The Concert at Mamona Hall Delights with Song and Recitation
A vivid account of a Tuesday night program at Mamona Hall featuring celestial singing and refined recitations. Miss Lizzie Barnes and Miss Mena Branch delivered standout vocal solos while Miss Lily Gay impressed with purer tonal flights. Dramatic recitations by Gertrude Blount and Miss Hat tie Kincaid complemented the musical excellence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memnon
Aurora
Achilles
Antilochus
Nestor
Mamona Hall
Neptune
Comecs
Ed Barnes
Lizzie Barnes
Miss Mena
Earth
Ernani
Lily Gay
Pareppa
Nilsson
Lucca
Malibran
Elysium
Gertrude Blount
Susie Simms
Sister
Hattie Kincaid
Wilson
Ocean
Vast mixture of notes and terse maxims from 1888
A collage of quotes and short items cover topics from church vacancies in Boston to po litical comment on Germany Italy and the U S. It notes claims about Alabama treasury boasted wealth and a range of social notes including divorces crime and public figures like Pulitzer and Booth and Barrett. The tone reads as a lively miscellany of public interest snippets.
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Foraker
Chicago
White House
Cleveland
Levi P. Morton
New York
Morton, Bliss & Co
Morton, Post & Co
London
France
Arthur
Wise
Virginia
Wake Forest diploma debate over a woman student
The article argues no diploma was refused since no request had been made for the young woman to graduate. It notes Wake Forest grants degrees only on faculty recommendation and that the woman was not a student, roll member, or catalog entry. It criticizes editors and defends the college stance.
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Baltimore
Ella Russell
St. Petersburg
Russia
Bobby Newcomb
Europe
Senate
Fuller
Wake Forest College
Board of Trustee
North Carolina
Wake Forest
Board of Trustees
Simmons
M. J
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Wilson Brilli
Eider
I’s
Boston
Marbles
Alabama State Treasury
St. Louis
Texas
Detroit
Joe McDonald
Pharman
Indiana
Panama
Christian Science
Cincinnati
Germany
Richmond
Hays
Kingman County
Kan
Mackay
California
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Henry George
Cleveland and
Thurman
William Johnson
Kentucky
Bardstown
Mr. Villard
South Pole
Royal Academy
Fabius W. Rix
Marshhead
Mass
New York World
Joseph Pulitzer
Dorpat
Balfour
Farmers’ Alliance
Mississippi
Booth
Barrett
Jefferson
Florence
Presbyterian General Assembly
Fourth Avenue Church
John Quincy Adams
Martin van Buren
Alabama
William III
Audi Alteram Partem
Davidson College
D. D
Samuel M. Smith
Washington, N.C
J. W. Alspaugh
Trinity College
Jarvis
Brazil
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