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Margie Newman
	
Margie Newman was a popular child performer in Dawson City. She and her mother arrived in 1898 and she became known as the "Princess of the Klondike." ((Claire Rudolf Murphy and Jane G. Haigh, //Children of the Gold Rush.// Boulder, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1999: 7.)) The Newman children were all stage performers at Charles Kimball’s Pavilion Saloon on King Street, but Margie was the headliner.((Michael Gates, “Music kept them warm during the gold rush.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 9 February 2024.)) She sang sweet sentimental songs that gave a ‘whiff of the old home atmosphere.’  Margie was frequently bombarded with coins, nuggets, and boxes of candy and it made the audience laugh when the girl dropped her stage dignity and picked up the coins thrown on stage. She was rich when she left Dawson.((Yukon Archives, Victoria Faulkner, 83/50 MSS 137 f.16.))