Sheffield course reform at Bridgeport High school
Sheffield Scientific school changes its three year plan for freshmen. All students will follow a common three year course with later specialization in civil engineering or chemistry requiring two additional years for the diploma. The shift aims to provide stronger, more targeted training and reflects a historic first for the school. Students agree to extended study for deeper mastery in their chosen field.
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Sheffield Scientific School
Bridgeport High School
Sheffield
Sunday church services and holiday sermons listed
The notice lists worship at First Baptist Church Washington and West avenues with Rev John Richard, and West End Congregational Church on Colorado avenue with Walter Leopold Bennett. It notes service times 10 30 am and 6 20 pm for P S C B with Mrs Cole speaking on Christ s Coming plus morning and evening sermons The Christ Child and Christmas Gifts. Also promotes Huyler s wafers and Cyrus Pharmacy holiday offerings with contact details.
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First Baptist Church
Washington
West Avenues
John Richard
West End
Hayler's Candies Delivers Christmas Treats with Card
Hayler's Candies offers delivery on Christmas morning with ribbon and holly. Customers may call to place orders and request a card to accompany the gift. Ottawa shoppers, local service and greeting options highlighted.
The Time the Place and the Girl at Poli's Theatre
The Poli Players present The Time the Place and the Girl at Poli's Fairfield Avenue Theatre for Christmas week. Mollie Kelly, a divorced nurse, and her diverse circle, including Cunningham from Boston, Hicks, and a cast of nurses and society figures, drive a lively sanitarium farce with romance, mistaken identities, and a smallpox quarantine backdrop. A colorful, tuneful holiday comedy designed to entertain with dance, music, and a bustling chorus, promising a merry season at the stock company venue.
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Poli
Fairfield Avenue Theatre
Chicago LaSalle
Hough & Adams
Joseph Howard
Harry Andrews
Miss Clifton
Mollie Kelly
Sanitarium
East
Sevie
Tom Cunningham
Boston
Vox
Johnny” Hicks
Mollie
van Beuren
Hicks
Cunningham
Fox
Laurie
Harrington
Pedro Niccolini
Mr. Fischer
Jasper Simpson
Mr. Kent
Indiana
Hubby-That
Margaret
Cupid
Bud
Eleanor Cleveland Company Closes Rip Van Winkle Run
The Lyric Theatre presents the closing performance of Rip Van Winkle this evening by the Eleanor Cleveland company, with Washington Irving's drama also drawing a large audience. It marks the final appearance of Harry Ingram as leading man, and the season has praised the Cleveland troupe for strong acting and drama, while the Christmas week features Burnett's lively The Little Princess with heart and humor.
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Eleanor Cleveland Company
Washington Irving
Cleveland Company
Harry Ingram
Prin Frances Hicdison Burnett
Eleanor Cleveland
Gwate
Bargain Day Fur Sale Offers Mild Prices and Variety
Saturday specials list a treasure house of fur items including scarves muffs coats and collars. Prices range from under three dollars to about forty dollars with discounts noted on Black Fox Mink and Belgian Lynx muffs and sets.
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Eta
Plays and Performances Dominate Local Theatre Week
The Lyric theatre features Sara Crewe tale and a Christmas matinee as Eleanor Cleveland Stock Company presents a two act drama with lavish sets and new Cleveland company faces. Park Theatre hosts The Woman with Belasco’s company led by Jane Peyton and Mary Nash while Get Rich Quick Wallingford debuts Christmas Day with Eddie Lamb and a large cast. Poli Theatre opens with The Bell Family and Wilson Brothers, plus a gala Stratifeld dinner for Poli. Baltimore fire crews quell St Gregory’s blaze amid church safety efforts.
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Wallingford
Park Theatre
George Randolph Chester
Chester
Cohan
Eddie Lamb
Willie
Bessie Meers
Abe Gunther
Clint Harkins
Mr. Cohan
Poli
Mr. Poli
Bell
Wilson Bros
Davis and Macauley
Childs
Wood & Wyde
Haydn, Dunbar and Haydn
Mori Bros
Max
Cirpons
Bridgeport
Stratfield
New Theatre
New York
New Haven
Davis & Hawley'’s
Geo. B. Clark & Co
H. H. Jackson's
Atlantic Pharmacy
J.T. Hartigan’e Pharmacy
Hamilton Pharmacy
Beck's
Dupee Pharmacy
Imported Evening Gown Features Dress Drapery and Velvet Tie
The gown showcases a plain fitted lining with a black jet spangled net top and a large apron effect in a tapestry like material. Subdued yet bright colors render lifelike roses on a dull yellow base, with a black velvet ribbon trim around the bust tied in back. The dress closes at the back and remains open from the train tip to above the floor. Greenwich John J. Frye resigns as Cos Cob school principal in town.
Powers Avert General War by Diplomatic Endeavor
London reports a conference outcome easing European tensions. Turkish and Balkan peace delegates met King George at Buckingham Palace and a 4 pm resumption at St James Palace aimed to solidify Albanian autonomy and Austro- Servian Adriatic access. Market buoyancy reflected optimism.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
St. James’ Palace
Foreign Office
Albania
Adriatic
Turkey
Europe
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Edward Grey
Servia
Eee
Foreign Office Forfor
Greece
Adarianople
Janina
Scutari
Bulgaria
Adrianople
Balkan
de Rocio
Ieee
Call Off Bouts for January Kid Wil-Mame Promoter
The New Year bout at Park City was postponed after Young Jack O'Brien injured his hand in a recent fight. To avoid a inferior substitute, promoter Kid Wil-Mame postponed the show expected to feature Al Ketchel against O'Brien in a ten round bout.
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Park City
Kid Wil- Mame
Philadelphia Today
Jack O'Brien
al Ketchel
O'Brien
Fractured skull in auto smash near Rye
Greenwich December 21 Walter A. Hughes a New York real estate dealer suffered a fractured skull and other injuries in an automobile accident last night. He was brought to his home here and Base physicians are attending him today. The accident occurred on the post road between Garrison and Rye.
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Greenwich
Walter A. Hughes
New York
Garrison
Rye
Post Road
Weather Indications New Haven Forecast
Forecast for New Haven expects fair conditions tonight and Sunday with a passably cloudy sky and chances of snow flurries. It notes colder temperatures tonight, moderate west to north winds, and a slight drop in temperature for the locality.
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New Haven
Bargain book and goods sale catalog fragment highlights
A fragmented sale list offers discounted books at 50 cents each and children titles at 10 to 25 cents. The catalog promotes toilet, leather, and art department items including brush sets, vanity pieces, bead bags, cases, and a large range of ladies neckwear and lace trims with mixed prices up to 12.50.
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Iain Filner
Brerd
Smith Murray Co. to compel Sickles to cover shortage
Attorney General Carmody is expected to file without further notice a suit to force General Daniel E. Sickles to repay $28,000 missing from the State Monument Commission account. Sickles, chairman of the commission, was given until yesterday to settle the shortage.
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New York
Carmody
Daniel E. Sickles
State Monument Commission
Sickles
Mrs Goode Reveals Threat Against Life by Police Figures
Mary C. Goode, owner of a disorderly house in New York, testified before Assistant District Attorney Frederick Grobel that police officials facing graft accusations threatened her life. She claimed an ultimatum to leave town or she would be killed, describing a violent plot to silence her.
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New York
Mary C. Goode
Frederick B. Grobel
Verdict on New Year's Looked For in Dynamite Case
Indianapolis December 71 The argument in defense of forty union labor defendants charged with wilfully transporting dynamite was taken up by three more attorneys. Ball defended Hiram Kline of Muncie and Howell defended the two Kansas City defendants W B Brown and W J McCann. The four days allotted for defense argument will be up at noon Tuesday.
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Indianapolis
Ball
Hiram Kline
Muncie
Howell
Kansas City
W. B. Brown
W. J. McCann
Harvard President's Son Robbed in Wholesale Thefts
Cambridge Mass December police hunt suspects after Harvard dormitories, pooling stolen items valued around 150 dollars from Paul M Hollister, son of the President and a Harvard Law senior. Several cuff links pins and jewelry cases were taken. other victims include a varsity senior from Grand Rapids Michigan and a blooded jewelry stash vanished in the spree.
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Cambridge
Mass
Cambri
Harvard
Robert Taft
Harvard Law School
Paul M. Hollister
Grand Rapids
Mich
W. ¢. Striebling
St. Louie
Albany
Cornell
Eisie Scheel
Brooklyn
Miss Scheel
Fireman Found Dead at New Canaan
Dec 11 New Canaan reports the death of Frenk hem 41 a fireman on the New England railroad found dead in front of the etacite and identified as a former freight conductor associated with the Cayadiag Sortier ieee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Canaan
Frenkhem
New England
Dr Levyerson and Bride Boudern Sues in Elmwood
Dr Montague R Leverson of Mees Ark New Jersey visited Thomas Boudern at Elmwood Place. Leverson returned from abroad with plates for his work on amalicpox and his opposition to vaccination. He plans to spend the remainder of the year in the South or France.
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Montague R. Leverson
Meeeark
N. J
Thomas Boudren
Elmwood Place
Leverson
Lee
Leversyn
Wipe Out Saloons in Panama Bill Advances
Panama December 21 two thirds of saloons on the shrine are to be closed under a pending bill. The assembly debates licensing, proposing a $250 gold license for hotels and first class facilities, with the license and fees subject to increase.
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Panama
Obituary Notices From A Local Funeral Mass
Obituary fragment describes the funeral arrangement for Margaret, wife of John McKean, with masses at St Patrick and St Michael churches. It notes a requiem mass led by John J Kennedy, a church choir performance, and a procession to St Michael's cemetery. Floral tributes and attendance figures are mentioned, with pallbearers and clergy referenced.
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John J. Kennedy
Otsceptives
Margaret
John Mckean
Dereaves
Beres
St. Patrick's Church
Herward P. Curran
Willem Jampert
Mana
Jegele Murray
Lennon Casserly
Ce Gs Cael
St. Michael's Cemetery
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Huyler
Cyrus Pharmacy
Faireld Avenue
Courtland Street
Hayler’s Candies
Poli'’S Theatre
Lyric Theatre
E. H. Dillon & CO
Main ST
Hartford
Conn
Rue ST. Cecile
Paris
Sara Crewe
Her Majesty's Army
India
Miss Minchin
Sara
Bindoo
Sare
Cleveland
Eleanor Cleveland Stock Company
William C. deMille
David Belasco
The
Chicago
Congress
Mr. Bélasco
Republic Theatre
Jane Peyton
Mary Nash
John W. Cope
Harold Vosburg
Edwin Holt
Cuyler Hastings
Carleton Macy
Stephen Fitzpatrick
William Holden
Merry Go Rounders
Snitz Moore
Asell
Baltimore
Corrigan
St. Gregory's Catholic Church
John J. Frye
Cos Cob “School
Kere
Young Jack O'Brien
Ketchel
Ronkin
A. Davis
Stres
BRILL
Noah’s Ark
Haemont
Smith-Murray CO
Berlin
Filmersdorf
Moving Picture Concern
Canaan
DR. Leverson
Brde Boudrer
Atlanta
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