Riverside drive hosts navy cruise crowds and shore visits
New York May 16 Riverside drive fills with sailors and visitors as a yearly fleet visit brings navy yachts ashore. Families, nurses, and city residents crowd the waterfront while sailors tour ships, then linger in town for dances, clubs, and trinket vendors. The scene mix includes shipboard curiosity, deck gawking, and post-visit shopping for navy pennants and souvenirs.
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Richard Maslock
New York
Riverside Drive
Hudson
Manhattan
Uncle Sam
AML
Bic
Navy
Marvelous Discovery Prevents Pain in Childbirth
An old advertisement promotes Mother's Friend as a natural skin and muscle relaxant for expectant mothers. It claims to prevent nervousness backache and strain, improve skin pliability and breast condition, and urges immediate use. The copy notes generations of use and offers a brochure by mail from Bradfield Regulator Co. Atlanta Ga.
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Oeter
Satan
Jess
Bradfield Regulator Co
Desk 8
Atlants
Prohibition Savings Put At 8 Billion By AP Report
AP reports Deets Pickett of the Methodist temperance board cites 8 billion dollars in annual savings for the American public from prohibition with half as direct liquor cost and half from higher efficiency. Mabel Walker Willebrandt praises women who entertain without liquor in a Pennsylvania conference. In New Port, England, ambassadorial gifts to Dawes are noted. Stanley Baldwin remarks on ample pipe gifts as he campaigns for reelection. Princeton seniors at the story’s end.
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Associated Press
Washington
Deets Pickett
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Philadelphia
Mabel Walker
New Port
England
Ambassador Dawes
Stanley Baldwin
Mentha Pepsin touted as best for indigestion cure
An ad style fragment promotes Dave's Mentha Pepsin as a premier stomach remedy, claiming rapid relief for acute and stubborn indigestion, strong guarantees, and wide pharmacy availability led by Red Cross Pharmacy. It also lists assorted brief notices from Princeton to Rio Janeiro, including Rockefeller poll notes and diamond price news.
Vienna aviator flies 100 kilometers in five hours
Robert Kronfeld of Vienna took off in a motorless plane at Riesenbeck and completed a 100 kilometer flight in a little over five hours. He won a prize of 1200 dollars.
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Miles
Robert Kronfeld
Vienna
Riesenbeck
The Devil's Apple Tree at Opera House
A 2 Ti fany-Stahl drama stars Dorothy Sebastian as a young woman who hides as a dying girl to escape marriage. The dead confront her in a sensational plot about identity, exposure, and danger set on a tropical island directed by Elmer Clifton with Larry Kent Ruth Clifford and others.
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Tifany-Stahl
Opera House
Dorothy Sebastian
Dorothy
Elmer Clifton
Larry Kent
Ruth Clifford
Boward Martindel
George Cooper
Cosmo Kyrle Rellew
Colleen Moore's Hair Styles Change Through Film Show
In Synthetic Sin at Grand Theatre Colleen Moore's square Dutch bob undergoes several alterations. The hairdresser styles it into a refined coiffure for a witty scene, hides it beneath a kinky wig of a Topsy for another sequence, and continues with further changes as the film progresses.
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Colleen Moore
Grand Theatre
Theatrical Review Mentions Moore and Moreno in Play Production
The snippet notes Miss Moore with a straight bob and curls for a final sequence. Antonio Moreno stars opposite Miss Moore in the leading role in Synthetic Sin adapted from a play by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, produced at the First National Studios by John McCormick.
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Miss Moore
Frederieck
Fanny Hatton
First National
John McCormick
Antonio Moreno
Overnight U.S. News Roundup of Fires and Trials
The bulletin reports deadly hospital fire in Cleveland with over 100 deaths, Longworth promising a two month delay on farm relief, a Chicago detective killed amid a kidnapping probe of Paul Blumenthal, and Miss J Marjorie Berger indicted for a third time over alleged income tax fixings for movie stars. Also change of venue in Rebecca Bradley Rogers bank robbery case, Louisiana Senate impeachment court in doubt after one vote, Des Moines university faculty dismissal approved by Baptist group, Graf Zeppelin departure from Friedrichshafen, Britain’s disarmament stance, and Italia crew search failure.
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Los Angeles
J. Marjorie Berger
Closure of Short Cut Road Blocks West Virginia Travel
The State Road Commission shuts the Spencer to Clarksburg short cut for summer to hard surface between Spencer and Glenville. Traffic will detour via Clarksburg Sele West Union Pennsboro Harrisville Parkersburg along U S routes 50 and 21. Also note a single tubercular fowl in a poultry flock may wipe it out. all diseased birds to be killed, burned, and remaining stock marketed after cleaning and rest and renewed ground.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Spencer
Clarksburg
Weston
State Road Commission
Glenville
Sele
West Union
Pennsboro
Harrisvile
Parkersburg
Elizabeth
Clendennin
Don’t Let Rheumatism Affects Your Muscles and Joints
A vintage drug advertisement claims 8.8.8 restores red blood cells to fight rheumatism by building strength and disease resistance. It features testimonials like R L Bush of Southern Railway Knoxville and states 8.8.8 is made from fresh vegetable drugs, sold in drugstores for over 100 years.
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Ana
S.S
R. L. Bush
Southern Railway
Knoxville
Tenn
Unity Conference to Convene at Buck Hill Falls
About one hundred national church and business leaders will gather June 10 13 at Buck Hill Falls Pennsylvania for the first Christian Herald Institute of Religion to discuss next steps toward a united church Laymen will outnumber churchmen with speakers including Fred W Ramsey Bishop Francis J McConnell and Dr S Parkes Cadman The intensive study aims to apply business discipline to church unity and may yield notable statements from attendees.
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Williamstown Institute
Christian Herald Institute of Religion
Buck Hill Falls
Pennsylvania
Christian Herald Association
Ramsay
Fred W. Ramsey
Cleveland
John, R. Mott
Rank Horne
Merchants' Refrigerating Company
Mr. Ramsey
Francis J. McConnell
Federal Council of Churches
8. Parkes Cadman
Daniel A. Poling
International Society
Christian Endeavor
Major League Leaders as of May 16 1924 standings
National leaders include Stephenson of the Cubs with 41 hits and 418? runs. Hafey of St Louis with 24 RBIs. Grantham and Frisch among doubles. Ott of the Giants with 7 homers. Grimes of Pittsburgh undefeated at 5 0. American leaders feature Gehringer of Detroit with 31 runs and 42 hits. Heilmann 28 RBIs. Alexander and Kamm with 11 doubles. Gehrig of the Yankees with 8 homers. Unkle of Detroit 6 0 pitching.
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National
Stephenson
Cuba
Doutit
Cards
Hafey
Cubs
Grantham
Pirates
Frisch
Frish
Ott
Giants
Swanson
Reda
Patting — Jamieson
Indians
Gehringer
Tigers
Heilmann
Alexander
Kamm
White Sox
Blue
Browns
Gehrig
Yanks
Averill
Indiana
Johnston
Unkle
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M. E. Ingersoll
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Ingersoll
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Paul Blumenthal
la Grande
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Rebecca Bradley Rogers
Baton Rouge
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N. J
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James Cannon Jr
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United Church of Canada
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Charles §. MacFarlane
Federal Council of Ghurehes
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Gus
Gussie
Irght Root, JR
Yvist
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Westwai
Kats
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Jack Last
Sykia
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