James Staples & Co Bankers advertises services in Bridgeport
The notice proclaims The First Bridgeport National Bank has long operated from Main and Jobo streets and promotes James Staples & Company as executor trustee administrator and guardian services. It highlights private banking experience and offers to manage estates with efficiency at 189 State Street Bridgeport Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main
James Staples & Company
James Staples & CO. Bankers
State ST
Bridgeport, Conn
Residents Seek Injunctions Over Rendering Plants Odors
Walter N Scranton of 128 Springs Street West Haven leads a group planning to petition Superior Court for an injunction to stop the West Haven plants of New Haven Rendering Co and Connecticut Fat Rendering Fertilizer Co unless odors can be eliminated. Nearby property owners threaten damage suits and possible criminal prosecutions after Orange town court fined managers Frank D Clark and George C Woolley $50 each for violating odor emission ordinances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter N. Scranton
Springs Street
West Haven
New Haven
Connecticut Fat Rendering & Fertilizer Corporation
Orange Town Court
Frank D. Clark
George C. Woolley
Feoples Savings Bank Notice of Deposits and Interest
Feoples Savings Bank at 924 92 Main Street announces deposits earn four percent interest. Interest begins the month after deposit and is payable January 1 and July 1. Samuel W. Baldwin serves as president and Wilaas H. Lyon as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feoples Savings Bank
Main Street
Samuel W. Baldwin
Wilaas H. Lyon
Spurns Senatorship in Hartford Remarks by Bulkeley
Former Governor Morgan G Bulkeley declined to run for U S senator saying his political ambitions are satisfied He stated he would not go back to Washington even if offered a gold platter A friend suggested he might reconsider if a term deadline aligned with another term ending next year and kept them guessing
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Hartford
Morgan G. Bulkeley
United States
Washington
Bulkeley
George McLean
Yale Surgeon Dr Flint Directs Greek War Wounded Care
Dr Joseph M Flint professor of surgery at Yale Medical School is in Athens directing surgical work for Greek soldiers wounded in the ongoing conflict with Bulgaria. He left for Europe with Mrs Flint to attend a London medical congress but accepted an invitation from the Greek ambassador to aid in Athens. He has served in the Philippines and follows modern war wounds. expected home late next month.
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Joseph Marshall Flint
Yale Medical School
Athens
Bulgaria
Flint
London
Philippines
Enlistments Fall as Army Reserve Act Impacts
Washington reports enlistments in the army are dropping by about 400 men monthly due to the new army reserve act. Only eight veterans joined the reserve since November, while average monthly enlistments run about 2,000 versus a 2,400 target. Critics say four year enlistments lose appeal for seven year reserve terms, and reservists would earn smaller bounties in war than reenlisting soldiers.
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Washington
Army
Army Reserve
Government Turns Out Horse That’s Tough And Speedy
Washington experts from the bureau of animal industry say a new cross breed, named Dan, is tough and useful like a mule yet as intelligent and fast as a full blooded horse. Dan was bred from a Morgan mare at the National Zoological Garden and the foal has drawn high praise from horsemen.
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Washington
Bureau of Animal Industry
Dan
National Zoological Garden
Gypsy Hen Hicks Band Leaves Newtown After Horse Trades
A band of sixteen gypsies led by H A Hicks departed Newtown for Massachusetts after trading several horses here. Hicks explains their livery stable network across Hartford Providence Springfield and Holyoke and describes their horse dealing method involving horse refinement and exchanges. The mayor of Holyoke corroborates Hicks, underscoring the family’s long standing business in New England.
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Newtown
South Center District
Massachusetts
H. M. Greenman
H. A. Hicks
Hartford
Hicks
Providence
Springfield
Soston
Presto
Mr. Hicks
Holyoke
Mass
Hen
Ane Amareau
New England
Garcia
Slit Skirts Barred by New Britain Factory
Landers Frary and Clark of New Britain warns clerks to dress more decorously and in businesslike attire. The notices, placed in pay envelopes, target slit skirts and diaphanous draperies, though specifics are not stated and no strike has occurred.
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New Britain
Landers
Frary & Clark
Essex man held for trial in manslaughter case
Alden H Reynolds of Essex was held for trial in the superior court on a manslaughter charge after a hearing in the town hall. Bonds of 5000 were posted. Reynolds drove the automobile that struck and killed John W Miller as he neared a trolley in Clinton last June. the coroner found him criminally responsible. Fraternity news and a note about Nutmeg Encampment meeting at Odd Fellows hall. An ad mentions felt styles at E H Dillon Co 105 Main St.
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Clinton
Alden H. Reynolds
Essex
Justice of the Peace
H. N. Jones
Reynolds
John W. Miller
Miller
Texas Senator Culberson In Serious Condition
Washington Aug 14 Senator Culberson of Texas is reported in a serious Connecticut sanitarium condition. The appointment by Governor O NeaL of Alabama of Representative Henry D Clayton to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Johnston s death eases tariff bill anxieties among Democrats though Culberson s absence still risks shifting the tariff vote from the pre appointment alignment of 49 to 47 in favor.
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Washington
Senator Culberson
Texas
O'Neal
Alabama
Henry D Clayton
House Juchary Committee
Senator Johnston
Connecticut
Clayton
Culterson
Mr. Clayton
Johnston
Rev John L Brooks Tells Hartford Clergy of His Break with Drink
Hartford Aug 14 Reverend John Les Brooks pastor of the Windsor Methodist church spoke to Hartford churchmen at their luncheon in the Allyn house recounting a turning moment sparked by a bartender’s compassionate care after a late drinking episode. He recalled being in Atlantic City and described the influence of the bartender’s kindness in his decision toward reform.
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Hartford
John Les Brooks
Methodist
Windsor
Allyn
Memory of a bar night shapes future resolve
The narrator recalls a night with older companions at a second-rate bar where bartender Gus Anderson refused a drink and sent him to bed. The kind, warning face lingered, and the next morning his vice and sympathy stayed with him, shaping a vow never to drink alcohol again.
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Gus Anderson
Milwinter
Cupid Keeping the Wires Busy With Hello Girl
Residents complain of telephone service delays at the Deere ton exchange. Supervisors report seventeen of seventy operators lost to engagement last month. Manager Gates says Cupid seems to have caused an unusual shortage as the switchboard fills with newly married girls, hindering staffing despite efforts to recruit more students.
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Bvagston
Dern
Deereton Exchange
Gsten
Cupid
Mr. Gates
Pew
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Guaranty CO
Golden Hill ST
Roete Bies
Nova Scotia
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Canada
S. Loewith & Co
Bank Street
Colum
Hayes Fish CO
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Joseph P. Coughlin Co
East Main Street
Lowe’s
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Fairfield Avenue
People’s Dair
State Street
The
Naugatuck Valley Ice Co
Lehigh
Housatonic Ave
DR. Flint
YALE
Sanita
Crawford Laundry Co
Fairfield Ave
Courtland ST
Broch’s Cafe
Moerlein
Cincinnati
Geo
B. Clark & Co
Broad Street
Onyx
Te Zad & Taylor
New York
Gypsy
Hen” Hicks
Hoss
Dutoist of
Odd Fellows’ Hall
E. H. Dillon & Co
Tring
M. J. Buechler
Middle St
Block
Island
Long Island
East Main
A. Elwood & Son
John Street Auctioneers
Lyon & Grumman CO
Nuaue
Eas
Gus C. Mullen
D. M. Read Gs
Staples
P.cular
Wald
Stratford Avenue
Ember
Gulberson IL
John L. Brooks
Costa Rica
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