The Woman from Moscow and The Perfect Crime At Local Theaters
Pola Negri stars in The Woman from Moscow at The Fair as The Perfect Crime shown at The Mission with Irene Rich Clive Brock and others headlining. Films highlight a crime master planner and a sensational underworld backdrop while Maurice Chevalier is noted for upcoming Paramount talking pictures.
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Moscow
Pola Negri
Trene Rich
Mellen
Marty Young
Norman Kelly
California Fig Syrup Ad Targets Constipation in Children
A vintage Texas advertisement warns that constipation harms children's health and promotes California Fig Syrup as the cure. It cites Mrs. Clara Hild of San Antonio and claims the product cleanses the bowels, strengthens organs, and supports normal activity. It warns buyers to avoid imitations and to seek cartons bearing California.
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California
Texas
Clara Hild
Box
San Antonio
Alfred
Century-Old Centurion Battleship Targets British Fleet
The former battleship Centurion, once a Grand Fleet flagship, now a crewless, radio-steered wreck near Glasgow, endures heavy damage yet preserves key interior machinery. The battered hull, sister ship to the Audacious sunk by a mine, is viewed as a guarded British Admiralty secret.
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Glasgow
Centurion
Grand Fleet
Admiralty
Noted editor of Idaho paper dies at home
Calvin Cobb age 75 longtime editor and progressive publisher of the Idaho Daily Statesman died after weeks of illness in Boise. Cobb who took charge in 1889 transformed the Statesman into a daily paper and made it a widely respected northwest publication. Funeral services were held and the body to be sent to Chicago for burial.
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United Press
Boise
Idaho
Calvin Cobb
Fearles
Idaho Daily Statesman
Chicago
Cobb
The
Statesman
Northwest
Bookmaker Arrested For Cheating Phone Toll in St Louis
United Press reports a bookmaker jailed in St Louis after being charged with using a single coin to make long distance calls. He opened the coin box and removed the coin before it dropped in, racking up about $80 in calls.
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United Press
ST Louis
Advertising executive joins air travel plan in Texas
W. N. Thompson of Amarillo Grain & Coal welcomes Charles C. Johnson Jr of Universal Mills at Amarillo airport. Johnson, a Fort Worth Aerocade member and former Army Air Service lieutenant, will visit eleven towns by plane to connect with Superior distributors, covering about one thousand miles in three days. He predicts air travel will become common for rapid business service.
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W. N. Thompson
Amarillo Grain & Coal Company
Amarillo
Charles C. Johnson
Universal Mills
Fort Worth
President-Elect Hoover to Be Silent and Cautious
President-Elect Hoover says he will feel his way in shaping the administration and start as a silent leader like Coolidge. He plans a cosmopolitan cabinet, keeps counsel, and will not manufacture news, signaling possible retention of Mellon New and Davis with Morrow as a candidate for Secretary of State. Senator Borah of Idaho is also mentioned in early cabinet speculation.
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United Press
Palo Alto
Calif
Herbert Hoover
White House
Calvin Coolidge
New England
Coolidge
Hoover
Warren G. Harding
San Juan Hill
Capitol
Treasury Mellon
New
Dwight Davis
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico
Borah
Idaho
New South Wales Delays Comment on Bus Controversy
The New South Wales Government will not issue statements for several months about the clash between federal and private buses in the country. The move aims to avoid escalating the dispute while awaiting further guidance from higher authorities.
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New South Wales
Tangier Fox Railway to Extend to Ceuta at High Cost
The Tangier Fox railway line in Morocco, opened last year, is planned to extend to Ceuta, with construction costs approaching 1.709 million dollars. Mention is made of potential elevation of Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan to attorney general and his favorable influence in the justice department.
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William J. “Wildbill” Donovan
Donovan
Hoover
Justice Department
Morocco
Ceuta
Rev D Lee Promotes Lithiated Buchu for Night Urination Relief
Portsmouth preacher Rev D Lee advertises Lithiated Buchu Keller Formula as a bladder irritant remedy. He claims rapid relief from nightly awakenings, noting long standing issues and multiple nightly trips. Tablets priced two cents at Keller Laboratory and Randal Drug Co.
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D. Lee
Portsmouth
N. H
Crescent Way
Keller Laboratory
Mechanicburg
Ohio
Randal Drug Co
McCoy's Tablets Promising Weight Gain Guarantee
An advertisement touts McCoy's Tablets promising at least five pounds gained in four 60 cent boxes or two dollar boxes. It claims a complete transformation in appearance and health with a money back guarantee if results fall short. Distributed by Mec Coy's Laboratories, Inc.
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McCoy
Ronal
Fox, Randal
Post Office Drug Stores
MecCoy's Laboratories, Inc
McCoy’s
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Terael Zangwill
Big Bow
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Clive Brock
Irene Rich
Tully Marshall
Ethel Wales
Carroll Nye
Gladys McConnell
Edmund Breese
James Farley
Phil Gastrock
Little Baby Jane le Verne
Underworld
Charles Francis Coe
New York City
Coe
Fox Film Corporation
Alfred Hild
Panhandle Floral Co., Inc
A. Alenius
F. B. Pendergraft
Fish
Weyer
Pola
Norman Kerry
Garamount
Bobby Vernon
Pathe News Reel
Lydia E.pinkham
Deandi
Mullen
Man
State Bank
Polk St
Dees
Jay C. Flippen
Interstate
Mayer’& Evans
Cowboy
Buick
Buick Motor Company
Fisher
Frost Motor CO
Tyler
Aljolson
Brunswick
Vitaphone
Jolson
Sonny Boy
Tom Gerunovich
Roof Garden
Gal Sal
Panatropes . Radio
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co
New York
Dallas
Elm St
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