Madness on Broadway and city theatre frights
A chaotic account recalls a theatre panic when smoke from a fire alarm near Twenty-second street sent audiences scrambling for exits. A vigilant police officer calmed the crowd, while frantic patrons trampled seats and fanned fears of disaster across the crowded venue.
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Park Theatre
New York
Mrs. Langtry
Twenty-second Street
Stentor
Cosmopolitan Hall
Cromier
Cincinnati Enquirer
An Atlantic Monthly Style Sketch and Lincoln Anecdotes
A rambling vignette blends a rustic poem and a memory of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. Ward Lamon recounts Lincoln’s controversial fee practices, a court rebuke, and a later quip about “Catchem and Cheatem,” plus a brief note on Lincoln’s misgivings about verse. The piece also touches on water as a medicine and a Lombard-era theatrical venture in Liverpool.
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Lincoln
Scott
Mr. Lincoln
Lamon
David Davis
Lazarus
Job
Turkey
O. L. Davis
Avaning Gb
Togeth Ng Wyorser
Ogmathorial Court
Ward Lamon
Liverpool
Atlantic Monthly
Ernee
Marvel
Bill Nye
Paseling
Bill
Spear & Word
Fannie Edgar Thomas
Inter Ocean
New Use for Bells In Restaurant Ordering System
A Chicago Herald report describes a restaurant manager in Clerk Street who replaces shouted orders with a bell system. Waiters press labeled batons to signal eggs or steak levels, sending precise kitchen instructions via rotating tickets and a central annunciator, promising speed and reduced noise.
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Walter
Chicago Herald
Child of Mount Vernon and Toothache Remedies
Biographical note on George Washington Parke Custis, called the child of Mount Vernon, his connection to the Washington family, and his longevity and oratorical talent. It also cites medical use of pilocarpine injections for toothache with historical case details and outcomes from The Revue de Therapeutique and a notice from Né Fork Tribune.
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Mount Vernon
George Washington Parke Custis
Arlington
Washington City
Robert E. Lee
Washington
Mr. Custs
Ben
Perley Poore
M. Kurzahoff
Revue de Therapeutique
Valerian
A New Advertising Dodge Purses Bogus Bills
A Toronto Globe note describes a new advertising tactic of leaving bogus purses on sidewalks with fake money bills protruding. The idea is to catch passersby and draw attention to printed advertisements on the purses. A general respondent dismisses the scheme, questioning patronage of advertisers who play with people's sentiments.
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Toronto Globe
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