Cat and the Canary at Columbia Theatre features
Grotesque faces and eerie incidents headline Universal photo drama The Cat and the Canary at Columbia Theatre. Laura La Plante leads a stellar cast including Greighton Hale Arthur Edmund Carew and Forrest Stanley. Also shown tomorrow and Friday is Red Grange in The Racing Romeo with Jobyna Ralston Trixie Friganza and Walter Biers.
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Universal Photo
Columbia Theatre
Laura la Plante
Greighton Hale
Arthur Edmund Carew
Forrest Stanley
Tully Marshall
Gertrude Astor
Flora Finch
George Siegmann
Lucien Littlefield
Martha Mattox
Red Grange
Columbia
Jobyna Ralston
Trixie Friganza
Walter Biers
Ben Hendricks, Jr
Pipe Line Companies Announce 1927 Income
The Eureka Pipe Line Co reports 1927 income of 4601.75 with 200000 in dividends paid and a profit and loss balance of 195393.25 The depreciation account rose 304952.80 in 1927 The Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Lines shows 1927 income of 362285.53 and profit and loss balance after dividends of 152288.53
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Eureka Pipe Line Co
Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipa Lines
Library and Night Shows Advertise Weekly Schedule
A library event listing outlines a midnight screening on Wednesday in London followed by a sequence of gangster themed shows Thursday and Friday titled The Noose. Friday features Amateur Night and Saturday presents The Circus Ace with stunts.
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London
Circus
Columbia Weekly Events Card
The listing outlines midweek attractions at Columbia with Wednesday and Thursday shows. The Cat and the Sanery Mystery runs Wednesday. Racing Romeo Auto Racing is scheduled Thursday and Friday. Saturday offers Shanghaied High 2s.
London After Midnight Ends Three Day Run at Library Theatre
The Library Theatre closes its three day showing of Lon Chaney in London After Midnight today. The program also features The Noose with Richard Barthelmess on Thursday and Friday, plus three vaudeville acts by Brown and LaHort, the Bob Reilly company musical revue, and Newhoff and Phelps. Tom Mix in The Circus Ace headlines Saturday, with The Collegians campus series and other acts on the bill. Mary Pickford’s My Best Girl and Chaplin's The Circus are noted as current highlights.
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London
Library Theatre
Richard Barthelimess
Chaney Pictures
Richard Barthelmess
Barthelmess
Brown and LaHort
Bob Reilly
Newhoff and Phelps
Tom Mix
Collegians
Smith Horton Co issues seven percent preferred stock
William Lincoln McClure, a Warren security dealer, offers about 182000 of Smith & Horton Co seven per cent preferred stock to reduce floating debt and provide working capital for sales growth. He praises the issue and notes local bankers support and anticipated strong local demand.
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Ax Isawe
Smith & Horton Co
William Lincoln McClure
McClure
Smith & Horton
Warren
Col Thompson noted as Pittsburgh gridiron star and public figure
Col Thompson a Paris American Legion organizer, Pennsylvania delegate, and 1921 22 department commander. A former Pitt halfback coach and law graduate, he also served in the Pennsylvania Senate 1910 13 and engaged in Republican politics. The piece also recalls a curious exchange about a man named Binks, declared dead but possibly alive.
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American Legion
Paris
Department of Pennsylvania
National Finance Committee
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Col. Thompson
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh Law School
Beaver Falls
Geneva College
Col Thompson
Pennsylvania State Senate
Sweden Solves Forest Problem Says Timber Surplus
Emil Kekich reports from Sweden that annual timber growth exceeds cutting by 100 million cubic feet, ensuring forests can sustain heat housing and fuels. The piece notes exhausting oil coal and iron long term and calls for science to find replacements such as kerosene whale oil electric power solar tidal and geothermal options to keep civilization going.
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Emil Kekich
Sweden
Herbert Hoover
of Commerce
Night Flight Hazards and Mail Route Dangers Revealed
In the March of 1927 account Colonel Lindbergh details early air mail operations from St Louis to Springfield and Peoria. He describes night flying, bad weather, fog and sleet delays, ice on wings and propellers, and two forced jumps at night when fog closed in over Illinois. He notes improvements expected from navigation instruments and recounts a specific 1926 incident near Peoria where flare failure and fog forced a return to Maywood after altimeter and visibility challenges.
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Maywood
St. Louia
Springfield
Peoria
St. Louis
United States
Lambert-St. Louis Field
Iill
Marseilles
Illinois River
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Ilinoig River
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Sound Insurance for All Property Risks
An insurance firm promotes dependable and economical policies through strong, reputable companies. It offers to assess your current coverage and help ensure practical, sufficient, and sound protection for both home and business properties.
B V Lesser Insurance Phones 637 and 1783
Local insurer B V Lesser advertises contact numbers 637 and 1783 for policy services. The notice emphasizes quick replies and available coverage options.
Knapp Case Referred to Grand Jury in Albany
Albany New York February 1 Governor Al Smith ordered that evidence accumulated against Mrs Florence E S Knapp former secretary of state be presented to a grand jury The inquiry found grounds to indict her for forgery false audits and certifications illegal removal of state records and grand larceny creating a high profile legal action in the states first experience with a woman in a top office
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Albany
N. Y
U. P
New York State
al Smith
Florence E. S. Knapp
Smith
Thousands Honor British War Hero at Haig’s Lies in State
Thousands of people, from all social classes, filed past the flag draped bier of Field Marshal Earl Haig in St Columba's church London. Diplomats and officers mingled with mourners as guards changed every two hours. Haig’s burial shifts to Tuesday in Bemersyde Scotland after services at Westminster Abbey. Funeral rites then move to Edinburgh and St. Giles Cathedral.
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London
U. P
Earl Haig
France
St. Columbia’s
Army
Navy
St. Columbia‘’s
Bemersyde
Scotland
Westminster Abbey
St. Giles Cathedral
Edinburgh
Butler Banker Sentenced to Pen in Atlanta
Thomas M. Baker, vice president of Merchants National Bank at Butler, Pa, received a three year federal sentence for making false reports to the comptroller of currency. Baker pleaded guilty. J F Hotzler, bank cashier, named in the indictment but had not pleaded. stockholders reportedly lost about 200,000 while depositors were said to lose nothing. Baker was jailed since last May. Hotzler expected to go to trial in February term.
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Pittsburgh
Atlanta
Thomas M. Baker
Merchants National Bank
Butler
F. P. Schoonmaker
Baker
J. F. Hotzler
Mother's and Child Burned in Bleak Pittsburgh Fire
Katherine Kalkbrenner and her mother Louise Kalkbrenner of Leetsport were seriously burned when a child's clothing caught fire from an overheated stove. The mother extinguished the flames on her daughter’s clothing and both were hospitalized.
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Pittsburgh
Katherine Kalkbrenner
Louise Kalkbrenner
Ble Keesport
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