Photoplay Gossip From Dorothy's Column
Dorothy Dearborn answers reader questions about Billie Burke and The Mysterious Miss Terry at the Famous Players studio in New York. The piece also recalls Douglas Fairbanks Mary Pickford and friends at a Los Angeles swimming party and notes cast and personal details from current industry figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Burke
Miss Terry
Players
New York
Thomas Meighan
Dave Warfield
Billie’ Burke
Marguerite ‘Clark
Frederick
Douglas Fairbanks
Los Angeles
Mary Pickford
John Emerson
Eileen Percy
Same de Grasse
Mrs. Pickford
Ted Hemmer
John Fairbanks
Charlie Chaplin
Bull Montana
Anita Loos
Joseph Henaberry
Florence EB. Gribbon
James Hogan
Ruth Allen
Victor Fleming
Fairbank
Clune
Artcraft
Helen Holmes
Railroad Serial Fame
Wilds
J. B—Earl Foxe
Owen Moore
L. L.—M. Maurice
Florence Walton
Vernon Castle
Judy
James Young
Clara Kimball Young
Pauline Frederick
Famous Players
Billy
Ethel
Making Libraries for Soldiers Campaign Gains Ground
Washington reports $1,000,000 raised to establish libraries in training camps and cantonments. The Library War Council, with War Service Committee support, coordinates subscriptions, aims to place 32 library buildings and 350000 volumes, with books sold at cost and authors donating royalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Watson
Library War Council
Newton D. Baker
War Service Committee
American Library Association
Harold Braddock
Montclair
N. J
National War Council
United States
1Urbcian
America
Colonel L. Richardson
Fort Benjamin ‘ Harrison
Indianapolis
Council
Ak-Sar-Ben Festival Plans Highlight 1917 Omaha Event
Readable fragments describe patriotic planning for the 1917 Ak-Sar-Ben festival in Omaha with a grand street carnival, famous floats, and a World Liberty Parade. Features include an electric parade titled The Triumph of Democracy, a Verdu n fireworks display, and a coronation ball. The notice urges citizens to sacrifice for the war effort, urging personal responsibility and equal sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Wortlam
Sam
Ak-Sar-Ben
Ancle
America
Gus Renze
Rourke’s Park
United States
Nebraska
Iowa
Best Calving Months For Cows Suggested
The dairy husbandry department of the College of Agriculture warns that breeding cows in September October and early November leads to freshening in June July or August with poor pasturage heat and flies reducing milk. Cows should calve in October or November for peak milk output and to be dry during hot weather. Breeding for December 20 to February 20 yields December through February calvings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairy Husbandry ‘ Department
College of Agriculture
Calva
Big Pledge Card Drive Date Set to Oct 21 28
The drive for signing pledge cards has moved to October 21 through 28 after a Washington conference with food administrators. Nebraska’s executive committee and state administrators expect a strong 75 percent response as the roll call is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nebraska
Hoover foresees 1917 wheat price drop urges sales
Food Administrator Hoover announces the 1917 wheat crop price may be reduced and that there is no chance of prices rising further. He urges holders to sell now citing potential release of large wheat quantities currently in inaccessible countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Your Part in the War and Sacrifices Asked
The piece urges citizens to increase personal sacrifice for WWI by buying liberty bonds and by farmers expanding food production. It stresses that food resources may decide the outcome, noting soldiers forego income and urging all to boost farming and minimize waste to starve the enemy into submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nebraska State Board of Agriculture Bulletin
Oura
No Hurry Doctor Reassures Caller About Lockjaw
A worried caller asks the doctor to visit next week to see his wife who cannot speak and has a set mouth, with the doctor suggesting lockjaw as a possibility and offering a visit.
County Probate Notice for James Ward Estate
In Polk county Nebraska a petition for probate of the last will and testament of James Ward deceased and appointment of Irl J Ward as executor has been filed. Hearing is set for October 13 1917 at 10 o clock a m. Dated September 17 1917 F H Ball County Judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Ward
State of
Nebraska
Irl J. Ward
Grating shilling tale and streetcar scene in fragmented text
A boy recalls his father’s shilling lost in a sewer grating while a workman hesitates to tell where it was found. The narrative shifts to a crowded streetcar scene with awkward gallantry and a greeting between a mammy figure and a colored woman as a passenger tries to choose a seat.
Slender Girl Entered Streetcar in Noisy Scene
A very pretty but extremely slender girl entered a streetcar amid a crowded, noisy scene. Passengers watched as she moved to a seat, her appearance drawing curious glances from onlookers.
Close Shave Teases Moral Heaven Picture Joke
A humorous exchange questions angels and heaven with a pun on a close shave. The infant narrator notes pictures of angels with whisks are unseen while a speaker muses that some men reach heaven by a close shave.
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Deuel
Kim- Box ‘Butte
Cheyennne
Vic
Jay Hastings
Osceola, Nebraska
Paar
Chain’ Royal Sun
Kee
Usco
Ford
Firestone
Meridian Garage
Dorothy’s
Dorothy Dearborn
Dorothy
Ak-Sar- Ben
Polk County
F. H. Ball
H. J. McBeth
Monson Block
Osceola
King, Bittner
R. E. Sturdevant
First National Bank
Swift & CO
D. Swift. & CO
Esteb
Seventh St
Washington, D
Detroit
Thieo
Jacobs
Ford Garage
Brose
Bhankee
Wade
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Peterson .& Peterson Mill and Elevator’ Company
Corm
Pye
Craven Lumber Co
Chicago
Bumber: Co
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