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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
LYRIC

Beginning with a matinee Monday afternoon, Manager Arvine of the New Lyric will present for the first time in Bridgeport one of New York S best successes, 'Pals First" in which William Courtenay and Thomas A. Wise co-starred.
 The plot of Pals First" is laid in the Southland and it brings with it the flavor of southern chivalry, the love for beautiful women and the real joy of living.
 It rarely happens in the theatrical stock world that such a. play is imme- diately released for stock use, inas- much as they are generally sent out for road use, but in the case of Pals First" it is being released for stock, now that the railroads are so con- gested, making it impossible gor road shows to tour.
 A new policy has been inaugurated by the management of the New Lyric iii regard to the Sunday night con- certs Beginning with next Sunday, nothing but the highest class films will be shown. The feature for the opening will be Douglas Fairbanks in his latest release, FWild and Woody" " augmented with comedy and pictorial reels.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD
 OF THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT
EMPIRE

''The House of the Heavy Hours" and 'The Garden of Delight" are two of the most delightfully."- symbolical scenes ever shown on the motion pie ture screen and form only a small port of the charm Madame Jeal- ousy," in which Pauline Frederick is starring at the Empire theatre.
 The entire cast is made up of sym -bolical figures such as Charm" ''Treachery,' Jealousy herself, and 'Valor," the hero. A perfect romance is carried to happy close, the char acters all portraying the emotions for which they are named. Jealousy tries to interrupt love affair between Charm and Valor and failing in that, brings her servants, Treachery, Mis- chief, Rumor and Sorrow to them af- ter the wedding. How a baby which comes into the lives of Charm and Valor succeeds in bringing about peace and happiness again, driving Jealonsly away forever, makes an ex- ceedingly interesting story. This was written by George V. Hobart and di- rected by Robert Vignola.
 Today at the Empire theatre, Paul line Frederick is starring in her latest Paramount picture, Madame Jeal- ousy.'' which was written by George V. Hobart, author of Experience" and is, like "Experience,' 'an absorb ingly interesting allegorical play.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
NEW RULINGS ON
 THE LIQUOR LAWS

New rulings regarding liquor laws have been issued by Attorney General Gregory in Washington. The regula- tions have been received by United States District Attorney Thomas J. Spel1acy of this city and read as fol- lows:
 Alcoholic liquor, including beer, ale and wine, either alone or with any other article. shall not directly or in- directly be sold, bartered, given, serv- ed or knowingly delivered to any of ficer or member of the military forces, except when administered for medical purposes by or under the direction of a regularly licensed physician or army surgeon; provided, that this regulation shall not apply to the giv- ing or serving of such liquor in a private home to members of the fam fly or bona fide guests.
 The dry zones around the camps have been modified by the following rule:
 There is hereby established a zone five miles circumjacent to the boun- diaries of every military camp (ex- cept that within the limits of an in- corporated city or town the zones shall not include any territory more than one-half mile from the nearest boundary of such camp). This reg ulation shall not apply to the giving or serving of such liquor in private home to members of the family or bona fide guests other than officers or
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
PLAZA

Variety was the keynote of the Plaza's bill yesterday and it was a delightful one from the opening Key stone comedy to the Norma Talmadge feature, Ghosts of Yesterday at the finish.
 Delano and Pike opened with vari- cites of juggling, balancing, dancing, etc., and instead of using adjectives to tell you how really good they were we'll tell you that they took six cur tain calls at the second performance last evening. Some stunt for an open ing act, eh?
 The Leach. Sisters in songs and pianologue came next on the bill They were so pretty, ao refined, so untarnished by an overdose of stage presence that you felt they were ddf- ferent the moment they came upon the stage. When you heard them sing their beautiful and semi mi-classical rep ertoire, you were assured of it. Why cant there be more such singing of- ferings?
 Gates and Finley went in mostly for comedy and scored well, but the fe- males recitation and the teams clos ing song would have endeared them even without the laughing route they took you over.
 Then came the big act, Everest s Comedy Circus, made up of about three dozen monkeys. They had stage of their own, their own monkey orchesera and their own monkey ac- tors and the way they went through that show would make you laugh un- til the tears came. They are positive ly the funniest aggregation of dumb actors we have ever seen.
 The Norma Talmadge screen attrac- tion, "Ghosts of Yesterday" was a treat for all who admire screen pro- ductions and there are few modern folks who don't Miss Talmadge's in depreciation of the role which Leslie Carter, the international stage celeb rity created in Rupert Hughes Two Women" the success from which the screen story is taken, is an achieve ment of which she may justly feel proud.
 The play is admirably and preten- iously staged.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
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Us fellows was standing erro1nY7 +ba lamp post taWking about which we wood rather be, Chinees or Indians. if we had to take our choice. and weather the Eslimoes appreciate the snow, and diffrent things. and Sid Hunts quiet little cuzzin Joe started to take jelly beens out of his pockit and eat them.
 Wats you eating, jelly beens, Joe, sed Sid Hunt.
 Yes, sed Joe.
 How are they, Joe, eny good? I sed
 All rite, sed Joe. And&he kepp on eating them, and Puds Simkins sed G, fellows, III tell you a peetch of a game I jest thawt of, do you wunt to heer wat is?
 Wich everybody sed they did exsept Sid Hunts quiet little cuzzin Joe. and Pnds sed, All rite, III tell you. Its a jelly been eating contest We each have jelly beens and wen I say one, 2, 3, go, everybody starts to eat them, and wichever one gets throo the ferst wins.
 G, that's a swell game sed Sid Hunt
 G, that's all rite, I sed. And every body except S1dS qulet little cuZZln Joe sed they was in favor of it. Joe jest keeping on standing there eating his jelly beens, and Puds sed, How about it, Joe, don't you think that's peetch of a game?
 No, sed Joe.
 We'll wood you be willing to play if we all had jest 3 jelly beens insted of 5? sed Sid Hunt.
 No, sed Joe.
 We'll how about if we ony each had 2? sed Leroy Shooster.
 No, sed Joe.
 If we each ony had one we cood still play it. I sed, how about if we each ony had one, Joe?
 No, sed Joe. . So we dident play it. Proving some things half to be unanamiss.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
DANCING MONDAY NIGHT.

Dancing to the music of the Mo EneIly Singing Orchestra will be the program at the Colonial ball room in Fairfield avenue, for Monday night, the regular monthly visit of this splendid musical organization. New music, all of the popular waltz and march songs, will be featured in the program, some of them you have never heard. Part at least of every dance number will be sung. The pop ularity of the McEnellys needs no telling, and there is sure to be a big crowd. The usual popular prices and extra good time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
WEST END

At the West End theatre today, matinee and night, the star will be Dorothy Dalton in "'Flare-Up' Sal" written by J. G. Hawks and directed under the personal supervision of Thomas H. Ince himself. It deals with the picturesque life of the early f1fties in California, just after the dis Covery of gold. Thurston Hall, Will liam Conklin, J. P. Lockney and other well known players make up the excellent supporting cast. ''O"er Here" a two real timely patriotic picture will also be shown including "Pathe War News"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
HIPPODROME

"Enlighten Thy Daughter" which is the featured screen attraction of fered this evening at the Hippodrome theatre is the sort of master cinema drama that should be seen by ever parent |.
 Other select and entertaining screen plays will round out the program offered. Tomorrow evening. George Walsh and an all star cast of well known and favorite players in the Fox super feature production, 'This Is the Life"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
POLI'S

The Poli audiences will be well pleased with the vaudeville and pho to-play bill which has been arranged for the latter part of this week. The show is unusually good and will be sure to draw full houses for the next two days.
 Leading the vaudeville bill is the comedy skit, ''The Village Tinker produced by Fred J. Ardath and Company The act is staged in blacksmith shop with an aeroplane as a medium for the introduction of com edy. Much fun is produced in the difficulty of raising the aeroplane from the earth and many amusing incidents are encountered before the machine finally rises, with the help of dynamite, taking with it the roof of the shop.
 William Cahill anH Company's dra- matic production, "Blackmail," brings again Bridgeport's former popular leading stock actor, John Ince. The gripping and stirring skit was indeed a treat to the Poli audiences.
 "Over There" heads the photo-play bill. It is a five reel patriotic drama which stirs patriotism in the hearts of all who witness it. Starring in this picture are the well known pho toplay favorites, Charles Richman and Anna Nillison.
 Walters and the Cliff sisters offer unique trunkful of comedy, song and dance with some startling costumes
 Al Abbott, The Village 3Songster," is right there with the old time songs and entertainment, direct from the farm. One would almost imagine he was sitting at the village store lis tening to the improvised music of the country clown.
 Kamplain and Bell add cleverne3s to the bill offering number of new songs sung in nifty way.
 Polls animated news brings to the peoples eyes the latest views, both from the battlefields in Europe and happenings in this country.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22

members of the military forces, or to the sending, shipping, transmitting, carrying or transportation of such liquor to such a home for such pur- nose.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29
MINE SWEEPERS PLAY IMPORTANT
 PART IN FIGHT

LONDON, April 15.-When the story of the humble mine-sweeper is fully told, many stirring pages will be added to the history of anti submarine warfare, for this little craft is sharing the work of the dashing destroyer and chaser" in running down U-boats. A mine sweeper invariably drops its accust- omed business for the bigger game and many an enemy submersiblc has men accounted for by them.
 According to official reports there are forty times more mine-speepers in commission today in tn, service of the Allies than in July, 1914.
 Recently fleet of six, all lrawl- CTS, sighted mine adrift. rhe rough sea prevented the boats from sinking the mine by gunfire, darkness was coming on, and there was a possibility of losing it. So the com mander approached the mine in a small boat, and when within some distance of the drifting menace te took to the water and swan tha rest of the way. Attaching a line to the mine, he returned to his boat and lowed it ashore, where it was ex- ploded by rifle fire.
 Often days elapse before mine which has been discovered can be destroyed. In terrific gale, with mountainous seas running, a party of mine-sweepers found a nest of eight mines. The boats were unable to use their guns on them and as night came on the little vessels lay-to in imminent danger of being washed onto the engines of death. Next day two of the mines were sunk by gunfire, but one of the sweepers was lost-how, the report does not state. It was not until evening of the fourth day that the last of the mines was exploded.
 The trawler Manx King hauled up a mine in such dangerous position that one horn of the mine came within few inches of the boats rail and another was almost touching the gear. The slightest roll of the vessel would have caused its destruc- tion. The difficulty was met by flashing the mine to the sweeper, so that it could not be bumped against the side, and experts were sum- moned to remove the detonators from the dangerous prize.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29
PARIS MAY START
 IN HOC INDUSTRY
Unusual Conditions Resulting From the War May Prompt City
 City to Take Action.

PARIS, May 29.-Municipal hog raising in Paris on a large scale may result from the war Lack of eff cient transportation facilities have not only held up provisions needed by the housewife and made them dearer, but have delayed the gar bage before the front doors until i. has compelled universal attention to it's immense volume as we'll as TO ;ne inconvenience from it's overstay in the street.
 Hog raising has been proposed as a remedy for the lack of food and the superabundance of rotting waste. Vegetable garbage and greasy sub stances in the boxes over which Parisians have been stumbling night ly since the war began would, it is asserted, fatten 100000 hogs each year, and pork is now worth fifty cents pound.
 Thousands of errant dogs nourish themselves on the contents of gac- bage boxes, and great many of the dogs have been spreading hydro phobia.
 The proposal embraces municipal markets for the sale of the fresh pork, eliminating middlemen's profit and providing competition against dealers who, in spite of all efforts to control retail prices, have found means of steadily pushing up profits It is estimated that the gross rev. enue from the enterprise would be 1O0,000,0O0 francs a year, all of it nearly clear gain for the city.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29
HUN GENERAL GRANDSON
 OF FAMOUS FRENCHMAN

PARIS, May 29.-The German General von Hutier, who has been playing an important part on the Western front, is the grandson of a captain in the French army who died in 1864, according to the Petit Marseillais. The captains name was Jean Hutier His son entered the German army and subsequently, be- came an officer in a Brandenburg regiment.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29
UNITED STATES GOES AHEAD AS
 SILK PRODUCER

WASHINTON, D. C.-The United States has become the silk manu- featuring center of the world as the result of the war, which has stimu- lated the manufacture of silk here and in the Far East at the expense of Europe. -..:
 A study of the silk industry, the first official inquiry of the kind, has just been completed by the tar:f. commission.
 Japan continues to lead the world in the production of silk, while the United States, first among the na- tions in its manufacture, does net produce a single pound of the ma terial. France continues the chief European manufacturer of silk and the principal source of American imports, Japan ranking second
 The annual requirements of the American silk industry are 20.c0G tons of silk and silk waste. lC. 900 tons of cotton and other yarns, and 1000 tons of metallic tin for weight ing. Most striking of all the de- velopments due to the war has been the expansion of the spun-si!k in- dustry. The government is rcquir- ing vast amounts of coarse silk cloth, made from silk noil, for making powder bags for the big guns
 Many finer varieties of silk manu- facture are not made in this country or else are manufactured in very small quantities. Switzerland sup plies practically all of the 'iili bolt ing cloth needed by .he fouc l'iers of the world. Hat.ers .lush. from which is made mems silk Eats cor,es from France. Silk lace silk l,ttirs, silk embroideries, wells end veilings, ribbons and handkerchief material laregly are imported. In Il other branches of the industry. even the fine wearing apparel and vc!vets, the imports are relatively sniall com pared to the total consumption.
 Habutae, of which silk handk,r- chiefs are made, sA soft smooth p:.;n- 1 woven fabric of pure silk, is the largest single item CT silk brought from abroad It has been a Japan- ese speciality for more than 1000 years.
 Artificial horse hair is made If silk in coarse single filaments> Ar tificial silk is made in fine filaments, witch must be combined befor. use.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29

Mrs. Mike O'Brien, of Fairbanks, has now entirely recovered from the effects of her second minor opera tion and has left the Government hospital :...
 During the remainder of her stay in Nenana, Mrs. O'Bren will be the guest of Mrs. Herman Anderson.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29
WANT AID IN BULLETIN
 GETS QUICK RETURNS

CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego, The "want ad" has made it's ap- pearance in the Weekly Bulletin, the offical organ of this camp. Re- gently small notice, worded and typed like the conventional classified advertisement, formed part of the bulletin. It involved the loss of a mess kit, and within three hours after the publication of the bulletin, the kit had been restored to its owner.
 OLD PAPERS FOR SALE-Inquire
 News Office.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29

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The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29
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The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-29

The Douse launch Victory left Fairbanks this morning at II o'clock for Nenana, with number of pass engerS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-18
STEEL NEEDS FOR WAR
GREATER THAN OUTPUT
Drastic Curtailment of Supply
for Other Industries Is
Threatened
Washington, July IS.

program of drastic curtaiment In
the steel supply of all nonwar manu-
facturers is rapidly taking form in the
councils OF Government war agencies
and definite announcement Of reduc-
tions which will mean the end of many
peace time industries may be expected
within the next few weeks.
Information on the plans of the war
industries board. the shipping board and
fuel administration in this regard be.
came known when II was indicated tha {
the Governments steel requirements for
the next six months are in the neighbor-
hood Of 10000, 600 tons. while the large It
American output of steel for similar
period totaled only 16.5OO.OOO tons.
The immediate effect of the new steel
policy was felt by the automobile manu-
facturers during a heated conference at
the war industries board when Hugh
Chalmers. the automobile manufactures,
and Alfred Reeves. Of the National Au-
tomobile Chamber OF Commerce. were in
formed the makers of pleasure cars were
in for a big cut in their steel supply.
Nothing official on the size OF the re-
duction slated for automobile men was
might by 75 per cent OF the amount Of
steel used last year A cut OF rs per
cent In steel would conform to the coal
curtailment already announced for au-
tomoble manufacturers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-18
FERTILIZER Pub
AID TO AGRICULT(
Wonderful Results Repofg
Through Campaign Of Edu
cation Among Farmers Il
Atlantic city. July Il. Z


A systematic campaign Of educatjoD
through publicity. conducted by Z u&4
tional soil Improvement COMMITTEES, hooI
accomplished wonderful results f1f
American agriculture and the fertillsek
industry, Horace Bowker of New Y0fDs
president told the silver jubilee COM
rention of the National Fertilizer As6oss
ciation. Organization followed by re-s
forms within were the other great fac-.
tors President Bowker said:
This work has already battered down
the walls of prejudice which former1y.
existed in certain sections and has gone,
far toward introducing new ideas and
changed viewpoints where prejudice stlIl
exists. The fertilizer message has been
carried to many thousands of persohssto
whom 1t was a stranger. A new reepeot
for and appreciation of fertilizers ~
an economic asset and fundamental fac
tor In future food production has been
nculcated in the public mind far and
wide. We are gradually building up
an army of boosters where formerly we
were likely to find only a multitude Of
knockers
And despite the fact that fertilizer
as factor in food production comes
close to the ritals of the army ITSELF
we are proud to say that to this day
the Government has not found II necee-
sary or advisable TO in any sense take
over the fertilizer industry. The indus
try has been licensed, it is true. but
this supervision is of very genera1
nature only and is designed for the
protection of the industry as much ~
for its regulation. / believe that Il
requires only a casual reading OF the
signs of the times to foretell great an1
vital developments in store for the fer
tlizer industry in the near future"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-18
TRACKS TO BE POOLED,
RAILROADS REROUTED
McAdoo Will Combine Par.
allel Lines Into Single
System
By the United Press
Wa shington. July is.

warrington, July lS.
Common use of all tracks will follow
the pooling OF equipment of all rail
facilities in the handling of the rail-
roads war burden. 1t was learned
officially here today that Director Cen
eral McAdoo soon will authorize gil
gantic rerouting scheme. providing for
the conversion of parallel lines into dou-
hle-track systems This move will in
clude the building of scores of connec-
tions. but the expense, when compared
to the vast good to he derived. will be
negligible, officials believe
Robert S. Lovett. director Of the di-
vision of extensions and betterments of
the rairload administration. has insti-
tuted a survey of all lines with view
to combining facilities further. He will
meet Mr. McAdoo in California, and that
conference is expected to result in orders
for the building Of the first links and
subsequent rerouting of certain Pacific
coast trains.
1t was pointed out by officials that in
many case lines run parallel for dis
tanCes as great as $50 miles.
While 1t is known Mr.. McAdoo Cx-
poets ultimately to extend the plan to
all sections of the country, 1t was be-
lieved in some quarters it might mean
the cutting to the minimum of service on
lines built for competition.