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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
2
Sanitary Officer W. F. Thompson urged city council to pass a 60 ordinance requiring all houses to be screened. He warned foreign settlements show worse conditions, with flies feasting on food and contaminating milk and babies. Thompson stressed immediate action as workers arrive weekly and outbreaks loom.
Village taxes collected by deputies reported by Treasurer Coldren with totals from Magnolia Waynesburg Beach City Navarre and Hartville. Receipts include Magnolia 6765.06 Waynesburg 845.73 Beach City 1617.87 Navarre 2286.82 and Hartville 924.95. Deputies now operate in Massillon.
Berlin dispatches describe secret naval actions on the Black Sea with the Goeben, now the Janus Selim, trading blows with Russians and surviving multiple battles. The report credits Admiral Bouchon and German officers for a daring escape from Messina and a single, storied naval feat. The censor blocks full details, promising more when allowed.
Reports said a complete embargo on all freight entering Cleveland could be declared due to congested yards and slow unloading. Canton shippers fear heavy losses, though railroad officials and a Chamber of Commerce chairman doubted such a general embargo would be declared and noted damage would depend on duration and extent.
Amusements column notes Euna May’s sole film appearance in Vita graph’s Salvation Joan at the Alhambra. Her retirement return aims for a perfect picture record, with salary donated to the Red Cross. The melodrama follows a Salvation Army girl amid conspirators seeking diplomatic papers. May’s screen presence shines.
Harry Sparklestone freed Wednesday after demanding warrants for the arrest of Dr Wallis Grose pastor of the First Methodist church. He was placed in the care of his wife and to be taken to Chicago where relatives reside.
The program features Vitagraph star Harry T. Morey in a lead role with Dorothy Kelly supporting, plus Rogers Tyton as the villain and Donald Hall with Royce Connell as young players. The lineup includes Miss Blossom in a four reel melodrama, a college tale of debt repayment, Charlie Chaplin in The Floorwalker, and Sessue Hayakawa with Tsuru Aoki in Alien Souls. Arthur Hoops appears at the Lyceum in The Danger Signal, a Rupert Hughes based photodrama about rising from poverty, along with additional acts at Meyers Lake and Valentine theaters.
A stenographer lured into the primrose path quits vice and marries in Her Naked Soul a three reel drama at the Odeon today. Also shown The So in Pirates and the Salty Tribune news pictures.
A tentative draft of a Democratic revenue plan would raise income tax by 100 million, tax inheritances for 50 million, and tax U S ammunition output for about 40 million. The proposals were laid before the House Ways and Means Committee with Hep Hall of Tennessee as the Democratic expert.
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