Judson Tells of Highlands Beauty and British Tour
State's Attorney Stiles Judson and Mrs Judson returned home after two months touring Scotland Wales and England. He shared vivid scenes from Oban to Hadrian's Wall and Glascow Edinburgh Roslin Abbey Melrose Abbey Hexham Walton Conway and Chepstow with notes on Roman remains and royal Welsh history.
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Scotland
Wales
England
Stlies Judson
Stratford
Judson
Connecticut
Dermstaffnage
Scone
Edward of
Kingland
William
Clan McDonald
Inverness
Stair
Assacre
Edinburgh
Craigsfitlar
Roslin
Fadborough Abbey
Melrose Abbey
Hexam
New Haven Road Roundhouse Fire Sparks Spectacle
New Haven Aug 16 an old brick house on Water Street used by the New Haven road maintenance department burned. Large quantities of oil paints tarred rope and other flammable materials fueled a spectacular blaze. Freight cars and a nearby shop were endangered as firemen battled to prevent spread. Fire confined within brick walls but lumber sheds and timber storage were threatened. Estimated loss ran to thousands of dollars with fence damage undetermined.
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New Haven
New Haven Road
Water Street
Ito
Alaskan Forest Fires Extend Three Miles
Aug 16 report from near Kenai Lake 25 miles from Seward notes a forest fire driven by a fish wind. The blaze damaged three miles of the Northern track and is believed to have started from a campfire.
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Kenai Lake
Seward
Boys of Tender Years Held on Burglary Charge
Julius Bachman aged 14 and Harry Reynolds aged 7, both of 1915 Seaview avenue, charged with burglary of a U M C Company warehouse and taking 23 calibre cartridges, bound over for trial by $1,000 bonds. Companion Jules Mudre, 15, released on advice of guardian. Also notes on multiple minor public offenses and local court actions, with various fines and pending trials. An auto ambulance will be laid up for repairs, two horse drawn ambulances in service temporarily.
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Julius Bachman
Seaview Avenue
Harry Reynolds
U. M. c. Company
Jules Mudre
Grazia Cippola
East
Washington Avenue
Freda Bona
Willard Street
Péter Pars
State Street
Joseph Conwell
Conwell
Max Gold
Maurice Sherman
Spruce Street
William Toister
Rosa
Myrtle Avenue
Joseph Bastine
Colorado Avenue
Martha
John A. Kennedy
Dave Jack
Robert Nichols
Aubrey Burleson
E H Dillon & Co Wholesale and Retail Leading Milliners
The firm at 16 Rue St. Cecile Hartford offers a Mid-Summer Clearance Sale with summer millinery marked at nominal prices. Special values in cloth sport coats raincoats silk petticoats white lawn and silk shirt waists.
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Hirtford
Rue
ST. Cecile
Ratine Drewes
Fire Board Probes Delay in Installing Theatre Alarm Boxes
Bridgeport Fire Commissioners decided to investigate theatre managers keep delays on installing fire alarm boxes and plan to revisit the issue at the next meeting. The board also voted to paint residential poles red and approved costs and personnel actions including fireman pay, relief fund contributions, and attending a Fire Chiefs’ convention in New York.
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Bridgeport
Stratfield Improvement Society
William P. Rief
Pembroke Street
Christopher McGough
Engine “Company
Hawley Gardware Company
Main Street
Mooney
Tracy
New York City
Cogill
Merchant's son missing after cash theft in store
Police search surrounding towns for 18 year old Arthur Geanuracos son of a confectionery merchant at 725 Noble Avenue. He reportedly left after repeated hints he wished to go west, closing the store last night, taking 60 dollars from the till, and has not been seen since. Bridgeport milk question settled by Dr. D M Trecartin, health board president, who says only prime farm milk is sold locally.
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Arthur Geanuracos
Noble Avenue
Bridgeport
Hartford
D. M. Trecartin
Local Health Board
Teak Wood Canes for Mayor Wilson Presented by Convict Ship Captain
Capt D B Smith of the Convict ship Success presented Mayor Clifford B Wilson with Burmese teak from the historic vessel. The wood will be turned into a walking stick and is noted as a rare, sound 123 year old fragment. A mast section from the Success also rests in the British Museum, with experts estimating the tree to be about 2,000 years old.
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D. B. Smith
Success
Clifford B. Wilson
Wilson
British Museum
Rabbit Season Shortened and Snare Ban Enacted
Legislation restricts rabbit season to January 15 through October 7, shortening the open season to two months and twenty four days. All snares and similar devices are outlawed with fines of 25 to 56 dollars, split with towns and informers. Penalties include license forfeiture and a two year renewal ban.
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Minskrais
Connecticut
Local Incident and Police Board Actions
A fall at 171 Pequonnock Street sent 19 year old Alice Pallidin to St Vincent’s with a broken leg. The Police Board rejected Patrolman Charles Musante’s request for reimbursement for an operation and Cen tano Tavio’s application as special officer.
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Pequonnock Street
Alice Pallidin
St Vincent's, Hospital
Charles Musante
Centano Tavio
Pankhurst Leaves England For Rest Cure In France
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst travels across the channel to France from Southampton and Havre on license under the cat and mouse act. She faces possible arrest if seen boarding a steamer to leave England after a three week penal servitude sentence for conspiracy. Her daughter Christabel directs the militant suffrage campaign from Paris and Miss Annie Kenny may follow. Authorities reportedly favor allowing the emigration of militant leaders.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
England
France
Channel
Southampton
Havre
Christabel Pankhurst
Women’s Social and Political Union
Militant Suffrage Organization
Paris
Militant Women
Pankhurst
United States
Annie Kenny
Militant Suffragette Society
Continent
Sylvia Pankhurst
Ambassador Gerard Back From Germany
Supreme Court Justice James Gerard has returned from Berlin where he arranged a residence for his post as Ambassador to Germany. He arrived with Mrs. Gerard aboard the steamship Amerika. Also aboard was Rein hard Drewitz, builder and skipper of the Wittisbach, a yacht owned by Christof AH of Berlin, which will race off Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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New York
Supreme Court
James Gerard
Berlin
Germany
Amerika
Gerard
Reinhard Drewitz
Wittisbach
Christof AH
Marblehead
Maes
Ring Too Small Traps Child Finger, Gangrene Fears
A six year old girl Elsie Williams of Howard and Beechwood avenues had a ring too tight on her index finger last night. The ring caused cellulitis and swelling around the band. Friends cut the flesh to free it and doctors worked over thirty minutes to remove the ring amid fear of gangrene.
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Elsie Williams
Howard and
Beechwood
Spring Water Dealers Must Submit Product To Official Analysis
Bridgeport imposes an enacted law requiring bottled water dealers to submit products for state analysis. Local Board of Health has received application blanks with a $10 fee and fields for water name location source bottling works and applicant. Samples of all waters sold in Bridgeport must be submitted to the local board for transmission to the State Board of Health for analysis.
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Board of Health
Bridgeport
State Board of Health
Green Cross Be Used Exclusively By Red Cross Members
Courts decide the Red Cross Society is entitled to the red cross insignia on uniforms and vehicles. In line with national changes the local emergency ambulance will bear a green cross. Physicians and others not members who used the red cross sign will use the green emblem on their cars.
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Red Cross Society
Red Cross Society, Incorporated
Schoolboy Breaks Arm Climbing for Apples
Albert Ganley a 12 year old pupil of 124 Parallel street fell from an apple tree near his home this morning breaking his right arm. He received treatment at the emergency hospital then was taken to St Vincent's for X ray examination and observation of the fracture.
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Albert Ganley
Paralllel Street
St Vincent's
Personal notes on Fotch and local doctors touring regions
F Fotch the well known musician is touring Massachusetts and Vermont in his auto and expects to stay about five weeks after sending cards to friends. Dr William H Curley Emergency hospital surgeon left today for a two week vacation touring the Hudson river the Berkshires and Pittsfield Mass. Dr G W Hawley spends two weeks vacation touring Green Mountains. Dr G A Davis after a Berkshires visit resumes practice in the city.
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F. Fotch
Massachusetts
Vermont
Mr. Fotch
William H. Curley
Hudson River
Berkshires
Pittsfield
Mass
G. W. Hawley
Park Avenue
Green Mountains
G. A. Davis
State Street
Boston
Giant Lookout Tower Built For Forest Fires
An Arizona National Forest report praises a 115 foot lookout tower built entirely from logs by forest rangers without hoisting gear. The structure, raised by sheer muscle, will monitor for forest fires and ser vice officials compare the achievement to ancient pyramids.
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Washington
Graves
National Forest
Arizona
Forest Rangers
Forest Service
Pharoah
Sam
Industrial Workers Quit Street Rioting in Minot
A large exodus of Industrial Workers of the World began in Minot North Dakota after riots tied to street meetings. Officials report 145 arrests and ongoing raids on jungle camps as hundreds reportedly left town in the last 36 hours. Only one street meeting attempt occurred last night, resulting in six arrests.
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Minot N. D
Newtown Drowning Prevented By Sandy Hook Boy Hero
Martin McNamara a ten year old from Sandy Hook is hailed as hero after aiding in a near drowning at Niantic Mills pond last Wednesday afternoon. Annie Toohey Julia Hefferman wandered into a pool and cried out prompting nearby youths to act, while Curtis and Werner of the Brick Store extended a fish pole to pull the girls to shore. Heffernan was unconscious for over an hour but both girls survived the episode.
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Martin McNamara
Sandy Hook
Niantic Mills
Annie Toohey
Julia Hefferman
Curtis and
Werner
Heffernan
Gertrude Bradley
Margaret Fowler
Margaret Cashman
Bridgeport
Thomas F. Bradley
North Center
Firdmen's
Doddingtown Fire Company
William Gower
le Roy Barnum
George Wheeler
Valentine Freese
Louise Hartwig
Lynn W. Wilson
James L. McGovern
John J. Cullinan
Philip McLaughlin
Newtown
Wilson
T. J. Cor Bett
Queen Street
St. Rose’s
Christine Dely
M. J. Keans
New Haven
Stratford Pastor to Preach. Play Denied at Red Men's Hall
Rev Edward N Packard of the Congregational church will preach tomorrow morning. There will be no play at Red Men's ball Tuesday September indicating How the Vote was Won. Mrs Dun can of New Haven will give an address with proceeds for the Stratford Women's Suffrage Association.
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Edward N. Packard
Congregational
Mrs Miller Leads Connecticut Suffragists in Washington Steps
Connecticut suffragists led by Mrs Irving Binster and Mrs Hebert McLain pressed for a House Women Suffrage Committee. National reach grew with the National Council of Women Voters conference and a Saybrook benefit play drawing tickets to capacity.
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Washington
Committee On Rules of the Home of Representatives
House
Mies Helen Todd
California
Pacific Coast
Connecticut
Mire
Irving Binster
Hebert McLain
Hertford
Hay
Orm
House of Representatives
Sig
Weehington
United States
National Council of Women Voters
Cora Smith King
Fie
Brady
Erety
Idaho
National Council of Women
Massachusetts Avenue
Premety
Smith
Tw Staten
Saybrook
Mra
Donald R. Hooker
Baltimom
Miss Alien
Sarbron
Five Thousand Miners Walk Out In River Strike
Five thousand workers of the Western Federation of Miners strike halts mining activity in River, Missouri, Aug 14. Mines closed as labor action spreads though pumps reportedly remain operative.
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Fist River
War Western Federation of Mipere
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