Jury Selected to Try Brindell for Extortion in New York
Selection of a jury to try Robert P. Brindell, president of the Building Trades Council, for allegedly extorting $5000 from garment maker Max Aronson for immunity from labor troubles, was completed in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court. Sixty talesmen were examined over two days to reach the quota.
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Brindell
New York
Robert P. Brindell
The
Building Trades Council
Max Aronson
Supreme Court
Rice Method for Rapture experts visit Adams House Boston
Representing W. S. Adams of Adams New York experts E C Branch M D and Mrs Kathryn Murray will be at the Adams house corner Mason and Washington Streets Boston Massachusetts January 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 and 22. Free demonstration of the Rice Method for rupture with a fitted appliance and no charge unless kept after adjustment. Evening hours 6 to 8. Mrs Murray attends ladies callers.
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E. C. Branch
M. D
Kathryn Murray
Adams House
Corner Mason and
Washington Sts
Boston
Mass
Father Alive Surprise Unearths Letter From Africa
In a tense moment Mr. Halsey discovers an African postmarked envelope on the desk, exclaiming that Bob Whitson is alive as he reads a letter that reveals startling family news. Ann and her sister react to the unforeseen revelation.
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Mr. Halsey
Ken
Bob Whitson
Ann
Bob
Land of the Living
Ann Whitson and a Web of City Entanglements
Ann Whitson, an 18 year old living with Grace Cameron and Kenneth Malsey, recounts life after her mother’s death. Jimmy Callaman reappears. Jerry Hathaway offers friendship after Ann refuses a romance. She becomes gradually entwined with Mr Halsey’s secrets and a costly house purchase.
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Ann Whitson
Grace Cameron
Kenneth Malsey
Ann
Jimmy Callaman
Per- Ngie
Jimmy
Jerry Hathaway
Jerry
Seagate
Mamie Rilmy
Mr. Halsey
Kenneth
Grace
Grace and Ken Halsey letters reveal family strain and a alive father clue
A narrator discovers three letters from Ken Halsey and an African postmark tied to a hidden father. Ken pleads for money amid marital tensions with Grace, while Mr. Halsey reacts with emotion to a letter from a presumed father, Bob Whitson, suggesting a possible family reunion. The scene shifts to professional notices about actors and studios, hinting at a broader Hollywood context and personal lives.
Pape's Cold Compound Advertised as Quick Relief
A vintage ad touts Pape's Cold Compound for instant relief from cold symptoms taken every two hours for three doses. It claims to open nasal passages, stop runny nose, relieve headache and feverishness, tastes pleasant, costs only a few cents, and requires no quinine.
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Pape
Don’t Spoil Your Hair By Washing It
An old advice piece warns against harsh soaps and alkali in shampoos. It promotes Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure grease free and cheap, claiming it cleanses well and leaves hair soft bright and easy to manage. The text urges using about a teaspoonful and notes it removes dust and dandruff.
To Be Continued Tomorrow in Daily and Sunday Post
The notice states that the continuation will occur tomorrow and on subsequent days in both the Daily and Sunday Post until the work is finished.
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Daily
Sunday Post
Vinegar Tips For Everyday Cooking From Mrs Porter
Mrs Emma M Porter of Norumbega Terrace Waltham shares practical vinegar tips to improve cooking. She advises adding 1 2 teaspoons vinegar to water for flaky pie dough tender beef boiling water for flavorless cabbage odor removal for soaking greens water with cracked eggs keeps yolk contained and vinegar speeds tender beans without altering taste.
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Emma M. Porter
Norumbega Terrace
Waltham
Screen Gossip: Conrad Nagle Star of Midsummer Madness
Des Moines native Conrad Nagle rose from stage to screen, with early roles in Experience The Man Who Came Back and Forever After. Now a Paramount player his latest film Midsummer Madness plays at the Modern and Beacon Theatres as Ruth Helms-Nagle oversees the Hollywood household with Ruth Jr. three months old.
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Conrad Nagle
Des Moines
Alice Brady
the Lion and the Mouse
Alice Joyce
Paramount Feature
Modern
Beacon Theatres
Mr. Nagle
Ruth Helms
Nagle Menage
Hollywood
Ruth, Jr
Corinne Griffith Starts The Corespondent With Webster Campbell
Corinne Griffith begins work on The Corespondent to be directed by her husband Webster Campbell with Percy Marmont as lead ing man. Thomas Melghan sets up a Paramount project White and Unmarried from a Munsey's Magazine story. Eugene O'Brien has next film World’s Apart.
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Corinne Griffith
Webster Campbell
Percy Marmont
Thomas Melghan
Paramount
Munsey
Eugene O’brien
Dear Miss Champagne on Love and Social Gaps
A reader asks how to handle a romance with a man of higher station. The adviser explains that love, not cleverness or status, should guide marriage and that aiming for a partner of higher means can motivate both to improve rather than dampen the relationship.
Songs of Sunshine By The Bentztown Bard
Poem from 1921 copyright by Southern Press Syndicate about a “little clock of laughter” symbolizing joy in childhood. Expresses timeless happiness, daylight, and the music of the loving heart across the day.
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Bentztown Bard
Southern Press Syndicate
Robin
National Title Swimming Events Announced
Dates for national amateur championship swimming events announced. Men 220 yard freestyle at New York A C on March 1. 100 yard freestyle at Brookline Swimming Club on March 3. 600 yard freestyle at Great Lakes Naval Training Station on March 15. 220 yard senior breast stroke and women's junior relay at Olympic Club San Francisco on April 20.
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New York
New York A. C
Brookline
Mass
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Olympic Club
San Francisco
Methuen Annexation Drive Spurs Lawrence Proposal
Mayor William P. White urged annexing Methuen to Lawrence after a banquet at the Arlington mill machine shop. He will ask Methuen’s city government to petition the legislature and push the plan, saying sentiment favors annexation and it could reduce car fares and improve conditions.
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Lawrence
Arlington Mill
First Baptist Church
Methuen
William P. White
White
Cdl
Lighting Bills Spark Cambridge Protest Over Higher Charges
Cambridge residents from the Mayor to light users protested December electric bills from Cambridge Electric Light Company showing a 25 percent rise including a 1 percent fuel charge. City Solicitor Nelligan contacted Welles F. Holmes, who said the increase was a misunderstanding and rebates would be issued with explanatory letters to customers.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Electric Light Company
City Hall
Nelligan
Welles FE
Scalding accident kills brother in Jamaica Plain home
Grace Colgan seven years old and her brother Arthur five died or were severely burned after a large pan of boiling water overturned near a stove in their Jamaica Plain home. Their mother heard the cries and found both children on the floor. the incident occurred last Monday afternoon. The medical examiner and Jamaica Plain police opened an inquiry. Grace is on the danger list at City Hospital.
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Arthur, Colgan
Woodman Street
Jamaica Plain
Grace
City Hospital
Leary
Embezzlement Charged Clerk of Closed Bank
Barre Vermont January 12 George A. is charged with embezzlement as a clerk at a bank that has been closed. Police and prosecutors filed the case with the county court and expect further proceedings this week.
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Barre
George A
Ex-Clerk Brown Arrested in Barre for Embezzlement
Former clerk of Barre Savings Bank & Trust Company, linked to a 1920 closure and Frank G. Howland's later prison term, was arrested in Barre on a similar embezzlement charge. He was arraigned before Judge EB L. Scott in Barre City Court with bail set at $1000, furnished by his brother James A. Brown.
Tan filet used as dress trim in historical notes
Tan filet is a much used dress trim in period garment descriptions. The phrase appears frequently in tidy notes about trimming and decoration. It reflects common textile terminology of traditional fashion reporting.
Farmer Struck by Train At Candia Crossing
Charles Lang 65 a Candia farmer was hit by a train while attempting to cross the Candia railroad crossing at 10 am. He was dragged over 75 feet but suffered only a slight cut above the eye and remained seated with the wheel. The auto sustained minor damage.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Charles Lang
Candia
Lang
Auntie Bowen’s Rheumatism Cure Public Talk
Mrs. M A Bowen of 129 Oak Street Providence announces she will meet the public at Reiner’s Drug Store 372 Westminster St Providence Saturday 2 to 4 PM to discuss how Weldona helped her discard crutches after forty years of rheumatism. She urges others to seek the free Weldona book from Weldona Co 132 Boylston St Boston and from any druggist.
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Weldona
Oak St
Providence
R. I
Bowen
Reiner
Westminster St
Weldona Co
Boylston St
Boston
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Ldah
Gibson
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Beter
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Thomas Meighan
Lasky Studio
Vine Street
Cal
Frances Ring
S. Goodwin
Flaine Hammerstein
Selznick Picture Corporation
East 175Th Street
Ruth Roland
Pathe Corporation
Louise Lovely
Care
Mabel Condon Exchange
Winifred
Fall River
Pearl White
Wallace McCutcheon
Fox Film Corporation
10Th Avenue
56Th Street
New York City
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Marguerite Clayton
Charles
Constance
Norma Talmadge
Norma
William S. Hart
B. B
Claire Windsor
Prunella Hall
Boston Post
Oubita
Mildred Champagne
Miss Champagne
Songs of
P. C
Harry
Hello Jake
Fields
Dixie Mason
Harry Fields
Velocity
Dixie
Martha White
Charlotte Start
Hat N Sherman
Roxbury
Walter Parker
William
Anderson Sisters
Briny
Eisher and Gilmore
Sandy Shaw
Land of the Thistle
Howardscope
Maurice Tourneur
Victory
Grace Colgan
Adydvertisement
Arlington Adios
Colonial
Kretsler Jacobi
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jordan Hall
Tex
Bowdoin
William Farnam
Scuttlers
Charlie Chaplin
Wasn. Sy
Harold Lloyd
Rold Lloyd & Others
Mary Pickford
Harold Lloyd & Others
Hollis
Booth Tarringtons
Booth
Aunt
Eddie Cantor
Tsi
Loews Qapheum
Howards
Bowers & Saunders
Blair & Crystal
Imperial Four
Odiva & Seals
Wallace Reid
Copley Theatre
Tel
Back Bay
Filene’s
Jordan's and
Shepard Stores
Henry Jewett
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere
Sanders Thes
Symiphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux
Richard Burgin
Vents Bor
Ksto Ore
Forward Sq
Gine
Kate
Earl Gates & Co
Harry Antrim
Mellon & Penn
Harry & Harriet Seeback
Larson & Allyn
Harold Lloyd’s
Paramount Picture
Heliotrope
Frank Mayo
Fenway Thomas Meighan
Louise
Exeter
Constance Binneyent
Viola Dana i
Copley Square
Thurs
FBI
Heserve
James Oliver Curwood
North Station
Mae Murray
David Powell
Beta Daniels
May Allison
Sporting Widows
Royal Dadman
Ticke
Olver Ditson Co
Tremont Street
Davis-Chase
Itiie
Olympia Harold Lloy
Ordons Central SQ
Neilan
Dinty
Wesley Barry
Crescent Gardens
Revere Beach
Feoapeee Orchestra
Sada
Mttt Music
New Boston Arena
St. Botolph St
Mass. Ave
Boston College
TECH
ST. Nicholas
Arena
Wright & Dits«en
Horace Partridge Co
Hugh C. McGrath
Arthur L. Johnson
Leavitt & Pierce
Courtenay
Lola Fisher
Roi Cooper Megrue
John B
Huntington Ave
Boston Opera House
Walter Johnson
Little Te
Tel. Beach
Ditrichstein
D. W. Griffith
Syeaheats
Ray Veal Accompanimans
Tremont ‘Temple
Matsmone
N.Y. Herald
Globe-Now
William Musical ‘Comedy Patch
Douglas Avitt
America
Little Ridg
Henry Hull
George Marion
Manne
Harold Bauer
Boston Recital
Mason & Hamlin
A.H. Yancley
Boylston
Huntington
C. A. Winchester
Prairie Trails
Tom MIX
Clayton
Pathe
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