Wanted to Sell Tombs in Budapest Market
An August 11 advertisement in Budapest papers offered a family tombstone as a sale item. The notice highlights widespread poverty among once wealthy families who sold rugs, furniture, and jewelry for food, with some reduced to heirloom losses. American Relief Administration officers Bowden and Davidson recently selected 152,000 intellectual people for 4,000 relief parcels.
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Budapest
Hungary
Bowden
Davidson
American Relief Administration
Stage Whispers Trimmed As Lightnin May Return to Gaiety
Chicago cancels Lightnin presentation at the plane stage with Frank Bacon, continuing at the Gaiety indefinitely. Irene Rich gains divorce in Los Angeles court from Captain Henry Rich. Viola Dana’s next film Cinderella’s Twin. Buddies opens at Woods Theatre in Chicago with Donald Brian and cast. Mae Murray and Robert Z Leonard sail for Europe. Lottie Pickford’s divorce suit from Albert Rupp proceeds and daughter Mary Charlotte adopted by Mrs Charlotte Smith. Tom Meighan heads to Hollywood for Easy Street then returns East for another production.
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Chicago
Frank Bacon
Gaiety
Irene Rich
Los Angeles
Henry Rich
Littie Pickford
Rupp
Albert G. Rupp
New York
Woolwine & Geisler
Mary Charlotte
Charlotte Smith
Mary
Lottie
Jack Pickford
Pickford
Mattimony
Lottie Pickford
Lottie Smith Rupp
Tom Meighan
Hollywood
Lasky Studios
Easy Street
Samuel Merwin
Cosmopolitan
Mary Miles Minter Ends Cumberland Romance Run at Plaza
The Plaza shows Mary Miles Minter in A Cumberland Romance adapted from A Mountain Europa by John Fox Jr. Tonight also marks the last performances of Frank Newman's Merry, Casino Girls with Billy Lightelle, and Count e Koko. Eugene O Brien takes the stage tomorrow in The Figurehead with a large supporting cast and a strong production at another venue.
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Eugene O'Brien
John Lynch
Anna Q. Nusson
Ora Carewe
Edwin Stevens
Joseph Girard
Kate Price
Robert Ellis
Frank Newman
Court Dockets Show Crowded September Plea List
Damages of 250 dollars are sought by Samuel Kahn from Samuel Steinlauf for a fur overcoat sold on November 15, 1919 without consent. The September term will hear the Common Pleas case, with numerous filings including Bridgeport Life Publishing vs Star Electric, Karm Terminal vs Peterson Forge, and multiple debt and damages claims with attached goods. An auto collision suit, Edward L McFetridge vs Walter C Clark, seeks 2200 dollars, with a Chalmers car attached. A United Illuminating Company suit against J Dupont notes 267.38 in damages.
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Samuel Steinlauf
Kahn
Steinlauf
Common Pleas Court
Bridgeport Life Publishingompany
Star Electric Company
Karm Terminal Company
Peterson Forge Company
Howard FP. Bayette
Marie C. Lange
Lange
Benjamin Bernstein
Charles Kursman
Staines Company
Fairfield
P. G. Keene
Joseph Cosgrove
Security
Main Street
Jared C. Bradley
Edward L. Arthur
Morris T. Horwitz
Cole
Charles J. Mercer
Louise Wheeler
Hough Avenue
Edward L. McFetridge
Walter C. Clark
Chalmers
United, Muminating Company
Va. J. Dupont
J. Herzog
East Main Street
Arctic Street
Woman Visitor 80 Lost on Walk Here in New York
Mrs Elizabeth M Stephan 80 arrived from Denver and wandered dazedly near Seventh Avenue and sth Street before being found by a policeman. She was taken to West 47th Street station then Bellevue Hospital where she named her sister Mrs Jesse Larrabee of West Sith Street. Her son George Stephan is Lieutenant Governor of Colorado.
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Elizabeth M. Stephan
Denver
Seventh Avenue
Sth Street
Jesse Larrabee
West Sith Street
Pennsylvania Station
West 47Th Street
Belevue Hospital
Straight to the Sun for Power
The Nation's Business notes that while coal and oil may dwindle the sun remains the ultimate power source. Direct solar power conversion has been tested but commercial scale remains uncertain due to technical hurdles. Experts expect a mix of water power, fuel alcohol, and eventual sun power, with some conservative scientists calling the shift overdue.
Nearest to Venus Prize Awarded in Switzerland
In Geneva on August 11 Mademoiselle Legarde, 24, was named the nearest approach to the Venus de Milo type of beauty. The $5,000 prize came from a fund set up by eccentric Chambery millionaire M. Carret and was withheld during the war as Chambery girls worked abroad.
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Switzerland
Mademoiselle Legarde
Chambery
Savoy
France
Venus de Milo
M. Carret
Mile Legarde
Ouija séance hints at afterlife in brief exchange
A spiritualist woman questions a departed spouse via an Ouija board. He confirms happiness in the afterlife and suggests heaven is a wonderful place, though she admits she has not yet reached it. The piece appears as a small, whimsical note in The Times.
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England
Thomas Lipton
New York
J.stuart Blackton
Samuel J. Rothafel
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Bronway
John
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