Year 1916 Paves Way for Record Breaking Photoplays
La Crosse cinemas end the year with prosperity and hints of bigger films to come in 1916. Major attractions include The Birth of a Nation Civil War epics Mary Pickford General star appearances of Bushman Farrar and Bayne and a long list of popular titles at Bijou Casino and other houses. Stars gaining fame promise continued strong cinema interest in the coming year.
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la Crosse
Mary Pickford
Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Bayne
la Crosse Theater
Bijou
Casino
Carmen
Farrar
Marguerite Clark
Kathryn Williams
Marie Rosa
Temptation
Geraldine Farrar
the Foundling
Peppina
Pickford
Common Law
Lonesome Pine
Charlotte Walker
The
Raiders
Alpha Oc
Sunshine
Cawnpore
Portica
Paviona
Molly
Jaffrey
Undine
Whispering Smith
Medicine Bend
Maurice Daley
Sessue Hayakawa
Pallas-Paramount Films
Kara-San
Myrtle Stedman
E. K. Lincoln
June Elvidge
Brady
Booth Tarkington
Third Street
Jack Pickford
Little Mary
Louise Huff
Two Big Stars Come to Strand for New Year Week
Strand patrons will see two top stars this week. Baby Marie Osborne stars in Shadows and Sunshine on Monday with Charles Chaplin in Behind the Screen later in the week. Jean Jaffrey and The Lass of the Sommerlands attract weekend crowds.
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McWilliams
Dorothy Davenport
Jane Grey
Frank Mills
Wid
Denmark
Baroness Dewitt
Baby Marie Osborne
Little Mary Sunshine
Charles Chaplin
the Sumberlands
Jaffrey
Charles
First Movie Star Visits Lacrosse House
The town sees its first film star appear in person at the Lacrosse House as Triangle Iace presents A Gambler in Souls with Dorothy Dalton and William Desmond for the final three days of the week.
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Eugene O’brian
Edna Mayo
Iace
Dorothy Dalton
William Desmond
Jack Pickford in Seventeen at Bijou theater
Paul Armstrong novel The Heir to the Hoorah dramatized for screen closes a week of unusual Bijou programs with Thomas Meighan and Anita King, prominent Paramount figures, in the lineup.
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Paul Armstrong
Photoplay Actress Miss Ormi Hawley at La Crosse Theater
Miss Ormi Hawley, seen in La Crosse screens often, arrives at the La Crosse theater next Friday in person with the photoplay Race death by own action. The Unborn will follow on Tuesday and the two days after.
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Ormi Hawley
la Crosse
Toeller Declares Public Market a Failure
John C. Toeller of Battle Creek writes to La Crosse grocers’ official Harry Taggart defending grocers and arguing public markets fail. He details long hours and low profits in groceries, cites Battle Creek experiment losses, and proposes community stores and a bank to lower costs. He contrasts grocery margins with other trades and warns public markets harm the grocer and tax base.
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John C. Toeler
William Doerflinger
Toeller- Dolling Company
Battle Creek
Mich
Harry Taggart
la Crosse
Chamber of Ommerce Agricultural Committee
Maki Coc
Maigeree House Ee
Harry
Taeik
Powers That Be
Latal
Chamber of Commerce
Newspapers
Old Park
Agai
Mother
Altoona Canecy
Stumping the Agent on a Scenic Home Inquiry
A real estate agent praises a residence development’s scenery but the buyer complains there is too much scenery between the location and the city. The exchange highlights a clash between ideal surroundings and practical commute.
Bangor People Attend Masonic Banquet at Salem
Bangor residents attend a Masonic banquet in West Salem including Mr and Mrs 5B J Kneen Mr and Mrs L J Roberts Mr and Mrs George Foster Rev and Mrs McCrary Mr and Mrs Otto Hussa and Mrs Winnifred Bodmer and Mrs Lulu Cummings. Local and Personal Edward Smaitz moved his household goods to a farm near West Salem. Mrs Lillian Aiken visited family in Onalaska.
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Bangor
Wis
West Salem
J. Kneen
L. J. Roberts
George Foster
McCrary
Otto Hussa
Winnifred Bodmer
Lulu Cummings
Edward Smaitz
Lillian Aiken
Tom Aiken
Onalaska
R. W. Bowen
Nathan Hineman
Augusta
Bowen
A. B. Newton
Cordelia Harrison
la Crosse
Johnson
Kenneth
Minneapolis
Sultan
Asa Darling
J. Streeton
Sparta
Hazel Heller
Irma Young
Lavone Bradley
Mrs. Keizer
la Rosse
Bank Robbery at Armitage Avenue Savings Bank
A lone bandit robbed the Arm itage Avenue Savings Bank in Chicago at noon Friday after forcing the manager Hector De Vienne into the vault. He escaped with $200 from the cash drawer.
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Chicago
Armitage Avenue
Hector de Vienne
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WM. S. Hart
Bilhie Burke
Elsie Janis Bosworth
Paramount
Geraldine Farrar Lasky
Frank Keenan
DE Wolf Hopper
Baroness
Valkyrien
Africa
Leo Dietrichstein
Charles Ross
Henrietta Crossman
Mae Marsh
Majestic
Clara Williams
Triangle
Miss Marsh
Anita Loos
New York
Cairo
Egypt
Bagdad
Sahara
Harold McGrath
Toeller
Park
Taggart
John
Marty
Ted
Shahaeth Alleesieeleein ii
Salem
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