The Eternal Light at Catholic Art Association
The Catholic Art Association presents The Eternal Light in eight parts a grand production for Passion Week. It portrays Christ’s suffering and Judas betrayal with dramatic effect including a matinee for school children at 4 15 and an 8 pm evening show with doors at 7. Also Anita Stewart stars in Harriet and the Piper and Humoresque returns Monday with an all star cast and O Henry story and Movie Mad as a feature.
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Catholic Art Association
Judas
Anita Stewart
Harriet and
the Piper
Kathleen Norris
Greenwich Village
Pictorial Review
Miss Stewart
Ward Crane
Charles Richman
Irving Cummings
Byron Munson
Myrtle Stedman
Margaret Landis
Barbara LaMarr Deeley
Tovola O'Connor
Sunset Sprague and Westerns At The Friday Show
Friday features Buck Joes star William Fox in Sunset Sprague with Patsey DeForest as Rose Loring whose father was killed by mine thieves. Other acts include Velvet Fingers Matt and Jeff and Pa.
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Buck Joes
William Fox
Patsey DeForest
Rose Loring
Matt
Jeff
Will Rogers
Cupid the
Buffalo Bill
William Duncan
Bryant Washburn
Ue Washburn
Lois Wilson
Grace Morse
Eddie Polo
Bristol Probate Court OKs Sale of Part of Markoff Estate
In Bristol Rhode Island March 19 1921 Probate Court authorizes Aaron E Markoff administrator of the estate of Sarah Markoff to sell all or part of three Bristol lots numbers 23 24 and 25 on Plaza Plat to raise funds to pay debts funeral and administration costs with notice to be published for fourteen days in the Bristol Phenix. The Lots total about 9375 square feet and were conveyed to Sarah Markoff by Howard Dexter Wilcox in 1915.
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Aaron E. Markoff
Sarah Markoff
Bristol
County of
Rhode Island
Plaza
R. I
W. W. Perry
Howard Dexter Wilcox
Bristol Phenix
John W. Church
Rhode Island Sealed Bids for Asphaltic Oil 1921
State Board of Public Roads invites sealed proposals to furnish and apply 225600 gallons of asphaltic oil or refined tar to Rhode Island state roads. Bids due by 12 noon Wednesday open date June 6 1921. Include $708 certified check. Specifications available at State House Providence.
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Rhode Island
State Board of Public Roads
State House
Providence
R. LL
R. I
Abram L. Atwood
Benjamin F. Robinson
Frank Cole
J. Henry R.duard
Alton
Red Cross Seeks Women To Sew Garments For European Children
The American Red Cross calls women who served in war work and others to mobilize in a nationwide sewing circle. A 1921 quota aims for 70 000 garments and 21 000 layettes made largely from used clothing to aid children in Poland Austria Hungary Czechoslovakia the Baltic and Balkan states with distribution by Red Cross nurses.
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American Red Cross
Red Cross
Hoover
European Relief Council
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Poland
Austria
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Baltic States
Balkan States
Lavinia H. Newell
Arm Srey
Ralief
W. Frank Persons
Central Committee
Red Cross Seeks 2 Million Garments and 250000 Layettes
The American Red Cross calls for a nationwide sewing circle to produce two million garments and 250000 layettes for children in Central Europe. New England Division targets 70000 garments and 21000 layettes in 1921, with 116 chapters and 1115 branches involved.
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Europe
European Relief Council
Herbert Hoover
American Red Cross
Red Cross
New England
Arthur Q. Rotch
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhodesland
Red Cross Urges Clothing Drive for European Children
Robert E. Okis reports a Polish family living in a roadside earth home with a scanty mother and a barefoot child. He notes that many need garments and 2,000,000 articles are required, urging American women to sew for Europe. George Robertson, ex-race driver and Red Cross official, stresses the humanitarian impact.
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Poland
Robert E. Okis
Europe
Red Cross
George Robertson
European Commission of the American Red Cross
Paria
Vienna
Scouts Stage Sunrise Baptism Prank at Church Camp
A Terre Haute troop wowed a First Baptist church audience with a staged dawn at Kinneamapoose camp. Twelve scouts emerged from a pup tent as a thirteenth bumps the tent and reveals a baptism pool behind it.
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Terre Haute
First Baptist Church
Kinneamapoose
Indianapolis News
Aunt Dinah Trains To Ring The Bell In A Modern House
A plantation born servant named Aunt Dinah hires out to a housewife who trains her with a silver bell. Dinah rings the old bell to summon assistance, believing it the correct call, prompting astonishment from Miss Mary who discovers the mix up in a bread verandah scene.
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Dinah
Aunt Dinah
Nut hoarding couple and attic squirrels create chaos
At a North Delaware Street home a man stored two or more bushels of nuts in the attic last fall, and a terrif country noise led his wife to discover two squirrels gnawing a grapefruit sized halo in the roof while trying to escape a closed window. The owner said the squirrels saved him the trouble of feeding them.
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Delaware Street
Gianapolis
Superstitious Sleuth and a Windstorm Sign
Constable Sam Slackputter recalls a windstorm incident in Petunia where a sign board struck a depot courier en route to deliver a lecture at the opera house. He muses on omens though professing skepticism, noting the odd coincidence.
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Sam T. Slackputter
Petunia
Lyceum
Opera House
Kansas City Star
Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem: Gates, Transport, and Allenby Entry
The piece notes Jerusalem’s seven gates and traffic at Jaffa Gate with donkeys, carriages, and telephonic chatter. It recalls William II’s 19th century enlargement and General Allenby’s foot entry through the narrow gate, now barred until political status is fixed.
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Jerusalem
Jaffa Gate
William D. McCracken
Asia
William II of
Prussia
Constantinople
Jaffa
Allenby
Mayor selection differs sharply in London tradition
Sir William Treloar notes in A Lord Mayor's Diary that London chooses its chief magistrate differently from other towns. The mayor must be apprenticed to the corporation, become alderman, serve as sheriff, be elected by liverymen, and gain sovereign approval before election by the aldermen. The process requires multiple steps and official endorsements.
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William Treloar
City of
London
Liverymen
Averymen
Aldermen
Oregon artist pioneers cloth mosaic picture making
An Oregon artist gains attention with a new method for creating pictures. Colored cloth pieces are cut and pasted onto a canvas mounted on thin board, with tiny fabric fragments shredded to threads for detail and bulkier shapes built in relief. A pointed stick acts as a brush, producing precise, patient textures.
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Oregon
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Industrial Fatigue Study Expands Across British Industry
An inquiry into industrial fatigue conducted in government shops by the English government yielded valuable data and increased output. A new industrial fatigue research board, under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Medical Research Committee, will extend investigations to all British industries to determine optimal hours, work spells, and rest pauses.
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Industrial Fatigue Research Board
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Medical Research Committee
Motorcycle policewomen take to the streets in London
Policewomen are now an established part of municipal law enforcement though motorcycle units remain a novelty. London recently formed a squad of female riders and they are said to be performing effectively, having joined the force after gaining their machines.
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London
Popular Mechanics
His Choice. Triplet offspring shown to friend in humor
The ex god, now father of triplets, proudly displays his offspring to a bashful buddy. The friend responds with doubt and a playful remark about keeping one of the babies. The vignette reflects mythic humor in a serialized American Legion Weekly style.
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the American Legion Weekly
Beavers Of Adirondacks Seen As A Growing Menace
Beavers in the Adirondacks are increasing in number and damming streams, flooding 8 681 acres and destroying about 51000 worth of merchantable timber. Conservation officials warn protection may have driven a rebound that harms scenery and shoreline, challenging the idea of unchecked preservation.
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Adirondack
Adirondacks
Numbers in East and West Explain Unlucky and Lucky Figures
The article discusses cultural beliefs on numbers across regions noting thirteen as unlucky in London An swers and four in Japan while Burmah treats even numbers as unlucky. It cites three and seven as lucky due to the Christian Trinity and the seventh day with biblical references to Noah Job and Daniel.
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London
Japan
Burmah
Noah
Daniel
Had Lots of Pluck and a Car Hit by a Roan Bull
George Thibault of Outlet near Picton Ont met a herd of cattle while driving home. A young roan bull charged the approaching car, causing a twisted axle a bent Fender and a smashed headlight. Thibault praised the bull’s pluck but criticized its judgment.
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George Thibault
Outlet
Picton
Ont
Thibault
Ice Cutting Saw Uses Mobile Power to Slice Ice
An automotive type power plant drives a circular saw at the end of an adjustable arm to cut ice quickly. The saw is raised and lowered by a double lever over the handle bars and runs on steel runners. It forms 20 foot square blocks that are then fed to four circular saws to produce regulation size cakes.
Airplane campaigning in NSW election described
Former New South Wales premier Mr Helman plans to use an airplane to canvass Cootamundra a large electorate of 18 centers. His labor opponent vows to drop propaganda by airplane along Helman route in a closely contested election.
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Helman
New South Wales
Cootamundra
Holman
Heat-Insulating Material From Clay and Cork
A Norwegian engineer reports a new heat insulating material made from a mix of special clay and cork. The mixture is burned to form a light substance claimed to be highly suitable for heat insulation purposes.
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State OF
Warsaw
Labor Savers
Mickie
Romey Niemeyer
Jaefa Gate
General. Allenby
City of London
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