Newsreels and stage shows hype trans atlantic Lindbergh flight
Audiences totaling about 520 million worldwide viewed newsreels of Lindbergh transatlantic flight. Six American firms produced 318 distinct subject shots from over 42,000 feet of positive film and 471.6 feet of negative film. The Library Theatre screens Bister Keaton in The Cameraman, a New York set comic caper with enviable slapstick chaos. Marceline Day leads a strong cast in Stand and Deliver at the Columbia with Lupe Velez and Victor McLaglen delivering dramatic star power and thrilling melodrama.
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Charlies A. Lindbergh
Harold Goodwin
Sydney Bracy
Harry Gribbbon
Rod la Rocque
Columbia
Lupe Velez
Douglas Fairbanks
Victor McLaglen
la Rocane
London
Warner Olard
Ghika
la Roque
Girl Cocktail Champion at Biarritz Contest
A teenage girl won the best cocktail mixer title at a Biarritz event with more than 100 entries. Contestants mixed drinks behind a bar for original flavors as spectators voted on the merits. The winner received a miniature cocktail bar designed for installation in an automobile.
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Biarritz
France
Traffic cops for cyclists in Amsterdam rise to citywide plan
Amsterdam saddled with a bike boom as police are hired to regulate cyclists like motorists. Nearly every resident owns a wheel and commutes by bike, transforming weekday mornings into a coordinated urban surge.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Mae Murray Stars In Altars Of Desire In Columbia
Mae Murray appears Friday in Altars Of Desire at Columbia in her first starring role under a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract. The film portrays a modern American girl who is wild, beautiful and wealthy. Christy Cabanne directs with Conway Tearle as the lead male.
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Mae Murray
Altars of Desire
Columbia Theatre
Conway Tearle
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Jatswild
Miss Murray
Christy Ca~banne
Church Ends Convention Today in Washington
The Episcopal church general convention closes its 48th triennial session this afternoon after clearing up remaining business. The major task is the election of a missionary bishop to Nevada, expected to be Rev. Thomas Jenkins of Minnville Oregon. A late resolution protested immigration restrictions on Orientals and urged modifications to end discrimination for mission work and good will between the United States and Oriental nations.
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Washington
Episcopal Church General Convention
Nevada
Thomas Jenkins
Minnville
Ore
Murray
Maryland
United States
Denver
House of Bishops
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
the Missionary
Catholic Missionary Union
Christ
Alfred Emanuel Smith
Governor Smith
O’hern
Smith
Honor Given After 26 Years Professor Bickerson’s Emeritus Honor
After 26 years the pioneer of cosmic evolution theory, Professor A W Bickerson, once dismissed as unsound by New Zealand University, is named Professor Emeritus. The old scholar, now in London, receives a cable noting the reversal of the prior ruling and the emeritus title for his former college. Masquerade Dance Friday the 26th at Pleasant Grange Hall. 10-23-4¢
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A. W. Bickerson
New Zealand University
Bickerson
London
Pleasant Grange Hall
Senior Class To Present Play At Kinzua This Week
Kinzua Oct 24 The senior class will stage The Night Cry in the LO. O. F. hall on Thursday and Friday night this week with a cast including Mrs. Harris Winsted Partridge Helen Riley Joan Partridge Geraldine Flynn Virginia Dale Armonia Culbertson Ham Scroggy James Tutele Arthur Cailes Donald Marsh Count Salvori Bernhardt Kenneth Tunney Lonsdale Piggy Watkins Dexter Marsh Jane Hueber Vivian Mateson Cleopatra Hannibal Harold Irvine McCornick Clarence Moore Girls Friendly Society members met in Guild rooms Tuesday with Miss Gladys Jones in charge. Injured In Auto Wreck John O'Dell and J. Wyman Green were slightly injured when their car crashed into a fence en route to Kinzua from Hemlock. Green has a deep gash and cuts. O'Dell has minor bruises. Hayes Springer drove them to Hemlock after medical aid at Kirzua. Personals Miss Adeline Larson of Warren visited Miss Maude Murray. Miss Naomi Priset, student at Edinboro State Teachers College, stayed with her parents over the weekend. Harold Harris of Clarendon and Norman G. Lytle of Olean, N. Y., were weekend visitors in Kinzua.
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Kinzua
LO. O. F. Hall
Kinzus High School
Harris Winsted Partridge
Hermit Gables
Helen Riley
Joan Partridge
Geraldine Flynn
Virginia Dale
Joan
Armonia Culbertson
Ham Scroggy
James Tutele
Arthur Cailes
Donald Marsh
Salvori Bernhardt
Kenneth Tunney
Lonsdale
Watkins
Dexter Marsh
Janice Hueber
Vivian Mateson
Cleopatra
Carmen English
Hannibal
Harold Irvine
McCornick
Clarence Moore
Girls Friendly Society
Girls’ Friendly ‘Society
Gladys Jones
Hemlock
John O'Dell
J. Wyman Green
Mr. Green
Mr. O'Dell
Hayes Springer
Kirzua
Adeline Larson
Warren
Maude Murray
Naomi Priset
State Teachers College
Edinboro
H. F. Priset
Harold Harris
Clarendon
Kin Zua
Norman G. Lytle
Olean
N. Y
Receivership Final Account For Conewango Furniture Co
In Warren County Pennsylvania the final account of receivers W H Gehm and R Morrison of Conewango Furniture Co was filed October 13 1928 and was confirmed nisi. If no exceptions are filed before November 9 1928 the account will be confirmed absolutely and the receivers will apply for discharge.
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Court OF Common Pleas
Warren County
Pennsylvania
Conewango Furniture Company
W. H. Gehm
R. Morrison
Conenango Furniture Company
R- Z. Morrison
Conewange Furniture Company
Ford and Chevrolet race for market leadership in 1929
The article notes Ford plans to halt Fordson tractors to repurpose the plant and aims to produce 10,000 cars daily by early 1929 while Chevrolet sold over a million cars in 1928 and plans larger output next year. It contrasts American industrial growth with wage costs, irrigation, and farm prosperity, then covers Catholic and Protestant political tensions around Governor Smith's candidacy and anti-Catholic prejudice.
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Henry Ford
Fordson
Chevrolet
Not a Catholic Nation Says Jefferson Quote On Religion
A disjointed reflection cites Thomas Jefferson on religious freedom. The text contrasts his views with British social ideas. It questions the balance between government participation and religious tolerance, noting modern views on gender roles and work.
Absent minded pianist buys car and mispresses pedal
A distracted pianist purchased an automobile and after two instructional lessons felt confident enough to drive alone. He woke in hospital after believing he pressed the loud pedal with his right foot, a nurse confirming it was indeed pressed. In London, a Persian cat buried in pumpkins yields four kittens, while charitable cabaret performers at Lord Lonsdale’s golden wedding received diamonds for their service and men received sticks pins.
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M. Fitzgerald
London
Lord and Lady Lonsdale
Lord Lonsdale
One Curious Presidential Campaign of 1872
A digest of the 1872 election shows Abraham Lincoln’s successor party lines shifting as Grant and Greeley clash. Multiple minor parties formed, with Woodhull and Greeley featured. Grant is renominated, but Greeley campaigns fiercely and dies before electoral votes are counted. Final tallies grant 286 to hendricks 42. popular vote grants 3,597,076 to greeley 2,834,079.
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Reform Party
Columbus
David Davis
Lincoln
Lrst
Charles O’conor
New York
Prohibition Party
James Black
Pennsylvania
Equal Rights Party
Victoria C. Woodhull
Grant
Cincinnati
Turace Greeley
New York Tribune
Greeley
Hh Tee
Louisville
Philadelphia
Greegley
Thomas A. Hendricks
Ulysses S. Grant
Ilinois
Henry Wilson
Massachusetts
Indiana
Benjamin Grantz Brown
Missouri
Congress
Beauty vs Practicality Sparks Industrial City Debate
A lecturer on art in an industrial city urges men to add beauty to their surroundings. A citizen counters that town prosperity comes from practical toil. The lecturer replies by noting the man’s own pursuit of beauty in dyed whiskers, prompting a pointed exchange.
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Chough Yo
Pocket Mane Toy Patterned After Opel Car Rockets
A new German toy craze features small patterned rockets modeled after the Opel car and model airplanes. The devices reach high speed and resemble the parent car that recently traveled 156 ft before an explosion caused by the rockets.
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Germany
Neces
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Cannon
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Iwbrary
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Flaming Youth
Thomas Jefferson
Bishop Canyon
Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries
Jack Donelly
Peggy Pausin
Stetson & Cella
Laing Bros
Rory Theatre
Buster Keaton
Marceline Day
Keaton
Pathe News
Mack Sennett
Willl Rogers
Texas
Pavania
Pavania Blue
Mach
Hart Mach
Pavania OI CO
Dancing
Eatures
Mae
Man Murray
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