Burton and Sitter's Toggery items and regional notices
Overnight news spans corporate appointments at United States Steel Corp with J Pierpont Morgan and others to share duties after EL H Gary's death. Mexican deputies pass Calles bill amid constitutional disputes. Italian ship Caporada runs aground near Deal England in grave danger. Catholic Women protest US policy on Calles Mexico with Ambassador McF row's stance and Lindbergh visit seen as condoning. Oakland kidnap charge filed by Anna Smith over missing 11 year old daughter Evelyn. Pauline Thompson and Joey Raynolds found at Manley Iowa after 24 hour hunt with Reynolds arrested. LSU Baton Rouge announces acting president Thomas W Atkinson. Gromley track coach dismissed for drunken conduct at Oct 22 game.
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United States Steel Corporation
J. Pierpont Morgan
Myrone
Taylor
Jas
A. Farrell
EL H. Gary
Mexican Chamber of Deputies
Calles
Caporado
Goodwin Sands
Deal
England
Immierce gAle
National Council of Catholic Women
Coolidge
Mexico
McFrow
Lindbergh
Oakland
Cal
Anna Smith
Evelyn
Pauline Thompson
Joey Raynolds
Manley
Iown
Reynolds
Thomas W. Atkinson
Louisiana State Union
Baton Rouge
Gromley
Private Izzy Murphy at the Opera House with George Jessel
The Warner feature Private Izzy Murphy stars George Jessel with Patsy Ruth Miller and Vera Gordon at the Opera House tonight and Thursday. Lloyd Bacon directs. the tale follows Izzy Goldman who changes his name to Murphy and serves in an Irish regiment abroad. The Cat and Canary also arrives next week with Laura La Plante leading an all star cast including Arthur Edmund Care and Creighton Hale.
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Izzy Murphy
Warner Picture
Opera House
George Jessel
New York
Jessel
Patsy Ruth Miller
Vera Gordon
Lloyd Bacon
Frank Bacon
Lightnin
Iazy Goldbergh
Murphy
Laura la Plante
Arthur Edmund Care Forrest Stanley
Creighton Hale
Gertrude Astor
George Siegmann
Flora Finch
Tally Marshall
Martha Mattox
Screen Story Based on John Willard Play
The film follows a will reading by a wealthy recluse's kin after his death. An attorney is murdered during the reading, casting suspicion on all relatives. Paul Leni directs this Universal production after his European successes.
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John Willard
Paul Leni
Universal
The Dump Story of a City’s Forgotten People
In a bleak urban dump a cast of discarded men, women, and children make a living amid dust and refuse. Crooked, a blind kindness figure, guides a fragile girl Susan Dale and boy Mickey Grogan as they form a fragile partnership over artificial flowers. Their struggle hints at a larger, unseen world of loss and hope among the city’s forgotten.
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Tem
Crooked
Elvan
Susan Dale
Mickey Grogan
Mickey
Susan
Mikey
Sylvia
Tooth
Wall
Fist
Crippre
Mickey W Hetherto
Aunt Maris
Susie
Ste
Suan Dale
Winifred Davidson
Oter
Indy
Crude romance amid The Dump in Mickey Grogan tale
A harsh urban vignette follows Mickey Grogan and Susan Dale as they barter artificial flowers among factory workers and avoid the truant officer. Mickey discovers a Colt revolver, funds a risky venture with Susan, and faces pressure from Al Nevers while pursuing Winifred Davidson, the factory girl.
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Suale
Winifred Davidson
Mickey
Indy
Winifred
Susan
Susie
Marshall
al Nevers
Winnie
Pye
Carpenter and Russian Refugee Rise in English Commerce
London story of two wealthy Englishmen after death. Thomas Moullin, a carpenter’s helper turned founder of Great Pearl Insurance Company with 175 million funds. Abraham Drapkin, a Russian refugee, started Milhoff and Drapkin, a leading cigarette firm, beginning with a half-pound of tobacco and a locked door fraud trial that spurred a major British business.
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London
Horatio Alger
Thomas Moulin
Carpenter
Great Pearl Insurance Company
Abraham Drapkin
Milhoff and Drapkin
Thomas Moullin
Guernsey
Rachael Rose
Hur- Ty
E Abraham Drapkin
E&me
Russia
Eli J
England
Firth
Draka
Drapkin
Britain
Synthetic Fertilizer War Across Europe and Britain
Germany claims a cheap nitrogen extraction process from lignite that could slash fertilizer costs to about one mark a ton, triggering alarm in England and France. France debates Dill allowing state buyout of fertilizer firms to create a government majority stock, with profits claimed for public use. Britain pushes cost reductions and notes successful synthetic production experiments as supply pressures grow. Oxford botanist Frederick Keeble notes English output could meet rising demand if Germany leads in synthesis.
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London
Germany
England
France
Inter
Pric
Morocco
Great Britain
Frederick ‘Keeble
Oxford
Lincoln County cattle revival linked to Billy the Kid tale
In New Mexico at Carvizozo Lincoln County prepares a cattle industry comeback led by veteran stockmen. The piece recalls Lincoln’s Civil War cattle herds and the Lincoln County War, noting Billy the Kid’s rise amid early ranchland power shifts and wars, framing a modern restocking of old ranches with high grade stock.
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Robert \atall
Billy the Kid
Carvizozo
N.M
Lincoln
George Coe
Partn
Lino
Lincoln County
Japanese Emigration Urged for Chile Settlement
About 200 Japanese reside in Chile with 150 farmers and small merchants. Kumichi Sekenobu, the minister, says Chile needs more emigrants and urges government transport aid. He notes abundant non mountainous land is fertile and envisions families moving to Os to grow tropical fruit.
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Tokyo
Chile
Kumichi Sekenobu
Sakenobu
Japan
Died Wimer Boyce Pearl M Winer Dies at 27
Pearl M Winer nee Boyce wife of Edgar B Wimer died Monday December 26 1927 at 1035 p m aged 27 years. She was mother of Arnold Horace and Clara Wimer sister of Rosa Knight James Commodore L Peden T Miss Florence H and Miss Maud Boyce. Services Wednesday at 2 pm at 94 Soffel street Mt Washington Pittsburgh. Funeral Thursday at 3 pm in Haymond Baptist Church Gratton West Virginia. Friends invited.
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Wimer-Boyce
Pearl M. Winer
Mt. Washington
Pittsburgh
Southern Avenues
Soffel Street
Haymond Baptist Church
Gratton
W. Va
Mountain sheep in Glacier park face pneumonia threat
Helena reports Mountan sheep in the Glacier park and Sul River district are contracting pneumonia. Dr Hadlel Mavels, a livestock sanitarian, says the disease endangers herd survival and urges action by the livestock sanitary board. The advisory warns of broader risks to wildlife and livestock in the region.
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