Underworld drama debated as season opens in New York
New York critics decide that the underworld melodrama will not anchor the season. The Escape drew cold reviews, while Seven Keys to Baldplate by George M. Cohan opened to universal approval. The Marriage Market, Sothern Morowe, and Much Ado About Nothing also staged with strong casts and varied reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paul Armstrong
George M. Cohan
Warl-Derr Bigger
Astor Theater
William U Hallowell Magee
Faldplate Inn
Baldplate
Beatrice
Frederick Lewis
Sidney Mather
J. Sayre Crawley
Lark Taylor
Wigwam No 2 Secures De Lux Film Service
Manager Lytle announces Wigwam No 2 on Houston street will show only licensed De Lux pictures from General Film Company. Four of seven weekly specials will be shown including Vitagraph two reel comedies, with a broad daily program of drama and wholesome comedy for patrons.
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Lytle
Houston Street
General Film Company
Vitagraph
Man Is Champion Em Embroiderer
John McBride a Barton mine machinist has won first prizes in Belmont county for three years. This year he faces stiff competition from women of three states as the Belmont county fair opens Tuesday. McBride works after his mine shifts and says he has never been extended so much by rivals.
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St. Clairsville
Ohio
Belmont County
John McBride
Barton Mine
McBride
Rude Mountain
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Europe
Far East
Photoplay
Harry Raver
Arizona
Augustus Thames
Ravel
Raver
Tax burden on Prague landlords rises with rents
Rents in Prague Bohemia rose significantly over the last year. Landlords pay 2 to 50 percent of rents as taxes plus income taxes and other levies. Living costs have climbed about 25 percent in five years.
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Prague
Bohemia
Motion Picture Industry Exhibits Remarkable Growth
The article traces the surge of the motion picture industry from 1896 to 1912, noting the 1907 panic spurring five cent theaters and global expansion. It highlights American dominance, immense production, and the role of figures like Harry Raver, and closes with New York housing figures: 147,184 one family houses, 99,908 tenements, total 366,010 buildings.
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Chicago
Sond
Europe
America
New York
Woodrow City Fail Held Back by Women Voters
Women of Spring Road and Villa Park on the Aurora Elgin and Chicago railway area blocked the Woodrow incorporation plan at a special election. The proposal to join the two communities into the village of Woodrow named after President Wilson was defeated 139 to 76 with 92 women voting against.
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Chicago
Spring Road
Villa Park
Aurora
Elgin
Buffalo Bill to Appear in Essanay Western Films
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company of Chicago signs Buffalo Bill William F. Cody to star in a series of world wide moving pictures. The films recapture his life and battles with Indians, cowboys, and troops across locations where the historic engagements occurred.
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Wounded Knee
Little Big Horn
West
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Plains
Plain and
Canyon
Great Film Company
The Toady and the Constant Shifting of a Toady
A writer condemns the toady as a creature without stable opinions or standards. The piece argues the toady’s mind is a vacillating quagmire, guided by convenience rather than conviction, failing to form or retain firm beliefs.
Three Qualities to Defeat the Toady Mind
The writer urges self respect truth and justice as defenses against toadyism. He recalls gossip and the high price of wealth to show how quick people are to abandon principle for status. He cites Senator X and a family's reaction before urging steadfast independent thinking. The piece ends noting the banana disease and United Fruit Company’s search for resistant varieties.
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Senator X
The Modern Publican Perspective on Humility and Enemies
A reflective piece argues that true goodness requires humility and compassion toward others. It critiques self contentment and self praise, urging the reader to act kindly, forgive detractors, and focus on helping peers rather than boast.
Trade totals for British South Africa reach high in 1912
Imports of merchandise and government stores into British South Africa including Northern and Southern Rhodesia rose to over $200,000,000 in 1912 from $190,000,000 in 1911, a gain of about $10,000,000. Exports of South African produce in 1912 totaled over $311,000,000 versus $281,400,000 in 1911, with raw gold from the Transvaal and Rhodesia valued at $199,375,330.
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British South Africa
Southern
Rhodesia
Transvaal
Uncle Sam's land reserves and future farming in public lands
The New York Sun notes vast public lands remain 682 million acres with Alaska holding over half. Enough to form ten New Yorks, or applications for a Connecticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island. If all usable, could support 15 to 60 million farmers. much land will stay worthless, but drainage irrigation and reclamation could grow farming populations.
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Fort Beck
New York Sun
Sam
Alaska
United States
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Portugal Emigration Trends Reported in 1921 Census
The 1921 census notes Portugal’s population change and emigration rates. It cites annual emigration rising from under forty thousand before 1900 to about sixty thousand in 1911 and around ninety thousand in 1912, with rural districts suffering economic effects. Many emigrants head to the United States and Brazil.
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Portugal
United States
Brasil
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Underworld
Metropolitan Theater
Wallace Eddinger
Gail Kain
Joseph Allen
Peter the Hermit
Mr. Cohan
Victor Jacobi
M. Brody
F. Martos
Arthur Anderson
Adrian Ross
Gladys Unger
California
Palace Hotel
Mariposa Gilroy
Tulare Teddy
Kitty Kent
Lord Hurlingham
Blinker
Mariposa
Emma
Donald Brian
Venita Fitzhugh
Carroll McComas
Moya Mannering
Percival Knight
Arthur Reynolds
Frohman
Sunshine Girl
Geo. Bandy
First Run Pictures
Houston St
Tarlowe
Miss Olive
the Fulton
the Playhouse
Julia Marlowe
Pertoire
The
Manhattan Opera
Miss Gail Kahn
Woodrow
Essanay Company
Wild West Pictures
the Toady
United Fruit Company
Neil O’brien
Uncle Sam
Famous Players Film Co
LPH
ZUKOR
45Th ST
Kalem Lubin Dante Film CO
East 14Th ST
Teree
Redance
Rine Sales
40Th St. N
Kinemacolor
Essanay
EcLectic Fim Co
K. W. Linn
Gen. Mer
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