Telling the World at Library and Painted Post at Library
The Library theater features Telling the World a MGM romance about a newspaper man in interior China who sends a world thrilling scoop Sam Wood directs Anita Page stars Also showing Painted Post Fox Films with Tom Mix in a Western caper about a stranded troupe and thieves Natalie Kingston co stars Gene Forde directs Two acts of vaudeville round out today’s program.
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William Haines
Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer
China
Sam Wood
Anita Page
Eileen Percy
Bert Roach
Frank Cartier
William V. Mong
Mix
Library
Painted Post
Fox Films
Tom Mix
Library Theater
Tom Blake
Ben Tuttle
Natalie Kingston
Wampus
Pluto McCullough
al St. John
Fred Gamble
Gene Forde
Stores to Resume Winter Schedule in Local Trade
Men’s clothing and shoe stores will adopt a winter closing schedule beginning Monday with 5 30 PM hours as the fall and winter trading season starts. The decision followed a conference among readers of the men’s clothing and shoe business here and comes on the last day of the summer schedule when stores closed at 5 PM.
Breakdown Throws 700 Miners Out Work
Ashland Sept 15 The first breakdown in twenty five years of the hoisting engine on the Primrose slope of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company halted operations at Potts colliery. The stoppage left 700 miners idle for a week while extension repairs are completed. The incident underscores the era of heavy industry and mining disruption in the region.
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Ashland
Sept
U P
Primrose
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Potts
Subway Comedy at Columbia Today in Fast Express Style
Comedy roars along as a trio of leading comedians passengers in Pay As You Enter from Warner Brothers. Louise Fazenda Clyde Cook and William Demarest star with Myrna Loy in a rivals-for-the-girl plot set around a street car and a lunch counter. Fred Stanley adapts a Gregory Rogers story directed by Lloyd Bacon.
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Columbia Today
Warner Brothers
Columbia
Louise Fazenda
Clyde Cook
William. Demarest
Myrna Loy
Fred Stanley
Gregory Rogers
Lloyd Bacon
He Means What He Says Scarce Tennessee Door Scarcity
A tourist in the Tennessee hills questions a cabin door with four holes. The mountaineer explains the holes are for food cats. When asked why not a single large opening, he retorts that when he says SCAT he means SCAT.
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Tennessee Hills
Man in Underwear Dodges Police After Window Jump
A Ranger Texas man fled a door knocking by officers only in his underclothes leaping from a window. He dodged through thorns and was peppered with birdshot before learning officers sought someone else. Cautious buyers are urged to scrutinize classified ads.
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Ranger
Tex
Hatred Motive Seen in Murder of 6 Year Old Boy
New York police traced a motive of hatred in the murder of six year old Salvatore Santamarco. Luigi Panariello, brother in law and co conspirator, is held on bond after leading investigators to the Coney Island area where the body was found in a burlap bag. He admitted planning the kidnapping with Pasquale Borello Jerry Perino and John Marcese but denied knowledge of the killing. All three men are jailed on fifty thousand dollar bail.
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New York
U. P
Salvatore Santamarco
Luigi Panariello
Coney Island
Luigi
Fanny
Pasquale Borello
Jerry Perino
John Marcesa
Borella
Woman mortally wounds herself on butcher knife fall
In Hanover, Mrs. Richard Rohrbaugh, while carrying a butcher knife, slipped on cellar stairs and fell, the blade fatally cutting her throat. She ran upstairs to tell her 8 year old son to seek help, then collapsed on the porch.
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Hanover
U. P
Richard Rohrbaugh
Near Here
Roerbaugh
Miner killed in coal mine rock fall at Jeddo
In Hazelton on September 8 a rock fall at Jeddo Highland Coal Companys number 12 colliery killed Samuel Skroupa aged 32 and injured his coworker John McGuire with injuries to body face and knee. A separate fall at Lehigh Valleys Drifton workings injured John Ambrosio aged 53 with a broken back and broken leg, his condition critical at the state hospital.
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Hazelton
U. P
Samuel Skroupa
Jeddo Highland Coal Company
John McGuire
Freeland
Drifton
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
John , Ambrosio
Our Mary and the lamy lam in a playful rhyme
A humorous spoof poem about Mary in a lemony tale of a lamb and a mischievous pup. It mocks nursery lines and ends with a sly quip about creation and a humorous request to the editor.
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Mary
Four million shares sell amid calls for restraint in markets
Prohibition argument, Ursus Horribus demise noted as four million shares trade despite high call money. federal reserves back usury while a sly remark on Wall Street bears and United States values. Dante's grave in Naples opened theft noted. Voltaire and Darwin referenced. Glasgow scientists, Darwin down House memorial, and Gene Tunney visiting the Louvre are mentioned in a broad mosaic of ideas.
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Ursus Horribus
Wall Street
United States
Federal
Louvre Reverie and Air Race Reverberate in Headlines
The piece remarks on art in the Louvre and the thrill of life with Tunney noting the palace's origin as The Louvre from Lowvrier. It highlights Earl Rowland leading 36 transcontinental racers in a 110 horsepower Cessna, and recalls early railroad timetables. Rev Dr Stratton in Atlanta denounces Tammany Hall amid arson fears, while Robert La Follette looms in Wisconsin politics amid his father’s legacy and his own Senate bid.
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Rubens
Tunney
Louvre
Lowvrier
Seine
Paris
Earl Rowland
Wichita
Kas
Atlantic
Pacific
Dr. Stratton
Atlanta
Tammany Hall
Robert la Follette
Cromwell
Wisconsin
Senate
Women Drinking More in Des Moines Police Report 1928
Police records show a 20 percent rise in drunkenness among women in Des Moines during the first seven months of 1928. Most arrestees were over the so called Rapper age as authorities note escalating concerns.
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Des Moines
Engine Crew Exonerated in Kujawa Death Verdict
Inquest into Mike Kujawa death at Deerlick crossing fails to reveal why he walked into a freight train in daylight. The coroner's jury exonerates engine crew C A Gardner and Joseph Holger of Pennsylvania freightNo. 4595, finding the accident avoidable yet that crew acted to avert it. Other witnesses testified in Sheffield Pennsylvania. A separate report notes Martin Rizzo's arrest in St Louis on a wife’s complaint amid pistol seizure details.
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Mike Kenjawa
Sheffield
Justice of the Peace
Pratt
Kujawa
Deerlick Crossing
Pennsylvania
C. A. Gardner
East 28Th Street
Joseph Holger
Pennsylvania Avenue
H. B. Russell
S. W. Okerberg
Mary Miln Ler
Radiker Street
D. W. Ritchie
Horton Street
C. A. Cameron
Church Street
James Hayes
H. L. Ford
Harry F. Mickel
N. B. Russell
Leo Pinsler
E. L. Hinkley
ST. Louis
Martin Rizzo
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Warren
Bill Mai
Kinston
N. C
Martin King
King
Mom
Pop
Louise
Fazenda
Prof. Somer’s
Esther Ralston
Gary Cooper
Ralston
Leo
Metro-Goldwyn Lion
HE Means
HE Says
Lad
Burlap Bay
Wm. Haines
Sara
Our
Celeron
Mary Dear
Lamy Lam
Mr. Sloan
Prohibition
Corriere di Napoli
Dante
Ravennsi
Voltaire
Glasgow
British Association
Kent
Darwin
Gene Tunney
Jack Duffy
Brokenstraw Valley
Youngsville
Exmoor
Fashion Park
Bernard Guinan
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