Poll’s Theatre Delights Crowds With High-Quality Week Program
Report of Poll’s theatre yesterday featuring a strong lineup. William Caènilit in The Man from Ireland draws laughs while Josephine Saxton and the Dixie Kids present Pastimes of the South. Brooks Lorelle act, Bernard and Lloyd humor, Lamberti cello, and Surprise Night gifts keep patrons cheering. Amateur night promised tomorrow.
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Poll’s
William Caénilit
Ireland
Josephine Saxton
Dixie Kids
Fune
Brooks
Lorelle
Bernard & Lloyd
Ty Lamberti
Fungalore
Cash
Plaza Theatre Presents Chaplin Mabel Normand Bill
The Plaza Theatre features Char les Chaplin en core with Mabel Normand and favorite acts. Walsh and company perform Huckins Ran a city feller in love with a simple country girl. Dingle and Conner deliver a clever baseball skit and Tom Dingle showcases speed. Hess Sisters sing in bright frocks while Gallando offers a novelty act with fast clay faces. A western drama Love's Sacrifice and other pieces round out the bill. The advertisement also notes a cosmetic remover claim for facial Wart removal at a local drugstore.
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Charles Chaplin
Mabel
Mabél Normand
Dingle and
Conner
Tom Dingle
America
Hess Sisters
Karp
Mmake
Gallando
Girls Win Honors of B. H. S. 1914 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Miss Mary Emily Buckingham was chosen valedictorian and Miss Alice Louise Hutchinson salutatorian of the 1914 B. H. S. graduating class. Buckingham, daughter of Mr and Mrs A B Buckingham, held a 92.76 percent average, the highest in the school's history since entering in 1910 from Missouri India. Hutchinson, daughter of Charles H. Hutchinson, had an 82.25 percent average and is among the most popular students. she plans further study or missionary work, undecided about next year.
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Mary Emily Buckingham
Alicé
Louise Hutchinson
H. S. Simmonds
Simogds
Miss Buckingham
A. B. Buckingham
Harrell ‘Avenue
Musesouri
India
Alliance Missionary ‘Training School
Alliance
Hutchinson
Charles H. Hutchinson
James A. Bailey
Mapiswood
Buckingham
Paris Storm Triggers Caverns as City Loses Water and Power
Paris faces widespread devastation after a ferocious storm yesterday. Streets collapsed and holes opened in main roads as sewers and water mains burst, cutting water gas and electricity citywide. Dozens may be dead or missing as rescue teams search the debris amid heavy rains and restricted access to danger zones.
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Paris
Parite
Montmartre
Great Cemetery
Western Railways Cut Cost Without Dismissing Men
Barron Financial News reports Western railways trimming costs while preserving payrolls. The Missouri Kansas & Texas reduced staff from 17 913 to 21 930, with other lines keeping payrolls largely steady. May gross earnings declined about 10 percent across six western roads, while Boston & Maine plans sweeping retrenchment and service reductions. Erie Railroad also shows May earnings drop of over 10 percent year over year.
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Barron Financial News
St. Louis Southwestern
Western Railroad
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Waebash
New York
Chicago & St. Louis
Burlington
Boston & Maine
Erie. Railroad
B. & M. Economizes By Laying Off Men
Boston and Maine Railroad to cut workforce under retrenchment plan. Only 85 percent of current employees remain, with station clerical and yardmaster staff hit hardest. About 4,000 miles of trains daily will be eliminated to reduce costs.
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Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad
Suit Aims to Recover 50000 Acres From Southern Pacific
In Los Angeles on June 16 a federal suit will be filed by an assistant U.S. attorney against the Southern Pacific Company and leasing oil firms. The action seeks 50,000 acres in the Midway and Sunser districts and anticipates further suits to reclaim other mineral lands granted to the railroad. The land was chosen under the 1866 indemnity act, which allotted alternate sections near the railroad line with the condition they be non mineral.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Southern Pacific Company
Tootice
United Os
United States District Court
District of Southern California
Midway
Sunser
Government to Lend Money Upon Crops
Washington reports Secretary McAdoo is ready to lend government funds to Western and Southern banks for crop moving needs. Last year’s program moved 260,000 dollars in interest and covered 193 banks in 62 cities across 28 states. He could provide up to 200 million if farming banks requested it.
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Washington
McAdoo
Treasury Department
Treasury
Building Boom Spreads Across the Nation in May
May building permits reached 88 leading cities for 21 994 structures with an estimated cost of 71 118 570, up from 22 553 buildings and 68 783 890 dollars a year earlier. Larger cities show gains as smaller towns normalize after prior declines, except Chicago where brick strikes reduced activity by 22 percent from the prior May.
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Chicago
Railroad notes show safer New York Central lines in early 1914
Marcus A. Dow, general safety agent, reports that for the first four months of 1914 the New York Central lines recorded fewer accidents than the same period in 1912 and 1913 on the four principal roads of the Central system, with 117 fewer persons affected.
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New York Central
Marcus A. Dow
General Safety
Pension and rail traffic notes from early 1914 report
The report shows 1912 1913 fatalities and injuries declining, with 1914 pension rolls for Pennsylvania Railroad at about 10 million paid to 4,123 employes. 63 new names were added in May, a net rise of 306 since year end. Rio Grande sale to Brownsville financiers closed, with planned abandonment of the narrow gauge line. Missouri Pacific gains access to Texas & Pacific tracks, securing New Orleans entry and a planned big terminal financed by a bond issue.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Rio Grande
Texas
Brownsville
Missouri Pacific
Texas & Pacific
New Orleans
Militiamen Ship Baggage for Fort Wright Tour
A special train carries the Fourth Elev enth and Fourteenth companies along with the Hospital Corps and band of the Coast Artillery to Fort G H Wright Fishers Island for a ten day duty tour starting Thursday. Baggage details are led by Quartermaster Sergeants and privates from multiple companies. The armory buzzed with last minute packing as men prepare to travel by baggage cars and a lighter to Fort Wright. The local battalion assembles Thursday morning and the train departs Bridgeport at 7 20.
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Coast Artillery Corps
Bridgeport
New London
Fort G H. Wright
Fishers’ Island
Walter Oddy
Belinski
Morse
Munsoon
Dacey
Sheeshan
Greenwich
Norwalk
Danbury
Royal guard tightens as Ascot hosts king and queen
London reports unprecedented security for the royal party at Ascot with 1,000 police mobilized from Berkshire to shield King George and Queen Mary. Militant suffragists vow action, while arson fears lead to extra precautions including armed volunteers and guard dogs around the course.
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Berkshire
Kime -George
Queen Mary
Windsor Castle
August Belmont
Royal Enclosure
Walter Hines Page
Page
Nicholas Longworth
Philip J. Roosevelt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Edward M. House
Texas
England
City Police Board Awards Officers Reward for Escaped Inmate Capture
President George S Hill backs a reward of twenty dollars for Lieut. Charles H Luckley and Sergt. James Walker from Dr F D Rutland for capturing an escaped inmate at Westport Sanitarium The action places the funds in the Pension fund Commissioner Lou P Bristol opposed the move but the reward was approved An appointment to the regular force was received from Frederick H Murphy and several men were named as special policemen at local plant sites Keenan will keep his badge due to ongoing special duties Sergt John OConnell and Patrolman Callin receive credit for arresting Vito Fusco who killed Walter Sheehan Jr after a run over on Connecticut avenue
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George S Hill
Police Board
Charles H. Luckley
James Walker
F. D. Rutland
Westport Sanitarium
Lou P. Bristol
Hill
Frederick H. Murphy
Carlton Street
Joseph Amrhein
Stratford Avenue
Hoggson
William Barker
Bennett Street
Horatio L. French
Iranistan Avenue
John H. Keenan
Poli
Fairfield Avenue
Birmingham
Keenan
John O’connell
Callin
Vito Fusco
Walter Sheehan, Jr
Connecticut Avenue
Sheehan
Degrees conferred on 326 Smith graduates
Northampton Mass June 16 Ten Young women received the degree of master of arts and three hundred and twenty six that of bachelor of arts at the Smith college commencement today. The diplomas were presented by President Merion Leroy Burton. Rev Dr Charles EB Jefferson of New York the commencement orator had chosen for his topic Some Lovers of Poetry.
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Northampton
Mass
Sm#h college
Merion Leroy Burton
Charles EB. Jefferson
New York
Resinol Clears Pimples and Skin Ailments Ad
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