Pontiac and the Indian Confederacy Oust English from Frontiers
The passage describes how from the 1763 peace and settlement era onward Native tribes under Pontiac formed an Ottawa led confederacy to resist British encroachment. Ten English trading posts fell within three months, Fort Pitt and Fort Detroit withstood, prompting colonial militia mobilization and a harsh but formative war experience before Pontiac's death years later.
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America
Paris
Pontiac
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Fort Pitt
Fort Duquesne
Fort Detroit
Philadelphia
Survivor General Custer’s Comanche and Other Historical Notes
The lone survivor of Little Bighorn was General Custer’s Comanche, never ridden and drawing a U S army pension for nearly two decades. Crops nationwide exceed twelve billion dollars this year. Quaker Friends lead in women preachers per President Southard of the International Association of Women Preachers. In Nauru, the sun rises at six and sets at six year round.
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General Custer
Little Big Horn
Friends
Quakers
Denomination
Southard
The
International Association of Women Preachers
Swamp Baby's Mother Freed in Abandonment Case
Leah Silver of Saugus Massachusetts was acquitted in Brooklyn County Court on July 9 charges of abandoning her sixteen month old baby in a Coney Creek swamp near Stillwell Avenue. The jury delivered verdict after two hours deliberation. The infant, found by Jerry Pernice, lay swollen from mosquito bites and nearly dead from poison.
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New York
Leah Silver
Saugus
Mass
Brooklyn
Coney Creek
Stillwell Ave
Taylor
Coney Island Creek
Jerry Pernice
West 17Th Street
Coney Island
Barricaded Dolan Battles Police in Somerville Standoff
Somerville police subdued Philip Dolan of 20 Florence Street East Somerville after he barricaded himself in his home when officers arrived to arrest him for a disturbance. They battered the door and wrestled him to the floor before taking him to the Boston State Hospital for the Insane. A year earlier Dolan caused a Boston scene beating a policeman and resisting officers with a hose.
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Somerville
Philip Dolan
Florence Street
East Somerville
Dolan
Boston State Hospital
Boston
Fire Department
Mrs Park Benjamin Dies at Goshen Sanitarium
Mrs Park Benjamin mother of soprano Enrico Caruso died suddenly at Goshen Sanitarium where she had been a patient for 12 years. She was 63 years old.
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Middletown
N. Y
Park Benjamin
Enrico Caruso
Goshen
Siberia registers extreme cold at Verkloyansk
Readings show ninety degrees below zero at Verkloyansk in Siberia signaling unprecedented winter chill for the region and prompting emergency cautions for residents.
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Verkloyansk
Siberia
Ray Carol Produces First Photoplay With Helen Jerome Eddy
Ray Carol Productions launches with seven sibling background and immigrant roots. The company films Love's Coming of Age at Robertson Cole studios starring Helen Jerome Eddy. Ray Carol built her studio dream from writing photoplays for others to running her own firm.
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Ray Carol
Early film stars' youth and rugged beginnings
Thomas Meighan disliked school as a boy and found working in a Pittsburg foundry a hard lesson. Rudolph Valentino trained in self defence as a youth, while Agnès Ayres dreamed of becoming a doctor or lawyer and kept her hair slicked back.
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Thomas Meighan
Pittsburg
Tommy
Paramount
Rudolph Valentino
Rudy
St. Agnes
Java Head to Be Produced as Paramount Picture
Joseph Hergesheimer's Java Head is slated for a Paramount production by George Melford. Exteriors filmed in Salem Maas with interiors at Long Island City studio. Leatrice Joy Jacqueline Logan and Raymond Hatton head the cast. Hergesheimer to collaborate on the continuity with Waldemar Young, who is traveling to New York.
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Joseph Hergesheimer
Paramount
George Melford
Jesse L. Lasky
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Salem
Maas
Long Island City
Leatrice Joy
Jacqueline Logan
Raymond Hatton
Mr. Hergesheimer
Waldemar Young
New York
Imagination Needed More Than Regulation in Motion Pictures
John Barrymore, noted stage and screen actor, argues in The Ladies Home Journal that today’s films lack imagination. Producers fear audiences. thus obvious stories prevail. He calls for imagination from actors, directors, and editors to elevate cinema.
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John Barrymore
Ladies’ Home Journal
Barrymore
European lieutenant Lithander signs on for Deauville scenes
Lieu tenant Lars Lithander of Stockholm on leave from the Swedish Royal Skanska joins director Sam Wood at Deauville for scenes in The Impossible Mrs Bellew. He previously won Sweden's broad jump title while on a horse, seven feet.
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Lars Lithander
Stockholm
Sweden
Royal Skanska
Gloria Swangon
Mrs. Bellew
Sam Wood
Deauville
Lithander
Betty Compson
Julia Crawford Ivers
Wallace Reid
Emerson Hough
Rupert Hughes
Goldwyn
Hughes
Hollywood
Film News and People Notes from Boston Post Q&A
Mrs M B G notes Varagraphic sale of rights to The Magnificent Ambersons by Vitagraph with Jean Paige set for lead role. J B reports Carter de Haven and Flora Parker de Haven, former vaudeville dancers, star in two reel domestic comedies from Robertson Cole. J J D mentions Kathryn Williams returns to Paramount Clarence. Dorothy M mentions Marjorie Daw as the little sister in A Fool There Was with Lewis Stone as the fool.
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New Hampshire
Kathryn Williams
William de Mille
Paramount
Clarence
Dorothy M
Malden
Marjorie Daw
Lewis Stone
Prunella Hall
The
Boston Post
Couple’s Noonday Marriage Dismissed After U S Attorney Advice
Back before U S Commissioner Hayes the couple recounted their noonday wedding and, on the United States Attorney’s recommendation, had their case dismissed. Elsie’s mother in Van Wert Ohio wired funds to help the couple buy train tickets home. They thanked Chief Deputy Marshal James A. Tighe for his help.
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U. S
Hayes
United States
Elsie
van Wert
Ohio
James A. Tighe
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South Seas
Swamp Baby
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Hergesheimer
Howser
A. R. Long
Kalamazoo
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Greater
Cambridge
Howser A. R. Long
Undertaker Long
Mann
Pedro Ramerez
Rochester
Halsie Stittsworth
Gir
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Cler Charles H Mackie
Springfield
Butler
Butler’s
Clifford H. Durent Harding
Civil Service
Treasuer
Pitta Lodge of Elks House Committee
Navy
New Cretonnes
Armstrong Linoleum Co
Armstrong
Actations Cork Leagues
Hell and Stair Tracker
Sale Erie
Cork
Genuife Armstrong
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