First performance of Home Sweet Home in Covent Garden
The aria Home Sweet Home was sung for the first time on May 8 1823 during the work Clart the Maid of Milan at Covent Garden in London.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1924
Page
8
The aria Home Sweet Home was sung for the first time on May 8 1823 during the work Clart the Maid of Milan at Covent Garden in London.
Flags furled and drums muffled as the Confederate legion surrendered the city along the ChicaSaw river. Veterans in gray marched into the night for what may be the last reunion, a somber pageant marking the end of a historic era.
Dallas hosted a Confederate veterans reunion with a three hour parade led by Gen. John T. Hinkam. Bank of Commerce and Trust Company of Memphis insured $1,000,000 to guarantee next year’s reunion in Dallas, backed by a city warrant deed and mayoral officials.
Police detectives say 8 year old Robert Boria and 6 year old Michael Terriole admitted placing rocks on the rails, causing the Twilight Express wreck in Worcester Massachusetts last Tuesday afternoon that killed three people.
Principal Jarman announced that public attendance is invited for the commencement sermon class day exercises and graduating exercises with no ticketing. An admission fee of 50 cents will be charged for the commencement play Tuesday night, while reserved seating is limited to graduates' immediate families for the graduation performance.
Ten men are dead and five seriously injured after a gas explosion at Loomis Colliery of the Glen Alden Coal Co near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania. Rescue teams search the mine as officials withhold details while reports later put total deaths at nineteen in the Loomis Colliery incidents.
A fence made from rifle barrels collected on Civil War battlefields surrounds the cabin where Ulysses S. Grant once stayed in St. Louis. The unusual enclosure preserves a piece of Civil War history tied to the famed general.
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