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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1917
Page
8
Photoplay stars endure cliff leaps custard pies river swims and other stunts while Besaway directors share troubles. A three legged dog acts with Bryant Washburn in The Golden Idiot and a saxophone lesson helps Taylor Holmes in Efficiency Edgar's Courtship.
George Beban steps from his Italian persona to play a French Canadian cook in a lumber camp. The two reel comedy at the Liberty features Beban gaining fame for flapjacks, with the Star presenting the bill and weekly current events.
Loud applause greeted the Weeky Sunday feature Star Liberty at the Liberty theatre. The screening includes the Belgian commission visit to Seattle and a trip to American Lake where Seattle soldiers lads are envemped. Parents exclaimed at seeing their sons in cantonment scenes.
Burglars entered three homes on 2837 37th Ave S 2841 37th Ave and 941 25th Ave Sunday night stealing a total of 119 dollars and 35 cents in small change. R D Smalley FE F Bradbury and Miss S Snow were victims of the burglaries.
Hundreds of guardsmen and civilians guard mills and camps at Tye Washington 106 miles from Seattle against I W W damage. Troops rushed from Skykomish after reports the I W W would force a strike Monday in all Tye camps. Extra guards guard Great Northern railway tunnels and snowsheds starting at Tye.
Rio de Janeiro reports that Dr. Charles Heldt of the public health department along with Drs. Lewis Wendell Hackett and George Stone of the Rockefeller Foundation secured government approval for the American campaign against hook worm in Brazil.
Kerrigan and Barriscale will present 16 photoplays yearly on the Paralta program through Triangle. The Lost Expressa is Helen Holmes railroad serial. Goldwyn’s Polly of the Circus with Mae Marsh opens September 9, followed by Madge Kennedy in Baby Mine Maxine Elliott in Fighting Odds and Jane Cowell in The Spreading Dawn. Jean Sothern signs with Van Dyke Film Corp and will be the judge in a controversial melodrama despite taboos.
In Central Park a tense confrontation ends with Lord Beauclough striking a would be abductor. The pair share relief and talk of danger while planning to leave the area and continue their discussion about a puzzling dilemma and love across hardship.
Advertisement describes glazed Kid vamp and quarter boots with pearl-gray cloth top, patent Coltskin vamp and quarter with white reign skin cloth top, medium-length vamp and hand-turned sole. Sizes 4 4 to 7, price five dollars per pair.
Blue and lavender ink featured on a long paneled stationery sheet. The set includes twenty four sheets and twenty four envelopes in a 75 cent box.
Economy jars with extra large mouth suitable for large fruits and vegetables no rubber ring. Pints one dollar per dozen quarts one dollar ten per dozen half gallons one dollar fifty per dozen. Jelly glasses complete with covers third pint size thirty cents per dozen half pint thirty five cents.
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