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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1925
Page
8
The article describes Broadway daybreak crowds of actors and managers in New York. It notes 37 000 itinerant performers traveling to global venues relying on casting offices. Police threaten loitering as troupers gather near Broadway corners and Forty fourth Street to be seen by agents.
At the Strand theatre this week Ed Garvey, Notre Dame graduate and former standout football player, appears in The Knockout opposite Sills. Garvey, built at two hundred pounds with a Greek God physique, is touted as a possible successor to Jack Dempsey, having earned boxing fame in college and now advancing as a professional pugilist.
Art Accord, famous Western star born in Stillwater Oklahoma, rides with Buffalo Bill before turning to vaudeville and film. Universal backs The Call of Courage with his name as the lead in the Blue Streak Western showing tonight at the Willard Theatre.
In Quincy Illinois on October 30 Associated Press reports burial customs shift from ornate hearses to plain coachlike vehicles resembling family cars. Major hearse maker based there notes a growing trend toward simpler designs for final rides.
Limousine style funeral carriages replace horse-drawn hearses in the United States with most cars sent abroad to Latin America. Mexico prefers gold burnish and purple lining, Cuba favors full ornamentation with angel figures and a canopy. Manufacturers now mount wood bodies on automobile chassis after abandoning horse-drawn service about 15 years ago.
J T Richards an 80 year old known as Dad runs a municipal saltwater pool in Tacoma teaching swimming to all ages with a focus on children. He claims to have watched swimming for 70 years and notes girls make the best swimmers. Rex Beresford from Iowa State College extended education work here on swine production. Mona Walsh heads to Chicago for weeks with relatives. Thelma Lane leaves for Lamont to attend Graceland college homecoming and to teach music in Creston. B B Miles from Chicago visits Creston from Winterset to manage business affairs and represent the National Livestock Commission Company.
An old advertisement touts Mayr's Wonderful Remedy as a simple harmless preparation to ease stomach liver and intestinal troubles including bloating and appendicitis like symptoms. The claim is the remedy removes catarrhal mucus and soothes inflammation for complete results and is available at all druggists.
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