The Cavell Case at Empire Theatre Tonight
Select Pictures presents The Cavell Case the true story of Edith Cavell a Red Cross nurse who sacrificed her life to save English prisoners as seen in Belgium. The film, based on Brand Whitlock’s documents, stars Anthony Paul Kelly directed by John G Adolfi with a two part western The Little Widow and a Sennett comedy.
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Cavell
Select Pictures
Empire Theatre
Edith
Red Cross
Belgium
Plunkett and Carroll
Anthony Paul Kelly
John G. Adolfi
Brand Whitlock
Warren Kerrigan
Pathe News
Sennett
Little Widow
Myrtle Lind
Ford Sterling
Billy Armstrong
Empire Next Week Showtimes Highlight Star Pictures
A weekly lineup at the Empire features Wallace Reid in The Man From Funeral Range on Monday, Cecil B. DeMille’s Don't Change Your Husbands on Tuesday, Mary Pickford in Capt Kidd Jr on Wednesday, Getting Mary Married on Thursday, A Trick of Fate on Friday with Bessie Barriscale, and What Every Woman Wants starring Grace Darmond on Saturday.
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the Empire
Wallace Reid
Cecil B. DeMille
Mary Pickford
Artcraft
Capt. Kidd, Jr
Rita Johnson Young
Edith Taliafero
Mary
Marion Davies
Select Pictures Corporation
Constance Talmadge
Bessie Barriscale
Tuneful Songs From Home Front Club Music
The piece presents songs praising home front club activities. It mentions girls taken from houses to join the club, training in records, work, and self-denial, and songs urging perseverance, canning for hungry people, and wartime patriotism. Evelyn Drummond, 11, of Winchester, wrote a popular tune praising workers in Virginia and the Frederick canner.
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Evelyn Drummond
Winchester
Old
Virginia
Frederick
Weaver Family Visit Spreads Across States
Mr and Mrs A K Weaver and their children of Richmond Virginia visit Mrs Weaver's mother Mrs I H Faulkner at her North Kent Street home. Mr and Mrs John B Hoffman of Wilmington Delaware visit the mother in law Mrs Lee Nulton on West Piccadilly Street.
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A. K. Weaver
Richmond, Va
John B. Hoffman
Wilmington
Del
Lee Nulton
West Piccadilly Street
Henry Brothers Appeal In Court Of Appeals
Henry Bros appeal their Corporation Court case after bond was given in Winchester. W L Fultz, real estate dealer, sued for commission from the sale of the Henry Brothers farm and was awarded $500 by a local jury. The appeal moves to the state Court of Appeals.
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Messrs
J. Henkel Henry
Emmett. L. Henry
Corporation Court of
Winchester
W. L. Fultz
Court of Appeals
Corporation Court
Mr. Fultz
Henry Brothers
Appreciation for Condolences From A. S. Anderson
A. S. Anderson of Yellow Springs West Virginia expresses gratitude for letters of condolence after the death of his wife described as a dear companion and mother. He recalls peaceful married years and the enduring memory that cannot be filled.
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the Star
A. S. Anderson
Yellow Springs
W. Va
Illustrious Family Leaves Public Service Footprint Across Generations
A New England lineage traced to 1634 shows 43 percent of the male line holding public office. Among seven sons, five served in town offices, while many female descendants became teachers according to Merton T. Goodrich in the Journal of Heredity.
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New England
England
Merton T. Goodrich
Journal of Heredity
Indiana paper recalls a woman’s tearful trapeze act
A quotation from the Boston Transcript notes a woman crying on stage while a trapeze performer wipes tears away, reflecting on dramatic spectacle in an Indiana newspaper item.
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Indiana
Boston Transcript
To Clean Marble
To clean discolored marble wash with soap and water then wipe dry. Apply a paste of bath brick and lemon juice to the discolored parts and rinse with clean cold water.
When a Swimmer Fails in a Woman's Tears
A reflective line from the Florida Times-Union notes that many men, boasting of swimming prowess, would flounder helplessly in the sea of a woman's tears, underscoring emotional vulnerability.
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Florida Times-Union
Daily Thought Quote by William Lloyd Garrison
Quote from William Lloyd Garrison emphasizes truth and uncompromising justice in daily reflection. It presents a stern call to moral restraint and principled action.
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Daily Thought
William Doyd Garrison
The Better Course Asks for Fight for the Good
A brief quotation attributed to Tennyson contrasts fighting for good with yielding to ill. The line emphasizes courage and moral struggle in a concise literary note.
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Tennyson
Desert plant guarequi stores scarce desert rain
In Sonora Mexico the guarequi plant guards its water with a swollen woody stem base that becomes a large squash sized reservoir. It lives where nearly all rain falls in six weeks and provides moisture during droughts.
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Sonora
Mexico
Wasted Patience at the Telegraph Office
A green Scottish boy with telephoning duties nods to each call but on the fifth inquiry he yells through the transmitter that his head has been nodding all afternoon. The Boston Transcript notes the humorous moment of impatience.
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Boston Transcript
Heart Is Busy Organ
The passage explains how a human heart continuously fuels the body with blood. It notes the heart beats with each breath and pumps blood faster during activity. It mentions circulating blood weighing about 29 pounds and the legs demanding more blood during running.
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S. H. Hable
Total
Shenandoah Valley
East Piccadilly Street
Bath
Fred L. Glaize
the Commercial & Savings Bank
the Friendly Bank
Bell
Woodward's
S. Main St
Mike Willie
Willie
Hall
Empire
Grace Darmond
Julia Arthur
Edith Cavell
Bruce
Prolactin
Wallace Reld
the Man
Wallace Reed
Lawyer
Bray
Henry Bros
Florida
the Farmers & Merchants National Bank
Just
Gray & Sheetz
Men’s
R. R
Valle
Bruce Capper
Jones’ Creamery
W. M. Fletcher
Chamberlain
Ward Hassette
Frankfort
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