A Little Girl in A Big City at Academy of Music
Four act New York play by James Kyrle MacCuddy shows at the Academy of Music next day with matinee and night performances on January 6. The story follows a young girl pursued by adventurers aimed at exploiting her, offering moral lessons for young girls. Matinee tickets 25 or 50 cents. evening 50 cents to $1. tickets at Elvington's Store.
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New York
James Kyrle MacCuddy
Academy of Music
Elvington
Front Street
Screen epic Romeo and Juliet opens at Victoria next Monday
The eight reel Shakespeare romance costs over a quarter million, stars Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, with an immense set of Verona and 35 thousand dollars in costumes. Grand previews Mae Marsh and Robert Harron in The Marriage of Molly-O, a Fine Arts Triangle production.
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Beverly Bayne
Juliet
Francis X. Bushman
Wilmington Amusement Lovers
Victoria
Sir Henry Irving
Richard Mansfield
Verona
Shakespeare
Fine Arts Triangle
Molly- O
Little Star
Mae Marsh
Robert Harron
Molly-O
Ireland
Bustiman and Bayne Stage Romeo and Juliet in Heartfelt Rendition
The article highlights pomp and ceremony in civic and religious processions as depicted in Shakespeare. It notes that these elements, once impossible to present, are now brought vividly to the people through the Bustiman and Bayne production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Bustiman and Bayne
Shakespeare
Royal Southland Revue Delights Crowds With Second Show
Gardner and Lawson's Hello South land Revue staged its second and greatest performance at the Royal, featuring Thelma Fraley and Ada Davis among 14 acts. The Irish Reel and My Own Iona drew praise, with The Girl with the Blues and Dixieland finalizing a music filled program. The show runs today and tonight for a final time.
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Gardner
Lawson
Hello Southland
the Royal
Allstar
Thelma Fraley
Ada Davis
Iona
Ethel Bruce
December Fire Loss Totals Reported by Chief Schnibbéen
Chief Schnibbéen reports December fire losses totaling about $500. He notes many fires were started by fireworks during the holidays, but only four small blazes from that cause. Other incidents came from defective flues wiring and sparks.
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Schnibbéen
Sant Ne
Charies
Nails boost strength of canned boxes by 300 percent
Tests at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison Wisconsin show that adding four nails to each end increases the strength of canned food boxes by 300 percent. The study highlights practical improvements in packaging strength for commercial use.
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Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wisconsin
Reforestation Efforts Reclaim 10,380 Acres in 1916
About 10,380 acres of denuded lands within the National Forests were reforested in fiscal year 1916. A total of 6,146,637 trees were planted and 8,280 pounds of tree seed were sown during the period.
Forest Fire Statistics Show 1915 Fires Fall Short of Averages
Henry 8 Graves reports 1915 burns on National Forest lands totaled 6 324 fires down from 7 018 in 1914 and under the five year average of 4 759. Timbered area burned was 155 416 acres, 30 percent below the 1911 1915 average, with an average loss of 6 41 per fire and 44 percent of fires confined to less than a quarter acre.
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Henry
Virginia Sixteen Visits Ethel in Whirl of Gossip
A holiday visit to Ethel's includes Virginia, a wholesome sixteen, in town from the South. The afternoon features a meeting at the reception, Virginia's debut in Crawford’s circle, and reflections on what sweet sixteen means, with a note on local gossip. The sports column follows, detailing major league stars Lajoie, Tinker, Brown, Rucker, and Schaefer leaving the game and shifting roles.
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Napoleon
Larry) Lajoie
Mordecai
Miner
Lajoie
Fall River
Philadelphia Nationals
Cleveland
Philadelphia Americans
Phillies
Joe Tinker
Chicago Cubs
Johnny Evers
Keystone
Cubs
Tinker
Cincinnati Reds
Emergency law to distribute food proposed in New York
A special New York State conference of mayors in Sobereetady on January 4 recommended emergency powers for the Federal Government, state and municipalities to seize and distribute food, with compensation to owners later, to address the high cost of living. The panel met to discuss potential measures in the crisis.
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Sobereetady
New York State
Abernathy Leads In Tests At West Pembroke School
Thomas J Abernathy, a Harya senior in West Pembroke Maine, far outscores classmates in a series of mental tests by Professor Hugo Munsterberg. The 275 student class notes his perfect brain and top rank among the thousand tested.
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Thomas J. Abernathy
Harya
West Pembroke
Hugo Munsterbere
Munsterberg
Abernathy
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