War Debt Burden Compared With Great Britain
A financial overview compares postwar costs of the United States and Britain. It notes monthly war expenses near 1.5 million for the U S and about 1 million for Great Britain, with total debts around 12.5 billion for the U S and 36 billion for Britain. It argues the proposed tax bill would raise substantial revenue under changed wartime financing.
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Great Brit
Great Britain
United Bs
United
America
Treasury
Ways and Means
Wires Taken Over In United States Telegraph System
The telephone and telegraph networks continue under government control with no major changes. Officials, including Postmaster Burleson and John C. Koons, outline plans to merge lines gradually, avoid mass layoffs, and maximize capacity across 26 million miles of wires while saving costs.
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Washington
Pastral Burleson
John C. Koons
William H
David J. Lewis
Cotton crop condition and projections report
Washington reports from the crop board of the U S Department of Agriculture show cotton crop condition on July 25 at 98.6 percent of normal, up from 85.8 on June 25 1918, with forecasts for yield around 177.3 per acre and total production about 13 619 000 bales, compared with prior years. A separate item notes promoter activity in Cleveland for a potential Dempsey Willard outdoor bout, with proceeds to a patriotic fund if terms are agreed.
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Washington
Bureau of Crop
United States
Willard
Dempsey
Cleveland
Jack Dempsey
Fred Matt Hinkel
Dempsey Jess Willard
Hinkel
Which Woman and vaudeville at Grand tonight and tomorrow
A Grand Theatre bill features Which Woman a Bluebird photodrama with Ella Hall and Priscilla Dean about a rich girl escaping arranged marriage. The program includes four acts of vaudeville tonight and tomorrow, plus Triangle’s The Argument starring J Barney Sherry and All Allied War Review pictures. Saturday brings The Lion’s Claws episode and more.
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Grand Theatre
Ella Hall
Priscilla Dean
All-Story Weekly
Doris Standish
Peter
Cyrus W. Hopkins
Hopkins
Triangle
J. Barney Sherry
Pathe
Allied War Review Pictures
Marie Walcamp
Toys of Fate in Nazimova's New Screen Classic
Nazimova stars in Toys of Fate, a seven part screen classic, featured in a forthcoming program. The dramatic serial blends romance and intrigue as it unfolds across seven installments.
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Nazimova
I Nazimova
FATE
Grand Theatre Offers Week of Films and Animations
The Grand theatre presents a lineup for Monday and Tuesday featuring several notable pictures including The House of Hate a new animated weekly and additional films.
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Grand Theatre
House OF Hate
NEW Animated Weekly
Love's Conquest at Middlesex shows Madame Cavalieri as Gismonda
The celebrated actress stars in the photo production Love's Conquest at the Middlesex tonight as the Athenian Duchess Gismonda who spurns marriage for state duties and her son. A huntsman of plebeian birth rescues the boy, leading to romantic upheaval and a dramatic sequence of events. Also includes Burton Holmes travel and Lyons Moran comedy.
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Love
Mme. Cavalieri
the Middlesex
Gismonda
Zaccaria
Burton Holmes
Lyons-Moran
A Desert Wooing and Masks and Faces at Middlesex
The screening features Enid Bennett in A Desert Wooing directed by Thomas H. Ince, shown August 2 and 3, with vaudeville and a Mack Sennett comedy, then Masks and Faces opens August 7 at Middlesex theatre. World Pictures presents a star-studded adaptation of Charles Reade with Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson Gladys Cooper Irene Vanbrugh and others. cast assembled for a wartime charity screening.
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Enid Bennett
Paramount
Thomas H. Ince
Middlesex
Newark
Middlesex’theatre
World Pictures
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Gladys Cooper
Irene Vanbrugh
Winifred Emery
Charles Reade
Farming in Dakota Midwestern Tale From Boston Transcript
A Western visitor extols Dakota farming noting a large farm where ploughing stretches from spring to fall and a farmer harvests back. The tale contrasts this with a Dakota practice of sending young married couples to milk cows, with their children bringing the milk.
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Dakota
Boston Transcript
At the Telephone From London Punch
A fragmentary note references the German emperor and travel to Rome with a comical tone. It hints at humorous exchange on a telephone between Wilhelm and Karl amid muddled wording and satire.
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London
Rome
Karl
Wilhelm
Campbell Ace to Train Aviators in France
Lieutenant Douglass Campbell of California credited with seven downed German planes will depart for the United States with Captain Walter Lovell of Boston to organize training schools. They will ready student aviators for combat work and enable graduates to begin duty upon arrival in France.
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Campbell
Douglass Campbell
California
United States
Walter Lovell
Boston
France
Moodus Social Notes Aug 1 Moodus Connecticut
Miss Frances Emily returns from North Plain visit to aunt Mrs Jewett. John Gorman injured by car in Hartford last Saturday resting at parental home. Miss Emma Wippert visits from Wallingford with New London friends. Mrs Sullivan of Boston buried in St Bridget's cemetery here. Frank Cone recovering well from appendectomy at St Francis hospital. Mrs Weinstein and children return from New York. Red Cross rooms need work Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. Mr and Mrs B Talbot in Hartford. Mrs George Barber and son visiting F J Carrier. Mrs Harold Chapman not improving. Dr Inglis called.
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Moodus
Frances Emily
Jewett
North Plain
John Gorman
Hartford
Michael Gorman
Emma Wippert
Wallingford
New London
John Wippert
Sullivan
Boston
Giacoma Co Benefit at Goodspeed Opera House
Vaudeville and dance night at Goodspeed's opera house featuring Niel Patterson second Harry Lauder and a troupe of dancers and singers with orchestra. Proceeds support Company H Conn State Guard. Dancing after the show with admission advertised.
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Goodspeed's Opera House
Giacoma Co
Conn. State Guard
Niel Patterson
Harry Lauder
Adv
Mischievous youths warned over cemetery vandalism in Sandwich
A Sandwich Free Press notice laments local youths who drove a horse and buggy onto the cemetery curbing, trampled sod, and damaged newly seeded areas. The paper threatens to reveal the exact location of the buggy if the youths return to claim it, otherwise no action will be taken.
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Sandwich
Ill
Free Press
Breezes From The Busy Corner Lunch Tips
A lunch edition offers tips on basket lunches and home meals. Ads promote Dernell's Goldencrisp Potato Chips, peanut butter at 30c a pound, Camembert and Roquefort in cans at 25c, pimento and Welch Rarebit at 32c, Crawford's Orange Jelly at 25c, and eggs at 60c per dozen. It contrasts coal prices at $10.50 a ton with egg pricing, noting farmer sentiment and consumer nerves.
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Dernell
Pimento
Welch
Crawford
August at Essex Baptist Church Quiet. Local Visits Noted
Essex notes a quiet August with no church services. Mrs. S. B. Hunt and family enjoy a beach week at Westbrook. Various residents make short visits or are visiting relatives in town, including George Clarke after a bicycle on the sidewalk hearing, Mrs. Fred Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Hills of Brooklyn, Dorothy Bushnell of New Haven, Mrs. Frank Rogers of Hampton, and others at Grove Street, West Avenue, and Saybrook.
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Essex
Baptist Church
S. B. Hunt
Westbrook
George Clarke
Fred Potter
Harry Hills
Brooklyn
Local Honor Guest Joins Welcome Parade At Saybrook Junction
Old Saybrook Aug 1 Lieut George Cheney on 3 44 p m express from New York was greeted by Hon and Mrs Morgan G Bulkeley and several others in decorated cars. He on leave from overseas will stay at Fenwick before departure. Rain welcomed by farmers. Social notes include Rollin A Tyler and others in town. Chaplin film at town hall with dancing after the show.
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Old Saybrook
Morgan G. Bulkeley
John Ingersol
Morgan Bulkeley, Jr
M. B. Brainard
George Cheney
New York
Hartford
Fenwick
Miss Parker
J. D. Parker
Rollin A. Tyler
Deep River
Orono
J. B. Epright
Chester
M. J. Golden
Great Lake
Charles Merwin
Sandusky
Ohio
Deane McKay
New York Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Charlie Chaplin
Saybrook Town Hall
Adv
Free country defined by funding police against anarchists
Washington Star carries a father and son exchange about the nature of a free country. The man explains that a free country requires peaceful citizens to pay for police protection against anarchists seeking to destroy the government.
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Washington Star
Riots at Kiev Reported as Peasant Resistance Grows
Copenhagen reports serious unrest near Kiev with peasants rising to resist German forces. The city, Ukraine’s capital, faces arrests and new plots amid ongoing political turmoil and the recent assassination of Field Marshal von Eichorn and Captain Dressler. A Russian official was detained as a leader of anarchistic activity.
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Copenhagen
Kiev
Ukrania
von Eichorn
Ukraine
Dressler
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Kaiser Kaiser Sadder Yet Wiser Funeral Bells And War Losses
Fragmentary old time market notice mentions Kaiser and war imagery with a wartime cautionary tone. It lists canned goods including Armour boned chicken Normanina fish products and various priced items such as kippered sardines and herring. The piece blends warnings with advertising copy.
TOGA AMERICAN SARDINES AND GROCERY DEALS
Local ad lists good sized cans of Maine Sardines in olive oil for 18 cents and Geisha Brand crab meat with olives and Heinz pickles available in bulk or bottles. Also promotes Spotless cleaner product SPOTLESS S5S CTS described as a harmless powder for easy cleaning and scouring.
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Maine
Stores
Local retail outlets report steady sales as shoppers resume routine purchases. Monitor inventories and pricing as demand grows for household goods, apparel, and groceries across major districts. Authorities urge caution for crowded shopping periods and encourage safe consumer spending.
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U. S
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Basle
Berliner Tageblatt
Theodore
Rman
Wolff
Aainst Austrian Emsrich Aga A. Press
Dirutenant Caupbele
Best
Middletown
John Moore
Prop
Center St
Town
TOP Notch
NEW Pathe Weekly
Bluebird
J. Barney
Sherry
Good Pictures
Sidney
With Marie Walcamp
Allies’ War Review and
Others
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joEy
Coeme
Screen Classic
Kaiser
Armours Veri
Normanna
Isa Eea
Barton Clothing Co
Custom Tailors
Burton Holmes Travel
Mack Sennett
Madeline
Hit-The
Middletown Gas Light CO
HNL Ea
Louis ™. Schmidt
Ee Patent
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