Paving Stratford Avenue Hinges on Trolley Monopoly Timing
City notices property owners to set back curb and gutter and prune trees by September 1 otherwise the city will perform the work and charge the cost to owners. The Connecticut Company must pave its portion within thirty days after a valid order. without proper notice and order the city cannot compel paving, raising questions about legal steps and the influence of the Connecticut Company on Bridgeport’s paving delays.
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Stratford Avenue
Connecticut Company
Fairfield Avenue
Clifford B. Wilson
Col
M. H. Rogers
Wilson
Bridgeport Hosts World’s Largest Typewriter Ribbon Factory Visit
Remington Typewriter Company officers and branch managers toured Bridgeport’s ribbon factory yesterday. The visit highlighted Bridgeport’s pride in its giant production facility which supplies ribbons for global distribution. The industry employs skilled workers with higher wages and shorter hours, credited to President Earle and Vice President Forrest for advancing American manufacturing, education, and industrial policy.
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Bridgeport
Remington Typewriter Company
Great Typewriter Company
Earle
Forrest
The Cost of Living in the Colleges
A report on student expenses shows Williams College average costs rising from 682 dollars in 1887 to higher figures today. It notes Cornell and other colleges reporting substantial increases and describes a student who handles a furnace and serves meals multiple times daily.
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Lege
Cat
Williams College
Cornell University
Simple living college ideal gains popularity
A university study argues for frugal student life with hours spent on teaching, library and chores, noting hollow-eyed scholars and urging affordable living. It cites Missouri dining clubs cutting board to $2.40 weekly and estimates a four year course for $500 a year for moderate means.
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University of Missouri
The Use and Abuse of Slang in Baseball Writing
The article discusses how baseball reporters favor vivid slang yet risk losing clarity. It notes readers prefer plain English, contrasts formal style with picture words like joy riding and make good, and criticizes terms such as pill as mere attempts at humor that hinder understanding.
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Chicago
Expenses of Candidates Should Be Born by the State
Governor Baldwin of Connecticut urged that the state cover most candidacy costs for party nominations, including printing, travel, speakers, lists, and challengers, arguing such expenses deter the poor from running and should be regulated to ensure fair representation. He warned against state paying certain items like petition circulation and voter transportation, while noting hall rents and postage could be state borne.
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Baldwin
Colorado Springs
Simeon E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Balwin
Band Concert At Seaside Park Sunday
The Wheeler & Wilson band performs a Sunday afternoon concert at Seaside Park, the last park concert of the season. Director John A. Lynch presents a program including Our Republic Overture, Fehlsenmulle, Reisigger, Waltz Kunsterleben, Strauss, The Butterflies, Tannhauser, Flower, Adoration, Star Spangled Banner.
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Wheeler & Wilson
Seaside Park
John A. Lynch
Our. Republic
Reisigger
Strauss
Butterflies
Bendix
Tannhauser
Waener
Flower
Adoration
Barnard
Philo Senate
Hill
Centenary Notes on Jones Very and Augustine
Editorial notes recount the birth centenaries of American poet Jones Very and Latin church father Augustine. Very, born Salem 1813, a mystic essayist and poet, trained at Harvard, admired by European literati, died 1880. Augustine, born in Numidia mid fourth century, pursued rhetoric, embraced Christianity, formed a communal economy, and shaped church controversies.
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Jones Very
Very
Salem
Mass
Seven Seas
Europe
East Indies
Harvard
Cambridge Association
Salem Gazette
Unitarian
New England
America
St. Augustine of Hippo
Patricius
Numidia
Monica
Augustine
Carthage
Ambrose
First Silks for Autumn Arrive at Carpet Store
Palmolive Cream offered in toilet section with three cakes of Palmolive Soap free with every jar purchased. Prices 15 20 25 cents per yard noted for carpet materials on first floor display.
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Cts
Commemorating Fifty Years Of Railway Mail Service In The U S
The passage notes that forty nine years ago today on the Chicago and North Western Railway the mail matter was processed while in transit marking the inception of railway mail service. It states the scheme’s success and the adoption of service on major lines, with a permanent, organized system by 1874 including eight territorial divisions and supervisors under Washington. The service introduced modern civil service practices and probationary appointments for clerks, expanding to nearly all railways.
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New York County
Charles Seymour Whitman
New York
Becker
Norwich
Conn
Tammany Hall
Alec Gap
Whitman
New York Polticians
Court of General Sessions
the United States
Chicago & Northwestern
United States
Washington
Local social roundups note T F Cummings guests and Buck sisters
Dr. T. F. Cummings hosted a cottage week at Silver Beach with his Bristol relatives, including father Thomas, brother Joseph and wife. Ada Buck and sister Anna V. Buck attended with piano pieces. Miss Runtz-Rees spoke to the Woman's Suffrage association at Mrs. S. T. Davis's Sasco Hill home about the Budapest congress and upcoming Hartford state convention with Carrie Chapman Catt.
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T. F. Cummings
Silver Beach
Thomas Cummings
Bristol
Joseph
Ada C. Buck
Anna V. Buck
Miss Runtz-Rees
Buda Pest
The
Woman's Suffrage Association
S. T. Davis
Sasco Hill
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New York Stock Exchange
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Dove of Peace
Andrew Carnegie
Russia
Hague
Tribual
D. Pt. Read Co
D. M. Read Company
Radford B. Smith
Main St
Fairfield
Alling Rubber CO
Main Street Syndicate
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