Dark legends and deathless fame in a shared birthday
A long, colorful tale recounts the Eustace pirate legend from Sandwich with Saint Bartholomew invoked for protection and a town’s chapel and hospital vowed. It shifts to celebratory notes on the birthdays of Bill Nye and Bret Harte, outlining Harte’s California mining years and Nye’s modest, clever career arc from Maine to Wisconsin and beyond.
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Sandwich
Stephen Crabbe
Crabbe
St. Bartholomew
Eustace
Bartholomew
St. Bartholomew's
School of
Black Art
Toledo
John of
England
France
Bill Nye
Bret Harte
United States
Mark Twain
Francis Bret Harte
Abany
California
Overland Monthly
Edgar Wilson Nye
Shirley
St. Croix
Wis
Hardy Young Pioneer
St. Croix Valley
Northwestern Railroad
St. Paul
Nye
Wisconsin
Cheyenne
Ghostly tariff tale mocks a firm hold on newsprint
The piece lampoons tariff fears in a mock ghost story about Salts Textile Co moving operations to Germany. It argues no move will occur, notes Connecticut firms shifting for raw materials, markets, or power, and mocks tariff panic by comparing odds of death from lightning to the white plague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salts-Textile
Germany
Connecticut
Union
Dari Ba Anflasnesdenore
Rights Harden Into Vestiges of Wrongdoing in City Scandal
A reform effort confronts long tolerated abuses as vested interests resist, including a raid that triggers jail threats and a directorate’s plan to push stock and bond sales benefiting insiders. The piece accuses entrenched figures of turning improper gains into de facto property, with public money at stake and private profit for a syndicate.
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Petas
New Haven
United States
Eet
A. O
New Haven Company
Romantic Mayor and the trolley monopoly tale
A reflective voice defends the mayor as not culpable for aiding the trolley monopoly in financial distress. The narrator recalls old reading days and prefers tales of rescuing noble damsels and princesses, imagining heroic acts and queenly rescue.
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Wis
Cheel
Mayor's dirt road grant to company spurs debate
The article critiques Mayor Wilson for granting the Connecticut Company rights to lay a dirt and stone highway through the Warrenite area citing funds shortage and a belief that limiting the public’s money will curb perceived evils. It portrays the decision as favoring a powerful monopoly while offering only minimal relief to ordinary people.
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Wilson
Connecticut Company
Bodine resignation seen as municipal bluff critique
The piece portrays A. J. Bodine as a scapegoat for street upkeep failures in a reform era. It argues price of efficiency, argues scarce funds diverted to new police, and labels Bodine a victim crushed by a sweeping municipal bluff affecting Kings’ streets and public services.
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Republic
A. J. Bodine
Bodine
Editorial Notes on Hyamson and Other Notables in 1920s Britain
Editorial notes recount Rev Dr Moses Hyamson's career from London chief rabbi to lifetime rabbi of New York's Congregation Orach Chaim. It covers his British leadership, education, and charitable work, plus biographical sketches of Sir Harry Mainwaring, Brigadier General Marion Maus, Alaska's first legislature, Maurice Maeterlinck, and other cultural figures, ending with St Bartholomew's Day legends and Sandwich lore.
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Moses Hyamson
Suwalk
Russia
United Synagogue of London
Congregation
Orach Chaim
New York
Hyamson
Great Britain
Joseph H. Hertz
Hertz
American Metropollis
Adler
Ian
England
Jews’ College
University .College of London
Bristol
London
Poets’ Road
Metropolis
America
Ite
Marion Perry Maus
Maryland
Nez Perces
Montana
Arizona
Old Mexico
San Francisco
Maurice Maeterlinck
Ghent
Belgium
United States
Per M. Maeterlinck
France
Georges Carpentier
Pugillist
Europe
M. Maeterlinck
Carpentier
Paris
Swedish Academy
Georgette Leblanc
Playground Director to Wed Alumna of His Alma Mater
Henry Burgess director of the Cherry street playground left Bridgeport for Cairo Illinois where he will wed Grace Verry a Eureka Til college graduate. They plan to live at Lenox apartments after Oct 1 Burgess a Yale Divinity School student and former leader of the West Side Church of Christ Iranis tan and Maplewood avenues will be absent with David Aeres in charge of the playgrounds until his return. The piece notes a proposed 26 million dollar express rate cut and a 29 million dollar fine.
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Henry
D. M. Read Co Clears Coats for Girls at Closeout
The D. M. Read Co advertises limited autumn coats for girls aged 6 8 and 10 at clearance prices of 1 25 and 2 50. Coats in light suitings herringbone diagonals and hairline stripes from 5 00 to 7 50 are now reduced. Also wash dresses and gingham outfits for ages 8 10 12 and 14 offered at 98 cents to 1 25.
Silk and Cotton Shirtings at Special Prices
Wash fabrics in blue white lilac white rose and white beige and white and jasper and white feature a silky weave with stripes for shirts and blouses. Priced at 25 and 29 cents a yard with a 5 cent special. Also linen wide hem stitched hems remnants and damask linens with reductions up to 50 cents per item. Linen section advertises dressed down values and plain weaves in assorted quantities.
Say Judge Says Father Forces Son to Sign Pledge
In Chicago a 63 year old man faced jail or sign the pledge after his 86 year old father demanded action. The son argued, but the judge ordered him to sign the pledge. The youth then complied and left with his father.
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Chicago
Aus
William H. Palmer
John Palmer
Judge
Tried to Wreck Train Near Hartford on Night of Aug
Railroad detectives probe a derailment on the Greenfield line at Newington near Hartford. A log on the tracks is suspected to have caused the derailment, with an ex-employee recently discharged as a possible actor. Air brakes saved the train. tracks were cleared by Sunday after repair work.
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Hartford
Greenfield
Newington
Berlin
Navy urged to expand torpedo production at home plants
Washington August 25 officials favored enlarging the navy's torpedo capacity at Sewaren R L or via subsidiaries or private makers. Congress will be urged to provide funds and include an item to cover the See in naval appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Department
Navy
Congress
Toder
Alling Rubber Store Offers Wide Sporting Goods Range
The Alling Rubber Store advertises a broad lineup of items including bathing caps and shoes, canvas and tennis gear, sweaters and jerseys, camping blankets, ponchos, tennis rackets and balls, auto sundries, and auto clothing for shoppers seeking diverse athletic and outdoor equipment.
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Alling Rubber Store
Uacahoass
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MR. Bodine
Harry Stapleton Mainwaring
Peever Hall
Knutsford
Cheshire
Ie Way
Mannering
Mantioneaten
Mainwareing
Maynwaring
Manwaaring
Mainwarring
Legislative Assembly of
Alaska
United States Congress
Uncle Sam
North
Senate
House of Representatives
Junea
Nome
Juneau
Waiter Prichard Eaton
Malden
Mass
Harvard
Boston Journal
The
Tribune
the Sun
Katherine de Medici
Harry English
British Museum
Hustace
Huccanest
Foe
D. M. Read Co
Coat and Suit
D. M. Read Company
Main St. Department Store
Fatr Fairfield Sacra
Gay Boy
IBIG
Alling Rubber CO
Main Street Syndicate
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