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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1925
Page
2
Paris police report a rising menagerie with stray animals including leopard Zizi and a Malay hornbill appearing in streets. The poundmaster notes a Noahs Ark collection over two years with horses, donkeys, birds and other creatures. public fascination grows as circuses attract crowds.
The piece notes gold and silver stockings harmonizing with gowns, with elaborate shoe decorations and jeweled heels. It also mentions fashion commentators and doctors debating minimal clothing for men, plus a tale of two Austrians in Paris seeking funds by posing as traveling students.
The second screen production of the new season appears at the Capitol as Smooth as Satin starring Evelyn Brent. Adapted from Bayard Veiller’s stage play The Chatterbox, the melodrama follows a young woman and a safecracker lover through crime to a dramatic, ultimately redemptive finale with New York intrigue and prison scenes.
The column records a long list of registered residents and visitors in Lewisburg including Racering Gua Sutherland Arinett Sutherland and Mrs la H Rutherland. It notes couples and individuals traveling to Huntington Beckley Cincinnati and Charleston with guests at Greenbrier College and a reception for Miss Laura Neal and Henry Wheeler at the Community House.
A Virginian engagement presents The Scarlet West a western drama portraying Custer’s last stand with romance and action. Cardelanche the renegade Indian aids a fort defense then pursues love with Miriam as General Kinnard commands Ft Temington and Custer rides to battle. Also notes Pathe Newsreel and Topics of the Day. A separate item reports a six year old girl reclaimed after a husband’s abduction in Sheffield.
Virginia treasurer W S Johnson reports a week long motor trip through 20 eastern counties with Mrs Johnson and her mother. He praises West Virginia scenery and road building enabling tourism to rise to top garden spot status, noting health resorts are plentiful. They visited Lewisburg White Sulphur Springs Clifton Forge Harrisonburg Harper's Ferry Martinsburg Berkeley Springs Romney Moorefield Petersburg Franklin and Summersville among others.
The notice names numerous notaries public in offices with commissions listed. Individuals include Lovett Jr in Charleston, Herman Fis raon, Manks in Morgantown, and White in Clarkeburg, among others. It notes whale captures and reports from Fisherines off Brest and Englend.
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