Fewer and Better Pictures Warns Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford argues against quantity production in films stating that fewer but higher quality pictures are essential for growth. She notes stars like Lillian Gish Gloria Swanson Harold Lloyd and Chaplin limit to two or fewer films annually and warns that machine mass production harms storytelling and audience interest.
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Mary Pickford
State
Brcnday
Screen Entertainment
Miss Pickford
Lillian Gish
Gloria Swanson
Harold Lloyd
John Barrymore
Douglas
New Year Resolve Calls for Courage to Begin Anew
Leonard A Barrett urges readers to forget the past and embrace a fresh start in 1928. The essay compares memory to a phonograph cylinder and notes lessons from past mistakes, warning against repeating failures. A blueprint for life is urged, with New Year resolutions as a needed guide.
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Nature
New Year Lesson From Street Encounter
A street accident ends with a young man helping a paperboy who narrowly avoids harm. The boy, in ragged clothes and missing shoe, reflects on choices and temptations tied to movie joyrides and cigarette habits. The wealthy youth offers help, then pledges mutual reform.
A New Year's Story of Mud and Resolutions
In a prairie town, redoubtant real estate man Mr. Dale vows to avoid marriage this year after a night at the Old Timers ball. A chase with Amery Hodge ends when Adaline Hill’s broken car leads Dale to a new ally in love as she reveals her plan to trade the family car, and Dale changes his mind.
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RO Clipton Dale
Mr. Dale
Prairie
Clifton Dile
Adaline Hill
Cliff
Addie
Clit
Dad
Father
Main Street
Amery Hodge
Mr. Hedge
Dale
Amery
Adaline
Hill and Dale
Western Newspaper Union
Chinese New Year Now Recognized On January First
The text notes that China officially celebrates New Year’s Day on January 1, the same date as the Gregorian calendar adopted after the 1912 establishment of the republic, a calendar named after Pope Gregory and now widely used worldwide.
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Gregory
Iselin man arrested for larceny of sow and carcass
Phillip Jansen of Iselin was arrested by Motor Vehicles Officer Ben Parsons and arraigned before Recorder Vogel on larceny charges filed by Mary Fusko. Jansen allegedly killed a broad sow mothering a two week old litter, hid half the carcass under a tin cans pile, and tried to sell the animal. Fusko found half the carcass along Iselin Woodbridge road. Jansen confessed after denial. Judge Vogel had not disposed of the case at press time.
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Phillip Jansen
Iselin
Ben Parsons
Vogel
Mary F ¥Usko
Jansen
Parsons
Yusko
Iselin Woodbridge
Walsh
Christmas Dinner Guests Across Avenel Area
Avenel area residents hosted numerous Christmas dinners and visits with relatives in Perth Amboy Woodbridge Jersey City and New York. Teachers from Avenel School took third grade students to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Several residents spent holidays with family in Nutley Rahway and Harrisburg among others.
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EB. Grode
Park Avenue
J. Kraeh
Long Island
A. Rieman
J. Herman
Perth Amboy
N. Miltner
Woodbridge
Max Zimmer
Irvington
J. Brecka
Frank Prairie
J. Porter
W. Kennedy
Arlington
N. J
Wm. Kuzmiak
S. Binsco
F. Benson
J. Miller
Eleanor McAdams
Nutley
Jane
Ruth de Young
Manhattan Avenue
Sue MacKinnon
Edward MacKinnon
George Street
B. van Slyke
William Soper
Alla Brower
George Corey
Virginia McKee
Jersey City
Wm. Soper
Joseph Cove
Scotch Plains
Phylis Montgomery
A. Weber
New York
Fred Kayser
Fifth Avenue
Stephen Hayden
Ee Hayden
R. A. Lance
Walter Tschinkel
Anna Probst
L. Bauer
John Voorhees
Hopewell
William Hixson
Avenel Street
See America First on Your Trip Focuses on Scenery
Louisville Courier notes the piece See America First concentrates on scenery and travel visuals, with commentary suggesting the film largely centers on toothpaste and smoking tobacco as depicted during the trip.
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America
Louisville Courier
Autos and Youth Discussed in New York Medley
A humorous New York Medley quip questions whether autos ruin the younger generation, while a counterclaim jokes that the youth are harming the autos instead.
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New York
Fragmentary 19th Century Eskimo References and Names
Fragmentary OCR shows names such as Eskimo Nas Thosé and Thomas, with scattered phrases about Christmas trees, an amputation, and a hospital in Nashville. The readable bits suggest a cut of personal names and places but no coherent event.
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Jewett Brougham
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Nashvi
Matinee
Buster Keaton
George Steps
Charley Chase
Bruce Scenic
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