Amateurs Learn To Stage A Summer Benefit Show
An experienced correspondent offers practical guidance for organizing a summer charity entertainment at resorts. He covers leadership, venue choice, talent selection, pricing, publicity, ticketing, rehearsal, and safety. Emphasizes local talent, children’s participation, varied acts, and a two hour program with tableaux and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Fresh Air Fund
Children’s Country Week
Little Mothers
St. John’s Guild
Narragansett
Newport
Long Branch
Chi
Mary E. Bryan
New York
Swing’s Liberal Sermons Draw Crowds at Central Music Hall
Special Correspondence from Cuicano notes Professor David Swing, now about sixty, continuing to attract large Sunday audiences at Central Music Hall. Once a Presbyterian pulpit figure, his 20 year old heresy trial and resignation led to forming an independent society that split the church. his influence remains strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Swing
Cuicano
Central Music Hall
Chicago
Swing
N.B. R
Wonders of Fluorine Gas and Indian Idol Craft
A fragment from Chambers' Journal discusses fluorine gas reacting with crystalline silicon to produce brilliant showers of sparks and melted crystals, noting high melting points and energy release. It also mentions Indian temple idols crafted by carpenters, masons, and potters, with respect to metal and clay idols and traditional worship practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rei
India
Cula
Panitas
A Fatal Mistake In Heart Disease Claims
Physicians challenge the idea that nervous heart trouble is stomach related and minor. Dr. Franklin Miles, Indian specialist, touts a new Heart Cure sold by Morris & Mullens. It allegedly cures various heart and nervous ailments and is widely sold with strong endorsements. A World’s Fair exhibit includes a 11 foot high marble statue, carved from a solid block. Colored Minnesota women offer to assist in decorating the state building at the World’s Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Miles
Morris & Mullens
Miles
Woodworth & Co
Fort Wayne
Tod ; Snow & Co
Syracuse
N.Y
Wolf, Hiledale
Mich
Tria
Morris & Mullen
Minnesota
Castoria and tonics advertised for babies and children
An old advertisement promotes Castoria for infants and children with phrases about its use from babyhood to motherhood. It also extols Swayne’s Ointment for skin ailments and touts DeWit’s Sassparula medicine through Siegfried & Co. as a cure and health aid. The copy mentions a free Handy Dictionary with book purchases and displays a Warren listing for canned goods and salt fish sold by Siegfried & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swayne
Teller
Golden Specific CO
Race St
Alacimati
Siegfried & Co
Warren
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Ayer
Annie
Butler
Poudst
Providence
R. I
Geo. B. Hunter
Goose River
N. 5
Sam
H. A. Bean
Lawrence
Mass
EG. Ayer
Eadeener
A. P. Ondward & Co
Boston
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pa
John Fl. Harris
Phist. Dent
WM. C. Greizinger
Lewisburg
Antiml
Pee Woreds
Katie Connor
Mary and
Joun du
Krout
Albert Heerout
Phila
Louisa C. Casemere
Second Street
Reramabia
E. Cigmons
de Field
Washington
Indiana Stone Goury Company
Samuel Pitcher
Castoria
Lowell
J. FP. Rincwe Og
Conway, Ark
J. A. Ancaen
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Castori
Allen C. Saara, Pres
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
Cifarge
Nelson Greenland
sseiseUll
Sronkret Block
Penn’a
Migs
DeWit
Sursaparula Es
Dr. Haines
Gram
Geo. Davis
Cur
2Nd
Liberty Sis
DoeWitt
Noyes Drug Store
Children Cry For
Pitcher’s Castoria
Jr. Jr
WM. H. Holmes
Pennsylvania
TEE WM. HH. Holmes Co
Water St
Fucisburgm
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington, PA
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