Silence as shield in espionage tales of French silence urged
A wartime report describes spies urging Frenchmen to stay quiet to confuse the enemy. Citizens observed in public as a blond man and others discreetly listen, with one man feigning politeness while secretly gathering information. A military commissary and station guards note the subtle signals.
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France
Weissendust
Ailentt
Gerooking Péerzon
Ted
Seskine
iGhess Street Bridge Draw Falls Below Normal Level
A street bridge draw at iGhess Street dropped several inches causing a few minutes of danger to traffic. An automobile drove onto the fallen draw with minor damage as fire department and bridge staff addressed the issue. Mr and Mrs Frank Champagne of 2 Grand Street welcomed a baby boy born Monday.
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Ighess Street
An AL Fisel
Fre
Frank Champagne
Grand Street
Oratorio Society Sees No Loss From Two Enterpr is
Thomas Fish, chairman of the press committee, reports the recent concert netted $575. French figures show receipts of $900 from subscribers, $616 from active members, $768 from associate members, $767 from ticket sales, and $3,006 in incidentals. Disbursements totaled $2,384, including $2,089 to the concert committee and $136 for rehearsals, leaving $575 for the spring concert.
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Thomas Fish
The
Oratorio Society
Fish
French
New York Police Study Mental Defectives Plan
New York police announce a study and laboratory work to identify the feeble minded. Dr. Bisch of Columbia University will oversee equipment to detect mental defects. Reports go to city magistrates and cooperation from the department of correction aims to segregate and treat affected prisoners to reduce public danger.
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New York
Ea 22
Police
Paso Yecee
Bisch
Chicago
Columbia Theaba
Department of Correction
Duke Tobacco King Aids Aged Pilgrims
Durham North Carolina December 22 checks totaling 10000 dollars are mailed from Trinity College. James Duke, New York tobacco magnate, funds the distribution through The Duke fund, matching church allocations for superannuated preachers in North Carolina.
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Durham
N. C
James Duke
New York
Trinity College
North Carolina
Duke
Blacksnake Tribe Entertainment at Trinity Church Hall
The Blacksnake tribe of Woodcraft Indians held an entertainment and social gathering last evening at Trinity church parish hall. Principal entertainers were William Cody and Martin Anderson. Guests enjoyed dancing and games.
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Trinity Church
Woodcraft
Trumbull Grange Plans Christmas Exercises Thursday
Trumbull Grange schedules a Christmas program with carols recitations and readings on Thursday evening due to Friday regular meeting. An exchange of 10 cent gifts and refreshments planned. attendees urged to bring cake sandwiches or doughnuts. Also notes staff changes and local illnesses.
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Trumbull Grange
Burr F. Beach
John I. Beach
Westerbury
Christian Endeavor Society
Miss Merion
Edwards
North Brookfield
Weston
Berry
Danbury
Miss Edwards
White Pisins School
Leon Beardsley
Albert “Linley
Judson L. Klocks
Trumb
Soldier son alive in Egypt letter brings relief
Mrs Thomas Hunter of Bridgeport says her soldier son is alive and convalescing in Cairo after a September letter reversed prior belief of death. Barnum Bailey HQ advances work on a new tent for the season, produced in Bridgeport under a new tent department.
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Thomas Hunter
Bridgeport
Merriam Street
Egypt
Cairo
Barnum & Bailey
Wires to Go Underground on New Haven Line
New York December report says following a severe sleet snow storm the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad will place all signal telephone and telegraph wires underground between New York and New Haven to weatherproof the system. The total loss from the storm tops 1.125 million dollars with freight traffic most affected. Work has begun with four temporary cables strung beside track poles and actual conduit digging to start March 1. Meantime the New Haven lays wires on the ground and resumes full traffic.
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New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New Haven
Court considered reopening compensation awards in New Haven
Commissioner Beers of the third district ruled that every claimant must have his day in court and cannot rely on reopening an adverse decision as merely an accommodation. The case involved a compensation award already executed by the superior court and a sheriff ready to enforce judgment.
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New Haven
Beers
Third District
Wing
Gary School Plan Likely to Be Established Here
Crowded Bridgeport schools prompt discussion of adopting the Gary plan. Supt. Samuel J. Slawson and Board President Elmer Havens support it. The plan lengthens the school day to eight hours with relay classes moving between rooms and observing at outside facilities while a return class takes over. Havens warns about building schools that may not be needed later.
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Bridgeport
Board of Education
Samuel J. Slawson
Elmer Havens
Havens
Tashua Girl Crashes Into Wall While Sledding
Miss Theresa PL Schmidt of Tashua was thrown from a sled on Tashua hill colliding with a stone wall. Her face struck the wall breaking several upper front teeth and she suffered bruises to the head and shoulders. Dr. George Smith of Stepney attends. President Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad resumes active duty in Philadelphia.
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Tashua
Dee
Theresa PL Schmidt
Tashua Hil
Rea
The
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
University School at 836 Fairfield Ave Opens Next Session
The University School at 836 Fairfield Ave advertises the January 3, 1916 start for a full program in college preparatory, elementary and advanced subjects, upper grammar and high school grades with individual instruction. Students entering now may save a year's work.
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The
University School
Fairfield Ave
Turkish War Office Reports Frontline Action and Bombardment
The Turkish war office released details from Mesopotamia’s Kut El Amara where local fighting occurred. It cites a repelled attack on the tenth sector on the Caucasus front and notes repeated repulses at Seddul Bahr. The Dardanelles saw hostile ships bombarding camps to seize enemy booty, but the effort failed.
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Constantinople
Turkish War Office
Mesopotamia
Kut- El-Amara
Dardanelles
Seddul Bahr
German recapture of Hartmanns-Wielerkopf summit gains victory
German troops recaptured part of the Hartmanns-Wielerkopf position in the Vosges, which the French had seized yesterday. The announcement came from German army headquarters today, confirming the shift in control.
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Berlin
Hartmanns-Wielerkopf
Vosges
German Captures and French Gains Reported at Hartmanns-Weilerkopf
Paris dispatch records the war office saying 1,200 Germans were captured in operations at Hartmanns-Weilerkopf, with French positions enlarged to a noteworthy extent.
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Paris
War Office
Hartmanns-Weilerkopf
French and German Prisoners United in Vosges Advance
Reports describe Allied action in the Vosges, noting a night attack that expanded our positions on the Hartmanns Weilerkopf east slope. It states about 1,200 German prisoners have been taken, including 21 officers from six regiments.
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Vosges
Hartmanns-Weilerkopf
Plan Field Work For U S Troops At Canal
United States troops in the Canal Zone will start extensive field work with the dry season in January. Initially regiments and battalions operate separately, then the full mobile force conducts two weeks of training in a simulated war against a Pacific invasion.
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Panama
United States
Canal Zone
Canal
Pacific
New Haven Weather Forecast for Dec 22
Fair and warmer tonight with Thursday cloudiness and rising temperatures across Connecticut. Moderate variable winds shift to south as a Pacific disturbance moves east, bringing snow flurries to the northern border from Montana to New York. Frosts linger on the Atlantic coast to Jacksonville and heavy frosts reach Tampa.
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New Haven
Connecticut
North Dakota
Montana
New York
Rocky Mountains
Atlantic Coast
Jacksonville
Fla
Gulf Coast
Tampa
Vice Commissioner Collected City Expense Money
A $29.95 expense check for the vice commission was given to W. Seymour Lacey, secretary of the commission, by the city auditor. Lacey cited investigations as the reason and noted another commission meeting could be held after Jan. 1. In Bridgeport, Frank Ciglar suffered a crushed left foot when a heavy iron roller rolled onto it during stone pillar work for a new N.B.E. building on Fairfield Avenue. he is married and resides at 15 Middle Street.
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Bridgeport
Dorsen’s
Santa
Vice
W. Seymour Lacey
Lacey
N. BE. T. Co
Fairfield Avenue
Frank Ciglar
St. Vincent's Hospital
Ciglar
Middle Street
Falls From Trolley Hurt John Donnelly at Main and Fairfield
John Donnelly aged 50 of 146 Garden Hill Street fell from a moving trolley at Main Street and Fairfield Avenue at 7 30 this morning and suffered painful contusions to the left leg. He was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital in the emergency hospital ambulance.
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John Donnelly
Garden Hill Street
Main Street
Fairfield Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
Marriage Licenses Granted for Patnode Hod gins and McAvoy Kelley
Joseph A Patnode 22 welder of 261 Lexington Avenue married Mary Hod gins 20 factory worker of 108 James Street with parental consent. License issued also to Willem L McAvoy 24 chemist of Leominster MA and Grace W Kelley 15 of 318 South Avenue with parental consent. Farmer Want Ads One Cent 4 Wor
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Joseph A. Patnode
Lexington Avenue
Mary Hodgins
Linhg
James Street
Willem L. McAvoy
Leominie ‘Ter
Mass
Grace W. Kelley
South Avenue
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Bridgeport, Conn
Libby & Paine
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Trumbull
Red_Cross
Red Cross
American Cross
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Blizzard
Dorsens Main
Elm & Middle Sts
Gary
Gallipoli
U. S
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