Moving pictures evolve with synchronized sound and tricks
A historical note on early film innovation describes synchronized phonographs with moving pictures, behind the scenes dialogue, and the rise of moving picture teams. It notes a 25 million dollar US investment, industry divisions, and trade papers, plus the craft of coloring and the technical process of capturing fifteen frames per second.
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Moving Picture
United States
Moving Picture Trust
The
Walte
the Clipper
France
America
Cooper-Hewitt
Inside Biograph Studio The Show Man and The Yellow Peril
A tour of Biograph Studio on West Fourteenth Street reveals The Show Man being filmed with a schoolhouse set and confetti effects. The piece notes star actors like Joseph Jefferson and Anna Held, and describes demanding stunts by Wallace McCutcheon Jr., including a train wreck sequence done with trickery and real locomotive risk, as moving pictures expand from New York to Europe.
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Biograph Company
Biograph
West Fourteenth Street
McCutcheon
Moving Pictures
Joseph Jefferson
Wallace McCutcheon, Jr
Willie Collier
Nat Goodwin
Mr. McCutcheon
Dead Lake
Airl
New Jersey
England
United States
Moving Picture
Woman from Leesburg praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mande FE Forgie writes Mrs Pinkham to share relief from months of feminine illness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and following the prescribed treatment. She reports feeling strong and well again and thanks the provider.
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Mande FE. Forgie
Leesburg
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Facts for Sick Women: Lydia E Pinkham Plant Based Cure
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills and has cured thousands of women troubled by displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities body pains backache bearing down flatulency indigestion dizziness or nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pittston Visit Notes and Local Fishermen Report
Mrs. Georgia Stilphen of Pittston visits son Fred Stilphen and family for a few days this week. Mrs. Susie Austin and husband from South Gardiner spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs David Budge. Fishermen hustle to set shad weirs with some reports of early catches. Mrs Horatio Laurence visited her mother Mrs Esther Bailey in Pittston.
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Georgia Stilphen
Pittston
Fred Stilphen
Susie Austin
South Gardiner
David Budge
Horatio Laurence
Esther Bailey
Litchfield Plains Local Notes And Movements
Marshall Rogers the young son of George M. Rogers is recovering from a badly injured finger sustained at a saw mill. Dr Peabody of Richmond handles the case. Allan Wright and his mother visited recently to manage their Leeds Maine property they wish to sell or rent. Will Metcalf of Hopedale Massachusetts is home for four to five weeks tending his farm. Tuesday's rain storm was much needed and farmers anticipate warmer weather.
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Allan Wright
Leeds
Maine
Will Metcalf
Hopedale
Mass
West Dresden News Briefs Include Ills and Tides
George Foster of Rockland tuned Miss Marion Pushard's piano in town. Percy Moody returns home from hauling lumber by portable mill. Several residents listed as sick, with Dr. Lee attending. Alden Goud and wife from Georgetown Mass visit after William Goud's death. Tide levels high hinder fishers from building weirs.
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George Foster
Rockland
Marion Pushard
Percy Moody
Mary Winbush
B. F. Densmore
Harvey Colby
T. D. Levett
Lee
Dolr
Alden Goud
Georgetown
Mass
William Goud
L. A. Goud
Dave
Local Residents Return from Winter in Massachusetts
South Dresden residents Warren Hatch returned home with his wife from Winthrop Massachusetts where they spent the winter. Morse of Winnegance visited town for a day and was accompanied home by his wife’s mother Sybil Houdlette who will stay with her daughter Mrs Samuel McDonald. Milford Hatch visits Dresden Mills for a few days, while William Perkins and daughter Gladys left for West Somerville to visit his sister Mrs Milton Carlton. Mrs Vesta Siegars visited her sister Mrs Herman Lilly for a day.
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U.N. Morse
Winnegance
Sybil Houdlette
Samuel McDonald
Milford
Dresden Mills
William Perkins
Gladys
West Somerville
Mass
Milton Carlton
Vesta Siegars
Herman Lilly
Free letter cure offer by Boston specialist Dr Greene
A promotional notice touts Dr Greene of 34 Temple Place BostonMass as a renowned specialist in nervous and chronic diseases offering free correspondence. Readers write with their symptoms and receive a thorough diagnosis and treatment plan without leaving home and at no cost. The ad claims Nervura as his remedy and promises cures.
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Greene
Temple Place
Boston
Mass
Dr. Greene
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