Daddy Long Legs shines in Pickford screen debut at Princess
Mary Pickford stars as Judy Abbott in the Jean Webster story Daddy Long Legs at the Princess theater in Laporte Indiana August 25 26 27. Marshall Neilan directs this compassionate tale of an orphan girl’s ascent from an asylum to college aided by a benevolent guardian.
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Jean Webster
Mary Pickford
Princess Theater
Laporte
Ind
Miss Pickford
Khiw and
Erlanger
Judy Abbott
Asylum
Marshall Neilan
Marshall Neilen
Mark
Fay Lemport
Angelica Wyckoff
John Grier Orphan Asylum
Nielan
Whiskey in bonded Indiana warehouses leads to massive losses
Government stores about 8.5 million gallons of whiskey in four Indiana cities cannot be shipped except for medical sacraments or experiments under prohibition law. It must be watched by guards and distillers while paid beverage taxes apply to losses treated as consumption. Peter J. Kruger heads the consolidated wholesale districts and assumed liability for Indiana internal revenue.
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Indiana
Peter J. Kruger
Kruger
Internal Revenue District
Terre Haute
Kruger Assigned Expanded Territory Across Districts
The seventh district takeover makes Mr Kruger responsible for 23 054 088 01 in addition to the old sixth district duties. The Terre Haute office sent the first records and six deputies to assist in Indianapolis.
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Kruger
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Prohibition Enforcement Bill Receives Senate Committee Review
Washington August 11 The senate sub committee reports major changes to the enforcement bill. Key edits include allowing home cider and non alcoholic beverages while striking provisions against public intoxication and liquor carrying. The panel proposes a 3.5 million dollar appropriation for enforcement.
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Washington
Judicial Committee of the
Senate
Internal Revenue Collector
President Warns Senate on Ratification Delays in League Pact
President Wilson urges rapid ratification of the peace treaty while warning that placing interpretive language into the formal ratification would delay adoption. He cites economic and military planning as dependent on peace, notes dangers of lingering doubts about the Covenant, and calls for prompt action to avoid peril to the nation and allied stability.
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Washington
Wilson
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
League of Nations
Germany
Senate
White House
Hfe
Mesopotamian Inhabitants Descend from Babylonians and Assyrians
The people of Mesopotamia are not Arabs but descendants of the old Babylonians and Assyrians. Before Arab conquest the Tigris and Euphrates valley natives spoke Syriac, a dialect of the Assyrian language.
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Mesopotamia
Tigis
Euphrates
Compact Franco Prussian War Peace Treaty Ten Articles
A brief note states the 1870 Franco Prussian War peace treaty consisted of ten articles. It also reports that high casualties occurred in a recent event with numerous House of Commons members dead and that Chicago accounted for a large share of national slaughtering at thirty three and one third percent.
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House of Commons
Chicago
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Chesterton, Indiana
Great Star
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Tilmois
Europe
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Mugello Valley
Italy
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American Relief Administration
Jugo-Slovakia
Kentucky Red Cross
Maarion
Kentucky
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Lake Division
Red Cross Home Service
Specht-Finney Co
Valparaiso
Paritsan
New Jersey
Indianapolis, Ind
Puritan
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