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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1921
Page
7
A local program features Sheltered Daughters a tale about a sheltered young woman kept from news and society by her father. Fate brings a notorious crook into her life leading to a front page scandal and a hurried marriage to a reporter. Also shown is Karma the mystic marvel answering questions.
Maurice Tourneur’s Deep Waters, a Paramount picturization of F&F Hopkinson Smith’s Caleb West Master Diver, played at the Colonial Theatre last night. Barbara Bedford on screen with strong support from Jack Gilbert George Nichols and Florence Deshon, with underwater scenes and shipwrecks praised.
The mystic Joe Karma wowed crowds with crystal gazing and slate tests praised as among the finest in the city. He promises daily shows this week while readers receive Karma’s mailed answers to questions including marriage, travel, and stock worth.
The article notes Queen Alexandra as the poorest member of the British royal family with an annual state allowance of 250000 dollars. It says this sum is insufficient to maintain Marlborough House and Sandringham and that her private resources are not large, leaving her barely able to balance ends meet.
A clipped line from the Joplin Globe notes the world growing worse with a joke about fears shifting from centipedes and cockroaches to snakes, reflecting regional humor on social anxiety.
The lodge sends word of a fish fry next Wednesday evening following a regular meeting. A number of candidates are to be initiated and important lodge business will follow the gathering.
In the county deserter list printed Thursday the name John Dean Jr of 411 Lake Avenue was listed. He has been dead since September four years ago, cause of death lockjaw.
A wealthy American woman paraded in Hyde Park with a pet pig. The pig wore a blue ribbon and a small coat, yet its grunt and curly tail mirrored that of ordinary farm pigs, attracting attention from Londoners.
A Lowden journal notes Queen Mary’s austerity measures raise household expenses and curb cress bills by two thirds of prewar levels. The article hints at trimming wardrobes and avoiding new clothes to ease state costs amid rising prices.
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