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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1928
Page
2
The Cumberland Islander urges readers to own responsibility for career contentment, warning against outsourcing support to mail order and stressing loyalty to local merchants. It argues buy locally, see products firsthand, and support home town growth.
The manuscript argues that residents of Cumberland and similar towns send millions to eastern cities via catalogue houses. It claims local cash purchases followed by credit requests from hometown merchants harm the community's economic health and place locals in the primer grade of civic economy.
A recount of John D. Rockefeller repeating a missed putt fifty times to analyze and learn from the error. The piece urges readers to persist in examining failures, applying the same method to business to improve success and avoid repeat mistakes.
Letter to the Cumberland Islander argues Canada must curb raw export of forest and mineral resources. It cites pulp wood, asbestos, nickel, copper, and ore, urging domestic manufacture to reduce national debt, boost wages, and grow population. Calls for public ownership of hydro power and the Great Lakes waterway project.
A lavish production of Cheating Cheaters uses a Pasadena mansion owned by W. R. Jewett for exterior filming with charity proceeds. The Universal Jewels feature stars Betty Compson as the heroine and Kenneth Harlan as the lead, supported by Sylvia Ashton in a high style underworld tale set in New York and suburbs.
Maude Turner Gordon and B. J. Ratcliffe lead a cast along with Erwin Connelly Eddie Gribbon Lu c ien Littlefield and Cesare Gravina listed among credited performers in the production notes as the troupe travels for premiere engagements.
King Bagot's Universal Jewels presents Down the Stretch at the Llo-Ilo Monday January 30 and at the Gaiety Tuesday January 31. The film follows jockey Robert Agnew winning the girl Marian Nixon's heart amid race track realism shot on Belmont grounds with top horses. It co stars Ward Crane Otis Harlan Virginia True Boardman and Haas Gregory in a human interest drama.
Hollywood is recognizing Sharon Lynn as a promising leading woman in moving pictures. Though relatively new, her standout work in Aflame in the Sky Clancy's Kosher Wedding and The Cow ard opposite Warner Baxter has directors calling her one of the most capable young actresses in film today and signaling a bright future.
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