Lights of New York a Window to Stage to Screen
Walter Trumbull argues producers push actors between theater and film, noting the stage demands live perfection, while movies rely on retakes and camera tricks. He observes gamblers and nightlife in cities, the contrast of spectators at boxing and baseball venues, and ends with a quip about apple trees in New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finn
Nur
Jenin
Frederick W. Bodge
United States
Manganno
New Mexico
Olio
Johnny
Central Park
Boll Syndicate
Statue planned for Mollie Bell the Alaska Belle
A bronze statue will honor Mollie Bell known as the belle of the North and the angel of the camps. Friends plan a Skagway park memorial to the 1902 Seattle resident who tended the sick grubstaked prospectors and helped miners on the Skagway trail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Mollie Bell
Skogwity
Alaska
Iais
Packer Jack” Newman
Tost
Lesus
Skagway Park
Mole
Kile Bennett
Jack
P Ronance
Tucker Jook
Mike Bartlett
Nellie
Pack
Bartlett
Mollie
Skagway Trail
Imagination and endurance in a life of reading and travel
An old woman confined to a room finds joy in imagination and books. She travels in thought to Devon and recalls Dickens, Scott, Thackeray and poetry, saying she reads to keep busy and happy. The Bacons, once central to town life, are now distant in a foreign world with new tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Devon
Ghout
Thackeray
Millionaire who paid debts by selling assets and housing
Emory J. Sweeney of Kansas City once owed a million and, eleven years after WWI, was debt free. He sold a luxury mansion, a ten story building, cars valued at 100000, a real estate subdivision and a radio station to settle debts from real estate ventures and influenza related losses. He now lives simply and cherishes old friends and familiar places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Emory J. Sweeney
Sweeney
Infitenza
Chinese Loan Negotiation Reported for Use in Soldier Repatriation
Judge Paul M. Linebarger, acting as envoy for the Chinese Nationalist government, arrived in Washington to negotiate a proposed loan of about $300,000 with 100 in silver. The loan terms bar military use and aim to fund repatriation efforts for Chinese soldiers pursuing levee-related settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul M. Linebarger
Washington
China
Sharks Rendered Useful by Key West Plant
In Key West a fishing firm processes about one hundred sharks daily, average seven feet long, turning carcasses into leather from hides, brushes and mirrors from ghagre, oil from livers rich in vitamins, fins shipped to the Orient as delicacy, pearls from cartilage, and bone and cartilage used for fertilizer and other products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Orient
Weight loss plan advertisement with Kruselsan salts
An old style ad promotes a weight loss regimen claiming rapid pounds off with a morning Krusesen salt drink and a strict diet. It lists token measurements and a suggested four week course with references to foods and vague guarantees of results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yao
Krusesen
Diug
Yivaclows
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Walter Trumbull
Ollywood
Polley
Tam
Elahlem
Ing Fald
Jim
Lia
Tnt
Blondy
Thomas Arkle Clark
University of
Frank
Deacon
Walle
Ing
New York Rangers
Willte
Love
Bacon
Watson
Western Newspaper Union
Eruegiine
Jurior
Garfield
Aldoney
Clark Bacon
Record St
Los Angeles
California
Ticks Publishing Co
Ste San Diena
Calif
Trageler
San Francisco
Cal
C. H. Moghr
W. 50Th St. Dinmeapolis
Mint
Afialice Bros
Danvilles IN
Vetperled Cigar CO
Fennsburg, Pac
le Business Brokers
Chicago
Noleywood
HES “Tr CO
Sue
Holly Bivd
Hallywood, Calif
Fanford
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