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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1916
Page
12
Norman Fieden brings a new Hawaiian stage show to the Orpheum Mon matinee, presenting three scenes set in the Terranian Islands. The production features a Honolulu street with a recently burned church, a Pacific coastline panorama, and Hawaii’s Kilauea eruption with authentic huts. A visiting ocean liner appears on stage as the company lands.
Annie Hughes retires from The Merry Wives of Windsor revival for Tom Wise. Mayne Linton engaged for Marie Tempest's Lady’s Name revival opening next week in Philadelphia. Mauds Adams to begin rehearsals for her new season starting with The Little Minister, Dallas Anderson returning as Gavin Dishart.
Today at Quincy Theater a big war drama Britten of the Seventh stars Darwin Kart with General Custer's last stand and the U S fourteenth cavalry in action. Also Stingaree in The Girl From Frisco and Mary Pickford drama and Selig Tribune Weekly. Tuesday features The Littlest Rebel in five acts nearby produced by William and Dustin Farnum.
The Pan-American company with 14 people opens at the Bijou today featuring a chorus of girls, two Dutch comedians, one blackface act, a juggler, and several vaudeville features. The program changes daily with three new reels of pictures each day.
This week lists set of film showings with stars like Edmund Breeze Edith Storey and Mary Pickford. Titles range from The Weakness of Strength to A Price for Folly and The Gold Ship. Daily bills include Quiet dramas comedies westerns and serials featuring stars such as Blanche Sweet Dorothy Gish Mae Miles Minter and Tom Mix with tributes to Selig Tribune releases.
A family page teases various items including The Pest Vamooser and Kam and Bud in The Peach Pickers. Monday features The Ore Plunderers and episode 3 of The Girl From Frisco The Avenger. Tuesday highlights Miracle of Life with Marguerite Fisher. Wednesday presents The Road Within Lis Hopkins in A Double Barreled Courtship and The Beauty Hunters. Thursday notes Francis Ford and Grace in feature slots.
The Greater Vitagraph buys motion picture rights to Within the Law from Selwyn & Co, a top melodrama. Clara Kimball Young returns with The Common Law, while a film version of The Foolish Virgin is in development. Alaska dog teams will carry 150 reels of Mutual films for winter, and Kathryn Willkins is invited to lecture on cinema at Wisconsin State University. Other releases include The Whip eight reels with a star cast, Her Father's Son, The Weakness of Strength, The Secret Sin starring Blanche Sweet, and Britton of the Seventh at Quincy theater with the Fourteenth U.S. Cavalry sequence.
Professors E T Ebersol of the Illinois University Agricultural College and Farmer Rusk will lead a four day seed corn selection demonstration in Adams County farms this week. Sessions run Monday to Thursday with field lectures on selecting mid sized ears, fully mature plants, and two good stalks per hill. Field sites include Burton Liberty Beverly Gilmer Clayton North East Honey Creek Mendon Ellington Melrose Payson townships and nearby farms with schedules listed for October 16 to 19.
Beach Bear and family of Edina and Miss Clara Qual spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hudson. Antone Qohnesarg of Bowling Green spent Wednesday in LaBelle. Mrs. Stebecca Victor spent Wednesday with Mrs. M. M. Connell and daughter. Mrs. Ida Thomson returned from Bay City Texas where her son Seldon is ill but slowly improving. Miss Edna Roberts returned from Knox City. Methodist church members visited the pastor Rev. F. J. Young with baskets. Mrs. Ida Thomson and others visited Kirksville. Minnie Bohen and Attle daughter Lella Yancy and Miss Atlie Gregory and Mrs. Port Hall traveled to Quincy. Jane Brown returned to Green City after a three week visit with her sister. Pearl Mattingly returned from Nauvoo Illinois. Grif Gregory is very low with no hope of recovery. His children stay at his bedside. Bernice Johnson returned from Montana.
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that cures catarrh by acting through the blood. It claims local applications fail and credits the product to F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, with testimonials and a free sample offer. It also mentions Pills for constipation.
Brief items note W H Pinkerton holding an evangelistic campaign under canvas in Williamstown Missouri with nightly crowds growing. Also mentions patients and locals including August H Heidbreder convalescing after surgery, Miss Bertie Nelson undergoing Blessing hospital operation, and Clarence Riley improving after a streetcar accident. Several residents travel, visit, or receive care at St Marys hospital or Blessing hospital. others relocate or plan trips to Keokuk Fountain City and New York City.
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