Winthrop High Elects Officers and Debating Prep
Winthrop High School elected Quaestor Bernice Bruce Praetor Miss Ayres Scriba Virginia Crocker Consules Rosanna Gore Evelyn Peters. Debating team to face Quincy High Friday Feb 6 on Child Labor Amendment ratification. Basketball team wins 34 to 14 over Framingham. second team 28 to 5. triple tie for first with Chelsea and Brockton.
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Contro Latina
Latin Club
Bernice Bruce
Praetor
Miss Ayres
Scriba
Virginia Crocker
Rosanna Gore
Evelyn Peters
Quincy High School
Harvard
Wesleyan
Cambridge
Quincy
Congress
Winthrop
Laura Atkinson
Alice Cunningham
Betty Kilbourne
Hovey Rand
Kenneth Hanson
Theodore Waddell
Frank Bauer
Milton Rand
Grace Pigon
Kendall Clark
Framingham High
Chelsea
Brockton High
Lone fellow seeks loan from visiting friend
A line from the Buffalo Enquirer notes a man feeling lonely welcomes a visiting friend who asks for a small loan. The quip implies social strain and financial need in a concise, era-appropriate tone.
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Buffalo Enquirer
Hummingbirds in the United States Visit Count
Of the roughly 600 hummingbird species worldwide, only about 18 are known to visit the United States. This fact highlights the limited geographic range of many hummingbird species and the unique presence of a small number within U.S. habitats.
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The
United States
Big Week of Attractions at Hatch Theater
Manager Hatch presents a week of major bills starting Monday with The Sainted Devil starring Rudolph Valentino and an Ed ucational comedy with Lloyd Hamilton. The schedule includes Butterfly with Kenneth Harlan and Laura LaPlante, Gloria Swanson in Her Love Story, a Pathe News Weekly, a four act B F Keith vaudeville program, and a double feature The Rendezvous and The Long Chance, plus Into The Net chapter. Valentino also appears in Argentine with Helen D Algy and Dagmar Godowsky in a sensational romance with suspenseful moments and vengeance themes.
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Hatch
Rudolph Valentino
Mr. Valentino
Lloyd Hamilton
Pathe
B. F. Keith
Kenneth Harlan
Laura LaPlante
Norman Kerry
Kathleen Norris
Gloria Swanson
Mary Robert Rinehart
Miss Swanson
Conrad Nagel
Lucille Rickson
John Gilbert
Sainted Devil film review praises Valentino spectacle
A Sainted Devil is described as a colorful Rex Beach adaptation with lavish settings and superb photography. The piece notes Valentino’s appeal in romance and dance scenes and portrays him as a fitting dashing noble in the Rex Beach story Rope's End.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Rudolph Valentino
Rex Beach
Valentino
The Rendezvous at Winthrop Theatre Saturday
Marshall Neilan presents The Rendezvous a romance with tragedy and humor set in a Russian village. Conrad Nagel plays an American officer Sydney Chaplin an English Tommy Lucille Rickson Elmo Lincoln Eugenie Besserer and Emmett Corrigan lead the village cast in a dramatic modern production praised for fresh direction and ambitious sets.
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Marshall Neilan
Winthrop Theatre
Neilan
Conrad Nagel
Sydney Chaplin
Tommy
Dramatic Screen Cast Brings Flirtatious Musicians to Life
Laura La Plante plays a flirtatious musician with Ruth Clifford as a steady sister. Norman Kerry acts as a volatile Russian rival to Kenneth Harlan, a pragmatic bridge engineer. The ensemble includes Fred Wood Cesare Gravina Margaret Livingston and T Roy Barnes in supporting roles.
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Laura la Plante
Ruth Clifford
Norman Kerry
Kenneth Harlan
Freeman Wood
Cesare Gravina
Margaret Livingston
She
T. Roy Barnes
Gloria Swanson Stars in Her Love Story Paramount Release
Gloria Swanson headlines Her Love Story at Winthrop next Thurs and Fri Jan 29-30. Ian Keith leads opposite the star with a strong cast including George Fawcett and Edlin Gayer in a tale adapted by Frank Tut tle from Mary Roberts Rinehart's novel and serial The story follows a beautiful princess forced to wed a neighboring king while secretly in love with a captain, with dramatic scenes and a dramatic climax.
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Gloria
Paramount
Frank Tuttle
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ian Keith
George Fawcett
Edlin Gayer
Mario Majeroni
Sidney Herbert
Butterfly in a Clever Paradox Plays on Divorce Records
The Universal film Butterfly based on Kathleen Norris explores divorce themes without depicting a divorce. Laura La Plante Norman Kerry Ruth Clifford Kenneth Harlan star in a dramatic romance about two sisters battling for two men in a sharp twist on the triangle trope, arriving January 28 at the Winthrop.
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Universal
Kathleen Norris
Winthrop
Kathleen
Norris
Reno
Laura la Plante
Norman Kerry
Ruth Clifford
Kenneth Harlan
Real estate deeds list multiple grantees and addresses
A transcription of real estate deeds shows numerous parties including Bellusci Michl C and Mary Brock on Main Street, Lackey William A and Albert R MacKusick, Evelyn L Littlefield and Ruth R Littlefield on Loring Road, Elizabeth M Ramus and Marie A Ramus, Warren Newell and Wm A Lackey, William C Ross guardian of Marie A Ramus with Todd Jessie and Laura M Williams on Townsend Street, Williams Realty Co with Winthrop Ladies Auxiliary on Shirley Street, and Lydia B Zimmerman and John H Devine on Beacon Street.
Move to Save Eyesight Contest Aims at Sunlit Reading
A modern movement promotes eyesight preservation by staging a "gloom and glare" contest among school children. The main goal is to educate students to avoid reading facing the sun and reading under poorly placed lights at home to prevent eye strain.
Oldest single tax colony described at Fairhope Alabama
The Fairhope Alabama community is described as the oldest single tax colony in the world. It hosts writers musicians and scholars, including a few millionaires, and is noted for its extreme simplicity and democracy.
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Fairhop
Ala
Church Converts Diocletian Baths in Rome
The Church of St Mary of the Angels in Rome occupies part of Diocletian's famous baths. Michelangelo led the transformation and preserved much of the ancient structure while adapting it for church use.
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St. Mary of the Angels
Rome
Diocletian
Michelangelo
Joy Comes From Within Quote by Horace Bushnell
A reflective excerpt attributes joy to inner unbought prize of flow and faith, noting heaven cannot be a place to contain joy but must be carried within. The author Horace Bushnell frames joy as a self-contained, freely flowing inner state.
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Horace Bushnell
Ever See One Our idea of a good disposition
A quip from the South Bend Tribune humor column about a man who can ignore a bicycle left by his son on the front steps and walk away whistling, illustrating a laid back attitude toward minor mishaps.
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South Bend Tribune
Tarnished Military Record of Gen. Hull
General Hull surrendered Detroit without resistance to the British. He was court-martialed and found guilty of wrongdoing, sentenced to death by firing squad, but was saved by President Madison.
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J. Hull
Detroit
Maurdison
Six Inch Pranes Burbank's Notable Pranes Work
Botanists deem Six-Inch Pranes Burbank's cultivation of pranes, some six inches in circumference, his greatest achievement as a horticulturist.
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Pranes Burbank
Pranes
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