Princess Troubetzkoys Fear Market Play Debuts At Comedy
New York dated piece profiles Princess Troubetzkoy and her play The Fear Market at the Comedy Theatre. It quotes her views on fear, social change, women’s independence, and the aim to create plays addressing major hour questions without sentimentality. The interview also references her actor husband and notes the broader social shifts she expects.
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Zoe Weckley
New York
Troubetzkoys
Mme. Grundy
Amelian Itiven
Troubetzka
Comedy Theater
Hilliken
Uttle Indy
Procrustes
Troubetzkoy
Russia
Four Market
Genpublic
Entertaining a Serpent in a Haunted Outpost
A narrator recalls luring a paranoid, horror-haunted resident named Dutton to safety as an escaped, venomous atmosphere festers. Granger arrives too late to save the doomed mood, and the survivor flees with his love while the eerie violin music lingers as a chilling memory.
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Dutton
Annie Laurie
Siegel Returns to Chicago After Big Losses
Henry Siegel former merchant and alleged financier, once claiming ties to New York Chicago and Boston, stays at the Auditorium hotel Chicago living on a $10 per day expense account. He is described as broke after a $2,000,000 failure and ten months in prison, but remains sharp, answering reporters with evasions while cruising room 238 and chatting with staff. The tale includes his frugal habits, a brief exchange with a reporter and curiosity about his future plans and finances.
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Dutton
Smith and Wesson
Granger
Annie Laurie
New York Telegraph
Chicago
Henry Siegel
New York
Boston
Auditorium Hotel
Siegel
Henry
Mr. Siegel
Ife
Miracles Almost Daily Now in Modern Times
The Dallas News notes marvels of wireless telegraphy and long distance communication becoming commonplace. It explores progress from horseless carriages to motion pictures and airborne messages, predicting a future where death and distant events are preserved and reproduced, while marvels commodify daily life with calm public interest.
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Mother Supton
Dallas News
Maid of Orleans
Mother Shipton
Gypsies Travel by Rail Shocks Chicago Crowd
A gypsy band arrived in Chicago by rail from Omaha, led by King John, drawing amazed crowds at Union Station. The report notes romance fading as some gypsies adopt travel by Pullman cars, while ethnology scholars see ongoing mystery, with traces of Asian and European connections and debated origins.
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Chicago
Omaha
King John
Union Station
Womadic
Europe
Hungary
Armenia
Persia
al- Waqr
India
Western Europe
Hom
Romalos
Clarksburg Historical Advertisers and Tradesmen Listings
A historical survey of Clarksburg presses and ads from 1831 to 1861, detailing merchants, tailors, jewelers, doctors, attorneys and tradesmen. Names include Jones HK, Johnson, M. D. Gittings, G. W. Neff, J. McMechen, A. Criss, R. Criss, Hartman, Criss and Company, and many others. The piece notes the Harrison Whig, Clarksburg Enquirer, and The Clarksburg Democrat, with references to the Mexican War era and local postmasters and clerks.
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WN. B
Jones HK
Johnson
M. D. Gittings
G. W. Neff
Harrison Whig
William McGranacan
Clarksburn
Clarksburg
E. M. Davinson
James Johnson
Henry Waldeck
William Hi Ris
Tyler
Clarksburg Enquirer
Joseph Israel
William Williams
John Wilson, Jr
George I. Davison
Cirenit
John Hursey
T Ward J. Link
BR. Wilkins
N. W. Smith
Tallor
Angust J. Smith
Lawton Botts
A. M. Turner
Burton Despard
Caleb Roggens
John
Duncan
John &. Moffman
Samuel Southern
Lloyd Lowndes
A. Werninger
S. Hartman
Aaron Criss
W. M. Carder
Richard Fawkes
Clarke and Company
Criss
R. FP
John Armentree and Company
Hartman
Aaron Crise
Mexico
Jerusalem
Baltimore
Harrison Republican
Curtis and Prim
Chas and Harrison
Charles Lewin
Dulaney Smith
John Edmonson
John Peck
Lucy Edmondson
Bridgeport
E. N. Coplin
Hoffman
B. Despard
George W. Lurry
Benjamin Wilson
Plisha Smallwood
William R. Alexander
Joseph Cork and Company
J. P. Bartlett
John A. Richards
Samuel Walker
S. S. Wells
T. S. Spates
Hugh Lee
John C. Vance Benjamin Wilson
W. S Lurry
Edgar M. Davisson
John J. Davis
Henry Haymond
A. P. Davidson
J. M. Bawcock and
Invention Tracks When Husbands Return Home
New York March 25 A lock and tape system by A F P Engst of St Paul records the exact hour a husband enters the home. When the door opens the tape reveals the time, exposing late arrivals and turning every nocturnal slip into public proof. The device already draws strong demand despite sparking social turmoil.
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A. FP
Engst
St. Paul
Minn
Ebenezer
Jock
Italian girl hides as miner for three years in Tyler
Josephine Ricatone, born in Italy, spent three years in Tyler Pennsylvania mines posing as a boy named Joe Ricatone. She worked with miners earning high wages and shared their life, revealing her sex only after deserting the mines for domestic work in Pittsburgh.
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Joe Ricatone
Tyler
Pittsburg
Joe
Josephine
Minoa
Josephine Ricatone
United States
Italy
Lancashire mill orders from Japan boost spindles
London reports a Lancashire textile machinery firm has won orders to supply cotton spinning equipment for five new Japanese mills totaling about 250000 spindles. With a 7 July night-work ban looming, the new mills are needed to maintain current production. One odd passage about a designer and later fiction references follows in the text.
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London
Lancashire
Japan
Spring Tonic Advice From Health Commissioner
Harrisburg March 25. Samuel G. Dixon state health commissioner urges light natural remedies over patent tonics. He promotes fresh air exercise and simpler diets, warns against pricey $1 bottles and risky remedies, and outlines a six point spring tonic: eat meat once daily, drink water before bed and before breakfast, breathe fresh air, sleep with windows open, wear adequate clothing, and walk five to six miles daily.
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Harrisburg
Samuel G. Dixon
Dixon
Georgia divorce case shocks state court with sensational allegations
A high profile divorce trial opened before Judge Henry C. Hammond in Jenkins County Georgia. Mrs Winifred Wadley Raoul accuses husband William G Raoul of habitual drunkenness cruelty and unfaithfulness naming Mrs Meta Sinclair as co respondent. Raoul denies all charges and the case reveals lurid socialite behavior and alleged improprieties during the marriage, including visits to Mrs Sinclair and discussions of alimony. The proceedings stress Raoul's socialistic fame and his notorious past.
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Georgia
Henry C. Hammond
Jenkins County Superior Court
Millan
Winifred Wadley Raoul
William G. Raoul
Raoul
Meta Fuller Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair
Cleveland
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Cyrus Vance
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James P. Davis
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Mary
Egypt
William G. Davul
Austria
Pittsburge
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