The Pagan and The Glad Rag Doll At Capitol Theatre
Ramon Novarro stars in The Pagan a tropical romance with a love story and song The Glad Rag Doll opens at Capitol Theatre with Miss Costello making her screen debut and Honey Moon Limited coming to Colonial Theatre with Broadway Four and lavish scenery The Birdsongs shooting incident ends with two bandits dead and Edwards dying after a decisive confrontation at a Kentucky Georgia filling station.
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Tropics
Ramon Novarro
Novarro
Capitol Theatre
South Seas
Navarro
Dorothy Janis
Lolores
Honey-Moon Limited
Colonial Theatre
Winchester
Comedy Four
Er Lee Birdsong
Kentucky
Gaither Edwards
Edwards
Three Die in Sanford Filling Station Gun Battle
Three men die in a gun battle at a Sanford filling station on August 14, two of the dead named as Ola Birdsong and his brother with another man seriously injured. The incident involved alleged bandits and occurred on the outskirts of the town.
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Sanford
N. C
Ola Birdsong
Sanity Test For A Life Termer
Baltimore August 14 A sanity test was given Carroll Harper a life termmer recently retired to the penitentiary to decide his future confinement place Warden Brady announced. The test will be given Friday when Dr George Preston commissioner of the state board of mental hygiene returns from an inspection trip in the east. Harper will be held in solitary confinement Harper was one of six men sentenced for killing Benjamin Williams a Portland street grocer but escaped from the state hospital of observation where he was placed for peculiar conduct and was recaptured at Buffalo.
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Baltimore
Carroll Harper
Brady
George Preston
State Board of
Buffalo
Firemen’s Association Holds Winchester Convention
The Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association held its twenty-eighth annual convention in Winchester Virginia with reports by officers and a key resolution of appreciation to local hosts. Officers for the year were elected including H Clay Manuel as president and C L Jacobs as secretary, with Martin Quinn named as a delegate to the Pennsylvania state convention.
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Martin Quinn
Martinsburg
W. Va
W. H. Richter
C. L. Jacobs
W. J. Roop
Middletown
F. M. Affleck
George S. Sumption
Winchester
Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Hanover
H. Clay Manuel
Charles Webb
Shippensburg
Gordon Dehart
J. W. Kastle
Waynesboro
Rev
C. F. Buubaugh
Myersville
Pennsylvania
H. H. McGinny
Washington, D. C
Washington
The Urgent Parking Predicament in Town
A humorous exchange contrasts a lucky driver who always finds a vacant parking spot with a less fortunate motorist who arrives to see many cars already backing into spaces. The dialogue highlights street navigating luck and timing in urban parking.
Alexandria district church school convention opens evening
The Alexandria District Conference Epworth League and Church School Extension Convention opens at 8 p m in the John Mann M E Church East Cork street with Rev J H Peters presiding Miss Pocahontas Jackson and C Green deliver welcome addresses Mayors F Amos Shryock and other city ministers to speak at the morning session and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to be administered at 11 a m The R J N King D D district superintendent will give the response
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Alexandria District Conference
Epworth League
John Mann
Winchester
F. T. McFaden
Presbyterian Church
R. J. N. King
D. D
Hundred Years of Methodism at White Hall Observed
The article reflects on White Hall Methodist history from 1854 class book records. It notes bishops list starting with Dr. Coke, circuit changes from Berkeley to Frederick and Bunker Hill, and a postwar revival. It mentions community impact and a split around 1866, with later reunification and ongoing work.
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Clearbrook
White Hall
Coke
Lewis R. Feehting
Jacob Brownwell
Jacob Samson
E. T. Bobray
Keesecker
Little Mountain
Social Notes From Local Guests and Travelers
Mrs F L Long and daughters and grandson visited en route to Washington DC. Miss Nancy Rossman returned home after visiting relatives in Pennsylvania. Miss Nettie Bayard of Rockingham Va stays with Mr and Mrs Frank Krebs on North Braddock Street. Miss Etta and Miss Erin DeLaney of South Brownsville Pa guests at Hotel Jack. Miss Alice McCarty returned to Washington after a weekend visit with Mrs Garland Hansl.
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F. L. Long
Sally Preffitt
Samuel Neikirk
J. W. Seal
Washington, D. C
Nancy Rossman
Pennsylvania
Nettie Bayard
Rockin County, Va
Frank Krebs
North Braddock Street
Etta DeLaney
Erin G. DeLaney
South Brownagill Pa
Hotel Jack
Alice McCarty
Washington
Garland Hansl
Mystery Deepens in Blackwater Dig and Veronica Seabroke
In Blackwater a tangle of factions grows around Roger Pell the suspected man from Newplace Abbey and Veronica Seabroke. Professor Laxton and Bertram Fotherbury push for answers as Pell’s plans unravel leaving Veronica at risk and a brewing scandal on the coast.
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Roger Pell
Blackwater
Newplace Abbey
Bertram Fotherbury
Arling
Grenofen
Pell
Veronica Seabroke
Laxton
Marling
Mareling
Bee Boyle
Somerfield
Veronica
Mrs. Fairfax
Kensington
Boyle
Fotherbury
Seabroke
Royle
Dr. Eastley
Mr. Marling
Woodcot
British Museum
Tavistock
Devon
Pell’s Inn
Miss Seabroke
Professor Laxton
Eastley
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Dirigible
Moscow
Associated Press
Friedrichshafen
Germany
the Pagan
The
San Francisco
Clay Manuel
Firemen
Roop
Charles F. Clark
Pittsburgh
Long Island Beauty
Charlotte Hance Fritz
Woodmere, L. I
Asbury Park N. J
Henry J. Brown
Mayor Shryock
Dr. McFaden
Social
Chapter
Soumerfield
Wm. Morrow
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