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Title: Canadian grocer July-December 1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rogramme, label-led Fun by the Hamilton Boys,which on account of the novelties andexcellencies of former years, was anx-iously looked forward to, was broughtbefore the foot lights, or rather, inthis case, head lights. For originality and general all-roundtalent, those same Hamilton boys cer-tainly carry off the palm. They couldstart off on a concert tour to-morrowand rake in shekels by pailfuls if peopleonly knew them as they do in Alton.This, too, was about the idea of their Sam Male, as Rastus, the coon ser-vant, was the funniest thing on thestage, and provoked screams by hisclever acting. He got outside the haltof a big juicy watermelon about as fastas a steainshovel gobbles up a gravelbank. Billy Dore made a cracking fineHighlander, even to the rubber ballspasted to his calves on the inside of hiswhite socks. Harry Eckstein did a turnas Madamoiselle something or other,an opera singer, and got off a couple oflove songs in a falsetto, soprano thatwould pass muster in the Mendels.ohu
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A POPULAR ALTON KESIDLNCL.,The Verandah of Robt. Algies Home, Giving Some Idea of Alton Hospitality. stunt, which was in the form of a vau-deville act, staged in a way that wouldmake the property man at Sheas orBennetts turn blue with envy. Tomake the story short, Bay Hill, asthe organizer of a traveling company,advertises for performers and theseappear and give exhibitions of theirturns. The first, Prof. Ben Arthur, was en-gaged to punch the piano, an occupa-tion which he certainly discharged withavidity, the melody handed out ra .Ldngfrom cakewalks to grand opera. 3^ choir. His, make-up-—rouge, corsets,hair net and all were as feminine asheart could wish and someone tells astory that a couple of the Alton boyswanted to kiss him or her, on his orher way up from the house to the tent.Billy Pringle came on in the varicoloredgarb of a freebooting Dago, with anItalian accent that surely was imported.One of the funniest stunts, though, w:jsa- burlesque boxing contest, put on byGeorge an

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