Mystery death of pioneer Charles Meyers in North Yakima
Charles Meyers, a local pioneer, died from strychnine poisoning in North Yakima. He collapsed in a convulsion just as he was about to reveal how the poison came to be in his system. A closing quip about reform marriages follows the obituary note.
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North Yakima
Charles Meyers
Davenport
Iowa
Charles Mohr
Crooknose
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Saturday Evening Post
Crooks
Charlotte Burton Stars in American Photo Plays Feature
Charlotte Burton is praised as a beautiful and steady actress with eyes hair and mouth noted as appealing. She is part of the American Film Co and enjoys Santa Barbara’s sunny winters while appearing in event plays and the Melbourne Grand show and Class A programs.
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Charlotte Burton
Ynalda
Miss Burton
American Film Co
California Hills
Santa Barbara
Misa Burton
Melbourne
Local Film Showcases Child Actors at Alhambra and Vitagraph Features
The Alhambra today features Gran daddys Romance acted largely by children with Bealed Orders headlining. Other reels include Shortys Bacrifice and In the Stretch set at a metropolitan race course. Vitagraph offers My Official Wife and At It Again with Maurice Costello touring tributes to cinema craft and a wild West sequence at Vandeveer park.
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Gran'daddy
Alhambra
Gran'pa
Warren Kerrigan
Vitagraph Company
Richard Henry Savage
Vandeveer Park
Brooklyn
N. Y
William Marston
Vitagraph
Reggie Lyons
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Eer
Starr-MacPherson
Arrow Co
Starr- MacPherson Co
Vyvyoy
Arrow
Norfolk
Emart
Colh Valeen
America
ALCO
Starr-Macpherson Department Store
Third Ave
Cor. Pike
Donaway
Third Avenue
Yakima High Line
Reno
Dundee Woolen Millis
Dundee
Pike Street
Charlotte
Durtan
Shorty
the Grand
Schultz
New York
Kelair
Clemmer
Famous Players’ Drama
Lord Algie
Lubin
Reliance Company
Olga Treskoff
Annie
Had
Kerstone
Vitagraph Film Co
American Bankers’ Association
Maurice Costello
Maurice Coetello Realty Co
Long Island
Vitagraph Baseball Club
Sheepshead Bay Track
Chinatown
Scovell
Seattle
Old Meadows
Wewien Or
Ana
Grand Opera
FAUST
Claude Madden
Carmen
Madame Hesse-Sprotte
John M. Spargur
Romayne Jansen
Cecil Tenny
Theo
Karl Johnson Neal H. Begley
Walter F. Paull
Phileas Goulet
Margaret Moss Hemion
Sophie Hammer
G. F. Russell
Bowman Ralston Gwendolin Geary
J. B. Harrison
Albert R. Cody
John Since
H. C. Ogden Frederick Graham
S. H. Levin Rudolph Ernst
G. C. Mark Eugene Whitney
the Philharmonic Orchestra
Jet
Pike
Voentista
Selig
the Helpful Sisterhood
Majestic
World’s News
Wiffle
Pathe
A. M. Johnson
Alm. Johnson
Ai-Ais American Bank
Madison
Main
Vernon Castle
New Rochelle
Queer Coffin
Philadelphia
Wingohocking Creek
Denver
Colo
Frederick B. Hutchinson
Orrine
Swift
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