Arizona Play Heads to Graham Tuesday Night
The critics name Arizona by Augustes Thomas the best play on both coasts. It comes to the Graham on Tuesday January 17 with three companies supplying a strong cast and elaborate scenic production after record runs in New York and Chicago.
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Arizona
Augustes Thomas
Graham
Thomas
Alabama
Mireoura
New York City
Chicago
Academy of Music
New York
Rederick Remington
Tarpon Pageant Exempts Bathers From Sea Drama
In a bay tarpon proliferate with bold antics, a local tale tells of a giant fish harpooned by small-fishers, tied to a keg, and sent toward the open sea. A dramatic parade of tarpon then drifts away as others watch in wary awe.
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Hogshead
America
Coat stretcher tale from a city gift on farm life
An elderly farmer, worn by years, receives a coat stretcher from his urban son. The man explains how his wife taped the device to his coat, revealing a quiet struggle with comfort as he admits he could not wear it properly. The anecdote highlights pride, family care, and gentle humor.
Uneducated Americans and the Names of America
A London Times correspondent questions American pronunciation of their country and traces the etymology of America from Amalaric to Amerigo. The piece notes Brazil as an original American designation and outlines how North America was named in the 16th century linking conceptions to Greater India. The author frames the Americal naming as tied to Anglo Saxon views and India as a source of splendor.
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London Times
Washington
America
North America
India
Americas
Three Recipes For Husbands From Memphis Commercial Appeal
A satirical piece advises how to shape or dispose of a husband by jokes about engagement, removal from friends, and methods to jam or preserve him. It humorously suggests depriving latchkeys, introducing in laws, nagging, and then preserving love with patience and forbearance, ending with a dated sounding line from Memphis Commercial Appeal.
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Memphis
Commerceial
Appea
Bread in China observations on peddlers and bread varieties
The piece surveys Chinese bread markets in Tianjin and Peking, describing bread peddlers who use backs or neck suspensions and three dice raffles, Mohammedan and Han practices, and street bakery customs. It notes the rarity of bread shops, front-facing stores, and a hare-imprinted cake for the moon birthday, with seasonal reuse near Easter.
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China
Pleman
Simon
Tientsin
Ali Baba
Peking
Celestial Empire
Shangtung
Be accurate. A dry goods partner’s rise from office boy
A New York Commercial excerpt recounts how a young man rose in a large dry goods firm from office boy at five dollars weekly to a top partner in ten to twelve years. The boss credits merit, accuracy, and asking questions for his ascent. The message urges young men entering business to adopt the motto Be accurate.
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New York Commercial
A Versatile Woman Phoebe Bown of Matlock Bath
Phoebe Bown of Matlock Bath died about fifty years ago at age eighty. The remarkable woman lived with her mother near High Tor cottage and, in youth, could walk nearly forty miles a day and lift a hundred pounds.
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Phoebe Bown
High Tor
Matlock Bath
England
Phoebe the Jockey Cowherd and Musician of Gannymede
The passage portraits Phoebe a versatile laborer who tilled fields and drove teams while breaking horses for a guinea a week. She rode without saddles, judged horses and cows well, hunted with a gun, enjoyed Milton Pope and Shakespeare, played multiple instruments, built a room for a harpsichord, and inspired an epitaph praising her mixed nature as rider musician and tradeswoman.
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Phoebe
Milton, Pope
Shakespeare
Mallock Church
Muscles That Shat Out Cold
A medical writer explains skin muscles train to contract quickly in cold to limit heat loss. Goose flesh shows contracted tiny muscles that push blood away, hardening the skin to act as a better insulator and preserve body temperature, noting the Indian body’s exposed skin adapting similarly.
Thrift in Nature as Seen in London Essays
The piece cites thrifty reuse of street refuse to form weapons ink dyes and perfumes. It notes ink from broken beer barrel hoops and wine dregs used as a seidlitz powder. It argues thrift mirrors nature and rejects waste, reflecting on London life.
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London
To Ebonize Furniture
Instructions describe darkening wood by rubbing a mixture of lampblack and turpentine into old or unpainted furniture, notably chairs and library tables. The method emphasizes using lampblack for color and turpentine as solvent to imbue surfaces with a blackened finish.
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Columbia Pharmacy
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Chamberlain
Stewart's Pharmacy
Cook & Sherman
Tanfe &Sioage Co
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