Burwell's Opera House

Burwell's Opera Hall is to be lighted with 30 incandescent electric lights.   This will be a much-needed improvement.   Gibson [Gibson City, Illinois], thanks to Mr. Burwell [Moses Thorp Burwell], has one of the finest opera halls in the State, and it needs only the brilliant lighting to be now given it to make it still more attractive.

Source: Newspaper clipping from the Burwell/Tate Family Papers, 1850-1930 (K0233), Folder 1. Burwell family scrapbook and photo album, 1879-1908, photocopied.*

*BURWELL-TATE FAMILY PAPERS, 1850-1930 (K0233), The State Historical Society of Missouri, 800 East 51st Street, 306 Miller Nichols Library UMKC, Kansas City, MO 64110.