Local Theatres Show Long Looked For Classics This Week
The Star highlights six reels of the new feature at the Alhambra with Anita Stewart and Earle Williams. Liberty presents Margarita Fischer in a stage drama. Jewel stars Ella Hall in Clara Louise Burnham's tale with Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. Melbourne screens Mary Pickford in Fanchon the Cricket. Theda Bara stars in The Two Orphans at Clemmer. Alaska features Helene of the North with Marguerite Clark. Colonial offers A Knight of the Trail with Hart and Hatton. Class A screens Three Weeks with Madaline Travers and Chaplin short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alhambra
Anita Stewart
Earle Williams
Kers
Pine Street
Clara Louise Burnham
Clemmer Theda Bara
William Shay
Jean Sothern
Paris
Alaska
Marguerite Clark
Helene
North
Conway Tearle
Miss Clark
Canada
Pierre
Mounted Police
The Goddess and The Infatuation Screenings This Week
The Alhambra presents The Goddess with Anita Stewart and Earle Williams ending Saturday night. Liberty shows Infatuation starring Margarita Fischer and Harry Pollard closing Tuesday. Also screening Lizzie and the Beauty Contest comedy and Helene of the North at Alaska, Fanchon the Cricket at Melbourne, Jewel at Mission, Mabel and Fatty Visit the Fair, A Knight of the Trails with Wm S. Hart and Leona Hutton ending Tuesday, plus The Jit and When Hungry Hamlet Fied comedies and The Champion and The Confession and The Stagecoach Driver and the Girl dramas at Victor and other houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alhambra
the Goddess
Anita Stewart
Earle Williams
Liberty
Margarita Fischer
Harry Pollard
Lizzie
Jewel
Ella Hall
Mabel and
Fatty
Wm S. Hart
Leona Hutton
Winifred Greenwood
Swedish Choir and Band Picnic at Fortuna Park
Two leading Swedish groups in Seattle Svea Malo Choir and Swedish Club Concert Band will hold a Labor Day picnic at Fortuna park on Sept 6 with Thule Male Choir of Tacoma joining. A prize waltz has been set, boats will depart from Leechi park, and viewers are promised a good time.
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Seattle
Svea Malo
Swedish Singers of
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Fortuna Park
Labor Day
Thule
Tacoma
Leechi Park
Efficiency Probe Committee Arrives in Seattle
The Efficiency Probe Committee appointed by Secretary McAdoo arrives in Seattle to investigate the customs service on the waterfront. Members include A. W. Durell of Philadelphia, James F. McConnachie of New York, and H. M. Gilman, secretary to Assistant Secretary Andrew J. Peters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
McAdoo
A. W. Durell
Customs
Philadelphia
James F. McConnachie
Treesury Department
York City
H. M. Gilman
the Treasury
Andrew J. Peters
From Jail to Stage Oscar Lee Released on Promise to Pay
Oscar Lee of the All Star Trio, confined in county jail on nonsupport charges, has been released after agreeing to pay Mrs. Lee fifteen dollars monthly. The actor had been offered a place on the Pantages circuit during confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Lee
All Star Trio
Ile
Death of Benjamin J. Shipman Legal Author at 1014 Minor Ave
Benjamin J. Shipman, 65, author of legal texts, of 1014 Minor Avenue, died at Minor Hospital Tuesday from paralysis. He had practiced law here for several years, associated with Attorneys A. W. Woodland and O. E. Sauter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin J. Shipman
Minor Ave
A. W. L. Woodland
O. E. Sauter
Sherlock Gluk Attends Bankers Convention in Seattle
L. W. Gammon, manager of the protective department of the American Bankers' Association, visits Seattle to attend the bankers' convention. He is advertised as one of the nation's clever detectives and ready to spot any slip by criminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherlock Gluk
Seattle
L. W. Gammon
American Bankers’ Association
Bankers’ Convention
Good Roads Advocates Tour Brooklyn Figures Visit Oakland
George W Tilson of Brooklyn and B L Powers editor of Good Roads magazine spoke on how better roads feed railways. They arrived Friday with Samuel Hill and planned departure Friday night for Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Tilson
Brooklyn
N. Y
The
American Road Ee, Association
B. L. Powers
Good Roads Magazine
Samuel Hill
Good Roads Advocate
Oakland
Polk's Alaska Yukon Directory issued for 1916
Yukon directory Polk's Alaskan Yukon Gazeteer and Business Directory for 1916-16 notes four months of canvassers traversing frozen North trails to compile a history of each Alaska industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk
Alaska
Burglary at Foster Homes Tied to Three Suspects
The Downey and Moore residences in Foster were burglarized between midnight and 1 am Friday. Three youths broke in, one armed, as the couple watched from bed. Thirteen dollars and a watch vanished from the Downey house while $59 disappeared from the Moore residence. Deputy arrests followed. Harry Richards, 20, held on an open charge, while two suspects remain at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Downey
Wm. P. Moore
Foster
Downey
Moore
Boyd and
Ware
Harry Richards
Richards
Five Pacific Electric trainmen survive rail ditching near Wilmar
A six car electric freight train was ditched at Wilmar east of Ramona Acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino line service is halted. All traffic is at a standstill and track clearance may not occur before noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Pacific Electric
Wilmar
Ramona Acres
San Bernardino
Abuses Wife, Kills Man, and Ends Own Life
Morris Cole 33 is murdered and James Crocker 55, a singer, dies by his own hand after Crocker abused his wife at his Newport home across Lake Washington. Crocker, intoxicated, shot Cole with a shotgun. Mrs. Crocker fled and deputies later found Crocker dead with the gun. Mrs. Crocker and her six children are sheltered by friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Cole
James Crocker
Newport
Lake Washington
Crocker
Seattle
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Star's Moving Picture Department
Lloyd
Dean
Phyllis Ladd
Victoria Forde
Bts
Mabel
Success
Melbourne
Mary Pickford
Miss Bara
Henrietta
Clemmer
Fox Feature
Milm Corporation
Theda Para
Nance O'Neill
Dorothy R Hernard
Colonial
Hart
Leona Hatton
Jim Treen
Molly Stewart
Bll Carey
Molly
Bill
Jim
Hamlet
Madaline Traversie
Elinor Glyn
Chariie Chaplin
Ed Coxen
Mutual Weekly
the Tworphans
Theda Bara
Wm. Shay
Madison
Golden Trail
Shorty Inherita
Madaline Travers
Chas, Chaplin
Dainty Marguerite Clark
Mary” Pickford
Fanchon
the Cricket
William G. Hart
the Clemmer
Paramount Pitlires
Paramount Pictures
Alaska Theatre
Daniel Frohman
Marguerite
Sarah Tbernhardt
Brittany
Helene of the North
Victor
Chas
Chaplin
William Fox
THEDA
Bara
Joe Roberts
Oliver G. Wallace
Will Picnic
B. J. Shipman
Yukon
Knight of the Trails
Nd Mutual
Edward Coxen
Crawford
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