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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856<br />
Abstracts 3654 - 3658<br />
THEATERS - Taxation (Cont'd)<br />
3654 - L Jan. 28:2/2 - The Cleveland theater closed on Jan. 26. The<br />
actors made their farewell bows to the public. Messrs. John Ellsler<br />
and F. A. Vincent spoke and promised to return in a few weeks in the<br />
event the prohibitory tax of city council is removed. (2)<br />
3655 - L Jan. 29: 1/4 - The city council will meet tonight and the theater<br />
tax bill wi 11 be discussed. The object of this ordinance was not<br />
to close the theater, but to make it a source of revenue for the city.<br />
This end will be defeated, for it will have the effect of shutting up<br />
the Cleveland theater. (2)<br />
3656 - L Feb. 5: 1/4 - In a letter to the editor, "Anti-taxes" says:<br />
"Taking up the LEADER of Jan. 14th, I read an article on Theaters, by<br />
'Taxes,' in which he complains of our council taxing theaters, and<br />
modestly intimates that bigotry, bribery or ignorance set the council<br />
to legislating up one class and legislating down another.... Without<br />
following farther his tirade, we observe that he informs us that the<br />
Cleveland Theater is fitted up at an expense of $20,000, and conducted<br />
by gentlemen, (consequently its evils are to be tolerated) with a modest<br />
liberal intimation that those who do not like it can stay away.... Can<br />
'Taxes' point to a single individual who was ever reformed of a single<br />
bad habit by the influence of the theaters. On the contrary, do not<br />
boys often steal from their parents and employers to obtain the means<br />
of visiting these haunts of vice. 'Taxes' winds up his tirade by an unwarranted<br />
attack on one gentleman of the council; thus virtually admitting<br />
a destitution of sound argument to sustain his cause. We hope our<br />
council will not be deterred in their duty, but continue the tax on that<br />
upas of our ci ty thus compell illg its proprietors to do something towards<br />
defraying the expense of pauperism and crime they are so instrumental<br />
in creating." (15)<br />
See also Entertainment; Music<br />
THEFTS. See Larcenies<br />
TIME<br />
3657 - L June 26: 1/5 - Yesterday, a pleasant hour was spent at the observatory<br />
of R. Crowles on Prospect st., where it was shown that the<br />
means of establishng time is anywhere simple although understood by<br />
very few. A table is used which shows eight cities whose standard time<br />
is some few minutes ahead of Cleveland, and a list of 12 cities whose<br />
time is slower than Cleveland. (5)<br />
TOBACCO<br />
3658 - L Aug. 4; adv: 1/5 - We are willing to stake our claim as a CIgar<br />
smoker that the best brand of Havana cigars can be had at the store of<br />
Messrs. Palmer & Keith. (l)
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