Art Who? Stars Protest Commercialization of Motion Pictures
A 1923 Minnesota chronicle notes film stars led by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin oppose screen commercialization. It argues producers form a cartel, gouge local theaters, and inflate star salaries, risking art for profits while art advocates warn of diminishing creative cinema.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Pickford
Norma Talmadge
Constance Talmadge
Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
Harold Lloyd
David Work Griffith
Ohio Yesterday and Birthdays Across Time
Obscure historical notes list births and deaths from 18th to 19th century figures, including Joan Cleves Simmes and Asaoland Conn, with scattered dates and places. Mentions of political figures, clergy, and a major mining company plan hint at broader historical snapshots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Cleves Simmes
Mbaniz Purchase
Riversend
Jaly
Asaoland
Tas
Fragmented note on presidents app and women’s pay questions
An unclear passage questions presidential app usage and women’s pay, raising vexing thoughts about gender and policy. The phrasing is garbled, offering little concrete detail or names.
Komical Telegrams From Jim Armitage and Others
A chaotic comic strip of notes and misread lines reveals a watering pipe mishap, dental woes, and odd banter among Guz Pallas Jack Zimer Doc Sneppard Emile Meschke and others. The fragmented text blends humor with sketches of daily misadventures.
Fragmentary banking chatter hints at dividends and tellers
Incoherent notes discuss chairs and a masseurist, then speculate dividends. Several phrases imply bankers and "paying tellers" as a closing point, but the fragment offers no clear event or names.
Sir George Fuller Backing Major British Immigration Scheme
Sir George Fuller, premier of New South Wales, champions a vast Britain immigration plan. The project would place 6,006 British settlers on land at an estimated cost of 6,000,000 pounds. Fuller, fifty two, educated at Kiama Public School, St Andrews College and Sydney University, has held NSW parliament seats and federal roles, later serving as Minister for Home Affairs in the Destin-Cork ministry. He is married with one son and two daughters. hobbies include cricket, fishing, billiards and gardening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fuller
George Fuller Premer
New South Wales
Great Britain
Ir George
Kiama
St Andrew's College
Sydney Universty
New South Wales Parlia
Destin-Cork
George
Voice of the People asks for humane reforms and better education
A reader urges improved schooling sanitation and reasoning to reduce prison life decline and to prevent repeat offenses. The letter questions how society treats prisoners and calls for more humane treatment and civilizational progress.
Timely views on world topics by surgeon Melmehlin
Surgeon Melmehlin urged calm on imported diseases at a New York visit with Health Commissioner Herman Briges. He argued vaccination prevents smallpox and explained plague, yellow fever, cholera, typhus, and leprosy spread and prevention, noting strict port inspections and quarantines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de A J. V Melmehlin
United State
Pulte Health Seorfice
Tadtiu Health
New York State
Herman M Briges
America
Becau
Agaimet
Man
Pacific
Gulf
Atlantic
Ellis
Public Health Service
Letter on social reform and mental health hazards
A reader letter argues that societal reform hinges on inner moral reform and controlling behavior. It warns that neglecting spiritual welfare leads to a deteriorating mind and weakens institutions, urging officials and citizens to address mental health to prevent social decay. The author signs as SOL SACK.
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Sol
John Drinkwater Early Career as Insurance Clerk
John Drinkwater, known for Abraham Lincoln and other successful plays, worked as an insurance clerk before turning to writing poetry and stage works. The note highlights his transition from clerical duties to literary achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Drinkwater
Abraham Lincoln
Ten Years Ago a Noted Cartoonist Visits Minneapolis
Ten years ago Eary Carter, once a famed Teecram cartoonist, gained fame. A Minneapolis paper notes Hin’s visit amid rising trends while en route to events.
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Eary Carter
Teecram
Minneapol
Hin
Washington health budget and suffrage talk headline
The Board of Health requested a 50 dollar monthly appropriation to pay a chemist for four months work testing milk and food products for public protection. Deputy Clerk Rose Moriarty spoke in Cleveland on Woman Suffrage before the Ohio Woman Suffrage League. Councilman Stolzenberg proposed badges for meter readers to deter fake inspectors. Elks lodge names include Ed Douglas as Exalted Ruler and officers Ellsworth Biggs Glenn Davidson Ford Loomis George Wahrmin and John Cliff.
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Board OF Healtis
Rose Moriarty
Cleveland
Ohio Woman Suffrage League
THE
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ED. Douglas
Ellsworth Biggs
Glenn Davidson
Ford Loomis
Geoorge Wahrmin
John Cliff
Sigh No More Ladies and Other Verse Allusions
A fragmentary poem passage centers on the traditional refrain sigh no more and calls women to be blythe and bonny while letting men go. The text blends Shakespearean lines with stray references about women in London serving writs and doors opening to a pretty young woman.
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Blythe
Bonny
Nonaov
Nonny
Nanny
Shakespeare
London
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