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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
6
During filming of A Woman Alone star Alice Brady failed to appear for three days. The studio asked questions and said she had gone away on a trip. On the fourth day she returned to the studio, unsmiling and sad.
Miss Brady trains for the role by staying in a lonely wayside station to grasp Nellie Waldron’s life. She delivers a memorable performance in Bought and Paid For with vaudeville and film showings at 7.30 and 9.25, admissions 10c and 15c.
Ernest Maupain, the versatile French actor, is cast for a strong, difficult part in Essanay's The Prince of Graustark. He plays an American businessman who chases desires with money, delivering tears of laughter. See this Empire offering tomorrow with a clever vaudeville act. Adm. 10 and 15c.
Mary Elizabeth Padgett of East Palestine Ohio leaves 33 acres in Frederick county Virginia to her son David O. Padgett for life. After his death the property passes to son Thomas Padgett and grandson Floyd Padgett in equal shares in fee simple. Will dated June 30 1916.
Governor Stuart appointed a Virginia industrial council of representative men and women to coordinate war emergency efforts. The group will work with the Virginia agricultural council of safety to organize labor distribution and boost production for the German war effort.
Mrs. Bettie K. Anderson's 1914 will admitted in Frederick County Circuit Court leaves nearly her entire estate to Jerry Dunlop and his wife Ida E. Dunlop and to their daughter Miss Lillian Irene Dunlop. Real estate goes to the Dunlops outright. Jerry Dunlop named guardian for his daughter. No appraisement yet filed. executor to provide inventory and bond.
Virginia selects Lakemont Park in Petersburg for a mobilization camp to train thousands of men. Major General Leonard Wood approves the site amid offers from Richmond Roanoke and Lynchburg with land for maneuvers and a 30 000 man camp capacity. The camp may serve both Virginia and Maryland and function as a regional depot for the East.
A Boston man in Vermont attends dinner with a friend pursuing politics. At the door a woman remarks to the housemaid about her guest, asking for two large potatoes to be replaced with three small ones, hinting at social chatter.
A farmer named Old Palmer was cheated in a field deal over a mare. He admitted deceit and exposed the ruse saying the mare has two faults. The mare is hard to catch and is not worth catching after grazing.
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