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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1916
Page
11
A report on a film shown at LaSalle theatre in Chicago describes The Little Girl Next Door as sensational and indecent. The production portrays tragic female lives, immorality, and entrapment with graphic detail, prompting criticism for its explicit content and moral impact.
Hoffman Bros Company advertises sound grade lumber for sheds and fences at low prices. Phone 61.
A Marguerite Clark film feature recounts a romantic tale of a girl facing danger and love in olden days. The piece highlights her daring escapes, the villain, and the bold frontier hero as she contemplates marriage to Wells Graton and journeys from her father’s house toward a new life. The article notes a World War era style presentation with a heroic diary framing and a clock heart motif, and mentions a Y M C A committee screening to illustrate community mobilization.
Fort Wayne Medical Society hosts a symposium Tuesday night in the assembly room of the courthouse with speakers Dr. Van Swaringen TA Duemling A J Sehnetiter and Dra Ti. Dr L Kane will read a brief clerical note. Marshall and A B Coleman of Wink are visiting Fort Wayne business guests from Stage Umfla Company.
Darius Buckwell known as the nine screen fellows rides high in popularity at the Orpheum for the first time this season. His Brothers Wife is featured as the seventh of the Brady-Made material with a lively cinema lineup and crowd appeal.
Fort Wayne residents are treated to Lasalle's Lovers and Load Laugh Show at the Palace with Boyle Woolfolk starring. The production promises songs, comedy, and behind the scenes glimpses, plus special numbers and a touring musical comedy style on stage tonight and over the weekend.
Virginia Hammond appears in The Discard at the Lyric for the next two days. The production features a dramatic tale with shifting focus and a complex cast, delivering a staged experience that blends intrigue and emotion.
William Nigh and Marguerite Snow star in Notorious Gallagher a Colombia Pictures feature from Wire directed by Mr High showing at the Orpheum Tomorrow and Wednesday Ernest Ball contributes music while Marguerite Baw appears as the leading artiste with a strong supporting cast including Robert Elliot Rogel Applegate Cowlen Malin and others. The film centers on a man’s pursuit of his brother’s wife amid intrigue and a new identity with notable dramatic performances and era style production values.
Postmaster F C Miller visits South Bend Wednesday to address the Rotary Club at the weekly dinner about Centennial features. South Bend plans events for the centennial with Miller and his cabinet assisting, as club members pursue the celebration.
A convoluted tale unfolds with a mother’s swindlers chasing money and romance. A young husband, kept in boarding school, faces the schemers as deceit collapses. The plot twists lead to a reconciled couple, a denouement unknown to the con artists, and a dramatic reveal.
Willan Behari a former Fort Wayne boy, resident of Washington Street, to wed Miss Jar Walker of the LaSalle company after the comedy performance at the New Antece Ubenting. The wedding will be solemnized on stage following the show with a minister present. Walker has long been with the Boynton Woolfolk Musical Comedy company.
The Weybright family gathered for their seventy-second annual reunion at Haglivers' hall in Whitley county. About 14 guests joined Mrs. John Padres at 1707 High Street. The meeting lasted all day with two baptisms. dinner was served by the Indies at noon. Officers re-elected were W. A. Weybright as president, Weybright as secretary, and George Miller as treasurer. All attendees were from South Whitley.
Empress theatre debuts a new vaudeville bill headlined by Clayton and Runwell with The TeTell brothers, Yeunkel, Edmands Lavelle, Doris Greenwald, The Chree Alaskans, and George Stewart. The program spans two halves featuring music, dancing, strength acts, and comedy with Fort Wayne audiences invited to see eight acts. Local reviews praise the siege of Yorjun as a standout Western vaudeville number returning from eastern circuits.
An unreadable Albion News fragment references a Saturday call by Sune S.edtenry Ruse mfichi and mentions Mr and Mrs Charles Lemmon, a shipment of four nips of iva stock to Pittsburgh on Sac Way, and a sale of Mrs Rayrns to the Tantim resilence on Aircel with a note that the M. 1 parsonage will
Two women hear a muffled cry and pursue clues through crowded streets. A mysterious man in a dark wagon escapes, while Mary and her companion race toward a garage seeking answers, tracing a license number and potential accomplices as the plot fans toward a tense confrontation.
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