinegar Buyer by Ezra Kendall plus San Toy with Collins Fortescue Bowen and others Next week brings Zig Zag Alley The Mad Man and A Day and a Night at Empire Theater plus Moulin Rouge and detailed ad plans by J J Rosenthal on Vinegar Buyer advertising plus industry notes on press agents and curtain speeches and the decline of actors breaking between acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lazarre
Otis Skinner
George Fortescue
Elgie Bowen
the Grand
Valerie Bergere and
Empire Theater
Fred Rider
Empire
Public tastes and theater missteps slow serious drama
The piece laments audience behavior that spoils strong Acting in modern plays and notes frequent laughter from spectators. It cites Edith Wharton's translation of Sudermann and a Garden Theater postponement. Mrs Campbell and John Bilatt clash over stage management, Bilatt resigns, another actor steps in, while Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray is staged.
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Edith Wharton
Hermann Sudermann
Garden Theater
New York
Campbell
John Bilatt
Pinero
Social notes and society nuptials in Indiana towns
Mrs H B Hibben returns from Terre Haute as Miss Lemon Steffey visits Miss Lillian Clark. many families, engagements, and weddings reported from Indianapolis area towns. Notables include Riffe McKay wedding at Windfall, Jerrett Barton wedding in Richmond, King Miller marriage in Portland, and extended local visits and entertainments across Tipton, Bloomington, and surrounding counties.
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H. B. Hibben
Terre Haute
Lemon Steffey
Sheridan
Lillian Clark
A. J. Clark
Richmond
May Wright Sewall
Lulu Gates
Charles M. Walker
Greencastle
Violet Tinted Beauty Sparks Fashion Across Europe and America
A Victorian era note surveys violet veneer cosmetics sweeping London Paris and Berlin, with Queen Alexandra and Mrs Cornwallis West cited as proponents. It contrasts observers in New York and Philadelphia amid a trend where mothers resemble daughters at a distance. A separate anecdote warns wives about revealing household finances to husbands during economic strain, urging discretion and support only when genuine hardship exists. An elderly embroiderer laments the decline of the craft as fairs favor quicker, novelty designs over traditional needlework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Alexandra
HOME DRESSMAKING HINTS BY MAY MANTON
Close fitting bonnets protect the head and ears for tiny tots and girls to six. The stylish model features a flaring brim for a picturesque effect and eye level outlook. Original uses white bengaline with beaver fur trim, but soft silks and wools suit well.
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May Manton
Child’s crown bonnet with silk ruching and fur edging
A pattern describes a crown formed from shirred fabric meeting a brim and cape, both double gathered. White silk ruching inside the brim tapers to the ends, with ties concealing the cape-brim join. For a medium 4 year size, material includes 1% yards of fabric, fur edging, lining, and 4 yards of silk ruching.
The Fisher’s Quiet Pursuit of Hours and Miles
The poem portrays a fisher with a meditative spirit who wanders with nature. He claims to fish for hours and miles yet returns with empty hands, finding the hour’s best catch in silent harmony with the stream and woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saari
Ethelwyn Wetherald
Young Women Host 17th Indiana YWCA Convention
Greencastle ladies and De Pauw University women plan the seventeenth annual Indiana YWCA convention, October 23 to 26. Notable speakers include Rev. Worth M. Tippy, B D Gordon, Bertha Conde, Florence Simms, L W Messer, Harriet L. Kemper, and state secretaries Bartlett Mills Batchelder Mayo. Fourteen colleges attend. city associations from Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Terre Haute send members and board representatives. New Indiana efforts feature rest rooms and the Terre Haute city association opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle
de Pauw University
Young Women's Christian Associations of
Indiana
Worth M. Tippy
Indianapolis
D. Gordon
Cleveland
Bertha Conde
American Committee of
The
Florence Simms
L. W. Messer
Chicago
Harriet L. Kemper
Anderson
Bartlett
Mills
Fort Wayne
Batchelder
Indiana University
Mayo
Indiana State Committee
Colleges and Normals
Terre Haute
Associat
Fairmount
New City Association
Judge scales punishments in unusual juvenile court case
In a rare proceeding Judge Stubbs presided as Mrs. Munden refused to whip her son Alfred Munden aged fourteen for petit larceny. The judge urged truancy officer Bristow to report domestic neglect and warned of legal action. The mother later whipped the boy in the basement until exhausted, then asked Officer Woolley to finish him. Several younger boys were arraigned for stealing papers and tools, with fines, suspended judgments, and restitution ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stubbs
Mr. Bristow
Mundens
Bristow
Justice of the Peace
Dawson
Woolley
Lincoln Cowger
Burley
Sheda Charleston
Samuel Baker
Richard Sains
North Side
Samuel Barnestine
Joseph Cohen
Grand Jury
James
Porkchops
Shot at brother in law ends in arrest
Charles Schwartz of 1361 Shelby Street attempted to kill his brother in law Fred Strangemeier at close range. Strangemeier, badly burned on the face, survived as officers Hull and Griffin arrested Schwartz for shooting with intent to kill after the attack occurred around 3 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Schwartz
Shelby Street
Fred Strangemeier
Schwartz
Strangemeier
Hull
Griffin
Delegates urged to attend State Conference of Charities
A committee chaired by Rev. M. L. Haines seeks large turnout for the State Conference of Charities and Correction. Letters will urge pastors and society presidents to appoint multiple delegates for each of five main sessions, aided by railroad half rates to boost attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On
M. L. Haines
State Conference of Charities and Correction
Charles W. Moores
P. Sheerin
Margaret Kelly
C. F. Coffin
Merritt A. Potter
Lewis Brown
H. C. Meserve
Howard Cale
Prosecutor Warned Over Indictment of City Physician
Prosecutor Ruckelshaus says threats were made by Dr. Buehler of the City Board of Health to influence his prosecution of Dr. Alexander, accused of purchasing stolen bodies and aiding grave robbers. The alleged warning tied to election results and a physician meeting promising backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruckelshaus
Dr. Alexander
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons
Buehler
City Board of Health
Alexander
Benedict
Dr. Buehler
Buckelshaus
Indictment Expected Against Dr Alexander
A court official stated that enough information had been received to indict Dr Alexander and expressed confidence that an indictment would be returned. The remarks imply ongoing legal actions and potential charges against the physician.
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Alexander
Five-Year Meeting To Unite Quaker Groups In City
Plans are complete for the first gathering of the Quaker Five-Year Meeting beginning on the 22d in this city. A Quinquennial Conference will wind up its affairs on the 2st inst and yield to a new order. The Five-Year Meeting will unite American Orthodox Quakers into one compact body with eleven yearly meetings merged. It will organize Boards of Foreign Missions and Church Extension and address peace arbitration negro education and Uniform Discipline. Speakers include Allan Jay Isaac Sharpless Zenas L. Martin Thomas C. Brown Rufus M. Jones Alph Eeus Trueblood James Wood Mahalah Jay and Phoebe S Aydelott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Foreign Missions
Allan Jay
Isaac Sharpless
Zenas L. Martin
Thomas C. Brown
Rufus M. Jones
Alpheus Trueblood
James Wood
Mahalah Jay
Rachel Kirk
Phoebe S. Aydelott
Charles Kistner Arrested On Threat Charge
Charles Kistner a frescoer formerly with Albert Gall was arrested by Detectives Asch and Manning after a complaint by Gall that Kistner threatened his life. A revolver was found on Kistner when searched behind the Gall store. Gall’s employees say Kistner is an Anarchist, which he denies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kistner
Albert Gall
Asch and Manning
Kistner
Mr. Gall
Gall
Gall's
City News Notes Highlights Local Events And Meetings
Allemania Society dances at Phoenix Hall this season. Town and City School Superintendents meet in Statehouse November 15 19 and 20. Dr Joseph E Morrow returns from Chicago today after graduate work in genito-urinary and skin diseases. London visitor Mr Raven will read Bible at Propylaeum tonight and tomorrow. Indiana avenue Neighborhood House seeks two coal heating stoves via Mr Charles P Doney. Myrtle Temple Rathbone Sisters open card parties Monday in O R C Hall with hostesses named. Rev H W Kellogg D D to speak on Immortality of Man with sermons titled The Verdict of Reason and A Pulpit View of the Great Strike. A swindler posing as People’s Credit Company solicitor preys on city residents, police asked to locate him. A Nicodemus Kane man now Wellington Barnet inquiries about muster out name. Pension dept confirms death of Andrew Harvie, brother of Mrs Christina Harvie. City to consider permanent curfew reform with clergy participation and Y M C A meeting next Monday. Alexander Ming and others to assist, council legal steps planned.
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Allemania Society
Phoenix Hall
Statehouse
Joseph E. Morrow
Chicago
Raven
London
Sinclair
Kingan & Co
People’s Credit Company
North
Pennsylvania Street
Norwood
Nicodemus
Kane
Wellington Barnet
R. M. Smock
Indiana
Grand Army
Barney
Smock
Pension Department
R. B. Harvie
North Adams
Mass
Andrew Harvie
Christina Harvie
Lasalle Street
Albany
Runaway injures two women near Acton and Olive Street
Miss Anna Noack and Miss Katherine Mather were badly hurt yesterday morning when their delivery buggy was frightened by a steam roller on East Washington street. The horse ran and struck a trolley pole, throwing both women. Noack was sent home yesterday afternoon and Mather remained in care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Noack
Acton
Katherine Mather
Olive Street
Miss Noack
East Washington Street
Miss Mather
Liberty Street
Mins Ther
Ber Ho
Perdomo Becomes Colombia's Isthmus Commander Aiding US Ties
General Perdomo has assumed supreme command of Colombian forces on the isthmus and serves as minister of state. He praises American forces and the Panama Canal project, pledging to pacify the region and clear guerrilla bands to secure transit and canal construction. The cruiser Bogota arrives, with Chilean Presidente Pinto saluting the batteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Colombia
General Perdomo
Perdomo
Tolima
Cundinamarca
Fernandez
Colon
Prescott
United States
Bogota
Sancisco
Presidente Pinto
Chile
Panama governor refutes claim of Colombian dictator
Washington Oct 17 Governor Salazar of Panama replies to the Colombian legation that reports of General Fernandez declaring himself dictator of Colombia at Bogota are unfounded. He notes similar rumors have circulated before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Salazar
Panama
Fernandez
Colombia
Bogota
Blackmail Conspiracy Scandal Grips Chicago Detectives
Chicago on October 17 saw two city detectives a lawyer and a First ward politician placed under arrest charged with conspiring to bleed a young New Yorker in a blackmail plot. The case centers on attempts to extort money from the victim through threats and manipulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
First Ward
Real estate listings mixed with varied properties for sale
A broad array of properties offered from 12 acre sites in Detroit to timber land in Monmouth County and unimproved tracts in Dade and Me counties. Listings include residences, farms, building lots in Oregon and Washington, a gold mine in California, and resort prospects along rivers in California and Maine.
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Detroit
Mich
M. C
A. & Impts
Milam Co
Tex
Blair Co
House
A. Land
Riz Milla
I A
Troy
R. House
Timber Land
Mon Co
Fairtela
Portland
Ore
Port
East Sound
Orcas Island
Wash
San Juan al Ve
Orange Grove
Mai
Park & Evardana
Tacoma
Dade Op
Woburn
Mase
Res
Lasmane N. Mex
A. Fruit and Stock Farm
Ulster Co
R. FR
Cleveland Co
Okla
Clear Creek Co
Colo
Cherokee Co
Sacramento River
Shaste Co
Cal
Sagadahoc Co
Philadelphia
Blackmail Trial Shocks New York Family In Neely Court
Levy threats were used against the Hickey family after a burglary arrest. In Neely Court the accused faced trial for the crime. Police Inspector Lavin led a week of inquiry before the arrest of Cantwell Politician Dedenhaver Davis Tedford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
William Davis
Cottage Grove-avenue
Joshua Tedford
Davis
Swift & Co Seeks Market Shakeup in Hog Trade
A Swift & Co agent arrived Tuesday and seized about half the hogs consigned here, aiming to pressure Kingan & Co into a new trust. Swift has opposed Kingan, bidding high and pushing the market up 3 to 3 1/2 cents. Rauh of Union Stockyards said the move does not prove a fight is forming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift & Co
Kingan & Co
Swift
Kingan
Kingan House
Swift Packing Company
Indiana
E. Rauh
Union Stockyards Company
Mae
See Ee Co
New Grace Presbyterian Pastor Installed in City
Installation services at Grace Presbyterian Church honored the arrival of Rev. C. A. Foreman from Iowa near Des Moines. Foreman, 26, McCormick Seminary graduate, succeeds Dr. Charles R. Hunt who moves to Kentucky. Services led by Rev. G. L. McIntosh with remarks from classmate Dr. C. L. Lucas and Dr. M. L. Maines outlining the church’s support for the new minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Presbyterian Church
Capitol Avenue
Thirty-second Street
C. A. Foreman
Iowa
Des Moines
McCormick Seminary of
Chicago
Foreman
Charles R. Hunt
Kentucky
G. L. McIntosh
Cc. L. Lucas
New Tor
In Tor
M. L. Maines
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Butterick Patterns
Monte Carlo Coats
Bry Gevels
Mixa Hs
NoE's
Amieamer St
Indiana Dental College of Dentistry
University of Indianapolis
Delaware and
Ohio Streets
J. J. Rosenthal
Liebler & Co
Ezra Kendall
Rosenthal
Ne Pers
Bayheen
Puffery
Flesh and Blood
Wiliam H. Crane
David Harum
Robson
Personal and
Robert Proctor
Edwin B. Pugh
Tipton
Horace Wood
Husband
Graham
Maude Showers
Miss Showers
Bloomington
Mrs. Whitney
Harry Drew
Man
Daniels
Edward Daniels
Anna G. Hubbard
Newport
R. L
W. B. White
Raymond P. van Oars
E. 8. Ferris
New Castle
C. Bassett
C. D. Remington
Jean Cochrane
North Illinois Street
Boland
Merle N. A. Walker
Lemars
Stanton T. Jones
Minnie M. Parkhurst
J. R. Deckard
Hovey Street
Thomas R. Kackley
Mr. Kackley
S. E. Perkins, Jr
O. E. Perkins
Perkins
Thomas
Clarence Zener
O. M. Lemen
Harriet Lemen Obrist
Ogden Harrison Gray
Fairfield
Miss Hamilton
Lelie Hamilton
Eleanor Minor
Thaddeus Rhodecker
Pekin
Ill
Miss Minor
Will Iden
la Crosse
Wis
Frank Lacey
Noblesville
F. R. Kautz
Myla Smith
Marguerite Bugbee
Edwin Maurice Craft
Riffe
M'Kay
Indianapolis Journal
Ind
William E. Riffe
Lucy Beryl McKay
Montgomery McKay
John H. Stottler
Christian Church
Jerrett—Borton
J. M. Jerrett
Fountain City
This County
Elizabeth Barton
Webster
South Eighth Street
Friends’ Mage
C. Ellis
Fountain Y
Greenwood
5. W. van Nuys
Franklin
Alice Shortridge
George Guthrie
Sarah McQueen
Fairland
Josie Polk
Melissa Strauss
North Manchester
E. M. Strauss
Westhafer
Morristown
Fred Whitenack
Joseph Handley
Mary
Wishard
James Kelley
Goshen
Indiana Presbyterian Synod
Edward Leonard
Clyde McClure
Gas City
Chicago Tribune
Duchess of Marlborough
New York Sun
Young Women In Convention
State Board of Charities
J.C. Aten
China
Lilly & Stalnaker
Schrader China Co
Washington Street
America
City News Notes
Alexander Mings
C. 8. Denny
A. M. Sweeney
M. V. Wheeler
S. C. Dickey
J. E. Neighbor
T. C. Day
J. F. Wallick
Excelsior
South
Panama Canal
Fernandes
Barocas
Saranae Mane
DR. Bull
Sarah E. Willever
Phillipsburg
N. J
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