Conquest to Be All Talking Picture with Warner Bros Star
Monte Blue leaves New York for Hollywood to join Conquest with H B Warner and Lois Wilson, touted as the first all talking film to feature his voice. The report notes Graham Baker adapted The Heart of Maryland for the screen and mentions William J Hilburn, aged over eighty, as a source of ideas. The page also lists showings at Columbia including The Heart of Maryland, Ham and Eggs at the Front, and a color feature.
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Monte Blue
New York
Europe
Hollywood
H. B. Warner
Lois Wilson
Heart OF Maryland
Graham Baker
David Belasco
Warner Bros
Dolores Costello
Columbia Today
William J. Hilburn
Hilburn
Georgia
Barryl Francis Zanuck
Tom Wilson
Heime Conklin
Columbia Theatre
Boonesborough Gap
Maryland
Robert B. Lee
James Welch
Mary Pickford bobbed hair front page news across papers
Mary Pickford’s coiffure made front page headlines across the New York Times and others, with editorials about her bobbed hair. The piece notes her world recognition and mentions the Barrymore and Moore families’ screen contributions, plus brief bios of Janet Gaynor and actors linked to Fox pictures.
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Mary
Rob Mary Pickford
New York Times
Mary Pickford
Miss Pickford
Bob
Barrymore
Ethel
Lionel
John
Moore
Owen
Tom
Matt
Paris
Woman Sets Fire To Clothing Ends Life In Johnstown
Lallie Schatz a 37 year old resident of Bens Creek died in Johnstown after setting fire to her night clothing saturated with gasoline in her bath tub. Her father had bought the gasoline for a stove.
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Johnstown
Lallie Schatz
Bens Creek
Rexall Orderlie Promises Quick Constipation Relief
A Battle Creek physician claims constipation causes much misery and promotes Rexal Orderlie as immediate relief. The tablet draws water into a dry bowel to soften waste for a gentle natural movement without habit. Chew Rexall Orderlie at night for a brighter tomorrow, 24 for 25 cents at Rexall Drug Stores.
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Battle Creek
Rexall Drug
Philosophers and moving pictures in a talk of plays and prohibition
The writer muses on Tunney's Paris studies and a real philosopher role if he retains his fortune. Eastman announces color moving pictures with synchronized sound and heroines that lure men. A science idea to enforce prohibition suggests gas through keyholes to empty speakeasies, but jail could tackle bootleggers.
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Tunney
Mr. Eastman
Prohibition abuses amid bootlegger routs and stock fears
The piece laments bootlegger networks and corrupt officials hindering enforcement. It notes small boys guiding patrons to speakeasies, calls for action against wholesalers, and argues consumer harm from middlemen. It also cites AFL unemployment reports, stock speculation pressure, and divergent trends in New York’s retail and wholesale trades as markets wobble.
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Hee
Jal
New York
Ashes of Haywood to be interred Friday
The ashes of William YD. Bi Bill Haywood American communist who died here months ago will be buried tomorrow afternoon in the wall of the Kremlin Fortress after funeral services with delegates to the Communist International congress and representatives of Moscow organizations.
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Moscow
William YD
Bi Bill” Haywood
Kremlin
Communist International Congress
Freckled Tim the Ferry Crossing Hero Poem
A vivid home made poem tells of Freckled Tim a boy who loves all humans and braves sea and storm at Ferry Crossing. His daring tale ends with rescue and embrace as neighbors hail him a hero. Readers are invited to send local subjects for future poems to the Tribune office.
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Chicka
Tun
Tim
Sanora
God of Heaven
Tribune
Sara
Former Kentucky Politician William S. Taylor Dies
Indianapolis, Aug. 2. William S. Taylor, 76, the Kentuckian whose 1899 governor election over William Goebel was ruled fraudulent by Kentucky lawmakers, died at his home after relocating to Indianapolis in 1900 seeking protection from charges tied to Goebel’s assassination.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William S. Taylor
Kentucky
Taylor
William Goebel
Goebel
Governor Declared Elected Then Shot in Ambush
The article notes the legally elected governor was declared, then shot from ambush shortly after. It mentions Taylor entering Indiana and the state’s refusal to recognize extradition demands. Taylor joined the life insurance field here and became vice-president of Empire Life and Accident Insurance Company.
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Taylor
Indiana
Empire Life and Accident Insurance Company
Typhoon in Japan Leaves Twenty Dead in Floods
Tokyo Aug 2 Twenty persons are known to have been killed in the worst typhoon to strike this part of Japan in 18 years. The storm raged for three days, flooding rivers and washing water into surrounding districts. Tunnels and embankments collapsed from landslides, disrupting rail service.
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Tokio
Japan
Cleveland Airport Becomes World’s Greatest Air Center
Cleveland’s three year old airport leads U S in traffic freight air mail and passenger totals surpassing Templehof Berlin and Croydon London. From 1925 to 1928 the field grew from 1100 acres to 1 5 million valuation with 16 8 thousand planes in 1927 and 6 6 million pounds of freight plus 4 9 million pounds of mail in three years.
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Ohio
World Air Aviation Center
Cleveland
W. R. Hopkins
United States
Templehofer
Berlin
Croydon
London
Ohio Jawa
Hopkins
Slong
Mason M Patrick
United States Army Air Service
E. V. Rickenbacker
Post Office Department
John Berry
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Warren
Library Thureday
Adolph Menjou
Columbia Thureday
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
Madame ‘Schumann~Heink
Riley the Cop
Fox
Janet Gaynor
Philadelphia
Sorbonne
Louise Groody
Ogden Goelet
Park Avenue
Goelette
Miss Groody
France
American Federation of Labor
Jess
Haywood
Abenly
Jimmy Rooney
Wattseid, Ward” Im
Westergards
Menjou
Adolphe | Ee
Emil Jannings
Kenugen
Ine
Sibant
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