Stage and Screen Burns Immense Set at Academy
Burns immense set in Streets of Shanghai displays the back story of love amid mystery in Shanghai. Fire department safety measures surround the burning structure while Pauline Starke Kenneth Harlan and others star. Two Lovers offers romance and thriller with Colman Banky pairing.
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Shanghai
Academy
Bis Super-Tiffany-Stahl
Hollywood Fire Department
Samuel Goldwyn
Ronald Colman
Wilma Banky
Alice D. G. Miller
Fred Niblo
Robinson Crusoe on Tobago screens at Academy
Daniel Defoe’s famed tale Crusoe is revived on Tobago island with a real adventure tone. The showing at the Academy runs Monday day and night, appealing to both adults and children as Paramount stocks another hit in 1928. Also opening at Colonial for three days is Clara Bow in Three Week Ends, praised as a new sensation from Elinor Glynn.
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Daniel Defoe
Robinson ‘Crusos
Tobago
West Indies
Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
Academy
Paramount
Clara Bow
Elinor Glynn
Colonial Theatre
Elinor Glyn
Bow
Letter Golf Puzzles Hint at Football Draw Back
The piece describes a featured puzzle about a famed football player noted as the draw back of his team. It explains letter golf rules, par as a stroke count, and stepwise word changes from COW to HEN. It lists constraints: one-letter changes only and valid everyday words.
Attempt to Wreck $4,000,000 Train Near Louisville
Detectives from Pennsylvania Railroad and Indiana county officers investigated a reported attempt to wreck and loot a fast Chicago Louisville passenger train carrying $4,000,000 for Louisville banks. The plan was exposed as the train neared Louisville and an immediate report followed from the engineer and foreman. The investigation targets the last 120 miles of the route from Indianapolis to Louisville.
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Louisville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Indiana
Indianapolis
Narcotic Division Has New Quarters in Baltimore
The Baltimore district narcotic division began operations in new quarters after moving from Washington. H. S. Ferrer serves as agent in charge. The unit covers Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and operates from the customs house vacated when the Federal Radio supervisor moved to Fort McHenry.
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Baltimore
Baltimore District
Washington
H. S. Ferrer
Maryland
West Virginia
Virginia
District of Columbia
Fort McHenry
Building contracts show a decrease in US awards
New York reports that total value of building construction contracts awarded last week fell to 51.5 million dollars from 65.4 million a year earlier, according to Engineering News-Record. Large commercial and presidential project contracts rose slightly.
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New York
United States
Weekly Revenue Change From Preceding and Prior Year
The report shows 30,143,000 dollars this week, up from 14,677,000 in the prior week and 24,123,000 in the same week last year. The figures illustrate weekly revenue movements and year over year comparison.
Mr Blaine Ervine fete er on the sic
A fragmentary OCR line shows a garbled reference to Blaine Ervine tied to a fete or celebration phrase. Details are unclear. no full names, dates, or places are extractable to confirm context or event.
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Mr. Blaine Ervine” Feteer
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Potomac St
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Miller’s Furniture
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Roney Bros
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Hart, Schaffner & Marx
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France
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Jeanette Loff
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Eeeso
University Clothes Inc
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Hagerstown Tire Co
Hagerstown Bookbinding and Printing Co
Franklin and Jonathan Street
Raymond E. Munson
Linganore Ave
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Clara
the Toilers
Charles Ray
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