Goody Goody Girls Lead Princess Bill At Week Start
The Princess theater opens next week with The Goody Goody Girls a staged act featuring Ned Melroy Ned Beoker Betty Brooks and a large chorus. C Porter Norton performs sleight of hand and live fish stunts while Mons Herbert showcases foreign music and S Leonard Davis headlines later with a piano act and saxophone duet.
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Princess Theater
Ned Melroy
Mike
Ned Beoker
Hunter
Betty Brooks
C. Porter Norton
Mr. Norton
Hazel Lynch
Mons. Herbert
S. Leonard Davis
Davis
Blind Tom
Boston Conservatory of Music
Davis-Castle
Earl Castle
Leota
Mr. Davis
Morocco
Desert
LeRoy
St. Claire
Princess
Young Scout and a mystery hint at chemical smuggling
The dialogue shows a zealous Boy Scout guarding a reservoir who asks about a foreign man believed to carry 60 tons of chemicals hidden on his person. A comic aside from Detroit Free Press notes a busy home phone line as a wife is presumed to be home.
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London
Detroit Freeress
Woodrow Wilson
Texas
el Paso
Texarkana
Dalhart
Brownsvile
Invention of Pillow Life Preserver Aims to Improve Sea Safety
The U S supervising steamboat inspectors adopted Lieutenant Edmonds 1 pillow life preserver made of ilanasilk a buoyant soft yet strong device shaped as a pillow cushion or mattress. Trials tested its ability to support weight and keep the head upright improving survival for shipwreck victims and reducing drowning risk.
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Board of United States
Washington
8. P. Edmonds
United States Coast Guard
Titaniic
Lusitania
Edmonds
W. H. Robinson
Newark
N. J
Ilanasilk
Government Board
Secretary of Commerce
First Forests of the United States and Early Lumber Mills
The Baltimore American notes the vast extent and quality of early U S forests totaling about 900 million acres with 5.25 trillion board feet of merchantable timber. It describes uneven distribution along coasts and in the mountains and traces pioneer loggers and mills as settlements spread, with early mills powered by wind or water.
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United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Canada
Gulf
Great Lake
Rocky Mountain Ranges
Pacific
America
Bridge Fire Spurs Swift Montana Reconstruction Rush
In Montana a railway bridge burned and needed replacement. The bridge engineer and team rushed to the site and two days later the division superintendent arrived. He demanded the project be accelerated as every hour of delay costs money. The master builder replied the new bridge might not have complete drawings yet, but trains were already crossing the improvised span.
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Agin
Montana
Harper's Magazine
Notable Shared Work: Five Percent Earn In Electrical Field
The statement notes that five percent of the nation's population earns a living directly or indirectly in the electrical business, highlighting the sector's broad employment impact.
Real Preparedness Described as Industrial Mobilization
An article urges the United States to unite and codify industries for instant war mobilization. It argues that food, transport, railroads, and munitions must be ready in a day, not a year, with factories and workers organized to support frontline forces. It cites Germany’s wartime efficiency and warns that the nation still lacks a true, comprehensive preparedness plan.
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United States
Cleveland Twist Drill Company
Letas
Germany
Belgium
Land of the Free
Bonaparte
Napoleon
Daniels
Secretary Daniels
Mr. Daniels
Frankford Arsenal
Frankford
Rio Grande
Nevada
Atlantic Seaboard
G. D. Dixon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Vera Cruz
Globe
Panama
National Marine League
National Security League
Pocket Sized Inflatable Rubber Swimming Apparatus
Inventor unveils a compact rubber cushion device that inflates via an air valve and folds into a pocket. It serves as a small swimming aid, portable and easily carried.
Neutral Port and the Coney Island Fish Bait Schemes
A New York Times paraphrase notes calls for strict neutrality and narrates an East Side boy selling shell scraps as fish bait at Coney Island. The scene contrasts perceived neutrality with street commerce as he claims “Chetmans” buy the scraps, underscoring cynical urban economy.
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New York
Coney Island
Misread Meeting Tale Defines A Chairman In Family Voice
A Merchants Association meeting in New York hears two young relatives describe a chairman as a man who knows people and introduces them to others. They contrast this with a chairman as a mere vestibule where guests linger and depart.
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William Hamlin
New York
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Farnum
David Garrick
Paramount
Glenn Springs
U. S
ROYAL
Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball
Dustin Farnum
Puddin’head
Wilson” — Paramount
Beulah Poynter Brady
Lois Meredith
Hobart Bosworth
Goopy-Croopy
Cyiris
Castis Davis
C- Porter Norton
Courtom
Mons Heapertz
Ano Hazee
Lewes
Araas
Ianasilk
S. P. Edmonds
U.S
Washington, D. C
Charles E. Hughes
Chicago
Justice Hughes
Rand
Lone Star
Hughes
Bull Moose
Roosevelt
Wilson
Chetmans
New York Times
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