Broadway ag Marcus visits Jackie Joe's New York club
Marcus leads a party to Jackie Joe's where Al Stone Blackie's waiter star and Molly the ballad singer clash over love. Molly spurns marriage to a waiter and plots with producer. Blackie nudges Al to perform the love song he wrote for Molly with Grace the cigarette girl cheering him on.
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Marcus
Broadway Ag
Jackie Joe
New York
al Stone
Blackie
Molly
Grace
Cigarette
Blackie Joe
Grad
Al sings heart song to Molly in crowded room
In a lively party scene Al nervously takes a seat beside the pianist to sing a ballad he wrote for Molly. He eyes Molly despite her conversation with Marcus, gains the crowd’s attention, and earns the pianist’s praise as he delivers with feeling.
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Molly
Blackie Joe
Grace
Marcus
Waiter Sung Song That Captures Hearts and Startles Revue
Al Stone, a comic waiter, unleashes a natural ballad style that deeply moves Molly and Grace while Marcus and the audience respond with surprise and praise. Molly reveals she wrote the idea, securing Al’s future with the famed producer Marcus.
Bleriot's Flying Ship Aims for Atlantic Transport
Louis Bleriot advances a hybrid craft combining marine hull and air wings to create a regular trans Atlantic air service. The vessel can operate on water as a ship and launch into flight with removable wings and engines for long range flying. Trials of the first flying ship are eagerly awaited.
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Louis Bleriot
Bleriot
M. Bleriot
Three Hundred Fifty Years of the Fork Adoption
The piece notes a new anniversary celebrating the fork as a table utensil. It argues many customs change slowly and highlights the event as a notable celebration of a long history of dining practices.
Indigo Plant for Tokio to rival world largest facility
A vast artificial indigo plant near Tokyo is planned as one of the world's largest. The project costs over $3,000,000 and will take three years to complete. It is designed to produce about 1,000 tons of indigo annually.
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Tokyo
Japan
Japan Accounts Two Millionaires With $250 Million Fortunes
Two Japanese individuals are estimated to hold about 250 million dollars each, marking them as the nation's wealthiest private figures. Analysts note the scale of their assets and potential influence on business circles.
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Japan
Winnipeg doctors win Banting Research Foundation awards
The Banting Research Foundation announces awards to several Winnipeg doctors and researchers. B Chown will study kidney diseases in young children, J Jackson explores the thyroid gland, W E Brown Jr and Allan Kennedy will research gas anaesthetics, W D M Lloyd and F G Muse grove pursue heart muscle changes and uric acid solubility, with E Frame and C G Smith examining spleen anatomy and brain aging. Paul Egnatof from Saskatoon probes brain cells that regulate blood pressure. The awards honor Dr F G Banting and support medical research nationwide.
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Winnipeg
Banting Research Foundation
Board of Trustees
Dr. B. Chown
J. Jackson
W. E. Brown, Jr
University of Toronto
Allan Kennedy
Varsity
Toronto General Hospital
W. D. M. Lloyd
Western University
Banting
Toronto
Paul Egnatoff
Saskatoon
F. F. Musegrove
E. G. Frame
C. G. Smith
London
Ont
Dominion
F. G. Banting
Making Flying Safer Through Weather Aware Navigation
The reporter recounts air travel safety via real time weather data and ground stations guiding pilots to detour storms. Despite lightning and rain between Winslow and Albuquerque, pilots steered around hazards and reached Clovis ahead of dark, illustrating safer air travel.
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Los Angeles
New York
Winslow
Ariz
Albuquerque
Clovis
N.M
Figures Show Women Are Careful Drivers
The District of Columbia Traffic Bureau reports 859 traffic arrests since July 1 with only 28 women, under 3.2 percent, sparking feminist claims that women are far safer drivers while critics suggest policemen’s leniency influences results.
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Record of
Columbia Traffic Bureau
District of Columbia Traffic Bureau
Western ideas shape South China youth says Hamsworth
G P Hamsworth, general agent of the Canadian National at Hong Kong, notes youths in South China adopt Western ideas. He observes modern flappers with short skirts and bobbed hair, boys in double breasted suits, fox trots, English foods, and popular movies in Hong Kong and Shanghai theaters. Yet respect for parents remains strong.
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South China
G. P. Hamsworth
Hong Kong
Winnipeg
Europe
England
Mr. Hamsworth
Shanghai
Safe Summer Remedy for Infants Promises Quick Help
Save the Children notes that keeping a box of Baby's Own Tablets at home helps prevent stomach troubles like cholera infantum and diarrhoea during hot weather. The tablets are claimed harmless even to newborns and regulate bowels, selling for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville, by mail or through medicine dealers.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
World Famous Scout Shoots Kodiak Bears on Alaska Island
Dick Douglas, noted Boy Scout who crossed Canada by rail, claims to have shot two hundred Kodiak bears on Kodiak Island during a month long trip. He says most were photographed, two were killed, and one bear 90 feet long, with plans for a book covering his Canadian crossing and Kodiak visit.
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Dick Douglas
Canada
Canadian National Railways
Alaska
Douglas
Martin Johnson
Kodiak Islands
Montreal
Jasper National Park
Asthma Remedy Promises Cure and Restful Sleep
Asthma sufferers are urged that relief from years of misery is possible with Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy. The ad claims perfect effectiveness bringing comfort to body and mind and returning nights of sound sleep. Drugstores can supply it.
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J. D. KeHogg
Indispensable Myth Undercuts a Man’s Self View
A concise reflection notes that belief in one’s indispensability signals overconfidence and ineligibility for growth. The aphorism suggests humility as a path to genuine usefulness and warns against ego-driven certainty.
California Name Meaning Hot Furnace
The record notes the state name California derives from a Spanish term meaning hot furnace, tracing the linguistic root to early exploration and mapping.
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State
California
Ironized Yeast Revives Minister After 7 Week Decline
Reverend W H Taylor reports rapid health gains after a three week trial of Ironized Yeast. He says within two weeks strength returned and in three weeks he gained seven pounds. The ad touts ironized yeast as safe with pleasant tasting tablets and a money back offer.
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W. H. Taylor
Canadian Ironized Yeast Co., Ltd
Fort Erie
Ont
Desk
Little Helps For This Week Prayer Fragment
This item presents a devotional excerpt beginning with a Psalm verse and a plea for mercy. It continues with a humble prayer by a child of dust asking for acceptance of self and four treasuries: nothingness, wants, sins, and contrition. The closing quotes attribute Southey and Chrysostom on prayer.
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Father
Robert Southey
Holloway's Corn Remover Sold as Effective Cure
Advertisement claims Holloway's Corn Remover safely eradicates corn growths. The copy asserts the product removes corn completely with no risk.
Bottled Message Reaches North Queensland After 434 Days
A bottle floated 2,500 miles over 434 days before being found off North Queensland. Dropped October 7, 1927 by a British vessel 1,000 miles north of Fiji, it requested return to the Meteorological Office of the British Air Ministry which uses drifting bottles from 494 ships to study ocean currents.
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North Queensland
Pacific Ocean
Fiji Islands
Meteorological Office
British Air Ministry
Seven Seas
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