Paxtang Park Theater Hosts Vaudeville and Film Highlights
Paxtang Park Theater drew crowds last night with Lenora Simonson headlining a strong Vaudeville bill. Ben Smith Johnny Reynolds and others performed in a lively program while Regent shows featured The Eternal Grind with Mary Pickford and Pauline Frederick in Sleeping Fires. Substantial Metro release The Soul of a Magdalene played at Colonial with Petrova in the lead.
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Paxtang House
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New York
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Simonson
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Daniels
Conrad
Cooth
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Regent
Mary Pickford
Miss Pickford
Pears
Little Mary
Pauline Frederick
Metro
Mme. Petrova
Colonial Mine
Petrova
Colonial Theater
Freezone Corn Remover Promises Easy Relief
A Cincinnati inventor markets freezone a cheap ether compound that dries instantly and lifts corns from feet with a few drops. Users pay little for a quarter ounce and may remove the corn root with fingers without irritating surrounding skin.
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Cincinnati
Father
City Physicians Explain Why They Prescribe Nuxated Iron
A long promotional piece quotes New York doctors praising organic iron. It claims Nuxated Iron rapidly boosts strength, vitality, and color in iron deficient individuals, with testimonials from Dr. Ferdinand King and others. It describes iron's role in blood, muscles, and nerves, offers a 4 week strength test, and promises money back if results fail.
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N. Y
Ferdinand King
America
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City of
Chicago
Jefferson Park Hospital
Schuyler C. Jaques
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
E. Sauer
Boston
Howard James
Manhattan State Hospital of New York
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Garden of Eden Cabaret and A Woman's Awakening Feature
A lavish scene shows a sliding panel revealing The Garden of Eden stage with Bohemian patrons and Hawaiian dancers led by Mme Petrova. The narrative centers on a maiden's sacrifice for her invalid mother. A two reel Keystone comedy A Maiden's Trust and Leena Owen in A Woman's Awakening screen Thursday.
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Seena Owen
Keystone
Allstar
Leena Owen
Reading Lincoln descendant dies at 77 in Reading
Reading resident Reading-Harrison G. Lincoln, kin of President Abraham Lincoln and born on the old Lorane homestead, died suddenly at his Reading home from heart failure at age 77. Other Central Pennsylvania items note Altoona bakers raising bread prices, Bethlehem home defense enrollment, Hazleton shell makers subscribing to Liberty Loan, danger of Fourth of July events, a child’s whisky poisoning, a Minersville suicide, a jewelry store theft in Minersville, and Granges opposing a road bond issue until after the war.
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Harrison G. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Lorane
Altoona
Bethlehem
Bethlehems
Thomas O. Cole
Hazicton
Jeanesville Iron Works
United States
Hazleton
Michael Inoxa
West Hazleton
Pottsville
Joseph Plunkett
Minersville
Joseph Abrahams
Mauch Chunk
Children Day Services at Dillsburg Churches
Children's Day programs were held at two Dillsburg churches on Sunday. At the Presbyterian Church R B Nelson led a service with music, readings, recitations, and various classes performing. The Lutheran Church program ran Sunday evening under M C Thumma with an orchestra, choruses, and multiple student performances ending with an appeal for Loysville orphanage and a $28.25 offering.
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Presbyterian Church
R. B. Nelson
Mr. Wolf
Keith Cook
Oolin Cook
Robert Nelson
Martha Smith
Margaret Blicker
May Altland
Helen Lancaster
Adelle Nelson
Miss Bowman
Miss Rearick
M. C. Thumma
Children Day Observed at Dauphin Sunday School
Dauphin Pennsylvania observed Children’s Day at the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School with Mrs. Edith Eby at the piano and W. G. Garverich announcing the program. The service featured a series of recitations songs and exercises led by children including Dorothy Shaffer Violet Sheffer Beulah Twigg and Miss Shaffer with an address by the pastor Rev. W. H. Zweizig and an offering following the benediction.
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Dauphin
Dauphin Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
Edith Eby
W. G. Garverich
Dorothy Shaffer
W. H. Zweizig
Pansies
Martha Fertig
Morris Reno Dies At 83 linked to Leopold Damrosch
New York reports Morris Reno aged 83, linked to Leopold Damrosch, helped produce the first German opera at the Metropolitan Opera House. He co founded the New York Oratorio Society and once served as secretary of the New York Symphony Society. Philadelphia fire wipes out Gimbel Brothers garage and stock, $150,000 loss. Fifty trucks burned. Elizabeth W Mellinger dies at 91 in Creswell after sixty eight years on the Mellinger homestead. Sunbury plans courthouse decoration for Six County Firemen convention.
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New York
Philadelphia
Gimbel Brothers
Market Streets
Columbia
Elizabeth W. Mellinger
John 8. Mellinger
Creswell
Mellinger
Liberty bonds to bear varied portraits and colors in 1917 issue
Washington reports the Liberty Loan of 1917 will feature likenesses of presidents from Washington to McKinley in blue brown orange red and green tones. Bonds measure thirteen by six inches printed on silk fiber paper with Bartholdi Statue of Liberty vignette and color coded backs. Also notes the 928 passengers aboard the Bergensfjord arriving from Europe with no submarine sighted.
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McKinley
Liberty
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Jefferson
Jackson
Lincoln
Monroe
Cleveland
Grant
Bartholdi
New York Harbor
Freedom
Crawford
United States Capitol
Atlantic
United States
Europe
Bergensfjord
Hearings Close on Proposed Railway Freight Rate Increase
The Interstate Commerce Commission finished hearings on a proposed fifteen percent rail freight rate hike to take effect July 1. With under three weeks to decide, the agency reviews hundreds of letters, telegrams, briefs, testimony and statistics on an estimated $300 million impact. Western lines with strong dividend histories warned reduced or passed dividends may follow if the increase is denied.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles Donnelly
Western Railroads
Western
One Step to Stay dominates dance convention report
New York June 12 The waltz fox trot and one step will continue to hold sway as the big three dances according to dancing instructors at the fourth annual convention of the International Association of Masters of Dancing.
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New York
International Association of Masters of Dancing
Workers Accept $1 Wage Increase in War Measure
In New York on June 12 15000 workers and children’s clothing workers accepted a $1.00 weekly wage increase as a war measure from manufacturers. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America had originally sought $3.00 extra per week. Lord Northcliffe arrived in New York to coordinate British war commissions and opened offices with staff to follow shortly.
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New York
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Northcliffe
Lord Northcliffe
America
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