Streak of Cheap Macadam On Fairfield Ave Prompt Critique
Column criticizes Fairfield Avenue pavement as overpriced and uncompetitive. It argues the Warrenite bituminous concrete lacks proper market competition and cites alleged legal issues with the city’s paving method. The piece denounces double machine government as costly for taxpayers.
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Mr. Taxpayer
Fairfield Ave
Fairfield
Fairfield Avenue
Connecticut Company
Tata
Debated funding and policy clash over serial notes and double machine plans
The piece critiques a city policy to issue over two million in serial notes and expand debt via a so called double machine. It argues large spending would delay municipal utilities and grant corrupt backers power while opponents claim a referendum was needed and bonding proposals were defeated.
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General Assembly
Bridgeport
Pawcnice
Tlie
Apple growers urged to adopt scientific care at Cleveland convention
The 19th convention of apple shippers in Cleveland urged modern methods for apples. The report contrasts orange cultivation with apples, noting growth in oranges but a 16 percent drop in apples since 1899 and urging land nutrition and careful handling on padded bins with tissue packing.
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Cleveland
United States
Apple orchards rush toward science and faster yields
Suckers are pests on trees and rain runs off sunbaked soil while unsprayed apples attract worms. Yet spraying and packing methods urged by shippers at a Cleveland meeting are spreading. J. H. Hale of Glastonbury praises science in fruit growing and notes the era of slow bearing is ending as New England hillsides brace for abundant crops.
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Cleveland
Union
Agricultural Intelligence of America
J. H. Hale
Glastonbury
Connecticut
Hale
New England
Poincare Birthday Milestone Marks French Leader
Editorial notes mark M Raymond Poincare born August 20 1860 at Bar le Duc as he becomes France's ninth post 1870 head of state. The piece surveys his career from lawyer to minister premier and Academy member and his family ties to science and literature.
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M. Raymond Poincare
France
Barle-Duc
Papa” Fallieres
The
Elysee
Henri Poincare
Poingcarre
M. Poincare
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Bar-le-Duc
Kaiser
Mountain Land for Forest Reservations
Washington reports show more land than previously believed in the southern Appalachian and White mountains is being ticked away for forest reservation by the government. Forest Service surveys indicate the acreage exceeds by about one percent the earlier estimates of tracts offered for sale.
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Washington
Appalachian
White Mountain
Forest Service
Americans Safe After Torrion Outbreak Fears Typhoid
All Americans in Torrion are reported safe by passengers who left August 11 and arrived in Laredo on August 20. Heavy rains have flooded part of the city and typhoid fever is feared. Federals expect an attack on Torrion soon as two trains between Torrion and Monterey were destroyed by dynamite within two days. No fatalities are reported.
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Oka
Quebec
Canada
la Vendee
France
America
Baltimore
Vincent de Paul
Nova Scotia
Rhode Island
Laredo
Tex
Torrion
Monterey
Progressives to Use Movies in Connecticut Campaign
The Hartford Times reports that Connecticut progressives plan a broad moving picture campaign in the state. Films will attack Republican policies, show alleged issues in child labor and prison labor, and include lectures on how jails operate and labor markets clash with free labor. The plan also covers reactions to the last general assembly and aims to reveal proposed changes.
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Hartford Times
Times
Connecticut
Progressive Service
Progressive Party
Connecticut General Assembly
Masked robbers hold up train near Portland
Four or five masked men boarded the Soo Spokane passenger train on the Oregon Washington line near a viaduct in Portland Oregon, firing over twenty shots to intimidate crew and passengers. A tramp on top of a Pullman car was wounded seriously. The amount taken is not yet known.
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Portland
Ore
Soo-Spokane
Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation
Engineer Runs Down Rebels Trains Crushed Five Die
Mexico City August 20 A train from Vera Cruz collided with a rebel column near the capital when the engineer aimed the locomotive into the ranks. Five rebels were crushed under the wheels while the Zapatistas fired but caused no injuries.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Zapatistas
Woman Dies at 39 After Birth of Seventeenth Child
Mrs. John O'Donnell of Columbus died at a local hospital following the birth of her seventeenth child at age 39. She is survived by her husband and eight of their seventeen children. Mr. O'Donnell, a railroad employee, has fathered 28 children, eleven from a prior marriage. The note adds a parallel line about touring Broadway theatrical companies recruiting former spear carriers.
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Columbus
John O'Donnell
Silk Sale At The D. M. Read Co. Store
The Silk Section advertises a weekly sale of fancy silks with a diverse selection. Front counter displays a profusion of patterns and colors including dress lengths waist lengths and coat linings and petticoats. All 1.00 value silks reduced to 75 cents to clear stock.
Novelties in Jewelry and Designer Goods Sale
An advertisement lists sterling silver coin purses with half and quarter dollar slots, a large sterling vanity case, sautoir chains in pink white and blue, solid gold collar pins, lapel watch chains, and a designer subscription offer. The Autumn Style Book is offered and Primrose Tea tickets accompany tea room promotions.
Teach Irish History: New Haven Board Urged to Add Course
United Irish societies of New Haven seek to place Irish history among elective high school studies. A committee led by J Edmund Miller and including J J Carroll, Miss Blien Molloy, Joseph Mulvey, and Michael McGrail will urge the board of education and local pastors to approve a history course. They argue it requires little cost beyond a few books and would honor Irish heritage without teaching Gaelic.
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New Haven
United Irish Cbcieties
Board of Education
J. Edmund Miller
J. J. Carroll
Mies Blien ¥. Molloy
Joseph H. Mulvey
Michael McGrail
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Ireland
Jack Rose Lectures for Christ Church in Norwalk
Westport August 20 Jack Rose the Rosenthal murder case principal witness will lecture for Christ Episcopal Church Norwalk on Life in the Underworld proceeds to church treasury Rose offered to lecture free in reply to Rector Rev J H Brown appeal funds needed to meet obligations A $10 check accompanied the offer and a date will be set
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Westport
Jack
Rose
Rosenthal
Christ Episcopal Church
Norwalk
Church
J. H. Brown
Jack Rose
Goshen Pair Charged With Polluting Pond Water
Edward Baightoe and Miss Anna of New Tory faced a charge of polluting Goshen Pond water. Peace Roy Kimberley presented the case as guardians were appointed for Mrs Anne Bourke, who boarded with the couple, with hearing set for next Tuesday.
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Goshen
Edward Baightoe
Anna
New Tory
Roy Kimberley
Mors Goshen Pond
Deboj the
Anne If Bourke
Cne
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la Trappe
Ountain Land For
Spears
New York
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Hincks Bros. & CO
New York Stock Exchange
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Bridgeport, Conn
D. M. Read Co
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