Al Stone's Turbulent Rise and Fall at Blackie Joe's
Al Stone a singing waiter at Blackie Joe's New York club loves Grace Farrel the cigarette girl though he does not know it. He marries Molly Winton a ballad singer but after winning fame as a songwriter Molly elopes with Al's best friend John Perry. They flee with Al's two year old Junior to France. Al vanishes into a broken career then returns to confront Grace and a threatened murder when he learns of the betrayal.
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al Stone
Blackie Joe
New York
Grace Farrel
Molly Winton
Molly
John Perry
Junior
France
Broadway
Kle Joe's Club
Bddy
Comeback on guitar and grace renews bond in room scene
Grace helps Al regain nerve after his collapse as he vows to prove himself. She supports his comeback with a concert, and Blackie notes Grace will keep him from slipping back while planning housing and clothing to sustain his reinvention. Grace and Al walk home together at dawn.
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Grace
Gracie
Blackie
Gace
Molly
Stand By Plea Amid Staircase Escape
A fragment shows a man begging a woman to stand by as they descend a narrow staircase toward the street with Al swaying. Grace takes his arm and the scene ends with To Be Continued.
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Mt. Grace
Christmas Red Cross Parcels Reach Needy In Canada
The Red Cross prepares Christmas parcels for settlers and newcomers in Alberta and Canadian north. Junior Red Cross members in Alberta, thirty thousand strong, fund and make warm bedding scarves mitts socks and baby garments for Calgary and Edmonton hospitals. The program travels through icy roads as December nears, with toys and quilts already made and sent to comfort children in cot.
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Canada
Northland
Red Cross
Dr.c.a. Edmonton
Alberta
Calgary
Edmonton
Lemons Run Up by Columbia University Chemistry Class
A mystery demand for lemons emptied fruit and vegetable stores near Columbia University in New York. More than 100 chemistry students were ordered to bring ten lemons each for lab experiments. The rush began Friday and left Amsterdam Avenue lemonless for six blocks, frustrating housewives. The lemons supplied citric acid for experiments.
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Columbia University
New York
Amsterdam Avenue
Columbia
A Necessary Luxury in Toronto Phones proliferate
Toronto now has 200000 telephones with 1600 in use at the Royal York on the original site. The pace surged since 1879 when the first phone appeared at the Queen's Hotel, marking rapid growth from 100000 phones after forty two years to another 100000 in eight years.
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Toronto
Queen’s Hotel
Royal York
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil praised for wide use
The advertisement touts Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil as a universal remedy for sore throat and lumbago among other inflammation related ailments. It claims the oil is rapidly absorbed through the skin and can be taken internally for relief.
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Thomas
Calgary solves housing problem with new builds
Calgary reports progress on housing with 576 houses valued at $2,634,835 either built or under construction since January. The year 1928 saw 480 houses erected valued at $2,089,078, with an average cost of $4,750 compared to $4,350 in 1928. Ecuador known for its diamond mines.
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Calgary
Pompeii traffic analogy in medical digestion piece
A health allegory compares keeping the human digestive system, notably the 32 foot intestine, clear and active to avoiding traffic jams in cities. It warns against self poisoning from digested food decay, urging timely aid rather than excuses about illness or indigestion.
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Pompeii
New Radio System Aims To Cut Ether Congestion
Dr James Robinson formerly of the Royal Air Force unveils the Stenode Radiostat System at a London dinner. The device promises cheap high speed transmission of newspaper pages and radio telephone on a frequency band of 10 cycles or less, without discarding current receivers.
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British Radiostat Corporation
London
James Robinson
Wireless Research
British
Royal Air Force
Robinson
Baby's Own Tablets promoted for children’s ailments
An advertisement urges parents to keep Baby's Own Tablets at home to treat common child illnesses. A testimonial from Mrs. Moise Cabotte of Makamik, Que praises relief from indigestion and vomiting. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25c a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co.
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Moise Cabotte, Makamik
Que
Outdoing the Spider in Artificial Silk Weaving
A manufacturer has created artificial silk finer than spider silk. Filaments measure .0004 inch in diameter versus the spider's .0023 inch. Four thousand two hundred twenty seven miles of filament weigh a pound, and a sheet of newspaper is nine times thicker. The ultra fine filament weaves into yarn with silk like feel and may lead to even finer fibers, potentially surpassing nature.
Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for Child Worms
An old advertisement touts Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a safe and reliable remedy for a child troubled by worms, promoting a trusted domestic cure.
Gunn Family Claims Australia’s Loneliest Home Circle
The Gunn family of M Gunn, a Cape York telegraph operator, live at the far north tip of Australia with hundreds of miles of bush on one side and shark-infested seas on the other. In three years they have seen only 20 people.
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Australia
M. Gunn
Cape York
Gunns
Portable dance floor on wheels rolls into London scene
A new portable dance floor in London offers mobility for dancers. Made of wood strips on a strong canvas backing, it rolls up like a carpet and costs about as much per yard as a quality rug, enabling easy movement from place to place.
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London
England
Three Towns Prime Along 500 Mile Alaska Rail Route
The report notes only three towns with populations over 300 lie along the 500 mile Alaska railway corridor. It highlights sparse settlement and the route’s limited urban centers.
Byrd Returns After First Pole Flight Across South Pole
Commander Richard E. Byrd is reported by The New York Times and St. Louis papers to have safely returned to Little America after a successful South Pole flight surveying adjacent territory. Byrd becomes the first person to fly across both poles. May 1926 saw his North Pole crossing in the Josephine Ford with Floyd Bennett. Bennett died in 1928 while aiding a Bremen rescue. Byrd’s Antarctic flight marked a third pole achievement after Amundsen and Scott, who reached the South Pole by overland means.
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New York Times
St. Louis Post-Despatch
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Little America
South Pole
Josephine Ford
King’s Bay
Spitzbergen
North Pole
Floyd Bennett
Bremen
Greenley Island
Bennett
Pole
Roald Amundsen
Robert F. Scott
Rayon becomes global staple as giant Maryland firm forms
Rayon, once little known, is now a common substitute for silk produced worldwide. A new Maryland holding company with 60 million dollars capital and interests in six countries has been formed, signaling rapid growth. Last year the United States produced over 107 million pounds of rayon, about twice Italy’s output.
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Maryland
United States
Italy
Prince Edward Island Quietly Satisfied With Frugal Life
The article notes PEI has no millionaires and locals live by the golden mean. It describes a small, contented community under heaven’s smile, as happy as similar towns across North America.
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Prince Edward Island
North America
Fortnightly Notice Prompted Applicant's Quick Reply
An employer asks for alertness and the applicant confirms rapid response, stating he has noticed alerts twice in a fortnight.
Little Helps For This Week And The First Balloon Ascent
A compact devotional note cites Psalm phrases by Christine Rossetti and Harriet Man sell about discernment and living water, urging purity of life to feed the city of God and heal nations. It then recalls the 1783 French balloon ascent marking Britain acknowledging American independence as a historical milestone.
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City of God
Harriet Mansell
Drunken man debates time as clock strikes six in jest
A drunken man quips at a clock striking one in the afternoon claiming he knows the hour and mocks the repetition. The brief exchange reveals a humorous street scene as bystanders react. The incident underscores local mood and routine city life captured in a single vignette.
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