Broadway Bill Promises Hair-Raising Screen Drama
Amusements pages preview Stuart Holmes in The Broadway Sport as Hesekian Dill, with Carl Harbeusgh directing. A vaudeville bill follows featuring The Newsomes, Elkins Fay and Elkins, Kimberly and Graol, Lisette, and a new quartet providing special effects. Photoplays accompany the program at the Poll theatre today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Holmes
Hesekian Dill
Carl Harbeusgh
Becaus
Hearat- Patheye
Newsomes
Elkins Fay
Elkins
John J. O'Neil
United States
Kimberly
Graol
The Bar Sinister Plays Plaza This Afternoon
The Bar Sinister turns the home stretch at the Plaza with packed houses expected to rise further as the week closes. Edgar Lewis gains fame with this standout film about race prejudice and romance, noted for its realistic, chilling fight scenes. Also showing are His Naughty Thought and Tootsie in two-reel comedies starring Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Lewis
Nine Acre
Sennett-Keystone
Sidney Drew
Carmen Benefit Opera For Ambulance Company
The opera Carmen will be presented in this city on Sunday at the Poll Theatre by a Metropolitan cast company for the benefit of the Ambulance Company Home Guard. Proceeds will be used to purchase another ember.
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Poll Theatre
Metropolitan
Opera companies to star in Lordship Manor production
The Boston and Chicago Grand Opera companies will lead with Forest La Monte as tenor and Vincent Ballester as baritone. A conductor will lead a 60 strong chorus and a 35 piece orchestra. Scenic effects and costumes come from the Metropolitan Opera house. Ambulance corps executives and city officials will attend. Lordship Manor hosts ballroom gatherings with Murray's orchestra providing music. A trolley service from Main and Golden Hill runs every 20 minutes 7:40 to 9 with a single fare. Friday and Saturday dances welcome all.
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Boston
Chicago
Forest la Monte
Vincent Ballester
Bile
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Ambulance Corps
Oomn Peany
Ich
Neale
Ford
Wason
Elson
Alexander Howell
Lordship Manor
Murray
Main
Golden Hill
Adv
Big League Bits on Trades and Strong Cleveland Pulse
Rumors swirl of a Groh trade involving the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Deal and Williams while Cleveland gains pennant momentum. Vin Noyes shines for the Athletics and Boston’s Tilly Walker strengthens Tris Speaker’s lineup as Frazee praises the Red Sox’s home support.
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Mathewson
Heinie Groh
Fane
Groh
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
Charley Deal
Fred Williams
Vin Noyes
Athletics
Connie Mack
Tilly Walker
Red Sox
Tilly
Tris Speaker
Boston
President Frazee
Joseph L. Lannon
Prizes Planned for Epworth League Fourth of July
Bridgeport Epworth League cabinet proposed a Fourth of July outing to Putnam Park. Members will travel by bus to celebrate the Glorious Fourth with a patriotic program led by pastors.
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Epworth
Bridgeport
Epworth League
Putnam Park
Epworth outing to promote duty to country and church
A community gathering at a park features games and races for all ages, including baseball throws and shot put, with prizes for best photos taken by attendees. Hawley will judge results, lunch to follow, and multiple committees organize transportation, sports and entertainment, seating, and tickets under the oversight of Edgar Kuehne and E W Neilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawley
Hitchcock
Washington Park
M. E
Macy
Grace M. E
Carpenter
Stratford
Edgar —Kuehne
E. W. Neilson
Bridgeport Transportation Co
Harold R. Hallsworth
Newfield League
Handsome New Red Cross Ambulance Presented in Bridgeport
Walter B. Lashar donated a Locomobile chassis ambulance built with a Philadelphia body, valued around $10,000. It debuted yesterday to Bridgeport Red Cross officials and will serve military prisoners and emergencies locally, with potential overseas use if a Bridgeport division forms. James H. Brooks, a Lusitania survivor, oversaw the unveiling.
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Red Cross
Walter B. Lashar
Philadelphia
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Red Cross
James H. Brooks
Colorado Avenue
Lusitania
Chiropractors Banquet Set By Bridgeport Association
Bridgeport chiropractors plan a Saturday banquet at The Stratfield with national speakers. Dr. John A. Keller will be toastmaster, joined by Dr. J M Lovan of Pittsburgh and others from New York Philadelphia and Newark. A St John’s lodge communication and Masonic Temple convocations follow on Friday June 22. A Norwegian ship Cederie, sailing from New York to Liverpool May 28, is reported sunk.
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Chiropractors
Bridgeport
Stratfield
Association
John A. Keller
State ‘Board
J. M. Lovan
Pittsburgh
Henry Deurringer
J. M. Nabset
J. H. Johnson
New York
D. Bryant
Newark
N. J
A. W. Marshand
Philadelphia
St. John's Lodge
Masonic Temple
Jerusalem
Cederie
Liverpool
Stinson to Fly Buffalo to Washington for Red Cross
ATHERINH STINSON will fly from Buffalo to Washington delivering Red Cross checks for the One Hundred Million Dollar War Fund. She will stop in cities along the route to collect more checks and, after landing in New York City, deliver them to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo on the Capitol steps. She will pilot a Curtis aeroplane marked with two large Red Crosses after recently completing an Orient flight.
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Atherinh Stinson
Buffalo
Washington
Red Cross
New York City
Capitol Building
Miss Stinson
Curtis
Aviatrice
Orient
China
You Must Cure Yourself Says Los Angeles Times Column
A Los Angeles Times reader argues that licensed medicine and drugs cannot cure illness. The author insists personal willpower and reform of conduct through right living are the only cures, asserting nature cures through self-discipline and ethics.
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C. F
Los Angeles Times
Move to Adopt Centigrade Thermometer Standard
A growing crusade seeks to abolish Fahrenheit in English speaking countries and replace it with the Centigrade thermometer. Centigrade is favored for scientific use and deemed superior, but Fahrenheit remains common among the general public measuring heat.
Universal peace and human nature in war debate
The piece argues against blaming human nature for war, likening war to a disease and urging that allowing people to govern themselves could end war. It critiques the belief that war is inevitable and condemns excuses equating war with human nature. It also mentions testing garden soil for acidity with blue litmus paper as a practical aside.
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Frank Crane
Hell
Ohio State Journal
Soil Conditioning and Generational Time in Agriculture
The excerpt explains soil testing by a damp soil incised method, using color change to judge lime needs, recommends heavy liming for red or deep pink results, and rich compost or mature manure for hungry soils. It notes bonemeal with potash for well conditioned soil and adds a historical note that generations were counted as 100 years in early times, later shifting to thirty to forty years.
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the Newsomes
Elkins, Fay & Elkins
Kimmberly & Arnold
Lillette
Peter
Hearst Pathe News 3
Eves
CINAI
POLTS
Carmen
Cleveland
Menakte
Montreal
CLAZA
The
Cecil
Spooner
George Cohan
Pauline Frederick
Elsinore Theatre
Tae Tyas
Annette Laity
New
Lordship Murray
Chichester
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