The Next Step in Democracy and Other Book Notes
A digest of recent books reviews and essays including R W Sellars on socialism defining it as a democratic movement for economic justice and liberty Everett MacDonald’s Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky a Kentucky feud tale William Warfield The Gate of Asia Tagore in Japan and Kirksland Expression in Song review the works explore democracy history geography music and vocal art in a compact literary column.
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R. W. Sellars
MacMillan Company
N. Y
University of Michigan
Gate of
Asia
William Warfield
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Persian Gulf
Black Sea
Mesopotamia
Kurdistan
Armenia
Persian
Azerbaijan
Cyrus
Persia
Nadir Shah
Xenophon
Alexander the Great
Julian
Kirksland
Badger
Kirkland
Mark Twain gets sixteen thousand yards of binding cloth
Harper & Brothers ordered sixteen thousand yards of cloth to bind Mark Twain books. Bonnie May of Louis Dodge's Scribner serial offers practical life wisdom on being pleasant. The piece notes renewed interest in Lord Kitchener after his death and references multiple stories in progress.
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Mark Twain
Harper & Brothers
New York
City Hall
One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Street
Bonnie May
Louis Dodge
Scribner's
Lord Kitchener
Bigmle
Majestic and Regent Showcase War Pictures and Vaudeville
The Majestic screens Patriot Wilmer Vincent war-parade footage with vaudeville acts while the Regent finishes Israel story The Moment Before with Pauline Frederick as Duchess Malden. Colonial shows A Man of Sorrow with William Farnum and a five reel war romance The Bugle Call with Hank Mann.
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Majestic
Victoria
Harrisburg Soldier Boys
Eeecu Rae
Meadowbrook Lane
William Farnum
Mary Ruby
Colonial
William Fox
H. Ince
William Collier, Jr
Keystone
Hank Mann
Meadow Brook Lane
Hoey & Lee
Wilmer Vincent
Harrisburg
Park Theater vaudeville acts and fireworks show
Ten percent of today and tomorrow’s receipts go to the Telegraph fund for soldiers’ families. Admission is fifteen cents on the first floor and ten cents in the balcony. Gordon and Day present a bicycle stunt and tramp comedian act in a headline vaudeville show at the park, with Evlyn May and company offering a one act sketch Much At Home. A grand free fireworks display tops the program with set-piece changes for variety and aerials.
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Telegraph
Gordon and Day
Park Theater
Paxtang
Gordon
Evlyn May
Miss May
Davis
Water Carnival Planned on Swatara Creek at Hummelstown
A water carnival on Swatara Creek at Hummelstown July 15 was announced. A committee led by Homer Hummel Strickler organizes canoe motor and rowboat entries with Acme Band to headline and merchants posting six prize items for best decorated boats.
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Hummelstown
Swatara
Homer Hummel Strickler
Mr. Strickler
Charles Fackler
W. H. Fackler
George Bartels
John Baer
C. Yingst
E. Z. Etter
Morris M. Engle
Mercorized wax and saxolite face care advice
An advertisement extols mercorized wax as a superior seasonal skin treatment. It claims the wax cleans pores and removes scarf skin without oiliness, revitalizing the complexion. A nightly application with soap and water, plus a saxolite face bath, is recommended to prevent sagging and wrinkles.
Wedding in Middleburg Unites Elizabeth Moyer and Harry Callahan
A wedding was held at the Lutheran Church in Middleburg as Elizabeth Moyer daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Moyer Middleburg became the bride of Harry Earle Callahan clerk at Johnson shoe store Lewistown The ceremony took place Tuesday afternoon. The WCTU Society from Blain will meet Monday evening at 730 in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Middleburg
Lewistown
Elizabeth Moyer
Charles Moyer
Harry Earle Callahan
Johnson Shoe Store
Ww. Co. T. U
Blain
Women's Christian Temperance’ Union Society
Vclock
Cupid Was Member of Gettysburg High Faculty
Gettysburg Pa June 29 citizens question what instruction was given at the high school last winter. Since school ended three girls have married and a fourth rumored. Patrons blame Cupid as a successful member of the faculty.
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Cupid
Gettysburg High
Gettysburg
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