Krieg and Blaetler Win Their Bouts
The March Athletic Club boxing show at the Armory featured Karl Krieg and Blaetler winning their matches. Early rounds saw Philips and Meade contest briskly. Blaetler overcame a painful hand injury to dominate later rounds. Krieg then outboxed Daly of St. Louis with punishing blows, earning crowd praise for referee Walter Moulihan’s officiating.
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Athletic Club
Armory Hall
Philips
Auburndaie
Young O'Brien
Arthur Truesdell
Grand Rapids
Phillis
Auburndale
Charley Martin
Owen
Young Meade
Chippewa Falls
Bladder
Dash
Bladdler
Blaedler
Krieg
Daly
Kkeieg
Walter Moulihan
Milwaukee
Duffy
Naval Academy graduates advance class diplomas to meet shortage
Annapolis Md March 30 One hundred and ninety new officers became available today to fill naval personnel gaps. The first class of graduates at the United States Naval Academy had its graduation moved up from June to March to suit the occasion. The second class, normally to graduate in June 1918, will receive diplomas next September due to the same need.
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Annapolis
Ninty Tage
United States Naval Academy
Constipation Harms Bowels and Digestion, Notices Tablets
The text explains constipation as a blockage of the bowels the body's natural sewer system and describes how toxic matter can be absorbed causing dullness and poor digestion. It notes Cham berlains Tablets as a remedy and claims availability everywhere.
Wooden Ships Could Be Cheaper, Says Shipping Board Leader
Washington, April 2. The federal shipping board discussions push for rapid wooden ship production to counter wartime submarine threats. Estimates show wooden ships can cost 74 to 100 dollars per capacity ton versus 200 for steel. Canada already contracts for 200 million and U.S. capacity is large with Pacific coast yards building vessels. aims include standardized designs, mass production, and swift completion.
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Washington, D.C
Lumber Industry of
America
Games
Anderson
Federal Shipping Board
R. H. Downs
White
New Orleans
jSeubert
National Lumber Manufacturers
Downman
Shipping Board
Iet
Canada
United States
Mainn
Paciffic Coast
Gulf Coast
Greavi Lakes
Mechler
J. Vedder
Dicko
Barnard
Leitner
Zeimer
Connor
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Stehling 2
Claim Women More Patriotic Than Men
New York March 31 women show strong patriotism as enlistment requests surge. Captain Frank Evans notes two women apply for every man to the United States Maine Corps, with one assigned to duty aboard a battleship. A secretary’s ruling allows women to fill clerical roles, fueling bids from patriotic daughters preferring machine guns to typewriters and seeking combat service.
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New York
United States
Maine Corps
Frank E
Reciuitig
Evans
Joyride fall prompts streetwise question to officer
A youth on a Ford joyride falls on the pavement and, waking, asks a passing policeman why he did not help him. The officer retorts that he has better things to do than pick up fallen nuts from cars. Fall plowing advice follows, urging thorough disking and frequent harrowing to prepare a seed bed for alfalfa.
United States finalizes purchase of Danish West Indies
Washington completes a 50 year effort to bring the Danish West Indies under the American flag. A treasury warrant for 25 million dollars transfers ownership as the Danish flag is lowered and the stars and stripes raised. The Virgin Islands designation is adopted.
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Washington
Minis
Cain
Virgin Islands
United States
Islands
Import of beans cake and oil in 1914
In 1914 the United States imported more than 3,837,000 pounds of soy beans valued at about 87,000 pounds, nearly 6,000,000 pounds of cake valued at 64,000 dollars, and over 19,000,000 pounds of oil valued at about 900,000 dollars.
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United States
Analogy of Pumps and Heartbeat in Medical Lecture
A lecturer named after an odd nickname compares pumps for engines to the human heart. He recounts Varyex's circulation discovery and Harvey's valve pockets, portraying Harvey as a Sherlock Holmes who deduced blood flow through the heart’s valves. The talk links detective skill with scientific inquiry.
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Varyex
Jack the Giant- Killer
Fabricus
Harvey
Lillian Langdon Stars in The Warf Rat at Adler Theater
Immortalized sweet characters, Lillian Langdon takes a cruel stepmother role in The Warf Rat, a Triangle-Fine Arts photoplay with Mac Marsh and Robert Harron showing tonight at the Adler theater. DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson complete The Love Mask, starring Cleo Ridgley and Wallace Reid at Adler theater tomorrow. DeMille touts Under the Mask as a stronger drama than The Golden Chance from Paramount.
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Lillian Langdon
Triangle- Fine Arts
Mac Marsh
Robert Harron
Adler Theater
Miss Langdon
Zamil Jay
Cecil B. DeMille
Lasky Company
Jeanie MacPherson
Cleo Ridgley
Wallace Reid
DeMite
Paramount
Cleo Ridgely
War Great Snare and Bitter Truth At Adler Theatre
Large sets for The War Great Snare staged by Famous Players for a Friday night screening adaptation of Phillips Oppenheim’s novel. Joseph Kaufman directs a cast including Pauline Frederick in a tale of starvation and political danger at the Adler Theater with scenes in San Francisco’s Montanare cafe and a climactic riot sequence among miners and Mexicans. Virginia Pearson also stars in Bitter Truth as Anne whose schemes intertwine with Jimmy Graves and Judge Marcus in a tale of love, danger, and revenge, shown at the Adler theater Saturday evening.
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Famous Players
Phillips Oppen Aein
Pauline Frederick
Adler Theater
Paramount
Joseph Kaufman
Montanare
San Francisco
Flgor &Elaw
Anne
Virginia Pearson
William Fox
Jimmy Graves
Crook
Ask Mopkins
Marcus
William H. Tooker
Jorint
Blossom Street
Adier Theater
A Gamble in Souls at Adier theater
William Desmond and Dorothy Dalton headline the Triangle-Ray Bee drama A Gamble in Souls set on San Francisco’s Barbary Coast and a Pacific island. A burned ship strands a dance hall girl and a missionary as two men fight for survival and redemption.
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Adier Theater
San Francisco
Pacine
William Desmond
Dorothy Dalton
P. D. Tabler
Local Hart Market Wins Pigs Display Amid Open Weekend
Local shoppers saw cranberry eyed pigs on display at the Hart Market drawing crowds. The window display impressed passersby with its design and the trimmer earned praise. Nearby, Zoa Blodgett Wend and Mrs. Walter Wood of Grand Rapids visited Milwaukee while Earl O Malley of Medford joined the Medford basketball team in a regional elimination game at the high school. Ladysmith edged the hosts to decide the representative for the Lawrence tournament. Other notes: Mrs. Chayney Whitney’s son George returns from Marquette, Myron Tack of Chicago visits, and talks of a St Alban guild spring sale at City Hall on April 10.
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Earl O'Malley
Medford
Ladysmith Basketeers
Ladysmith
St. Alban’a
Hart Market
Lundy
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Jordan Dramatic Co
Hussar Band
Jazz Orchestra
Lenore Connoly
Hart Markets
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Julia Wend
Walter Wood
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Myron Tack
Chicago
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