Grand Theatre Features Tarzan and Goose Girl Screenings
The Grand Theatre presents Elmo Lincoln in Tarzan of the Apes and Marguerit Clark as Gretchen the Goose Girl in The Goose Girl at Middlesex. Also shows Kiss or Kill with Priscilla Dean and Herbert Rawlinson, plus vaudeville acts and four‑act dramas including Sylvia on a Spree and Fighting for Millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Theatre
Ed Allen
Hell” Morgan
Hell Morgan
Hansen
San Frap‘Bisco
Fox
Swat the Spy
Gretchen
Marguerit Clark
Middlesex
Tarzan
Elmo Lincoln
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rand
Henry Warner
Ruth Orton
Priscilla Dean
Herbert Rawlinson
France
New York
Bill
Berlin
Ernest Truex
Shirley Mason
Sylvia
Emmy Wehlen
Metro
Dainty
Miss Wehlen
The Surly Son and the Grim Postmaster
A satirical wartime letter lambasts the postmaster general for delays in mail and presses until postal service improvements. It mocks the slow mail system, the Gum-shoe Colonel, and the idea that laws and judges protect rights, while once again railing at obstruction to news and letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ena
Coney Island
Outhor
Congress
Charles E. Hughes
Roman Coffin Unearthed Near Bratton Wiltshire
Ploughing in a field near Bratton Wiltshire unearthed the cover of a lead Roman coffin. Curator B H Carrington of the Wiltshire Archaeological Museum confirms it dates to the Roman period. The coffin measures 6 ft 8 in long, with varying width and a depth of 1 ft 7 in. Iron nails suggest a wooden outer shell once existed. bones are mostly gone except for some leg and jaw parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
London Times
Bratton
Westbury
Wiltshire
B. H . Carrington
Wilfs Archaeological Museum
Soldiers and Jobs in Demobilization Policy
The War Department will let soldiers remain on the payroll until they find work, preventing compulsory discharge. This preserves income while securing employment through camps, friends, or agencies. It aims to reduce unemployment among ex soldiers and minimize aimless job search and misplacement. The piece also notes women who gossip harm themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
War Department
Army
Ivoryton Local Notices and Social Highlights
Ivoryton centers on visitors from Beacon Falls and Hebron, church services at All Saints Mission with a stereopticon program on parables, and social plans. Seasonal warmth and light frost are noted along with everyday hometown events, sales, and fabric prices at Wimovsky and Atkins in Deep River and Essex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivoryton
Aaron Shannon
Beacon Falls
Roy Shannon
C. Hall
James H. Rockwell
Hebron
Chariie Chaplin
George B. Gilbert
All Saints Mission
Gilbert
Sorelen Clark
John Bradbury
Wimovsky
Site for Willard Dempsey bout still unsettled
New York February reports a key decision pending on the heavyweight title bout between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey. Tex Rickard may favor a 20 round fight and a site that allows full distance, with Denver among possibilities though nothing is final. The uncertainty clouds scheduling and raises questions about venue and format.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jess Willard
Jacks Dempsey
Tex Rickard
Rickard
Richard Richard
Denver
Tex
Denever
Reno
Nurse Brings Home War Baby From France
Miss Lillian P. Neilson, a nurse in France, returned to New York with a six months old infant said to have been found on a battlefield nine days after birth. She plans to resume service in France and take the child with her for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian P. Neilson
France
New York
Miss Neilson
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Pillsbury’s
Fairbury
Wedgwood Creamery
Borden’s
York State
California
New New Orleans
Walter Baker’s
Baker’s
Baker's
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Caracas
Campbell’s
Wilbur
Libby
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Maine
OATE
College
Odd. Fellows
Cash Grocers
Nurse
Bae
Ean Mae Aer
Ras
Tinsliviiam
Nielsen
Jack Pea
Middletown
Adolph Zukor
John Emerson-Anita -Loos
Shirley Mason and
Paramount
Matinee
Billy West Comedy
Rolling Stone
Marguerite Clark
Travel
Lyons-Moran
Jesse L. Lasky
Wallace Reid
Paramount Picture
Enrico Caruso
Artcraft
Margaret Turnbull
Edward Jose
Lightning Raider
Barton Clothing Co
and Custom Tailors
Constance Talmadge
Flower
Fox Kiddies
MAX Press
Main and
College Ste. Tel
Conn
A& P. French
Riswater
A. BE. Holmes
Main Street
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