Sneak Thieves Rob Family of Mates of Cash
Police report a spate of petty thefts yesterday with six victims. A deaf household on Berkshire Avenue lost 22 dollars from a pillow. a Pembroke Laundry entry yielded change. other incidents included cameras taken from the Howard Challenger store and clothing from a roomer. Several obituaries and probate notices follow for local residents dated December 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Janks
Berkshire Avenue
E. O. Cranan
Pembroke
State Street
George F. Young
Housatonic Avenue
Stella Street
Sea Side Ub
Bernard Sipples
Fairfield |Ao
Howard Challenger
Recent Avenue
Challenger
C. H. Parker
Alpine Street
Wilbur Townsend
Obituary notices from Easton Bridgeport area
Obituaries for Ida L Everett Jea J MacDonald infant Margaret McDonough Minnie Kehlenbeck Catherine Ford McNally Annie Elizabeth Burns Andrew Arndt Elizabeth Cook note multiple services, church burials, and family survivors across Easton Bridgeport area with details of churches, cemeteries, and funeral parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida L. Everett
Ida L
Charles Everett
Easton
East Baptist Church
Union Cemetery
Allen J. MacDonald
Jea J
John A. MacDonald
J. H. Carroll
Elm Street
St. Michael’s Cemetery
Margaret McDonough
Margaret
John J
Margaret Haggerty McDonough
Wilmot Avenue
Bridgeport Hospital
St. Michael's Cemetery
Michael's Cemetery Committal Service Read by Father Hayes
Father Hayes conducted the committal service at Michael's Cemetery with mourners gathered for the final rites. The brief ceremony marked the interment of a local resident, with clergy offering prayers and condolences to the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Arndt
Housatonic Avenue
J. Wagner
East Washington Avenue
St. Joseph's Church
Ev. Hubert Dahme
Theresa Polke
St. Michael's Cemetery
Arndt
James Wilkenson
F. A. Farren
Prime Spareribs Christmas Dish at County Jail
The county jail will serve spareribs with gravy instead of turkey due to high turkey prices. Prisoners may imagine turkey while eating and worry someone may steal their portion. Menu includes mashed potatoes mashed turnips apples crullers pie and cheese. Deputy Dennis ONeill will say grace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
North Avenue
Dennis E. O'Neill
Grace
American Ambulanciers Awarded Honor Medals
Paris December 28 gold medals were awarded to Lawrence V. Benet president of the American ambulance committee Captain Arthur Wellesley Kipling of the automobile ambulance corps and Lieutenants Henry Skerrett Rogers and John Rochefort of the American ambulance corps Silver medals went to Gustav Snow Maurice Leloise George Norther and Edward Hartlett Hayden Bronze medals were given to automobile ambulance drivers Horace Castro John Dahlgren Clifford Dercode Fred Doughty Ally Eddy James Frank Maurice Guillaume Robert De Machiels Leopold Magnac Lucien Summer Marceles Bach and Alfred Waddell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Health Service
Lawrence V. Benet
American Ambulance Committee
Arthur Wellesley Kipling
Automobile Ambulance Corps
Henry Skerrett Rogers
John Rochefort
American Ambulance Corps
Gustav Snow
Maurice Leloise
George Norther
Edward Hartlett Hayden
Horace Castro
John Dahlgren
Clifford Dercode
Fred Doughty
Ally Eddy
James Frank
Maurice Guillaume
Robert de Machiels
Leopold Magnac
Lucien Summer
Marceles Bach
Alfred Waddell
Connecticut River Road Stockholders Receive Dividends
Judge Morton in federal court named James H. Hustis temporary receiver of the Boston and Maine Railroad and ordered him to pay the Connecticut River Railroad stockholders a semi annual 5 percent dividend totaling about 125000. The question was whether to pay stockholders directly or place the funds in his receiver account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Morton
Federal
James H. Hustis
Boston & Maine Railroad
Connecticut River Railroad
Boston & Maine
Hustis
Connecticut Road
Switchmen Win Fight For Eight Hour Day
The instance covers an eight hour day victory for switchmen amid rising costs of steel coal and supplies due to the war. Arbitrators say the award is the largest yet but note railroads face higher costs yet and may face employment risks. Managers say the award reshapes the Adamson law impact by offering nine hours pay for eight hours work, about 13 to 16 percent raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conference Committee of Managers of the Railroads
Freeman Suit Over Commission for Auto Procurement
Francis Ely sues Dean M. Freeman of New Haven for 600 dollars claiming ten percent commission for obtaining automobiles. Ely says Freeman already owed 500 for a car and employed him as agent months ago to secure several machines but the 100 dollar commission remains unpaid. The case is set for the January term of the common pleas court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean M. Freeman
New Haven
Francis Ely
Freeman
Ely
Common Pleas Court
Drew Trains At Drake Amid Faculty Opposition
New York report notes Howard P. Drew a sensational negro sprinter now a Drake University law student in Des Moines IA. He avoids running but plays basketball to build conditioning while Drake faculty and his parents oppose further athletic participation. He hints at competing here before winter ends. photo shows him winning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Howard P. Drew
Drew
Drake University
Des Moines
Drake
Ralph Glaze
WILY CECIL RHODES DIAMOND DISCOVERY STORY
A German trader with exotic pebbles sells two stones to a curious buyer in Cape Town. The stones travel to Amsterdam, are identified as flawless diamonds, and the rush to the diamond fields begins with Cecil Rhodes linked to the discovery tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Pietermaritzburg
Cape Town
Amsterdam
Philadelphia
When Cotton Bales Burn A Dreaded Warehouse Fire
Firefighters dread cotton warehouse blazes as dense smoke and packed bales force exterior attacks. Water swells cotton, risking wall collapse and endangering crews. past incidents in South Brooklyn showed walls bulging and crashing into streets, narrowly missing many firefighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Charles T. Hill
St. Nicholas
Sunken Ships Mark His Grave
The article honors Sir Francis Drake as the father of the British navy noting his tomb lies beneath the sea after he died January 28, 1595 near Nombre de Dios in the West Indies. His ship Defiance carried his body in a lead coffin and two ships with prizes were sunk beside his casket in the final honor. Drake died at age fifty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Francis Drake
Nombre de Dios
West Indies
Classifying Him and Dining Fractions in Print
A snippet contrasts a tribute to a naval namesake with a humor column. It recalls Ex change and a British ship named after a famed figure, then parodies social dining quirks with a waiter punchline about thirteen at table. A sharp quip from the Christian Herald follows a hostile New York World aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Herald
Reading Dictionaries and Railway Guides Inspires Kipling and Critics
A London Answers piece notes Rudyard Kipling enjoys dictionaries including slang and dialect editions. It highlights a noble lord who studies Bradshaw and railway routes with names, and a doctor who reads old London Times files to compare past and present. The column views such literary hobbies as revealing and entertaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
Bradshaw
Charing Cross
New York
Yokohama
London Times
London
Fate of the youngest Declaration signer remains a mystery
The article notes Thomas Lynch born August 5 1749 in Prince George parish D C was the youngest signer of the Declaration. He left Congress in 1779 due to ill health and sailed for Europe, his ship never heard from again amid rumors of sinking or wreck on a West Indies island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Lynch
Lynch
Prince George Parish
D. C
Congress
Europe
Signera
West Indies
England
South Carolina
New York World
The Trade Winds Explain Their Persistent Course
The constancy of trade winds stems from permanent atmospheric conditions. Heated air rises at the equator drawing surface winds from the north and south, which ascend and diverge, flow outward, and lag due to Earth's faster east west rotation at the equator. This causes winds to deflect to the southwest from a north wind and to the northwest from a south wind, earning the name trade winds for their vital navigational role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equator
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Charles 5. Miller
Delaware
Wilmington
Mele
Isabelle Mioxin
Robert Connell
Jane Street
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Southport
Pequot Avenue
St. Thomas’ Church
St Penects Cemetery
Burns
Annie E
Joseph Burns
East Main Street
Island Brook Ave
Patrick J. Kelly
Court Pequonnock No. 62
F. of A
Bridgeport Brass Co
Moran 81 and Brothers
G. G. Wheeler
Hair's Kennels
Lindley St. Barnum
State OF Connecticut
Bridgeport
Probam
Susan Stillson
Trumbull
Court of Probate
District of Bridgeport
Lottie B. Beers
Shannon & Wilder
Newfield
Conn
Minnie Kehlenbeck
Walnut Beach
Rourke & Boucher
H. D. Wiemer
German Reformed Church
Catherine Ford McNally
Catherine Ford
Patrick McNally
John Hammill
Third Street
McNally
Ireland
Waterbury
Hammill
Bridget T. McNally
Patrick
James Marran
Annie Ford
Annie Elizabeth Burns
Annie Elizabeth
Mrs. Burns
East Bridgeport
Progressive Circle
B. of A
Polar Star Lodge
Star. of Bethlehem
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Mabel Burne
William Burns
Elizabeth Cook
Elizabeth
Michael Cook
Edwards Oberts, Jr
Main Street
St. Augustine's Church
James B. Nihills
P. R
Edward F. Hayes
Robert J. Bowen
Schmidt
Aurelia Berger
Richard Isely
Joseph Spagley
John Shankley
John Coughlin
Thomas Byron
John Shackett
Connecticut River Road
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