Red Petticoat and an Absent Minded Mother in 1920s Style Plots
A collage of cherry picked items recounts a stage theme with Miss Helen Lowell in Red Petticoat, plus a Western romance where a mother seeks to reform her drunkard son, a comic altered tale about a hair restorer, and several crime and domestic vignettes including a San Francisco taxicab fraud and a child kidnapping case. The blur of topics reflects era theater notes and police blotter snippets with assorted personalities and locales.
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Oregon Prohibition Drive Opens in Portland Meeting
The Crone dre campaign started at The Hotel Portland with 100 supporters backing a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol statewide from January 1 1916. Speakers included Dr. Robert Coffey Rev Luther Dyott Jentegaard Mrs F S Myers J B Newell Lulu Loy Yang Shepard A F Flegel Hutton and Harry W Stone urging broad ministerial and organizational support and predicting Oregon will go dry.
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Hudson TJ. Wastings
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Oregon
Robert C. Coffey
Luther Rk. Dyott
Ministerial Association
Jentegaard
The
Good Templars
F. 8. Myers
Prohibition Party
Lulu Loy- Yang Shepard
Salt Lake
Utah
A. F. Flegel
Hutton
Anti-Saloon League
Harry W. Stone
Chamberlains Tablets For Constipation Adv
Gentle effective Chamberlains Tablets praised as easy to take and safe. The advertisement urges trial and notes availability from all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Local Playhouses What the Press Agent Says of Attractions
Sunday feature The Up Hill Climb. Selig. Frank Cameron, a handsome well bred man, leaves his eastern home for the west, where he embarks on a new venture.
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Selig
Frank Cameron
Plain truths of sex knowledge book advertisement
An advertisement for a Victorian era educational book on sexual hygiene promotes frank information for educators and professionals. It cites favorable press reviews and notes the work includes guidance on manhood, womanhood, abuses, and social issues, offered under a plain wrapper for 41 cents plus postage from the Miamie Publishing Company Smyton Ohio.
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Winfield Scott Mall
Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia
The
New York World
Miame Publishing Company
Smyton
Ohio
Cascarets promise overnight cleansing and relief
A 10 cent box claim for Cascarets to straighten you up while you sleep by cleansing the stomach and bowels, removing foul tastes and gases, improving liver function, and leaving you with a clean stomach and clear head for months. Children enjoy the taste and it is said not to gripe.
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Cascaret
Four Footed Desperado Edison Pathe Weekly Scenes
Edison Pathe's Weekly presents a light feature highlighting a four footed desperado. The short showcases multiple curious animal antics and a sequence of entertaining interludes with several interesting scenes for viewers.
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Edison
Pathe’s Weekly
Lubin presents His Wife with Rosemary Theby and Harry Meyers
Two reel feature dramatizes a secret illegitimate daughter twist as Dan hides Anna from a bossy sister while Talford patriarch confesses on his deathbed. The entanglement unravels and happiness returns with romance amid comedies Batty Bill and Winky Willys Arithmetic.
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Lubin
Rosemary Theby
Harry Meyers
Talford
Lucy Winters
Dan
Anna
Lucy
Lance
Anna Dan
Pathe Weekly
Batty Bill
Winky Willy
Sunday Screenings Offer Two-Part Vitagraph Feature
A two part Vitagraph with Edith Story and Darwin Karr depicts a jealous woman trying to split a married couple but failing as the man remains with the other woman. Carlyle Blackwell and Louise Glaum star in Kalem drama The Fatallies clues lead a criminologist to the culprit. May Abby leads Erison comedy An Absent Minded Mother. Kiddies see The Para elites two reel Pathe coming Monday.
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Edith Story
Darwin Karr
Carlyle Blackwell
Louise Glaum
Abby
Rural Demon vaudeville and silent comedy at Keystone
Troxell and Winchell star in a singing talking and dancing act in The Rural Demon a Sunday matinee and night attraction described as one of Keystone’s funniest pictures with a river soaking finale and rural character sketches The Cat's Paw a 2 reel film by Than Houser James Cruze and Flora Badle features The Adventures of a Diplomatic Free Lance from the Blue Book and Lord Trevor and Nan Tremaine foil Japanese government plots to seize state secrets.
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Troxell
Winchell
Keystone
Thanhouser
James Cruze
Flora Badle
Lord Trevor
Nan Tremaine
The Woman Without a Soul drama review
The Woman Without a Soul presents a tense forceful performance starring William Garwood and Clara Byers in a dramatic production described as majestic and gripping.
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Majestic
William Garwood
Clara Byers
Entertaining vaudeville at the Alta closes tonight
Forbes and Thelen entertained the audience with a military song and talk stunt at the Alta, with their last night ahead. An item notes the dredge boat Umatilla blasting rocks in the Columbia River. Joker comedy draws laughs as Lester and Lester promise an exceptionally good Sunday bill of singing and dancing.
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Thelen
Alta
Umatilla
Columbia River
New Pictures
Lester
Annulment Sues Over Police Pressure in San Francisco
Mrs Electra Tupper, formerly Electra Golden, seeks annulment of her March marriage to Clarence Tupper claiming police intimidation forced the union. She asserts detectives threatened prosecution if she refused.
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San Francisco
Clarence Tupper
Superior Court
Electra Tupper
Electra Golden
Seattle
Tupper
The Joy of Dancing Exercise Promotes Foot Ease
Advert describes dancing as popular yet costly due to foot pain. Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder claims to provide relief, boosting dancing parties. Druggists report high sales, 25 cents, trial package free. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Addreva
Piles Cured at Home by Wew Absorption Method
Advertising notice promises home cure for piles through a new absorption treatment. Seeks responses from readers and offers free trial materials with local references upon request. Ends with address to Mrs. M Summers Notre Dame Ind for correspondence.
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