L s First Payment To Cities From 1919 Loan
State Treasurer James Jackson received a $517 196 45 check from the Boston Elevated Railway trustees. It marks the first distribution to cities and towns from the 4 million loan assessment to cover the deficit in the first year of operation. The apportionment lists payments to Arlington Belmont Boston Brookline Cambridge Chelsea Everett Malden Medford Newton Somerville Watertown totaling 513 788 13 with Quincy and Stoneham credits redirected to the Commonwealth.
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James Jackson
Boston Elevated Railway
Commonwealth
Arlington
Belmont
Boston
Brookline
Cambridge
Chelsea
Everett
Malden
Medford
Newton
Bomerville
Watertown
Quincy
Stoneham
Bebe Daniels Rambles From Court to Film Set
Screen star Bebe Daniels splits time between acting and court appearances in Los Angeles. She has a record of speed violations with jail time and fines but now campaigns a fresh racing image as she prepares for Paramount’s Nice People following Pink Gods.
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Bebe Daniels
Los Angeles
Bebe
Miss Daniels
Lorna Doone Screen Version Completes Final Edits
Maurice Tourneur returns from England to view his eight reel film of Lorna Doone after more than a year of work. The production edited from over 70 reels at the Ince studios features Madge Bellamy John Bowers and Frank Keenan in the cast. A Devon village set was built in Culver Hills for filming.
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Maurice Tourneur
England
Tourneur
Ince
Devon
Culver Hills
Madge Bellamy
John Bowers
Frank Keenan
Pathe Studios Declares Half Holiday for Pearl Welcome
Pathe studios announce a half holiday on Wednesday to greet Pearl, reflecting a festive pause in production. The move signals a public celebratory mood as Pearl arrives, with management citing goodwill and community uplift.
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Pathe Studios
Pearl
White Returns to Olympia for New Serial Plunder
White returns aboard the Olympia after a standout Paris season. She starts today on her first serial tentatively titled Plunder, promising many chances for her famed stunts.
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White
Paris
Miss White
Cast Additions and Moves Highlight Cosmo Productions
Leena Owen and Lowell Sherman join the Cosmopolitan stage film A Face in the Fog with Lionel Barrymore in the title role. Zazu Pitts returns to screen in Country Love as Billie Dove’s Metro starring vehicle. Pitts, mother to a three month old, has not acted for a year. William Farnum leaves the East for Fox Hollywood. Moonshine Valley shot in the Adirondacks now in editing.
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Leena Owen
Lowell Sherman
Cosmopolitan
Iog
Lionel Barrymore
Zazu Pitts
Billie Dove
Metro
Miss Pitts
William Farnum
Fox Hollywood Studios
Adirondacks
Spike Robinson Stars in Good Men and True
Spike Robinson, Bull Montana's pal, takes a key role in Harry Carey's Robertson-Cole film Good Men and True as Bull's screen fame rivals.
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Spike Robinson
Bull Montana
Spike
Harry Carey
Director Melford Prepares Island Shoot for Ebb Tide
Uncle George Melford leads his company toward a month long Pacific island filming in Ebb Tide adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson. Cast includes James Kirkwood Lila Lee George Fawcett Raymond Hatton and Noah Beery.
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George’ Melford
Paramount
Pacific
Robert Louis Stevenson
James Kirkwood
Lila Lee
George Fawcett
Raymond Hatton
Noah Beery
Gossip and film notes from The Boston Post
Goldilocks Wanda Hawley stands five feet three with blonde bobbed hair and blue eyes. Gertrude B notes Rudolph Valentino scar claim on screen would show if real. Eileen Percy married to Ulric Busch and stars in The Fast Mail with Buck Jones. Agnes Ayres Borderland and Viola Dana in Page Tim O'Brien at Metro. Constance Binney in A Bill of Divorcement in London.
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Goldilocks
Wanda Hawley
J. Burton Hawley
Gertrude B
Somerville
Rudolph Valentino
Eileen Percy
Ulric Busch
Fast Mail
Charles
Buck) Jones
Brockton
Helen
Cambridge
Constance Binney
London
Agnes Ayres
Borderland
Viola Dana
Tim O’brien
Metro Studios
Hollywood
Prunella Hall
The
Boston Post
Rest Bars for Mail Distributors Soon
Postmaster Bakar announced authority from the Postmaster General to install rest bars at once in the central post office so mail distributors need not stand at their cases for the full eight hour shift.
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Bakar
Walker Nomination Papers Filed for U S Senate
Mrs. Laura M. Oakley, manager at David C. Cook Publishing, filed for Joseph Walker seeking the Republican nomination to the U S Senate. The filing lists 30 signatures with 250 required in each of four counties to place the name on the ballot.
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Laura M. Oakley
David C. Cook Publishing Company
Joseph Walker
United States Senate
Mr. Walker
Another Wage Cut in Lowell
Lowell July 14 The fifth large industrial plant in the city to announce wage reductions in 12 weeks is the Lawrence Hosiery Company the world’s largest hosiery mill. Agent Everett Walker said the cut starts Monday but the exact amount is unnamed. The mill employs about 4000 but under 1000 are now at work. John Hanley president of the Lowell Council United Textile Workers told Agent Mitchel that a strike by 1800 workers has been approved if the current schedule stands. The mill is said to be 95 percent unionized.
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Lowell
Lawrence Hosiery Company
Everett Walker
John Hanley
Lowell Council
United Textile Workers
Mitchel
Massachusetts Cotton Mills
Clark Collection bequeathed to MIT by Captain Arthur Clark
In a Salem will Captain Arthur H. Clark who died July 6 at Newburyport leaves all his shipping lithographs engravings and prints in four portfolios along with his ship models to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology department of naval architecture to be known as The Clark Collection.
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Salem
Arthur H. Clark
Newburyport
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Naval Architecture
Clark
Child Dies After Burns From Power Tower Incident
Edward Sadowski aged nine, son of Mr and Mrs Louis Sadowski of 12 Montgomery street, died at Noble Hospital from burns after climbing a high tension wire tower at Hull Orchard operated by Turners Falls Power Company.
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Westfield
Edward Sadowski
Louis Sadowski
Montgomery Street
Noble Hospital
Turners Falls Power Company
Hull Orchard
Fearful Missing Girls Attract Suspicion Of Lured By Men
Two South End girls both 14 years old are missing from home. Mothers say letters describe clandestine meetings with young men who have cars and money. The mothers, widowed or working, fear the girls were lured away and worry for their return as another younger sister also remains unaccounted for.
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South End
Wanta Nolan
Camille Stanley
Wanta
Camille
Mrs. Nolan
Fellows
Holiday for P. C. Clerks
Boston postal clerks in the district gain Saturday afternoon off starting today under an announcement by Assistant Postmaster Charles I L Hammond. About 1400 clerks will alternate days with education of nearly half working all day Saturday. Letter carriers are excluded from the plan which runs through September 15.
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Boston
Charles I L. Hammond
Baker
Hammond
Hurley
Divorce Denied for Springfield Nurse Bertha Perry
In Worcester on July 14 Chief Justice Walter Perley Hall denied Bertha S. Perry a divorce from Elmer Terry of Warren. Perry, 26 and described as exceptionally pretty, testified she left her husband about a year ago because he sought to ensnare two wealthy men for money. Terry contested claiming misconduct.
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Worcester
Walter Perley Hall
Superior Court
Bertha S. Perry
Memorial Day Home
Springfield
Elmer Terry
Warren
Warren and
Holland
Want Gen Rogers Reappointed Amid War Service Rally
Boston veterans and former Quartermaster Corps officers urge Secretary Weeks and Senator Lodge to reappoint Major General Harry L. Rogers as army quartermaster general as his present term nears expiration. Telegrams pour in backing Rogers over three rivals.
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Gen. Rogers
Boston
Quartermaster Corps
Harry L. Rogers
Army
Weeks
Senator Lodge
Rogers
Treat Your Liver Fairly with Beecham’s Pills Promised Health
A promotional note asserts a disordered liver upsets the system and Beecham's Pills act on the liver to cleanse and strengthen the stomach regulate the bowels remove impurities and improve health leading to a healthy body strong nerves bright eyes and clear complexion.
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