Mikado at Grand theater delights townsfolk with elaborate staging
The Mikado performance by the Siaaiede die foragas company dazzled Grand theater audiences. The cast included Lieutenant Governor Troutman and Mrs J D McFarland among many neighbors, with Mrs Adams and Miss Gibson drawing praise for Yum Yum and Pitti Sing. The chorus impressed and Ed M Smith and Haskell earned encore for their roles. The show repeats tonight.
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Topeka
Tursone
Laine
Tila Depore
Dent Will Pease
Siaaiede Die Foragas Effie Tophenas
Mikado Company
Troutman
J. D. McFarland
N.C McFarland
Marguerite Bradley
Margeret Dudley
Sara Hambleton
C. BR Morrison
Charley Thomas
Ned Osborn
Jessie Small
Je Peoneli
Atchison
Mewars
Walter Nubile
Theodore Hammett
George Crawford
South
L M. Crawford
Cr. Baker
Mew
Arthur Mills
Mins May Horner
Milas Madge Johnson
W. J. Black
Eugene Hagan
Japan
Jotun Waters
Adams Woo
Ferry
Misa Gibson
Mra Perry
Miss Gibson
Wall
Nisa Thomas
Ruti
Ed M. Smith
Haskell
Kuko
H. & Overholt
V. A Winckley
Prank Alderson
L. M. Nellis
Ingleside Association
Mr. Raskel
Eleonora Duse Returns to America on Second Tour
New York viewers hear Eleonora Duse arrived for her second U S tour. She sent a message via her representative about not returning unless obligated by Mr Miner. Duse will perform five nights weekly in Chicago and Washington before opening in New York February 12 at Pith Avenue Theater. Her season includes Camille Cavalleria rusticana and La Locandiera with Magda in the second week. Her company sails from Genoa next week.
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Signora Eleonora Bas
New York
America
Joseph Area
Chicago
York
Camille
Cavalleria Ruaticans
la Locandiera
Secon
North Topeka society notices and local updates
North Topeka society items from the North Side include Mr John Frattapont on business in Kooses City and Mrs H G Bowen ill at home on Quincy. Several moves and visits are listed along with illness, travel plans, and local business ads. A Tennessee Jubilee Singer visit to the Baptist church is noted, plus minor accidents and community notices.
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Jem
John Frattapont
Kooses City
H. GC
Bowen
Howe
Quincy
Comstock
Washington, D.C
Sheets
H. M.sullivan
Omaha
Neb
Sod
Gas Milam
Kansas
Aysons
Teday
Mire MtUdra
George Brigham
Lome
West Gordon Street
Clowly
W. J. Naylor
Couth Side
North Topeka
Kansas Avenue
G. B. Camp
Jackson
Hainy
Valencia
Chinet Hospital
J. W. Hart
West Laurent
Charles J. Schilling
St Marrs
Quincy Street
Charles Schilling
J. Thomas’ Lumber Yard
J. I. Heifer
Magnet
A. J. Peoudge
Gee, J. Graves & Sons
West Laurent Porese
Topeka
Mono
Sedalia
W. E Sterne
D. C
Sterns
Lincoln the thinker who outmatched his era in mind
A detailed appraisal credits Abraham Lincoln with unmatched intellectual discipline. It argues his mind was precise, methodical, and superior to contemporaries, with minimal reading but profound reasoning. The piece notes his lack of nature imagery, the power of his words, and the Seward-edited final paragraph underscoring unity and "the better angels of our nature."
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Illiam Herndon
Lincoln
America
Hierndon
Linsolo
Waeeleaver
Jesep
Waters
Rockies
Schpyler Colfax
White House
Utmrest
International Gold Trust
Joe
Mar
Friedland
Miller
Angelos
Indiana
Erie
Horace Greeley
Thucydides Thera
Taileyrand
Burke
Webster
Seward
Lincoln Memory Story of the Whetstone Found After Fifteen Years
A tale recounts Abraham Lincoln recalling a dented whetstone he lent to a Sangamon county farmer. Years later, a soldier visiting the White House asks about it, and Lincoln reveals he placed the stone on a gatepost. The soldier finds the stone exactly there and writes to Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Sangamon
Lincoln
White Hunte
Danville Road
Mebby
Lincoln the Carpenter Cabinet Still In Existence
In Gen Tryville Indiana as a boy Abraham Lincoln learned tool handling from his father Thomas Lincoln a skilled carpenter. A walnut cabinet attributed to Abraham reportedly standing about one foot high shows he likely cut the tree sawed the boards planed them by hand and joined them without nails with fatherly aid. Captain J W Wertman of Evansville owns the cabinet as a historic specimen.
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Abraham Lincoln
Gentryville
Ind
Thomas Lincoln
Abrahim
Abraham
Abtcaram Lincoln
Worl
J. W. Wertman
Evansville
Abe
Lincoln Story of Gingerbread and Moral Tales
A Lincoln anecdote recalls his charm and moral storytelling drawn from life. An old southern politician recounts prejudice melted by Lincoln’s personality and a gingerbread tale where Lincoln shared a gingerbread man with a poorer neighbor, revealing simple kindness and humility.
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Lincoln
Washington
Abe
Ced
Lincoln as a dancer in early society
The piece notes Lincoln’s first society appearance in Springfield when a state legislator. It recalls Mary Todd drawing the tall awkward man to a ballroom where he asked to dance and she accepted, describing their first dance and her teasing remark about his dancing.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Trg
Mary Todd
Miss Todd
Mary
False Eyedashes Create Artificial Eyelashes Questionably Safe
A New Parisian hair implant method claims to implant individual hairs along the eyelid edge to form long eyelash arches. The process involves a fine needle threading hair from the head into loops, with curling tongs shaping density, followed by ten hours of bandaging and a months long wear, though costs are high and safety concerns abound.
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Mraas
London
Paris
Atlantic
Ald
Satin table center pattern and materials guide
Instructions describe making a satin table center using white satin one yard, scarlet ribbon, chiffon, and edge embroidery. The author advises procuring five yards of ribbon and preparing the pattern in tissue paper before cutting in satin and hemming the edges for a decorative finish.
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Hevigu
Sandwich Fashion and Reading Advice From The Era
The article discusses elaborate sandwich making for formal luncheons using various breads and fillings, highlighting the fashion of surprising luncheon courses. It also urges women to pursue focused reading, noting time can be found in daily routines to study a specialty such as French history.
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Bostéus
Ged
Mickle
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Lincoln, the Carpenter
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