From Athens Weekly Newspaper,
dated 15 February, 1917
The Mayfield co., has purchased a 5-passenger Ford for the use of
its traveling men. This firm's business has had a continual
increase since locating here and they will be enabled to cover
the territory much quicker by the new addition.
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T.C.C. STUDENT DROPS DEAD
Tyler, Tex., Feb. 12--Joseph Johnson, a former student of Tyler
College, whose home is at Hutto, Texas, dropped dead this
afternoon at the Union Station just as he was preparing to take
the westbound Cotton Belt train for home.
He had purchased a ticket and had gone to the baggage room to
have his trunk checked when he was seized with a fainting spell
and fell to the floor dead. He asked one of his companions to
keep him from falling. He expired almost instantly.
Deceased was about 22 years of age and had been attending college
for sometime.
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MOTION PICTURE FILMS
(Hillsboro Evening Journal)
Miss Rose Tapley struck the keynote of the plan for better motion
picture films, in a talk Saturday afternoon before a Dallas
audience. Miss Tapley is a Vitagraph star, and her remarks are
worth repeating time after time until the full significance is
realized; the fact that the patrons and not the managers of
motion picture theatres are in the greatest degree responsible
for the class of films shown. Miss Tapley said in her discussion
of the motion picture show and the censorship of films, that the
large attendance upon what are known as "objectionable"
pictures is due to the fact that women awaken curiosity among
their neighbors by referring to the objectionableness, thus
assuring their visit to see for themselves.
"If you women would only say that this type of film, when
shown, was uninteresting and not worthy of witnessing, you would
make it necessary for the picture show managers, who must cater
to the public demand, to show higher class productions," she
said.
Box office receipts are the only index to what the public wants.
Large attendance upon undesirable pictures means increased
frequency of their showing. Miss Tapley spoke of the powerful
influence of the screen and suggested that ministers use it in
connection with their sermons to drive home the moral lessons.
The screen, she said, reaches millions who never come under the
influence of the church. Her main point was that it remains for
the public to create a demand for better pictures, which will be
supplied by the managers from the productions offered by
reputable companies that offer only the best quality pictures.
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