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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1917
Page
2
A chocolate brown velveteen suit with a natty hat features luxuriant sable pelts draped over shoulders and trailing to the skirt bottom. In front, the pelts form a wide fur collar encircling the throat, completing a dramatic vintage fashion tableau.
Amusement at Polis theatre on New Year’s Day features four performances of vaudeville and photoplay. Genevieve Cliff returns in A Breath of Old Virginia, plus The Lottery Man from Aida Johnson Young, Pathe’s Pictorial News, Cummings and Shelly skits, Van Bergen and Gosler piano numbers, Berlin Sisters, and Chuck Haas.
Plaza introduces a holiday program headlined by The Female of the Species a vampire triangle story featuring Dorothy Dalton Harold Hickman and Enid Markey in a full hour plus vaudeville numbers Larry Reilley Tee and Bennett and Oh how I live that girl deliver lively acts The Jupiter Trio and Ed Gray provide bold variety with a two part Keystone comedy closing the sumptuous entertainment for the season.
Empire presents Redeeming Love a Morosco Paramount feature today and tomorrow marking Kathryn Williams debut with Morosco and Thomas Holding first Paramount program appearance. Cast includes Herbert Standing Wyndham Standing Helen Eddy Jane Keckley Don Bailey. plot follows Naomi a country girl drawn to gambling then conflict with minister John Bancroft. Also notes Colonial ballroom dancing both afternoon and evening with Murray’s orchestra and Prof Quilty welcome.
In a neighborhood scene Maud Jonson and cousin Mabel challenge Skinny Martin after a kerbside track race from the telegraff pole to a lamp post. Skinny initially refuses but provokes a race with Mabel claiming she can jump farther than any boy as friends mock and tease about politeness.
The text explains the Senate as a continuing body with two senators from each state for six years and staggered elections. vacancies may be filled by state authority or temporary appointment, with no fixed number for a quorum and a definition of quorum as the persons constituting the body rather than a set headcount.
The piece outlines quorum flexibility for societies and legislatures, notes U.S. constitutional majority as a quorum, and explains Section 27 of the new army law effective November 1 1916. It sets seven year enlistment terms, three years active service, four in reserve, with reenlistment options after three years, plus furlough provisions and reserve eligibility rules. It also defines a bridgehead as a defensive position protecting a bridge or ford and cites penalties for insulting National Guard members.
The prompt states England declared war on Germany. It then details Bahamas possession during the American Revolution, including 1776 Hopkins’ raid on New Providence, 1778 Rathbournes’ 25-man capture, and 1783 confirming British ownership. It also notes Confederate officer salaries and wartime provisioning in Sweden.
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