March 18, 1900
from Jonathan Reads Old Newspapers Hosted by Jonathan Cohen
Today in history: W.C. Fields makes it big, opening for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in SF. Maud S., The Race Track Queen, beloved racehorse, dies at 25, having set a record 9 years earlier. In the New York Tribune: A full-length advertisement from Siegel & Cooper Co., including a showing of footage of Pope Leo XII (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzLduvnW-FA)
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