The Orpheum Theater Sunday Film Program Changes
The Orpheum announces a Sunday change featuring multiple reels and attractions. Highlights include The Birthday Ring, Kitty's Knight, The Vanishing Cracksman, Dollars Pounds and Senge, Jerry's Mother In Law, The Price of Human Lives, Good Old Summertime, The Jesters act, Schnitz the Tailor, His First Case, Two Girls of the Hills, Her Legacy and more.
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Orpheum
Joya Renewer
Kitty
Essanay
Ruth Hennessey
Wallace Beery
Pudge Malone
Mike McManus
Mike
Pudge
Edison
Benjamin Wilson
Gertrude McCoy
Jerry
Vitagraph
Clara Kimball Young
Sidney Drew
le Rodgers Lytton
Kate Price
Red Cross
Pendleton
Ruth Roland
John E. Brennan
May Kinney
Sullivan
Considine
Schnitz
Keystone
Mabel Normand
Hills
Kentucky
Kaybee
In the Elemental World and a Kalem Comedy
Four single reels presented headlined by In the Elemental World a Biograph drama starring Donald Crisp Irene Hawley and Robert Harron. A lost couple in the forest face self preservation and a breach as the wife steals and cuts off supplies. Ruth Roland also features in Tightwad's Present a light Kalem comedy about economy.
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Donald Crisp
Irene Hawley
Robert Harron
Ruth Roland
La Petite Elva Set For Christmas Week Return
La Petite Elva will play a return engagement here during Christmas week, bringing a festive program to local audiences. The show marks a revival after a prior run, with tickets expected to move quickly among families and theatergoers planning holiday entertainment.
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la Petite Elva
Wild Animals at Large at Alta Theater Sunday
A tiger enters Pa Seeley and wife’s parlor prompting a hasty cellar hide in Wild Animals at Large a two part Vita graph exclusive feature comedy. The program also includes The Love of Penelope with Hobart Bosworth and Kathryn Williams a society drama and When the Heart Changes a Lubin production starring Arthur Johnson.
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Pa Seeley
Vitagraph
Alta Theater
Penelope
Hobart Bosworth
Kathryn Williams
Arthur Johnson
Bears Maul Girl Dancer In Ghent Exhibition Scene
In Brussels on December 19 two bears mauled a trainer named Baron and a young dancing girl at Bostock’s menagerie, part of the Ghent exhibition side shows. The trainer suffered severe throat and chest injuries. the dancer also sustained serious injuries during the cage act. A bear escaped into the grounds but was captured after a frantic evacuation of spectators.
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Brussels
Baron
Bostock
Ghent
Taft to preside at New York Philippine dinner
Former President William Howard Taft will preside at a complimentary dinner in the Hotel Plaza honoring William Cameron Forbes governor general of the Philippine Islands. Dean Worcester ex secretary Jude Almet t Jenks and others will speak including Worcester whose lantern slides will argue slavery exists in parts of the islands. Invitations were accepted by 800 attendees.
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New York
William Howard Taft
William Cameron Forbes
The
Philippine Islands
Richard E. Forrest
United States
Philippines
Yuan Shih Kai Denies Move to Abolish Parliament
In Pekin on December 19 President Yuan Shih Kai denied circulating rumors that he sought to dissolve the Chinese parliament and stressed his intention to uphold a constitutional regime.
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Pekin
Yuan Shi Kai
Chineree
Raising of Battleship Maine Cost Reported
Washington December 19 The raising of the battleship Maine from Havana harbor mud cost the United States 792,989 according to a war department report to the house of representatives. The figure covers transportation to and other services rendered.
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Washington
Maine
Havana Harbor
United States
House of Representatives
War Department
Burial of crew in Arlington cemetery reported
The report notes burial of more than 200 crew members in Arlington cemetery and a total appropriation of 900000 dollars. Part of the fund reverted to the treasury and the War Department now holds 104364 dollars for monuments and tablets.
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Arlington Cemetery
Treasury Department
War Department
Lehigh Valley Sells $10 Million Bonds
The Lehigh Valley Railroad company announced it sold to a Philadelphia banking firm ten million dollars of ten 12 percent consolidated mortgage bonds. Proceeds retire Elmira Cortland Northern bonds, fund equipment, and finance terminal and other improvements underway or planned.
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Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Elmira, Cortland & Northern Railroad
University students receive Christmas presents at campus
In Eugene Oregon on December 19 President P L Campbell handed every student at the weekly assembly a special edition little book printed for the university bearing the date of the occasion.
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Eugene. Ore
P. L. Campbell
Captain Alfred Brown Returns After Panama Canal Swim
Captain Alfred Brown, first to swim the full length of the Panama Canal, described repeated swift currents and whirlpools from Atlantic lock water, a submerged tree entangling his legs in Gatun Lake, and a moment he feared an octopus. He credited Colonel Goethals for enabling the effort.
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Alfred Brown
Panama Canal
United States
Atlantic
Gatun Lake
Brown
Colonel Goethals
Salmon season unprofitable in South Bend fishery report
In South Bend Wash on December 19 the salmon season closed with poor runs and low prices. Barnes Cannery packed 7,000 cases of dog salmon, 726 of Silversides, and 1,000 cases of half-pound Silversides, while Willapa Fish Co packed 4,852 cases with Silversides at 12 cents, Chinook at 2 cents, and dog salmon at 2 cents per pound.
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South Bend Wash
Barnes Cannery
Willapa Fish Company
Holdup Man Killed by Watchman’s Bullet in Oakland
In Oakland on December 19 a holdup man was killed by a night watchman, Fred Schilling, after trying to stop a milk wagon driver. Schilling fired once, fatally wounding the sole robber while his accomplice fled, leaving the other at Hayward morgue.
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Oakland
Cal
Fred Schilling
Hayward
Schilling
New Commissioner Completes Salem State Fish and Game Board
Salem Oregon December 20 C H Evans of Wallowa was named to the state fish and game commission today. The new appointee joins the body as Summer heads its members. Santa Claus to Visit Indiana. In related holiday plans Supt Swartzlander of the Indian agency prepares a Christmas tree for 90 agency school children on Christmas evening. A farmers committee has raised about 10 dollars in Pendleton to aid the effort, supplemented by government funds, to supply candy fruit popcorn and gifts. Swartzlander has four assistants in the city selecting the presents.
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New Commissiog
Salem
Ore
C. H. Evans
Wallowa
State Fish and Game Commission
Santa Claus
Indiana
Swartzlander
Indian Agency
Pendleton
Supt
Spelling Stars Shine in Cottage Grove District
Spelling bees across the county show District No 1 including Cottage Grove with 18 perfect spellers, about one third of all perfects. A seventh grade banner goes to District No 25 for highest average, and two fourth graders Virgil Jones and Edith Hickey also achieved perfect scores. Miss Fern Holcomb teaches District 1.
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Cottage Grove
Ore
Fern Holcomb
Virgil Jones
Edith Hickey
Navy May Buy Abroad Under Underwood Tariff
The navy will increasingly purchase supplies overseas to cut costs under the Underwood tariff. A recent bid call seeks 100000 yards of dark blue cloth for trousers jackets and caps for enlisted men. A prior Argentine beef contract reduced American bids.
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Washington
Navy
Navy Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Enright Freed Reimprisoned in Murder Charge
Maurice Enright released from Joliet prison by Governor Dunne after life sentence for killing Vincent Altman. He returns home to learn new murder trial charged with killing William Dutch Gentleman. Bond set at 25,000. Prosecution ties deaths to local labor feud.
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Chicago
Maurice Enright
Dunne
Joliet
Vincent Altman
Enright
William
Dutch" Gentleman
Kersten
Altman
Gentleman
Mutual Aid Is Proposed in Albany Grange Meeting
In Albany Oregon on December 20 at a Grange gathering E E Blanchard of Grants Pass and a Josephine county delegate from the 1918 legislature urged direct cooperation between farmers and retail merchants to eliminate middlemen. He advocated farmers and merchants uniting to cut out commission merchants and improve conditions, urging each county to appoint an agricultural expert under a new law.
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Albany
Ore
Grange
E. E. Blanchard
Grants Pass
Josephine County
Farmers Free Advice On Soils And Crops History
The article recalls the last legislature that provided farmers with free advice on soils and crops, highlighting a historical policy aimed at supporting agricultural improvement through state guidance and agricultural education programs.
Cupid Wins Foe As Friend in West Tacoma Divorce Case
Vancouver Washington December 20. About six months ago attorney Donald McMaster secured a divorce for John W Gregory and Mrs Bill RK Manwell and acted as witness at the county auditor's office when they obtained a license to wed.
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Cupid
Vancouver
Wash
Donald McMaster
John W. Gregory
Mra
Billa RK. Manwell
Lowering Cost of Living and Record Litter on Farm
Corvallis Oregon December 18 A local effort to curb expenses shows women pledging not to spend over seven dollars on any hat. In farming news hens set records with 291 and 303 eggs respectively. A Duroc Jersey sow at R A Mitchell farm just gave birth to 18 piglets, two died, leaving 14 unable to be cared for, with five piglets being bottle raised.
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Corvallis
Ore
R. A. Mitchell
It’s a Boy Stirs a New York Jury Verdict
A New York Supreme Court jury reached a verdict shortly after a telephone message announced a newborn boy. A clerk directed the call stating that mother and baby were doing well, prompting the jurors to return a hurried ruling as the father, Mr. Siller, awaited the outcome in a jury room.
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New York
Supreme Court
Mr. Siller
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