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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
8
Amusements review notes a sanatorium scene and Amusing Lever as a bell boy in a clever miniature musical comedy Watch the Little B's. Two program changes planned for Wednesday and Friday with later announced bills. Matinee invites ladies and children. seats available for The Kentucky Bells.
Victor Herbert's operetta Sweethearts will be staged at the Academy next Thursday. Julia Gifford Difford will star as Princess Sylvia, backed by a strong cast and chorus, with vivid Belgian settings and lavish costumes promising a premier musical event of the season.
A series of proposed acts would require storage warehouses to file annual reports with the Department of Agriculture for publication in July and seek investigations into price hikes in food, cotton goods, paper, coal, and related items due to alleged conspiracies. A House committee proposal targets the feud situation with a nine member panel and a 30 day report. Rep Lindbeek and Rep Carter urge action. Rep Steenerson backs seed wheat free admission. Rep Mekellar reintroduces cold storage regulation and Rep Farr reintroduces wheat embargo provisions. Rep Adamson criticizes embargo laws, citing alien and sedition laws as precedent and opposing any embargo.
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