Charlie Chaplin's Rise From Stage to Keystone to City Lights
The article traces Charlie Chaplin’s early life in theatre, arrival in America, and entry into Keystone studios in 1914. It recalls his initial fear of stunts, his gradual move to two reelers, and landmark works like The Kid, A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms, and The Gold Rush, City Lights, and The Circus.
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Harlie Chaplin
Charlie
Mack Sennett
Charles Chaplin
Europe
Lily Harley
Billy
William Gilette
America
Nixon Theater
Philadelphia
Kessel
Bauman
New York
Mabel Normand
Mack
Tillie
Paris
Edna Purviance
Adolphe Menjou
Jerry Muskrat Begins Building New Home By Smiling Pool
Jerry Muskrat plans and begins a new house at the Smiling Pool after muddying water and sparking complaints from Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter. Peter Rabbit watches curiously as Jerry works mainly at night, drawing neighbors' ire over the altered water.
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Erry Muskrat
Jerry
Jerry Muskrat
Peter Rabbit
Paddy the Beaver
Mr. Sun
Billy Mink
Little Joe Otter
Brook
Smiling Pool
Summer Meals and Short Bread Cakes
The article prescribes light warm weather meals using fresh vegetables and small amounts of meat such as chicken veal or beef to make chop suey with crisp celery onions green beans and seasoned rice. It also suggests short bread cakes lined with pastry shells filled with sponge cake batter then iced and decorated.
When There's Sickness When There's Sickness
A poem by Douglas Malloch from 1933 reflects a family’s anxious hope during illness. It contrasts independence in good times with reliance on the Great Physician during sickness and fear, urging prayer and comfort in crisis.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
Digging Through Flood Waters The Neighborly Grumble
The story frames Jerry fixing his house foundations by digging under water causing muddy conditions. Neighbors grumble yet Jerry persists, believing usefulness brings happiness as he stays busy and continues digging to complete the project.
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Jerry
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
Old time jokes and curios from a 1933 syndicate
A Bell Syndicate WNU Service fragment catalogs quirky lines about veterans, boners as humorous exam tidbits, odd revival ideas for drowned people, John Hancock’s glasses, and a whimsical note that the earth makes a resolution every 24 hours. The piece ends with a definition of a canal as an official body of water joining two large bodies.
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Bobby Jones
Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
WNU
Women Rule Town Form New Municipal Government
In Bermeo Spain the village of fishing women formed a female run local government after most men approved the plan and ten objectors were cast into the sea. On resurfacing the first objector still aligned with dissent but soon embraced the new regime.
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Bermeo
Spain
College student aids police trap on confidence game
Swarthmore sophomore McCandlish, visiting Chicago for the Century of Progress, exposed a chain of strangers posing as Britons. He baited a rake named Joseph Davis and John Coughlin with a coin game, then led officers to a fountain where both men were arrested for confidence games. Davis and Coughlin had long rap sheets, with dozens of prior arrests since 1916 and 1917.
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Chicago
George Edward McCandlish
Congress Hotel
Loop
McCandlish
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore
Seattle
Philadelphia
John Coughlin
Buckingham Fountain
Coughlin
Drew McCandlish
Joseph Davis
Davis
O. K
South State Street
Sergis
Benjamin Benson
Michael Morley
Fountain
Woman Refuses Charity Denied Her Pet Snakes
Mary Moore a 23 year old circus performer sought shelter at a San Francisco charity but was refused to keep her two pythons with her. The shelter allowed her to stay without the snakes and she prepared to leave conveying they must eat and stay with her.
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San Francisco
Mary
Donald Moore
Volunteers of America
Mrs. Moore
Grasshoppers Destroy Tenry Bowers Farm Alfalfa Field
Swarms of grasshoppers damaged the Tenry Bowers farm field near Spencer Nebraska. The pests ate the pitchfork handle and left the alfalfa destroyed overnight, with the entire field ruined.
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Spencer
Neb
Tenry Bowers Farm
Six Months of Trouble for Long Beach Girl Loomis
Eleanor Claire Loomis a twelve year old girl from Long Beach suffered a string of mishaps over six months including mumps a sting ray sting a hip dislocation fever scarlet fever and a dislocated toe cap while skating the sequence shows a young girl enduring multiple ailments within a half year.
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Long Beach
Calif
Eleanor Claire Loomis
Irl
Dog Unearthed Buried in Coffin in Columbus
Workmen digging building foundations in Columbus uncovered the bones of a dog placed in a small coffin with a silver plated handle and silk lining. The find suggests a memorial or ritual burial unknown in the area.
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Columbus
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Hal C. Herman
Charlie Chaplin
Keystone Studios
Los Angeles
Hollywood
WNW Service
Hildren’s
AsTory Thornton
W. Burgess
Irrliga
Tickering
Tillio
Bol
Syndicate
Bees Nestor
Edwin Iske
Nestor
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Iske
Detroit
Iowa City
By Douglas Malloch
Death
Lad
Western Newspaper Union
Kroners
John Hancock
New York City
Citizens’ Conservation Corps
Narada Falls
Rainier National Park
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