Ohio Sorority Girls Adopt Belgian Soldier As Godmother
At Ohio State University twenty Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters pledge support for a Belgian nobleman fighting in France. They will write, send money and gifts monthly, emulating French godmothers. The tale connects to a prior visit by a Belgian nobleman and Marguerite Emilie De Plerpont De Benoite of Ghent.
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Columbus
France
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority
Ohio Stats University
Walter Pierce
Department of
Romance Languages
Paria
Hin Godaon
Vislt
Margula Emilie de Plerpont de Benoite
Ghent
Union pickets charged with assault in Portland
Reports of the first violence in the shipyard strike come as L Gill, a non striking boiler maker, obtained warrants against D es Tam H Guy and C B Wymin union pickets for assault. Gill says he was accosted and knocked down near the Willamette Iron & Steel Works where he works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
L . Gill
H. Guy
BE. Wymin
Gill
Guy
Wyman
Willamette Iron & Steel Works
Pendleton Social Scene and Local Notices
Pendleton hosts a busy sequence of social events with gatherings at Cobble Street home and Hotel Portland. Notables include Mrs Green, Mr Brown, Mrs Newen, Mrs Hampton, Frank Sullivan, and Stanley Jewett from the Biological Survey. Beta Pi members dine at the Pendleton Hotel and local figures attend a lecture by Miss Mary Watson at the County Library auditorium. A basketball game followed by a Practice House celebration features school arts and prizes. The Pauline Rebekah Lodge installed officers, with a large ceremonial delegation and refreshments to close the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mere Albert Cook
BS. Green
Ll. Brown
Otto Newen
Cecil Hampton
Frank Sullivan
Mary Watson
University of Oregon
County Library
Miss Watson
Pendleton
James Johnson
Clarence Ash
Sunamara Ordered to San Quentin Dungeon
RB McNamara serving life at state penitentiary for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 was sent to the discipline dungeon for refusing to work in the jute mill. Prison officials report he had been doing factory work in the laundry when ordered to the site mill. Captain Samuel Randolph directed the action and Warden James Johnston confirmed a three day dungeon sentence with a future chance to work on the jute mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Jin
McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Samuel Randolph
Jame
Post Office Committee Adopts Wage Increase Amendment
Washington Jan 4 the post office committee adopted an amendment offered by Representative Ayers of Kansas to the postal appropriation bill. It provides a ten percent salary increase for urban post office employees earning less than 1200 dollars and a five percent raise for those earning between 1200 and 1800 dollars annually. The measure targets both urban and rural staff.
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Washington
Representative Ayers
Kansas
Post Office
Posnt Office
The Fairbanks Twins Star In The Answer At Pastime
At the Pastime theater the Saturday program features The Answer with the Fairbanks twins Marion and Madeline. On Pastures Green stars Vivian Rich and Alfred Vonburg. Georg Ovey performs a clever mlapstiche style comedy The Masque Ball. Admission 15 and 10 cents for children.
Clara Kimball Young Demonstrates Therpsichorean Talent at Pastime
Clara Kimball Young stars in the Vitagraph deluxe edition of My Official Wife at the Pastime theater Sunday and Monday. The article notes her terpsichorean dancing as she portrays a peasant girl and later a noblewoman in the film. A Krazy Kita cartoon for children and Ethel Tivermore's Russian music on the photoplayer pipe organ accompany the feature.
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Clara Kimball Young
Vitagraph
Mrs Young
Milas Young
Ethel Tivermore
Soul of Kurassan Silent Drama Featuring Myrtle Stedman
Alta Sanday and Monilay present Beastie Hei yakawa in The Soul of Kurassan with Myrtle Stedman and a cast of actors. The Jewel Lasky Feature Play Company showcases Myrtie Stedman in a virile new photoplay, a Japanese American drama praised for dramatic talent and distinctive achievement.
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Alta Sanday
Monilay
Jeee L. Lasky
Presenta Beastie Heiyakawa
Kurassan
Myrtle Stedman
Toyo
Sesue Hayakawa
Kura
Aten Soulat
Myrile Stedman
Narrow Path at Cosy theater features Violet Meraereau
Violet Meraereau dominates the principal role in The Narrow Path a Red Feather feature to be shown at the Cosy theater on Sunday and Monday. The plot follows a East Side waif who drifts into dancing discovers limited talent and falls for a wealthy suitor who helps her reach stardom and wed after a stormy courtship. Supporting cast includes William Welsh Clara Heyers and Joseph W. Girard.
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Red Feather
Violet Meraereau
Cosy Theater
Mies Meraereau
East Side
New York
Wiliam Welsh
Clara Heyers
Joseph W. Girard
Vaudeville at Temple Theater Promises Lively Acts
MacAvoy and Hillwood headline a vaudeville bill at Temple Theater with witty patter and crowd-pleasing routines. The Watt Trio delivers musical variety and the program also features the film The Ball Rider starring House Peters.
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Merry
Thal le MacAvoy
MacAvoy
Eliwoqi
Temple Theater
Hillwood
Wong
Otter
Watt
House Peters
Gish Sings and Drives a Speed Wagon in a Roaring Plot
A tale follows Millicent and her child nurse ostracized by villagers after a husband sends them away to wed a gong society belle. Millicent invents devices and a dual purpose speed machine to thrill public highways while Puritans aghast. Barney Oldfield built the car for her as Roumania’s brief war is noted.
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Gong Society
Millicent
Miss Gish
Barney Oldfield
Record Emasher
Los Angeles
Lillian
Barney
Lilliputians and the Suffrage Belief in Isolated Peoples
Chicago Jan 6 Gilliver recounted discovery of the Lilliputians but notes that even tiny races may hold firm to women’s suffrage and a strict moral code. Edward A. Salisbury with Mary Roberts Rinehart and Rex Beach completed a South American island expedition exploring the San Blas Indians said to number about 16 000. They live in a communist society where women play a central role and are akin to the Lilliputians in essence.
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Chicago
Gilliver
Edward A. Salisbury
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rex Beach
South America
San Blas
Colon
Rman
Council Customs Revealed In Women Led Assembly
The text describes a council where women vote and speak while youths seeking marriage must present their bride for council approval. If approved, the youth states his demands. The group shows wariness toward whites due to prior cheating.
Baby raffle stirs demand as Saugus Knights plan event
Boston January 6 Fifteen couples seek babies after the Saugus Knights of Pythias baby raffle announcement. The dance committee intends to present a three month old male infant, described as blue eyed and blond, to a deserving couple. Applications flooded in from eleven outsiders and four locals, leading the committee to arrange with the Little Wanderers home in Boston to supply all applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saugus Knights of Pythias
Carl F Koch
Saugus
Little Wanderers
Boston
Children Pay character study at Temple theatre
Lillian Gieh portrays Millicent Ainsley in The Children Pay, a Triangle-Fine Arts production directed by Lloyd Ingraham at the Temple theater Sunday and Monday. Millicent, eldest daughter of Theodore Al Ansley, a wealthy self centered man, faces family and social pressures as the plot unfolds.
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Lillian Gieh
Lloyd Ingraham
Temple Theater
Millicent Ainsley
Theodore al Ansley
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Madeline
Vivian Rich
Alfred Vosssaure
George Ovey
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Goldier
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Shi
Tam
Folger’s Coffee
Conroy's Cash Grocery Co
Stanley G. Jewett
The
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Mra. Br. Burke
Hotel
Portland, Oregon
Beta Pi
James & John
Edmund Matic
Alger Fee
Merle A. Chosman
Lyman G. Rice
Harold Young
Clyde Phillips
Bert Jerard
Ned Fowler
Donald Robinson
This City
Arthur G. Means
Rieth
Lewin G. Brooks
Athens
Mra
A. T. Park
Professor Drill
Guetta
Pactice House
J. T. Richardson
Lewin Street
Tires
Pendleton Research Club
W. H. Burnett
Penland
Chas, Nortis
Thompson
Hawk
Herbert Alexander
Montavilla
Montana
Pauline Rebekah Lodge No
Reswtur Xesalion
Tasart Shitas
Noble Grand
Ida Gray
Hiattle Ferguson
Cure Shaver
Gladye Slauchter
Nandh
Julia Cook
Pula Miller
Nettle Whetstone
Erend
Hertha Neale
D. Nell
Thet Warrey
May Grandin
Inner Guardian
Rose Taylor
Uardian
Venice Callison
Thy Viet
Ada Darker
Granda AC Perkins
Elyle King
Laura Tweedy
Anni Simpson
Fannie Carney
Sunamara
San Quentin Dungeon
Motion Picture News
Vivian Itieh
Alfred Vosturg
George Ovey Fontared
Clara Kimball, Young
Temple
Alta Theatre
Daniel Frohman
Louise Huff and
Jack Pickford
Booth Tarkington
Hall and Guilda
Sessue Hayakawa
Kara-San
Andres
Parker Bros
Roumania
Liliaputians
Violet Mersereau
New York City
Lillian Gish
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