Former Mayor Low As Reid's Successor
United Press reports Aug 12 that Bob Low former mayor of New York may succeed Whitelaw Reid as ambassador to England. Low at his Bedford Massachusetts summer home declines comment. Taft reportedly offered the ambassadorship. decision influenced by former president Bill Taft Harvard’s declination. A separate item notes a $1000 bond default in a grand larceny burglary case against a hotel clerk with alleged thefts of securities. A Socialist convention is set for Sept 14 at 1106 Main Street with a city ticket expected.
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Hotel Royal
Acton
Roberts
Eieinges Securities
Socialist Party
Main Street
Newtown Social and Local Notes Highlight Fair Week Events
A Newtown roundup notes Saturday ball game between Bethel and Newtown Men’s Fed and a large turnout at the Barnart Space event. Ice cream by a local club, a successful Oriental Goods sale by Mr. Sliby, and school gathering at Taunton Lake are listed alongside community committees for the high school fair ground potato event. Distinct names include Mary Fairchild, Earle Peck, Margaret Keane, Ethel Peck, Augusta Anna Raffles, Helen Blake, Herbert Ferris, Lillian Kilbride, and Frederick L. Mills of the Kitchen Agency Bridgeport, with others visiting Fairfield beach and New Haven.
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Bethel
Newtown
Charles Mabel Taylor
Sliby
Barnat
Newtown High School
Taunton Lake
Fair Grounds
High Volana
Mary Fairchild
Earle Peck
Margaret Keane
Ethel Peck
Augusta Anna Raffles
Helen Blake- Herbert Ferris
Lillianee M. Kilbride
Frederick L. Mills
Roach in the Pie A Hypothetical Kitchen Warning
A fragmented warning about tolerating roaches and water bugs in the kitchen. The speaker suggests that if a roach were served in a pie, one might wish for twenty cents as a grim, cautionary thought about hidden filth in the home.
French Captain Marix Sentenced To One Year Imprisonment
Paris reports Captain Marix was sentenced to one year in prison for using influence to obtain military pardons and aid oil in evading duty. He purportedly charged clients between 200 and 1000. Associates M Weill and M Grenier received six and eight months respectively. The trial prompted claims of antisemitic motive.
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Paris
Marix
M. Weill
M. Grenier
Offensive Posters Stir Up Trouble in London
A week of poster campaigns across London saw 40 000 notices pasted, then torn down by rival gangs working day and night. Officials objected to the imagery and wording, which hinted at poisoning vermin and claimed supplies to His Majesty the King.
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United Press
London
England
Fresh fish markets and seaside outings headline Friday notices
Local fish markets advertise clams, cod, halibut, mackerel, lobsters and more at low prices with doorstep telephone orders. Garry's Fish Market highlights Kennebec River salmon and bluefish at 100 Wall street. Elite Club promotes a Roton Point moonlight sail on the John Sylvester with live music. Public notices tout Turkish baths and matinee steamship trips to Port Jefferson as popular Friday bargains.
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Idgeport Public Market & Branch
East Main
Garry’s
Kennebec
Garry's
Wall Street
Roton Point
John Sylvester
Harvey
Foot of
Walter Schneider
Lester Burdick
Joe Barry
Dick Kerr
Atjlas
Fairfield Avenue
Broad Street
Atlas
Port Jefferson
N. Y
Girl With Memory Loss Is Found On New Haven Train
A tall 20 year old woman named Annie OConnell from Ireland was found on a New York to New Haven train in a dazed state. She cannot speak and appears conscious yet unable to recall her past. Doctors suspect catalepsy and monitor her at New Haven Hospital while authorities search for identity and cause.
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New Haven
Charles van der Osten
Grace Hospital
New York
William Lucy
Bart Daly
Annie O’connel
Ireland
New Haven Hospital
Lindley
Annie O'Connell
Bristol Chicken Thief Captured After Roost Raid
Special from United Press Bristol Aug 12 police nabbed Edmund Blank 21 of Chippen's Hill after weeks of poultry raids. He held 35 chickens at capture, 14 from his father's roost, bond set at 500 for court tomorrow.
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United Press
Bristol
Edmund Blank
Chippen’s Hill
Weather Indications and Mid Summer Pipe Sale
Forecast from New Haven shows fair tonight with increasing clouds and Friday showers, a moving high pressure system from the lake region and a southward shift toward the north Atlantic coast. In Fairfield, D D Smith conducts a mid summer sale of meerschaum pipes with 25 to 50 percent reductions. The sale features 150 pipe designs from top makers with amber stems and skilled carving. Alderman D B Bullard, leading Fairfield anti tuberculosis efforts, has written 180 letters seeking donations to movement to reduce deaths from the white plague.
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United Press
New Haven
Lake Region
North Atlantic
South Dakota
Iowa
Ohio
Mississippi Valley
D. D. Smith
Fairfield Avenue
Smith
D. B. Bullard
Fairfield County Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Dillon and Co Leading Milliners Ad Notice
EH Dillon and Co advertise trimmed dress hats ranging from 2 to 14 dollars with a special display of auto veils and chiffon hood veils in multiple price points. The message repeats the firm name and store address 105 Mains, highlighting a broad hat selection and veil line for shoppers.
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EH. Dillon & CO
Twain settlement near in Ashcroft dispute with Twain
Special to the Farmer Redding August 12 Negotiations have progressed for an adjustment of financial issues between Mark Twain and his former Secretaries the Ashcrofts with a fair prospect of settlement without court action Attorney Stanchfield is away in New York and likely no action until his return Mrs Ashcroft recalls her role as household disbursing agent and aims to reduce a nominal shortfall of about 6000 dollars The investigating expert found no evidence of any wrongful diversion of funds by her Her diary aids tracing expenditures and much of the deficit is accounted for so far
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Redding
Mark Twaih
Ashcrofts
Stanchfield
New York
Mark Twain
Balloon incident sparks frontier firing scare
Officials were alarmed by a Milowice report that Russian frontier guards fired on a German balloon carrying four men, killing three and wounding one. Later dispatches said the balloon crossed the frontier and landed. the balloonists, army officers, were held then released when their mission was found friendly.
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United Press
St. Petersburg
Milowice
Fatally Injured by Stage Coach Near Meredith
Special from United Press. Meredith Aug 12 Serious injuries from a stage coach crash on the incline at Center Harbor. Edwin F Richards farmer of Lincoln Nebraska and a woman believed to be Mrs S ih Blanchard of Dayville Conn are at a local hospital under physician care. Richards suffered a broken collar bone and several fractured ribs while Mrs Blanchard endured serious internal injuries and remains unconscious most of the time.
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United Press
Meredith
Here
Sandwich
Center Harbor
Edwin F. Richards
Lincoln
Nebraska
S.ih Blanchard
Dayville
Conn
Richards
Habeas Corpus Granted for Broker Persch in Larceny Case
New York Aug 12 Justice Lieman granted a writ of habeas corpus to broker Donald Persch held on a short affidavit charging him with larceny of stock valued at 110000 belonging to F Augustus Heinze pledged by M M Joyce to secure a 50000 loan He will be released on the writ but re arrested on new warrants and kept in Tombs Bail set at 50000 Assistant District Attorney Nott plans grand jury action and additional arrests may follow Readings indicate witnesses and investigators to present fuller evidence to the grand jury and indictments are expected
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United Press
New York
Justice Lieman
Supreme Court
Donald Perach
F. Augustus Heinze
Copper King
M. M. Joyce
Persch
Nott
Joyce
John F. Sherwood
Herrman
Joyce, Sherwood
W. L. Clark
Clark
Windsor Trust Company
Grand Jury
Tragic end to love affair on crowded street car
United Press reports Chicago August tragedy as Thomas Katsones, 26, kills Victoria Kovanee, 22, during a street car ride before shooting himself. The girl dies instantly, Katsones reportedly survives, and panicked passengers were injured fleeing. Katsones had pursued marriage. Kovanee spurned him.
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United Press
Chicago
Thomas Katsones
Victoria Kovanee
Katsones
Jail for man who embezzled employer's coal
Thomas Walsh, charged with embezzlement, received 15 days in jail in city court before Judge Wade. Walsh, a driver for McNeil Coal Company, siphoned coal in bags and sold bags at low prices along his route. The company noted this behavior among workers and intends to stop it.
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Thomas Walsh
Wa der
Walsh
McNeil Coal Company
McNeil Company
Holbein Drops Channel Swim Attempt After Exhaustion
Special from United Press Dover Aug 12 Montague Holbein exhausted after swimming night from Cape Gris nez to England and gave up his Channel attempt at age 48 He had aimed to celebrate a birthday anniversary and did not match his 1903 effort when he nearly completed the crossing from France to Dover
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United Press
Dover
Eng
Cape Gris
France
Montague Holbein
Holbein
Auto Runs Wild Injuring Soldiers Near Salisbury Plain
London August 12 More than a score of soldiers were injured today with several fatalities after a large automobile ran wild on a road near Salisbury Plain and struck a detachment of soldiers returning to London from drill. The vehicle, beyond the chauffeur control, dashed into the ranks at a road turn. Initial reports listed seven dead, with more likely casualties among the injured.
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United Press
London
Salisbury Plain
Bridgeport Board to Accept Bids for Lakeview Home Piping
Bridgeport Board of Public Charities will receive bids until 12:00 noon Tuesday August 17 1909 for piping Lakeview Home. Plans are held by the Superintendent on Asylum Street. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Edward F Nevins Clerk.
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Board of Public Charities
City of
Bridgeport
Lakeview
Superintendent of Home
Asylum St. E
Eadward F. Nevins
Sealed proposals for four room brick addition to Center School
Beckwith and Jackson Architects port Conn invites bids for erecting and completing a four room brick addition to Center School Stratford Conn. Proposals due noon September 1. Each proposal must be accompanied by a $600 certified check. Plans and specifications available at the architects offices.
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Beckwith & Jackson
Port
Conn
Stratford
Man in Hiding Suspected of Rochester Murder
Special from United Press Rochester N Y Aug 12 A man is hiding in a long marsh in the northern town of Greece near Lake Ontario believed to be the slayer of a one year old Anna Schumacher buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery He is said to have bought food at a town constable’s office and police scout the swamp where hunger might force him out with farmers aiding the search in a massive manhunt.
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United Press
Rochester
Greece
Lake Ontario
Anna Schumacher
Holy Sepulchre
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Cyrus Pharmacy
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Smith-Murray CO
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Sam Harris
Rochester Muerder
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Renee
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