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Denton Journal

Location

Denton, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Nov 21, 1931

Page

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Sweetheart Town to Honor Denton With Pageant Next Week

The Community Club musical comedy Sweetheart Town will be staged at Caroline High School Auditorium on Thanksgiving Day November 26 and Friday November 27 at 8 15 p m. Cast includes Wm Orme as the hotel manager and Mary Sullivan as his wife with Eleanor Wilson as Mary the daughter and Russell Flaharty as Joe the country boy. The plot centers on a mortgage, mistaken identity and romantic entanglements with a large cast, up to thirty chorus girls and grand costumes. Tickets available from club members or Davis Drug Store.

Sweetheart Town Community Club Caroline High School Wm. Orme Sweetheart Town Hotel Mary Sullivan Billy Eleanor Wilson Mary Joe Russell Flaharty Squire Bigelow Thomas Baynard Squire Jean Kauffman Peggy Bigelow Wm. Fleetwood Professor Lighthead Peggy Towers Irwin Clara Slaser Dorothy Miller Ann Lewis Miss Kaba Kayo Mary Ann Knotts Frederick B. Ingram Jack and Jill GO Tiny Tots Davis’ Drug Store Community Club of Denton Miss Lane Miss Ford Miss Brown

Don’t Get Up Nights Test Physic for Bladder Relief

A 25¢ bladder physic promises to cleanse the bladder and drive out impurities and acids causing irritation, leg pains, backache, and night trips. It uses buchu and juniper oil and is sold as a 5 grain box. try for four days, then return for your money if not relieved, available locally at Caroline Pharmacy.

Caroline Pharmacy

Interesting Assembly At High School

A Denton high school page recounts a November Armistice Day assembly at C H S featuring Mr Cumming urging peace and outlawing war. The piece notes inter class games replacing soccer, choir trips to Greensboro, a play titled Sweetheart Town, Christmas donations, and a Weiner roast with the soccer and fieldball teams.

M. E Greensboro

Provident State Bank Preston to Reopen Under Plan

A Maryland plan aims to reopen banks without loss to depositors and with future stability. Deputy State Banking Commissioner John D. Hespelhorn outlines depositor agreements on withdrawal size and frequency, a 25 percent diverted to a guaranty fund with interest, new capital, reorganized personnel, and board changes. At least six banks, including Provident State Bank Preston and Queenstown Bank, will resume under this private funding plan independent of the National Credit Corporation.

Maryland John D. Hespelhorn Provident State Bank of Preston Queenstown Bank Ocean City Hespelhorn National Credit Corporation

New Community Ridgely Presents Princess Yvonne and Film Lineup

Princess Yvonne, famed mental marvel, will appear at eight o'clock Friday and Saturday at New Community Theatre Ridgely and offer a $200 reward for anyone she fails to call by name. James Dunn and Linda Watkins star in Sob Sister, with Fox Film presenting Heart Break next Tuesday and The Vanishing Legion episode three. The Reese-Rialto-Keith Company brings Silent and other shorts, plus Bad Girl starring James Dunn, in a Thanksgiving week lineup unlikely to disappoint.

Princess Yvonne Mental Marvel New York City Million Dollar Pier Atlantic City New Community Theatre Ridgely James Dunn Linda Watkins Fox Film Corporation Charles Farrell Reese-Rialto-Keith Company Paramount Clive Brook

Washington's Lost Thanksgiving Proclamation Disclosed

The first National Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington, issued on November 1, 1789, was forgotten and later found in 1921 by Dr. J. C. Fitzpatrick at an New York auction. Written by Secretary William Jackson, it was authenticated and purchased for $300 for the Library of Congress where it remains a treasure.

United States George Washington New York Philadelphia Washington J. C. Fitzpatrick Library of Congress

Christmas Card Sale Announcement at Journal Office

Christmas is near and the Journal Office promotes a larger, prettier selection of Christmas cards. Scratch pads are offered at 1 cent each or six for five cents, with the offer emphasized in a local notice style.

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