Hi Gill's Seattle comeback as mayor reemerges
The American Magazine profiles Hiram C. Gill, once ousted for alleged immorality, and notes Seattle’s surprising embrace of his second bid. Gill, a plainspoken reformer with open offices, steered a businesslike administration and seeks to prove he can do better than his first term.
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Hen HI Gill
Seattle
United States
American Magazine
William McLeod Raine
Gill
Herod
Hi Gill
Hiram C. Gill
Gil
Tom
Harry
Incian
Washington
Beattie
First motion picture shown as exhibit in Pennsylvania court
In a historic Philadelphia session Judge Patterson allowed The Secret Orchard to be shown in court after the Pennsylvania Board of Censors deemed it detrimental. The Lasky feature starring Blanche Sweet was viewed by 100 spectators, with the judge noting reasons to show it. The article also lists current film programs at multiple Seattle area theaters.
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Pennsylvania
John Patterson
Philadelphia
Blanche Sweet
Pennsylvania Board of Censors
National Board of Censors
Patterson
Lasky Company
Residence Theatres Show Ends Saturday With Two Plays
In Birmingham Alabama on August 27 the residence theatres present Princess Hassan in The Purple Iris a two part drama along with Animated Weekly of August 11 and A Mountain Melody a drama and On His Wedding Day a comedy. Steel mills and machinery factories across the South run on full capacity as the great est business in years is reported.
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Hassan
Birmingham
Ala
South
Zeppelins Used as Freighters to Aid Turkey
Amsterdam dispatch reports Germany used about a dozen Zeppelins to ship over 100 tons of shell making machinery to Turkey. The flights moved at night from the Austrian frontier across Serbia to Constantinople to avoid detection and Bulgarian protests. Each airship carried three to four tons of gear in a strategic effort amid increased Allied attacks.
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Amsterdam
Turkey
Reore
Berlin
Germany
Dardanelles
Serbia
Constantinople
Seven and a Half Million Dollar Box Allocation
The Jacksonville report notes a figure of seven and a half million dollars in required boxes for an unspecified project. The brief item gives only the total and location, with no further details on program, agency, or timeline.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Estimated Florida orange box demand contracts with lumber firm
A Florida estimate shows about a third of the yearly orange boxes contracted by a local lumber company. Shipments begin in October and run through April of the following year.
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Florida
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