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ITEM 4 · THE OPERA HOUSE'S BILLS — GAP-W-ART-1'S INSTRUMENTS, NOW EDITION-DATED
Comedy reached this town first as it reached every town — on the bills of the travelling circuits, in the opera house whose own course the audit registers as a gap — and the bills themselves stand behind the same two instruments as the house.The item therefore closes MIXED, and its residue is this section's most concrete debt: the Independent's amusement columns of the opera-house decades (GAP-W-ART-1's own settler), now joined by a dated second instrument this run established — the town's six Sanborn editions (May 1886, December 1892, February 1898, 1904, 1909, 1922), whose sheets fix the house's footprint and may fix its very name, dates the sheet-by-sheet read in the browser lane will tell. The class is printed; the bills are owed; the owing is printed too.
Principal sources: GAP-W-ART-1 (the opera house; its settlers); Arts (the stage course); the six Sanborn editions established by this run (DF-W-69).