Mary Pickford Rise From Stage to World Fame
Mary Pickford’s journey from Toronto child actress to global screen icon began with stage parts in The Silver King and The Warrens of Virginia. Her mother prompted a Biograph studio visit, leading to her first motion picture engagement with Griffith and a career that made her beloved worldwide.
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Mary Pickford
Times Square
Mary
Biograph
Fourteenth ‘Street
New York
Valentine Stock Company
Toronto
Canada
America
Little Red
Jessie
Chauncey Olcott
Burke
David Belasco
Belasco
Fourteenth Street
Mr. Griffith
Broadway
From Here and There Hts Good Recipe for Candies and Preserves
A 19th century recipe column offers directions for Southern pralines using sugar cream and nut meats, plus rhubarb conserve with citrus peel and almonds. It suggests molding, cooling, and packing in glasses with paraffin, and notes combining rhubarb with berries to flavor jellies and preserves for thrifty households.
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Western Nawapaner Union
Leading Role for Alice Dahl Marks First Screen Lead
Miss Alice Dahl, former member of Southern California Little Theater movements, rises to a leading role in Free Ranger after minor parts in films. A noted horsewoman, she was chosen to star opposite McCoy, highlighting her breakout in Hollywood.
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Alice Dahl
California
Hollywood
McCoy
Graphic golf instruction on hitting the perfect swing
The piece explains maintaining a consistent address through impact to avoid misalignment. It advises visualizing position, keeping the head steady, and resting the club behind the ball with weight on the left foot, enabling a relaxed backswing and confident downswing.
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Yril Tollhy
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Roners and Riddles from a Prep School Page
The text lists humorous exam tidbits labeled Roners and asks about a letter after D7. It adds playful lines about a flower pistil protecting against insects and a gargoyle joke about sore throats, finishing with a provocative note on race.
Don't Know All There Is to Know, Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit overhears Happy Jack Squirrel and learns a neighbor named Short Tall the Shrew may exist. The tale questions knowing everything, as Peter refuses to admit missing knowledge.
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Peter Rabbit
Peter
Jack
Green Forest
Happy Jack Squirrel
Striped Chipmunk
Happy Jack
Short- Tall the Shrew
Short-Tall the Shrew
Short-Tall
Shrew
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
First use of cowboy term tied to American Revolution
A note states the term cowboy originated during the American Revolution when it described Tories near New York who plundered and stole cattle from both sides on the neutral ground. An accompanying item notes in 1933 McClure Syndicate. Eight women in law form Cleveland’s first all female firm, a landmark in Ohio.
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New York
Hight Women Attorneys
Cleveland
Ohio
United States
A Friend Will Do By Douglas Malloch
The poem declares a friend is worth more than fortune or years. The speaker asks for companionship through smiles, songs, and shared burdens, believing friendship lights the path through dark or uncertain futures and makes every hill livable. The verses affirm that love and friendship turn gray skies blue, with a twist of gratitude to luck if fortune must depart.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
United States
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Remnants of a Nevada Ghost Town and Historic Gold Boom
A view of the Nelson Nevada area shows a ghost town relic where mines, long abandoned for gold, are occasionally reopened by optimistic prospectors hoping to strike a vein overlooked in the former boom days.
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Nelson
Nev
Epochal shift as U.S. abandons gold standard
Washington reports discuss the shift away from the gold standard under President Roosevelt, with Congress granting broad powers to regulate currency. Critics warn of devaluation risk, while inflation supporters urge more money in circulation. The piece outlines new tools, including bond purchases, a flexible gold content, and acceptance of silver from abroad to back new currency.
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Washington
America
Roosevelt
United States
Congress
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Reserve Banks
Reserve Institutions
Federal Reserve
Greenbacks
Western Newspaper Union
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Hal 'C. ‘Herman
Weewee
Tolley
Roners
Moscow
BY Thornton W. Burgess
George Mendel
Dna H. Indritz
Chicago
White House
Edna
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Ee Wnu Service
Baharl
Juliette
Jeanne
Paris
By Douglas Malloch
William Brackatt
Senate
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