Highland Park Labor Day Festivities Prepare Parade and Fireworks
Highland Park prepares for Labor Day with a parade at 10 am from Eighth and State to Ninth and dis. A big fireworks display, streetcar service 10 am to 12:30 pm, and numerous events including a baby show and water sports are planned. Notables include Thode Bisaener and committee member Mr. Breinig. Emily Stevens joins Metro Pictures Morosco project after a six month speaking hiatus.
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League Park
Breinig
Highland Park
Finsie
Aloen
Aleo
Ari
Thode Bisaener
Wma
Aistant Marshale
Bchmitt
H. H. Thesen
Tony Rosendale
Thomas Gilleapie
Lee Milbert
Ban Knuf
George F. Ernst
Ham Re
Maine
Kentucky
State
Emily Stevens
Metro’e Superfeature Studio
Metro Pictures Corporation
Oliver Morosco
Miss Stevens
New York
Williams Players Start Final Week at Orpheum
The Orpheum Players present matinees and evening shows in the final week. Today and tonight feature The Sweetest Girl in Dixie with Miss Tiny Leone, followed by Labor Day programs. A farewell stage reception lands on Wednesday with refreshments, leading to the closing performances of The Burglar and the Lady next Thursday.
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Dixie
Tiny Leone
New York
Orpheum
Williams
McDocough
Reel life glimpses and film plans for 1920s stars
Glimpse of reel life covers Lu Nazimova joining Metro for a seven act deluxe production titled A Rose Bush of a Thousand Years written by Mabel Wagnalls. It notes William Fox plans a cinema version of Les Miserables and updates on Ann Murdock at Empire All Star Corp, with other Metro and Empire titles and schedules amid September releases and Draft 258 in development.
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Alla Nazimova
Metro Pictures Corporation
Maxwell Karger
Superfeature
Mme. Nazimova
Metro
Mabel Wagnalls
A. W. Wagnalls
Funk and Wagnalls
William Fox
Ann Murdock
Charles Prohman
Frohman
Glendale
L. I
Empire All Star Corporation
Miss Murdock
Wife
Michael Morton
Dell Henderson
Empire Pictures
Mutual Film Corporation
West 61St Street
New York
B. A. Rolfe
William Christy Cabanne
June Mathis
R- E
Stage to resume Lilac Time at Montauk theater Brooklyn
The Stage reports Jane Cowl will resume her triumphant Lilac Time at the Montauk theater Brooklyn on September 10 in collaboration with Jane Murfin. The play, a standout of last season, closed in June due to heat.
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Jane Cowl
Jane Murfin
Montauk Theater
Brooklyn
Step Lively at Empire Thursday opens season
The Empire theater presents Step Lively a music comedy by the La Salle company on Thursday September 6. Hal Johnson stars with Florence Little as prima donna in a large well trained cast. The production is elaborate and in the best of taste.
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Empire Theater
Thurly
la Salle Company
Hal Johnson
Delaplain's ads spark new offerings and local happenings
Brief notices cover Delaplain's new offerings, a Woodmen's picnic in Loraine, St John’s school grounds Labor Day picnic, church services resuming, and multiple residents traveling to Denver, Kansas City, and St Louis. Names include Mrs James R Gardner Mrs C F Ohnemus Glenn Stewart Mr S O Stewart and families.
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Delaplain
James R. Gardner
C F. Ohnemus
Loraine
Freiburg
W. Marie Major
The
Illinois Normal
St. John’s
S. O. Stewart
Oscar, Jr
Decatur
Glenn Stewart
North Fifth Street
H. F. Lafler
State Bank
John L. Bert
Harry Bert
Vermont Street
Trotter
Maine
Thomas Nichols
Payson Avenue
Missouri
J. J. Gehring
Bertha
Josie Gehring
State Street
Denver
Colo
Kansas City
Snyder
Clara
Genevieve Michael
Broadway
St. Louis
Hubert I. Michael
Springfield
Spruce
Clara Johntz
Margaret
Johntz
F. W. Knollenberg
Queen of the Sea Sparks Dive and Stage Spotlight
Annette Kellermann inspires a film shoot near a sandy stretch with diving mermaids as over 200 cars from flivvers to foreign models idle daily. Blanche Yurka earns Broadway acclaim at Daybreak premiere on August 14 at Harris theater.
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Coret Asmit Om
Annette Kellermann
Blanche Yurka
Jane Cowl
Jane Murfin
Harris Theater
Farm work trip ends as father falls ill
A man returns home from a summer stint on a farm due to his father’s illness, ending his seasonal labor to care for family.
Immense Crowd At Big Neck Gathering
The fourteenth annual Modern Woodmen of America picnic drew about 2500 people to Nelson's Grove near Big Neck. Rev. J. W. Agee spoke on Woodcraft, with Mendon band accompaniment. half the net proceeds went to the Red Cross. Mendon beat Golden 9 to 2 in a lively baseball game and contests yielded wins for Haubner, Adair, and Findley among others. People from Adams County and nearby areas attended. Benton Shupe was the oldest member, Merle Hudson the youngest. Arch Balzer and Dan Balzer returned from a canoe trip via Burlington and Keokuk, camping three nights en route.
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Modern Woodmen of America
Nelson’s Grove
Big Neck
J. W. Agee
Litchfield
Mendon Band
Red Cross
Mr. Agee
R. B. Echols
Loraine
Golden
Mendon
Lester Haubner
Coatsburg
Alvin Witt
Bowen
Owen Adair
Aldo Benge
Camp Point
William Findley
Leverett Miller
Paloma
Adams County
Big Neck M. W. A
Benton Shupe
Merle Hudson
Archie Bert
Aelred
Dan) Balzer
Burlington
Keokuk
Fort Fairfield Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham's Remedy
A Fort Fairfield Maine woman reports lasting relief from backache and female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the treatment allowed her to work at home and care for a healthy baby girl, praising the product's forty year popularity and inviting advice from the company.
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Alton D. Oakes
Fort Fairfield
Maine
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Nineteen Deaths in Month at S. and S. Home
Nineteen residents died at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in August, including two women. The list names veterans from Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Missouri and Kentucky with ages ranging from 25 to 87, mostly in their seventies, plus two female deaths Mary G. Plopper and Ellen Kinnamon.
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Charles E. ‘Johnson
132Nd
Illinois. Infantry
Jared M. Bates
41St
Illinois Insfantry
Charles Schlegel
Pennesylvania Infantry
Henry Tice
Iowa Cavalry
Jasper N. Smith
Tilinoid
William G. Pershin
16Th
Illnois Infantry
George H. Friend
10Th
Kanesas Infantry
George C. Luzadder
46Th
Tiienois
Josephus Miller
New York Cavalry
Max Leutenmeyer
Illisnois Cavalry
William M. West
129Th Ohio Infantry
James Bridgeman
Cook
U. S. Navy
August Frederking
Tillinois Infantry
Charles Geske
Iinois
Jesse T. Hendrickson
Missouri Infantry
Randall I. Benjamin
154Th Ilinois
George W. Sprinkle
4Th
Kenaucky
Mary G. Plopper
Ellen Kinnamon
Nokomis on Sandbar Blocks River Traffic
The steamer Nokomis and ten barges on a sandbar near Nastings Minnesota completely block river traffic from St. Paul downward. The Morning Star is massed above and the St. Paul below.
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Nastings
Minn
St. Paul
Morning Star
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