Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-08
THE QUAKER CONCERT co.

| Opened a series of entertainments in
! our city this week, upon an electric
| lighted stage opposite Pounds black
smith shop, and have had large au-
1 dience each and every evening. Be-
low you will find what some of South
! Dakota's papers have to say of the
| Quakers, in which state this company
has been operating for about three
/ years:
For great many years there have
| been medicine companies making the
city of Webster. They usually carried
a concert company and the attractions
were not only poor, but they bordered
! on the vulgar,.to appeal to the classes
| that was supposed to part with their
money for anything that pleased them.
| The speaker for the Quaker Doctors,
who opened in this city two weeks ago
| Tuesday night, announced on the start
| that the company was composed of
| ladies and gentlemen he further an
nounced that there would be nothing
| said or done upon the stage that the
most fastidious could take any offense
| at, experience has proven that he
knew his people. The troupe has been
the very best that has ever visited
| Webster. There can be no reflections
or word against them either profess
| sionally or otherwise. The entertain
ments given by them have all been of
| high class. Their specialties are bet
ter by far than those of ordinary
troupes that come to this city. Those
who take part in the entertainments
are not the ordinary barn stormers
who travel with medicine shows, but
are professionals in their line, who
| have learned the way to entertain and
amuse, without that which is usual to
| shows without price; coarseness.
| Their songs are new and catchy; their
| Jokes are not of the chestnut order:
| the farces are something that have not
| been here before.
Then one thing that recommends
this company in particular is that
they are just what they say they are.
| They came to cure those whom they
could cure and they attempted no
other cases. Their company of enter
tainers is carried not only to amuse
the people but to draw an audience,
with whom they may transact buSin-
ness. Doctor Cram brother Charles
| as he is called,) who is the business
manager. is physician, and by this
we mean that he is man of expert
ence, who has not only secured his
| diplomas from attendance and appli-
cation at college, but who has had
| years of experience in the practice of
| his profession. We know that he has
benefited great many people since
! he has been in our city, for they have
| told us so. We have heard of cases
he did not take for special treatment
| because, as he told them, he could not
cure them. The doctor does not claim
| that the Quaker Remedies cure all dis
eases, including old age, but what he
| does claim for the medicines he proves
for them, and he does not claim the
impossible. If you have any disease
that seems to have baf1ed the skill of
the local profession, you can at this
time without any expense, go and see
the Quaker Doctors, if they can cure
You they will do SO for their regula-
ton fees, if they cannot they will tell
you so.
We are informed that the company
will not remain here longer than Mon
day at the latest and they may go Sat
urday. They will give free enter
tainment tonight and tomorrow night
and on Saturday night will give big
double show, the admission being
fifteen and twenty-five cents. For the
last evening they remain in Webster
they have arranged for an orchestra
and will give a dance after the close
of the evenings entertainment and
lecture, which will be free to all who
attend the lecture.
The Reporter and Farmer has had
business dealings with these gentle
men and we have talked with other
business men of the city, and we find
that in all cases the members of the
company have done just as they
agreed. We have no hesitancy in rec
Ommending them to the public and
hope they will make Webster again"
Reporter and Farmer, Webster, S.
D., Oct. 1902.