State's Large Share of Debt and Foot and Mouth Aid
Illinois seeks more than a quarter of a million dollars in emergency funds to cover the state’s half share of public debts from the foot and mouth outbreak. Gov. Dunne plans a second special session Jan 10 to approve the funds, validate a Cook County road bond issue, and recreate the centennial commission per recent court decisions. The epidemic has cost nearly $3 million, with most federal aid already paid.
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Springfield
Illinois
Dunne
State Board of Livestock Commissioners
Stark County
Atlantic Seaboard
Cook County
State Centennial Commission
Supreme Court
Centennial Commission
Patrick J. Lucey
Fergus
Assembly
Belgrade Desolate Except for Soldiers After Capture
Belgrade bears the stamp of war with about one fifth of residents remaining. From nearly 100,000 inhabitants before the war only about 20,000 stay. Main streets are sparsely populated except for soldiers, while the business district suffered little damage. Factory buildings along the Save show notable harm.
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Belgrade
Associated Press
East Prussia
Poland
Belgium
Recorder Buffington’s steady year for Adams County deeds
A 1915 tally shows 3 655 papers filed in the Adams County recorder’s office under James Buffington, just below 1914’s record 4 618 and the seven year average of 4 053. Despite a slight dip, the year is marked by routine work and a weekly average of about 69 filings across deeds quit claims mortgages and incorporations.
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County Recorder
Adams County
James Buttington
Buffington
No Immunity for Buchanan
Washington dispatch reports representative Buchanan’s claim of immunity from arrest is under Justice Department review. Relying on the 1908 Supreme Court decision by Justice White, contentions hold that congressmen lack immunity in criminal prosecutions. The Williamson case cited held immunity excludes arrests for criminal offenses.
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Washington
Buchanan
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Justice White
Wiliamson
Oregon
Shepherd of the Hills at the Empire Hippodrome New Year
The Empire Hippodrome presents The Shepherd of the Hills on New Year’s Day with matinee and night showings. The program also features Hyams and McIntyre in My Home Town Girl and Lyman Howe travel pictures on subsequent days. The Zephyr dramatization, credited to Harold Bell Wright with Elsberg W Reynolds, portrays Sammy Lane and Ozark folk in a stage adaptation regarded as more engaging than the novel.
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McIntyre
the Empire
Hyams & McIntyre
Lyman Howe
Shepherd
David Harum
Wash Gibbs
Harold Bell Wright
Hippodrome New Years Day
Mr. Wright
Elsberg W. Reynolds
Hyams and McIntyre Star in My Home Town Girl at Hippodrome
Hyams and McIntyre, famed for The Girl of My Dreams, return in a new musical comedy My Home Town Girl at the Hippodrome Sunday. Perry J. Kelly’s latest production features a New York cast, lavish scenery, new costumes, and a chorus of top Broadway singers and dancers led by Frank Stammers’ book and lyrics.
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Hyams & McIntyre
Hyams and McIntyre
Hippodrome
Perry J. Kelly
New York
Mr. Kelly
Broadway
Frank Stammers
John Hyams
Lelia McIntryre
Orpheum vaudeville bill features Toots Paka Hawaiian act
The Orpheum presents a late week vaudeville lineup led by Toots Paka and her Hawaiian singers and dancers with Hula and native songs. Richards & Kyle perform as A Regular Club Fellow with a recent England tour success. Hawley & Hawley, Arthur & Bell, and Van Cello close the program with laughs and novelty acts.
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Orpheum
Toots Paka
Richards
Kyle
England
Hawley
Arthur & Bell
van Cello
Sloan's Liniment Ad Claims Quick Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment as a universal pain killer for sudden aches. A Berkeley reader testimonial describes neck stiffness relief after two applications following wet feet at an exposition. The ad notes the product price as 25e and urges purchase at druggists.
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Sloan
Drugegists
Talking machine dealer advertized wartime credit terms
An advertisement for phonographs and records from a talking machine dealer outlines wartime terms. During the war customers pay nothing, then begin four months after the conflict with four marks monthly until payment is complete, indicating options for long credit or early peace.
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Sire
Anu
Tlayn
Miesre
Reena
Ara
Kemp A Re da Iippodrome
sc“NiGrer
Gaskill and MacVitty (Inc
Shepherd ‘of the
Bell Wright
Uary
Legisla
Ture
Leila
Les
Depositors’ Weekly Savings Club
Quincy
Cabital
Empire-Hippodrome
the Orpheum
Japheum
Hawley & Hawley
van ‘Ello
Stevens & Falke
Korey
Sirius Vibe
Annette Kellerman
Neptune's Daughter
Princess
Uncle Sam
the Family Theatre
Loin
Tim’s
Maud Fealy
Silent Accuser
Mary Charleson
Francis Joyner
Quincy Today
Witness
Lubin
Lile Lesle
James Smiley
Essanay
Bryant Washburn
Nell Craig
Stingaree
Marguerite Courtot
TODAY
ANT
Valeskasuratt
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