Love and Learn at Columbia theatre today and tomorrow
A glamorous blonde star Esther Ralston drives danger in Love and Learn at Columbia Theatre. The film features a kidnapped judge, police station chaos, courtroom gunplay, jail escape, and a plot to ruin the judge, all framed by a family-saving motive. Lane Chandler, Hedda Hopper, Claude King, and Helen Lynch co star. Director Frank Tuttle. The piece also recounts how Hollywood moved into film with Lasky and DeMille before flags staff and a Hollywood barn.
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Esther Ralston
Paramount
Columbia
Lane Chandler
Hedda Hopper
Claude King
Helen Lynch
Frank Tuttle
Hollywood
Arizona
Jesse L. Lasky
McCall's
Cecil B. de Mille
de Mille
Flagstaff
Mr. Lasky
C. B. de Mille
Cecil
and DeMille
California
Barnyard Miracle Tale of a Blooming Old Hen
Little Alice visits a peacock farm and reports a chicken in full bloom. Her mother chats nearby as the unexpected sight becomes the yard’s talking point, a curious rural moment captured in simple prose.
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Alice
Hats as clue to cowboy settings in Rex Bell films
A film note explains how hat styles and ornaments reveal a cowboys’ provenance in Rex Bell productions. It mentions Wild West Romance The Cowboy Kid and The Cyclone Lover set in Arizona and notes Bell will vary sombrero styles for other locales. It highlights hats supplied by property men to fit story settings.
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Rex Bell
Arizona
Bell
Pennsylvania approves abandonment of three branch lines
Harrisburg July 12. The Public Service Commission granted the Pennsylvania Railroad permission to abandon passenger service on three branch lines due to sharply falling revenues from motor bus and auto competition. Hempfield Youghiogheny and Yukon branches in Westmoreland County will stop passenger trains, with service remaining only on the Greensburg to Gratz Town segment for Youghiogheny and Greensburg area for the others.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Public Service Commission
Hempfield
Youghiogheny
Yukon
Westmoreland County
Greensburg
Andrews Run
Hilltown
Gratztown
Yukon Branch
Hunter Branch
Death of Capt Alfred Loewenstein Stuns Global Markets
The death of Capt Alfred Loewenstein, a famed European financier known as a mystery man, sparked wild stock market reactions worldwide. He allegedly fell from a Fokker plane over the English Channel after stepping through its door, plunging 4,000 feet to the sea. Some claim the so called accident may have been a deliberate act.
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Alfred Loewenstein
Fokker
English Channel
Five Injured When Car Hits Pole in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on July 12, Mrs. Augustine Ezoli 20 of Monessen suffered head and face lacerations when a car she rode in crashed into a telephone pole near the Liberty bridge. She was taken to Mercy hospital. The driver James Ezelt 18 and others Harry Ezelt 23 Anna Havaidh 35 and Sophia Skarp 32 were shaken but not seriously hurt. The car veered into the pole after a front wheel came off.
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Pittsburgh
U. P
Augustine Ezoli
Monessen
Liberty Bridge
Mercy Hospital
James Ezelt
Harry Ezelt
Anna Havaidh
Sophia Skarp
Five Executed in Donets Mine Conspiracy Case
Five Russian engineers Gorlevisky Krayzanovsky Yusevitch Budny and Bojarinoff were executed by firing squad at dawn in the Donets basin conspiracy case. The leaders sparked a wave of arrests affecting international relations. eleven were sentenced to death, six commuted to ten years, others to one to ten years.
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Moskow
U. P
Donets Basin
Gorlevisky
Krayzanovsky
Yusevitch
Budny
Bojarinoff
Getandti
Rebels suffer heavy losses in Mexican clashes
Mexico City July 12. Fourteen rebels were killed and 19 wounded in an attack on the town of Anhuijillo, repelled by residents who reported three defenders killed and one wounded. Two rebels were killed and several wounded in two other engagements.
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Mexico City
U P
Anhuijillo
Guadalajara
Excelsior
New York Central Receives Authority to Issue 42 Million Stock
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the New York Central Railroad to issue 42,158,300 dollars of capital stock totaling 421,583 shares of 100 par value. The stock will be sold to stockholders at par or above and proceeds will be used to pay maturing bonds.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Central Railroad
New York Central
Fodays Cross-Word Puzzle and Historical Clues
A mixed two part puzzle extract shows horizontal and vertical clue strings from a 1928 crossword, listing numerous numbered clues for words and partial answers. The fragment includes obscure terms, language quirks, and references to a syndicate era solution line, with notes on entries like musical instruments, plants, ships, and trees, alongside notes about solution phrases and indexing.
New York’s best and worst people and distant wars in one page
Excerpt reflects satirical views of New York elites tossed for vanity, a German zeppelin named with liquid oxygen, and a Beethoven chorus. It notes 20 000 Chinese dead in Nankow Pass and 3 000 dignitaries reading a letter. Pullman porters seek $150 monthly raises ending tips. Alfred Loewenstein mystery deepens. police report a parachute sighting and a possible death by jumping. Russia fears Japan’s Manchuria aim. US stance favors Asian expansion for growth.
Americans in Paris face easy divorces and legal loopholes
The article notes that many wealthy Americans facing divorce in Paris discovered how easily divorce could be granted in France, with a judge and officials accused amid 142 American divorcés. Many remarried, risking future complications. A publisher printed a ballad from a young woman titled I Wonder if He'll Miss Me, and received a sharp reply about firearms trust.
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Paris
Wales
France
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Vaudeville
Hat
Cowboy
Pennsy
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Glee Club
First Evangelical Church
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Placid
Esteem
Otherwise
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LIZN
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Tioin' Zone
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Beethoven
Nankow
London
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Russia
Japan
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Ralston
Ani Feanty
Frank “Tuttle
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Michigan
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