The Big City and Heart of a Follies Girl at Library and Columbia
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents The Big City with Lon Chaney and Mathew Betz in a crime drama mixing melodrama and gangster clashes at the Library. Columbia Theatre shows The Heart of a Follies Girl with Billie Dove, plus Thanks for the Buggy Ride at the Columbia, featuring Lee Moran in a supporting role.
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ETZ
Chaney
Big City
Tomorow
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Crook
Underworld
Lon Chaney
Thaney
Mathew Betz
Red
Betz
Betty Compson
Chuck
Colins
Moll
James Murry
Collins’ Wotege
Marceline Day
Columbia
Columbia Theatre
Billie Dove
John Francis Dillon
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Dove
Teddy
Follies
Lee Moran
Laura la Plante
Moran
Lyons and Moran
Universal
Lyons
Reginald Denny
Glenn Tryon
Richard Tucker
Jack Raymond
David Rollins
Kate Price
Trixie Friganza
Man fatally wounded by discharge of revolver
Shamokin Pa June 5 Adam Rancavage 15 lay dying in a hospital with bullet wounds in the abdomen after a revolver offered for repair by friend Joseph Scroggin 16 discharged accidentally. The report notes the weapon mishap and a stray line about an airplane and bridge from a Philadelphia Inquirer quip.
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Shamokin
U.P
Adam Rancavage
Rancavage
Joseph Scroggin
Police Station Fight Between Officers and Ponsoll
A detailed police station altercation is recounted between Patrolmen Utter Britton Ackerson and suspect Ponsoll. Ponsoll says he was attacked after back and forth insults, while Utter claims Ponsoll swung first, triggering a fight that Chief Haehn stopped. Ponsoll alleges mistreatment, with injuries treated by Burgess Chapman.
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New
Ponsol
Utter
Ponsoll
Hahn
Britton
Pons
Haehn
Havener
Pennsylvania Avenue
State Highway Patrol
Council
Chief Haehn
Ackerson
Ponsell
Burgess Chapman
Chapman
Police questioned after alleged attack at station
Ponsoll recounts being assaulted near a police station with bruised head and twisted arm while blaming officers for rough treatment. Witness Havener, later found, did not testify as council met. Frantz and Crary urge a police committee probe as father defends son and notes a $5 fine payment.
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Ponsoll
C. F. Havener
Elm Street
Havener
Frantz
Council
A. Crary
Chrysler Conquers Hall Street Hill in Portland Oregon
Detroit dispatch reports a Chrysler 72 sedan climbing Hall Street in Portland in high gear from bottom to top. Driver M J Zedrick reached 28 mph through a 14 percent grade then hairpin, finishing the steep 15.7 percent final rise with minimal momentum. Car averaged 20.4 mpg in a post climb economy test.
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Hall Street
Portland
Detroit
Oregon
The
Oregon Journal
Pike's Peak
Journal
M. J. Zedrick
Chrysler
Chase Garfield Motor Co
Chrysler Distributors
Wounded Bishop in Critical Condition After Shooting
In Charleston on June 5 Bishop William A. Guerry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, South, was shot during a dispute with an aged retiree and remained in critical condition. Rev. J. H. Woodsward, 66, died by his own hand in the bishop's office. his burial arrangements were to be made in Brunswick, Ga.
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Charleston
U. P
William A. Guerry
Protestant Episcopal Church
South
J. H. Woods Ward
Guerry
Brunswick
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Warren
Patay
Marion Davies
Ben Turpin
Pauline Caron
Philadelhia Inquirer
Comedy
Mont Corl
Lon
Pathe News
FBI
Bayer’s Furniture Store
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