The Miracle at Grand Leads Week of Big Pictures
The four reel feature The Miracle tops Grand’s bill this week traced to a St Alphonsus tale about a nun who leaves the convent then returns after the Virgin ensures her absence remains undiscovered. Also on the Class A program The Serpent's Fang and Gaumont Weekly headline news reels with wartime footage and a New Orleans dock scene.
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the Mutual Weekly
Picture News of the World
Gaumont Weekly
New Orleans
Mexico
New York
The Serpent's Fang and Other World News Dramas At Theaters
A listing of current film offerings and features across multiple theaters. Titles include The Serpent's Fang two reel drama and The Pink Granite Industry. Bleeding Hearts three part feature. Pxoneration Puritan drama. Across the Alley Keystone comedy. Hearts of the Dark Reliance drama. A Flirt and the Bandit American drama. The Miracle four reel feature. Panama Canal four reel kine macolor. His Secret Wograph drama. Anne of the Trails Lubin drama. The Penalty of Crime Lubin two part feature. plus educational paths and travel features. Also notes Athletics in France and places of interest in Colorado. Location: Seattle Stewart House near Pike Place Market.
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Melbourne
Pxoneration
Reliance
Melbourne Weekly
Lubin
France
Pathe Educational
Colorado
Pathe Travel
Eaea
Senator Miles Pain Proposes Seattle Socialist Property Bill
Washington Oct. 8 Senator Miles Pain says he introduced legislation to compensate Seattle socialists for property destruction, claiming the claims are just. The statement frames the bill as addressing damages from unrest.
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Washington
Seattle
Miles Pain
Samose touted as flesh forming food for all
A Seattle advertisement claims Samose builds rich blood and firm flesh when taken with meals. Bar t t ell Drug Co offers refunds if no noticeable gains. The piece also reports Senator Poindexter's bill to reimburse riot damage to Seattle residents and organizations linked to sailors and marines, totaling 5881.80 dollars, stressing law and property rights over political belief.
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Seattle
Bartell Drug Co
Dexter
Poindexter
United States Navy
What Is Home Without an Appetite
A diary-style health ad highlights family meals disrupted by a dyspeptic member. It promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy to restore appetite, improve digestion, and allow eating with the family. The pitch urges buying at a druggist for 50 cents per box.
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Stuart
Quaint Customs Of Queer People Cemetery For Dogs
In London a small pet cemetery graves dogs and cats with real tombstones and epitaphs. Mourners visit daily wearing crepe and place flowers on the mounds. Many pets were once favorites of famous people, evidenced by the headstones and memorial wreaths.
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London
Harvard Freshman Wolo Enrolls as Walter in Chemistry
GBE S A WAITER CAMBRIDGE Mass Oct Plenyansa Gbhe Wolo son of an African chieftain has enrolled as a freshman at Harvard He has been in the United States three years and earned funds in New York City to pay his prep school costs Wolo will study chemistry and physics and work as a waiter at Harvard
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Mass
Plenyansa Gbhe Wolo
Harvard
Wolo
New York City
Walter
Ed CarterS Five Aces Ends in Brutal Stabbing in Sharon
Ed Carter died from numerous knife wounds after holding five aces in a draw poker game in Sharon. Ed Davidson, reportedly unhappy with Carter's play, was arrested while Carter's condition remained critical.
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Ed" Carter
Ed Davidson
Carter
Dallas Doctor Refuses to Leave Until Sworn In
Dr. Charles Schwab of Dallas Texas who suffers hallucinations that he is president of the United States refused to accompany relatives home until sworn in They staged a mock ceremony in a New Orleans hotel with a traveling salesman posing as Chief Justice White.
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Charles Schwab
Dallas
Texas
United States
White
Marries Father of Daughter's Husband Puzzle
Los Angeles reports a kinship riddle after Mrs. Maggie C. Van Buskirk married her son-in-law's father, Alexander Wood. The question asks whether such unions create new parental relations and step relations for Mrs. Wood, her husband, and their children, highlighting tangled family ties.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Therian
Harry A. Wood
Maggie C. van Buskirk
Alexander Wood
Ammonia Pipe Freeze Traps Two Boys in Kansas
In Cottonwood Falls Kansas eight year old Harold Austin and Ronald Blair, both 11, stuck their tongues to a frosted ammonia pipe at a father's ice plant and were held prisoner for over 15 minutes before the tongue release.
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Kan
Harold Austin
Ronald Blair
Forty Heirs Claim $7 Million Estate in Boston Trade
Forty New England relatives of Abel Stearns, California pioneer who died 40 years ago, sue for a share of the $7,000,000 estate left by his widow Arcadia Sterns Baker who died last week in Los Angeles. The property includes thousands of acres of land outside Los Angeles.
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Boston
Mass
New England
Abel Stearns
California
Arcadia Sterns Baker
Los Angeles
Cal
Market Prices and Farm Product Listings From Local Growers
The page lists prices paid to producers for butter eggs poultry veal and pork plus a wide range of fruits vegetables and meats including apples peaches onions squash Hubbard squash pumpkin cabbage cucumbers lettuce rutabagas carrots parsnips and various fowl and pork products. Prices are shown per unit and corrected daily by an editor, with notes on specific weights and categories for hens ducks geese turkeys veal and pork.
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Erie
Akron Sells City Bonds Direct to Public in Experiment
Akron at the time of a plan to build a municipal street railroad sold bonds directly to residents in a pilot issue of 52000 dollars at 6 percent. Denominations ranged from 25 to 100 with most buyers from 150 to 5000, often grouping families or neighbors in a single purchase. City Auditor McClusland urged ending bond graft by cutting out middlemen, noting cities with large taxable property can sell bonds themselves.
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The
Star
Akron
TF O
McClausland
Austrian immigrant rents coop to live on fifty cents a week
Margaret Moser, 68, who came from Austria, lived in a rear chicken coop in Milwaukee to survive on 50 cents weekly after her son spent freely. Found by the poor superintendent, $70 earned as a washerwoman was hidden under a cot. She complained that life in America is too swell for the poor.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Margaret Moser
Austria
America
Centenarian Amelia Fisher Hosts 100th Birthday reunion
Mrs. Amelia C. Fisher of Sunbury Pennsylvania celebrated her 100th birthday with a family reunion and turkey dinner at her home. The widow of Rev. Richard A. Fisher she raised ten children, four survive, and she sang a solo after scolding her 68 year old son for smoking and not going to bed by 9. Her life has centered in the house she still occupies.
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Sunbury
Amelia C. Fisher
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