Portrait of a Revolutionary Battle Amid Rivers and Flames
The passage recounts Burgoyne’s surrender pressure on October 1777 as American forces led by Arnold and Farnsworth break the British center. Nancy tends Cabot wounded amid hospital scenes while Amos Farnsworth continues firing from a treetop, detailing courage, injury, and the cost of victory.
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Argold
Learned
Arnold
Cabot
Amos Farnsworth
Hell
Moses
Amos
Colonel Cabot
Nancy
Simeon Botts
Valley Forge
Farnsworth
Dementer
Reunited at Sir Roger Bogert’s after Washington mission
Colin Farnsworth finally reunites with Pat Fayerweather after a perilous voyage to reach Mount Vernon. They meet at Sir Roger Bogert’s house as Washington’s campaign continues, with plans to marry and travel to Mount Vernon while the elder Lady Ackland joins as maid.
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Amos
Whitemarsh
Washington
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Gates
Pat
Ackland
America
Farnsworth
Major Humphries
Sir Roger
Mount Vernon
Roger
England
Jazz Singer creator recalls his leap into talking pictures
Hal C. Herman recounts resisting silent film and choosing Vitaphone, crediting Warner Brothers for The Jazz Singer breakthrough. He notes the film’s historic impact, his move to Hollywood, and ongoing work in pictures with renewed audience reach.
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Warner Brothers
Vitaphone Pictures
Denver
Vitaphone
Hollywood
Poisoned Bread Linked To Death In New York Restaurant
In a Broadway restaurant two strangers, Henry Jellinek and Lillian Rosenfeld, died within hours of cyanide poisoning. Police deem Jellinek’s death a suicide and Rosenfeld an unwitting victim, aided by poverty and secrecy surrounding her savings totaling over forty thousand dollars.
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One Hundred Fourth Street
Knickerbocker Hospital
Henry Jellinek
New York University
Jellinek
Lillian Rosenfeld
Lillian Fields
Simon S. Rosenfeld
Boston
Delia Rosenfeld
West One Hundred Twenty- Sixth Street
Lillian
Horn & Hardart
Buck Jones Reaches 300 Film Features Milestone
Buck Jones, a Screen star for over twelve years, has appeared in more than 300 feature films after leaving Fox and later joining Columbia Pictures. A national poll named him the most popular outdoor screen star, and his Buck Jones Rangers clubs boast about 8 million members meeting in more than 500 theaters nationwide.
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Buck Jones
Fox
Columbia Pictures
Buck Jones Rangers
America
Hobart Bosworth Star of Stage to Silent Screen Pioneer
Hobart Bosworth began on stage in 1885 and later starred with Minnie Maddern Fiske, Julia Marlowe, and Henrietta Crosman. He led in Los Angeles first film The Sultan's Power in 1909, then The Sea Wolf, and appeared in Bloodship Flight Dirigible Hurricane. His recent pictures include Fanny Foley Herself Carnival Boat County Fair Phantom Express and The Miracle Man.
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Hobart Bosworth
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Julia Marlowe
Henrietta Crosman
Murder suspect escapes using hangman rope in Mobile County
J. W. Owen, 27, held on a murder charge in Leekesville, Mississippi, allegedly escaped from a jail cell by using the hangman’s rope. He climbed to the prison cupola, broke a window, and slid down with twisted blankets to freedom near the Mobile county line. Mississippi officials report he is at large and being pursued.
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Mobile
Ala
J. W. Owen
Leekesville
Miss
Mississippi
Alabama
Owen
Joseph Smith
Husband Slashes Tires and Is Jailed for 40 Days
In Blackfoot Idaho Loren M Wheeler cut all four tires to stop his wife from using the car. Mrs Wheeler pressed malicious destruction of property charges and Judge George R Bailey sentenced him to forty days in jail for the act.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
Loren M. Wheeler
Live Horse Trade Goes Dead in Courtland Kansas
In Courtland Kansas a farmer who had lost three horses traded a live horse for a dead one. A neighbor then gifted a live cow and helped haul away the dead horse carcass, humorously recalling life on the western frontier.
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Courtland
Kan
Kansas
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