Poli’s anniversary week at Poli’s big vaudeville bill
Amusement at Poli’s theatre features Tiny May’s Circus with a baby elephant act, Van Brothers, Hill and Ecker, the Oklahoma Four, Vessie Farrell, and Charley Chaplin in The Rink. Peggy Hyland with Stuart Overton and Charles Kent star in The Enemy seven part drama. A Yuletide feature Three Christmases and Pathe News complete the program.
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Poli
Tiny May
Circus
van Brothers
Chinee Money
Hill and Ecker
Oklahoma Four
Vessie Farrell
Charley Chaplin
Peggy Hyland
Stuart Overton
Charles Kent
George Randolph Chester
Pathe
The Black Butterfly at Empire Theatre Tonight and Tomorrow
Mme Olga Petrova leads The Black Butterfly a Metro masterpiece showing at Empire with an all star supporting cast. The serial melodrama follows a village girl from peasant France to Red Cross nurse wartime duty with an elaborate stage production. Also screening first run Universal comedies and dramas.
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Russia
France
Paris
Europe
Metro
Mme
Olga Petrova
Empire Theatre
Red Cross
Mme. Petrova
Universal
Plaza Palace Show Buzz Promises Last Day Performances
Plaza patrons urged to attend today as three final showings of the big local attraction “Daddy's Birthday” roll out. The program features eleven local acts, poetry, song, and dance, plus films starring Douglas Fairbanks in Pie Matrimaniac and Charlie Chaplin in The Reform.
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Daddy
Douglas Fairbanks
Ketlg Chaplin
Joyce
Moseley & Marion
Johnny Singer
The
Dancing Dolls
Keenan
Happy Jack Gardner and Company
N.Y
Boston Wild
Barney Gerard
Geo. P. Murphy
Gertrude Hayes
Chester Nelson
Cadillac Eight Climb Mount Diablo in High Gear
A Cadillac Eight carrying four passengers and gear climbed Mount Diablo in California on high gear setting. Weighing 706 pounds in passengers, the car reportedly reached the summit with reserve power and no strain, a record for a multi passenger ascent.
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Cadillac
Mount Diablo
California
San Francisco
Mt. Diablo
Waterbury Smallpox Epidemic Prompts Mass Vaccination Drive
Hartford reports four new Waterbury smallpox cases, bringing Connecticut total to 104. State and city health leaders urge mass vaccination, citing risk of wider spread and a winter outbreak. Factory vaccination programs and free vaccines boost efforts as officials warn enforcement may be needed.
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Hartford
State Board of Health
Waterbury
John T. Black
State Board
Montreal
Edward K. Root
Dr. Root
T. J. Kilmartin
Scovill Manufacturing Company
New Haven
Black
Romanian Refugees Strain Russia as War Expands
Petrograd reports thousands of Rumanians flee German Bulgarian advances. They pour into Odessa Kiev and other southern cities in destitute condition. Russian refugee committees organize distribution colonization and work in boot making and clothing to relieve the flow and stabilize the interior.
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Petrograd
Russian Empire
Odessa
Kiev
Belgium
Nevada play and church events at Easton Grange
The Easton grange hall hosts the play Nevada this Thursday evening with the grange orchestra providing dancing music after. If stormy, the show moves to Friday. Also listed are local moves, a Baptist Christmas Eve concert, a Baptist minister’s resignation and relocation, and two Christmas events at the Colonial Ballroom with Murray's orchestra.
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Nevada
Easton Grange Hall
Centre
The
Grange
Charles Nelson
Keller Place
John Sherwood
Baptist Church
Lillian F. Andrews
Washington
Willard T. Gill
J. Arthur Shersold
Quilty
Colonial
Fairfield Avenue
Murray
Adv
Connecticut Reduces State Debt by Over Three Million
Comptroller Morris C. Webster reports for the year ending September 30, 1916 a net debt decline of 3 661 862 35 with 1915 debt at 11 920 002 54 and 1916 at 8 258 140 19. Receipts total 11 582 806 94, up from 9 612 099 88, while expenditures reach 8 443 065 10. The report lists major revenue sources including state tax 1 750 974 17 and inheritance tax 1 310 763 74. Civil list funds show a large treasury balance, and civil and highway expenses are itemized along with pauper aid and deportations under war conditions.
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Morris C. Webster
Marcus H. Holcomb
Connecticut
Treasury
Highway Department
Nh Ta
German Peace Plea Unheard by Frontline Soldiers
British and German fronts report that only one German noncommissioned officer heard of the Emperor’s peace proposal among prisoners. Officers question if peace overtures reached troops on the fighting lines while Allied airmen are praised for bold action and Von Hindenburg’s orders to contest air supremacy.
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France
London
Marshal von Hindenberg
Three shopping days left before Christmas at Dillon Co
Advertises E. H. Dillon and Co at 1105 Main Street offering complete assortments of gifts. Promises savings of at least one third off purchase price on furs, shirt waists, petti coats, Marabout feathers, stoles and muffs and guaranteed raincoats.
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E. H. Dillon & Co
Main Street
Adv
Military critic Mo rat leaves Tageblatt for rival paper
Amsterdam dispatch reports Major Moraht ceasing as military critic for the Tageblatt and joining another publication. Supposedly his departure stems from wartime disagreements with the Tageblatt. Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word
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Amsterdam
Deutsche, Tages Zeitung
Moraht
Tageblatt
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Association of Paris Theatre Managers
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George Perry
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William Toomey
George Spence
Matthew Lyman
David Heaphy
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