North West Mounted Police opens at Saenger Theatre
The film stars Gary Cooper Madeline Carroll Paulette Goddard Preston Foster Robert Preston Akim Tamiroff Lynne Overman George Bancroft Lon Chaney Walter Hampden and others in DeMille’s first all Technicolor epic. Set amid Metis uprisings at Fort Carlton the story follows Mounties led by Sergeant Brett Dusty Rivers and the romantic triangle with April Creole as they thwart Corbeau and ensure triumph for the Mounted.
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Corbeau
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Foster
Ronnie
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Mounted
Golitse
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Fort Carlton
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Montagu Love
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Gary Cooper
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Miss Carroll
Miss Goodaru
Paulette Goddard
Preston Foster
Robert Preston
Akim Tamiroff
Lynne Overman
George Bancroft
Lon Chaney, Jr
Walter Hampden
Thanksgiving note on vases and Pike's Peak tale
A fragmentary note reports that eight tons of vases are needed to extract perfume oil for one pound valued at about 175 dollars. It also claims Pike's Peak was named after Zhu Jon Pike, though white settlers knew it as early as 1700 before his birth.
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Pike's Peak
Zhu- Jon Pike
Freedom by the Press How Opinion Shapes Liberty in America
A 1940s advocacy piece argues that public opinion and access to all facts keep Americans free. It warns that dictators gain control by limiting information, as Germany did under Hitler, and urges readers to defend press freedom and truthful reporting. The note closes inviting reader feedback to the Newspaper Publishers Committee.
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America
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini
Germany
Tyhey
Draft Calls Will Be Few
Washington story recounts a prominent 23 year old youth from No. 158 area selected as the district’s No. 1 draft pick. He is described as a football hero and ideal physical specimen whose impending induction sparked neighborhood pride and celebratory displays led by the American Legion.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Stimson
Selective Service
American Legion
War enlistment surge outpaces draft calls in early period
A local observer notes a wave of enlistments driven by selective service. He cites 52 district selectees ahead of a hometown boy and predicts hundreds of thousands will enlist or be inducted soon. Doctors lawyers engineers and graduates rush to join before June college terms end.
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Johnny Feoles
Taining
Focal Board
Selective Service
Johnny
Regular Army
Local Legion Wins Membership Contest
Local American Legion post wins a membership drive contest against the Prescott post. The winning post will be entertained by Prescott on November 29. Post Commander Terrel Cornelius requests all local Legionnaires planning to attend to contact him immediately.
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American Legions Post
Prescott Post
Prescott
Terrel Cornelius
Baptists to Hold Fellowship Supper at First Church
A fellowship supper will be held in the Educational Building of First Baptist Church Tuesday at 6 45 pm. Sponsored by the Sunday School Superintendent and Finance Committee, about 100 church leaders are expected. Dr Julian Atwood pastor Texarkana is the speaker. Passes in the Pyrenees mountains are extremely dangerous because of the winds.
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First Baptist Church
Julian Atwood
Texarkana
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