Empire Tonight Features Exotic Harp Scene and Tropical Vistas
A Boston millionaire’s harp plays a central part in a film set on Santa Cruz Island with Nas a semi savage maiden. The production includes a dramatic steamer explosion and lush tropical plates. Margarita Sischer stars as Nai with John Singleton and others. See display ad for Playhouse Beautiful tonight.
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Empire Tonight
Boston
Santa Cruz Island
Pacific
Nas
Margarita Sischer
Nai
John Singléton
Playhouse
Personalities on a Shenandoah Valley stopover in town
A stream of visitors and locals frequent hotels in town. Notables include Mr. John B. Mahool of Baltimore and Mr. W. M. Seal heading to Hampshire County, a Virginia State Highway engineer, and families from Dayton Ohio to Lynchburg Virginia.
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Lynchburg
John B. Mahool
Baltimore
William F. Cocke
Richmond
Virginia State Highway Commission
Hotel
Evans
Miss Carson Joins Motoring Trip to Maine and North
Miss Anne J. Carson assistant superintendent Memorial Hospital departed Wednesday with friends for a several weeks motor tour to Maine and other northern states.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Internal Remedy
A historical advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment for catarrh, claiming it cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It mentions a Toledo Ohio company, F J Cheney & Co, and claims physicians prescribed it as a regular prescription with testimonials available. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F.J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
Forks and doctors in a Kansas City Star odd tale
J Fuller Gloom recalls a humorous exchange about surgery and cutlery. He contrasts old Doc Bitters seven miles away with young Doctor Prissy who wears a civil engineer whisker and insists on being called Doctor. The narrator admits preferring silence over inquiry.
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J. Fuller Gloom
Doc Bitters
Prissy
Young
Kansas City Star
Short Sight of the Snake Myth
A brief note surveys a popular belief that snakes are so short sighted they can only see a quarter of their length. It discusses the notion as a curious ancient idea about serpent vision.
Tara and Tara’s Hill in Ireland Through Time
The article recalls Tara as a site linked to Irish memory and O Connell while noting digs for the Ark of the Covenant halted by protests. It mentions Tara’s ties to English nobility through the Bedford and Russell line and the title’s dignity.
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Tara
Ireland
O’connell
Moore
Duke of Bedford
John Russell
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Airdome
Oani Hawley
Louise Huff
Earl Stcalfe
Edgar Jones
Dwellers In
Glass
Stee
Franklin Ritchie
Louise Vale
Jack Drumer
George Ade
America
Order of Owls
Paramount Pictures
Jesse L. Lasky
Edmund Breese
Shenandoah Valley
Nat'l. Bank
Winchester
Mason’s
THE
People’s Bargain Store
N. Main Street
Mammoth
GEO
Kurtz
Margarita
Fischer
Harry Rollard
J. E. Wood, Jr
Mahool
Marguerite Dill
Frederick, MI
George Jolliffe
West Cecil Street
Charles L. Bowly
Washington
J. F. Davies
W. M. Seal
Hooks Mill
Hampshire
County
W. Va
Messrs. S. O. Hall, E. M. Hendrix
C.H. Watson
Lenon City, Tenn
G. R. Hardenburgh
Cannas, Conn
Hotel Evans
Elizabeth R. Greenwood
Dayton, Ohio
H. G. Spencer
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Richard Beardsworth
Elizabeth Beardsworth
Indian Rock, Va
Agnes Tapscott
Berryville, Va
E. M. Beery
New York
Jack
Clarence T. Owen
Norfolk, Va
Mr. Owen
Charles Harris
D. H. Bragonier
Zanesville
Ohio
L A. Henry
May Greenwalt
Front Royal
Henry Page
Charlestown
Town
Elva Myers
Fayettsville, Ia
Cumberland Valley Normal School
Shippensburg
Joseph G. Leiter
James W. Leiter
Mary C. Leiter
Williamsport
Hotel Jack
H. A. Wilson
J. C. Eastham
Atlantic City
Harry B. Krebs
Mercersburg
H. Clay Krebs
North Market Street
J. (. Pfeiffer
Daugh
Ter
R. H. Giles
Lynchburg, Va
Will
William B. Davis
Nowata, Okla
Margarita Fischer
Harr Solee Fo
Leton
Yyn Adair
Wi, Carroll
Nan Christy
Saturday Evening Post
Winnifred Greenwood
Fd. Coxen
Mable
Keystone
Keith Wodvil
Billy
Bessie Truehart
Wire
Bayonne, N. J
Standard Oil Company
Miller’s Drug Store
Chamberlain
Edward Craft
Elba
Hill of
Norfolk
Old Point
Virginia
S. H. Hable
Main
Water Streets
Palm Beach
Atletic Union
Gray & Sheetz
Farmers & Merchants Nat
Martha Washington
Green
North Main St
Woodward’s
South Main St
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Jones’ Creamery
W. M. Fletcher
Thos. P. Graybeal
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