Progressive Store Birthday Sale Marks Fifth Year
The progressive store celebrates a fourth anniversary and launches a sale tomorrow to open its fifth year. Laborde German Co and Kleban & Gelman merged with Laborde-Cohen leadership driving changes and continued community trust. The event features underpriced merchandise and aims to attract large crowds.
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Laborde-German Co
Kleban & Gelman
Mr. Chamansky
I. J. Cohen
Mrr. Cohen
New York City
R. H. Macy & Co
Cohen
Thas
Chagnanskys
Fia
Am Wntizee
Retired Army Men Lose Extra Pay Decision
Washington Australia reports that retired personnel and enlisted men serving with state militias will not receive the $5,000 annually allocated by the federal government. They will instead get only their retired regular army pay as officers and noncommissioned officers. The comptroller of the treasury issued the ruling, affecting many who hold both regular army and militia roles.
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Washington
Aus
Organized Soilitia
Feneral
Comptroller of the Treasury
Not Deciding the Question About State Weighs In
A fragment recalls a figure who did not settle the issue regarding state proportions. The line hints at a broader debate or constitutional question but provides no final decision or names beyond the contextual reference to “states.” The text emphasizes indecision rather than resolution.
Arrests in Cincinnati strike riot of teamsters
In Cincinnati on August 6 running battles between striking teamsters, supporters and police ended with 22 arrests for disorderly conduct. At the Kroger Grocery plant 100 or more dispersed after threats to burn the plant were overheard. more arrests followed when night detectives halted gatherings near Eden Park.
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Cincinnati
Kroger Grocery Company
Florence Avenue
Eden Park
Central Station
Siegher
Westport Votes for State Street Bridge Repair and Pavement
Westport townspeople at a special meeting vote 1600 dollars for repairing the State street draw and bar freight use by the Connecticut Co. until funds allow a new draw. They also allocate 1000 dollars to continue bithulithic pavement on Hotel Square and Main street, plan pavement width along tracks, and seek grade fixes on East Church street. News notes include fashion items, illness of Judge Bradley, and local sports mentions.
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Westport, Ave
Connecticut Co
General Assembly
Taylor & Richards
Chapman
Bridgeport
Leary
New Haven
Company
Trolley
Main
State Streets
Riverside Avenue
Westport
Main Street
Hotel Square
Taylor & Richards Coal Yard
Aeeeest
Compo Street
Fire District Committee
East Church Street
Westport Nine
New York
Paris
Alise
Daniel B. Bradley
Wright Street
Joseph Sands
Syracuse
John P. McCormick
Seattle
Wash
Mary McCormick
Imperial Avenue
Sergeant McCormick
Pacific Coast
Washington Barracks
Harry Dolan
Saugatuck
Scranton
Burns & Bassick Co
Worcester
Mass
Fairfield Bathers Fined After Tin Bridge Water Raids
Local authorities and railroad officials crackdown on bathers near the tin bridge in Fairfield. Four men jailed then released on costs after admonition, later three men fined $9 total for indecent exposure and related offenses. Additional reports note a looming milk shortage and rising prices amid harsh conditions.
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Fairfield
Adg
State Street
Tin” Bridge
H. R. Elwood
Leander Hedberg
Gustave Nelson
Vallurer
Bacon Wakeman
Wakeman
Bridgeport
Warren Bros. Co
Surveyors staking out Stratford Ave for Warrenite paving
Surveyors began along Stratford avenue from the city line to Hard's corner to measure land for Warrenite pavement by the state highway department. Work in Fairfield avenue in Bridgeport suggests Stratford could start by September 15, with Connecticut Warrenite tracks laid to align with paving. If unimpeded, completion before winter is expected, bringing a major trunk line through Stratford. Local library lists new fiction since April, with titles from Dreiser to Zane Grey and Shaw. LEAVES TOWN reports the Engelhard family moving to Philadelphia. REGISPRAHS MEET notes voters registrars session and a Straptford Woman Suffrage meeting set for Aug 6.
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Stratford
Stratford Avenue
Hard’s Corner
State Highway Department
Fairfield Avenue
Bridgeport
Stratfor Avenue
Connecticut
Ferry Road
Ist
Beyond the Law
Miriam Alexander
Invaders
Francis Newton Symmes Allen
Julia France
Her Times
Gertrude Atherton
Alsace
Rene Bazin
the Net
Rex Beach
Special Messenger
Robert Chambers
Manalive
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Winston Churchill
Road of Living Men
Will Levington Comfort
Brother Copas
Arthur T. Quiller Couch
James O. Curwood
Little Parish
Zales
Alphonse Daudet
Andrew
Jeffrey Farnel
Jane H. Findlater
Edward Morgan Forster
John Fox
Virginia
Eben Glasgow
Zane Grey
H. Rider Haggard
Ulster
James Owen Hannay
Henry Sydnor Harrison
Atlantis
Gerhardt Hauptman
Peggy
Frances A. Mathews
T. P. O'Connor
Phillips Oppenheim
William Dana Orcutt
John Oxenham
Judgment House
Gilbert Parker
Anthony Partridge
Sanctuary
Maud Howard Peterson
Roger Pocock
Bobby
Olive Higgins Prouty
Carolyn Wells
Edith Wharton
Stewart Edward White
W. J. Engelhard
West Broad Street
Philadelphia
Phaey Lewis
H. J. Lewis
Stoney Creek
F.C. Bennetto
Danbury
Bennetto
Charles Hoyt
Stratford Woman Suffrage Association
Bethany Mission Hall
Fire destroys barn and outbuildings at Carroll farm
August 5 1913 report from Saugatuck details a coop fire that consumed a large barn and several outbuildings at Patrick Carroll’s Pine Creek Road property. About 1500 dollars in losses, 100 chickens perished, firemen from Fairfield quickly contained the blaze preserving the Carroll house.Nearby residents including Mr and Mrs Ralph Williams and Mr and Mrs Walter Price visited Greens Farms estate and watched horses at the center water trough.
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Sevber
Saugatuck
Patrick Carroll
Pine Creek Road
Erastus Baker
Fairfield Fire Department
Louise
Bertha Seidt
John J. Knoche
Henry Moore
Boston
Mass
Greens Farms
E. T. Bedford
Ralph Williams
Stepney
Beach
Carroll House
Walter Price
Car ride through Redding to Bethel on Sunday
Easton residents Frank Rogers and Erwin P Edwards joined Miss Alice W Lyon and Miss Minnie O Sherwood for a Sunday automobile excursion through Redding Putnam Park and Bethel in Miss Sherwood’s car. Rev F S Clark and family began a Tuesday motor trip to Maine for a month at their old home there.
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Frank Rogers
Erwin P Edwards
Bridgeport
Alice W Lyon
Stratfield
Minnie O Sherwood
Redding
Putnam Park
Bethel
Sher Wood
F. S. Clark
Miriam Clark
Philip Clark
Maine
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Aturday
Paeigs & So Outfitters
ME —* Wen Children
Mayr
Geo. H. Mayr
Mfg
Whiting St
Chicago
Hindle Pharmacy
Rexall Drug Store
State and
Main Sts
Conn, CO
Tin Bridge
Charles Anderson
James Harris
Southport
Anderson
John C. Lobdell
Greenfield Hill
Grange
Isaac B. Nichols
Dwight Nichols
Stephen Gifford
Albert
Halsey Duryea
Newark
Ladies’ Society
Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
Oliver C. Smith
Smith & Egge Co
Smith
Voldrauer
Stratford Ave
Easton
Rs — Ware
H. E. Adams
Eby
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
Villeneuve
Wood Side Ave
Bridgeport Land and Title
Whitehead-Jones Co
Connecticut National Bank
Conn
Kodak
F.lyman
Alwaxe
Fiat
THE
Wheeler & Howes CO
Sprague’s
Lehigh Coal
Sprague Ice Ice & Coal Co
IRA Gregory & & Co
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