Monroe Masonic installation and town notes
Special to the Farmer reports Monroe Lodge a public installation with officers concert banquet and dance at the Masonic Temple drawing about 150 guests from local and out of town Wheeler Wilson orchestra provided music. Other items mention Miss Elmore Habersham third prize article contest and a winter fire at Hudac House with quiet damage and prompt extinguishment by Albert Fohrenbach and neighbors.
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Arthur W. French
Washington
Masonic Temple
Wheeler & Wilson Orchestra
Bridgeport
Long Hill
Alce
Monroe
Stiles mM Clarke
Clarke
Hartford
Marshall Beach
Elmore Habersham
Center School
State Board of Education
Habersham
Frank L. Wilder
Frank Canfield
Eee Lodge
Patrchia Wheeler
Washington Lodge
Montes
Mabel L. Hayes
Upper
Stepney
Hayes Sani
Hudac House
Albert Fohrenbach
Four killed in Baltimore and Ohio wreck near Mercers Bottom
Parkersburg West Virginia December 27 four killed and several seriously injured in a head on collision of two fast freights on the Baltimore and Ohio Ohio River Division near Mercers Bottom seven miles below Gallipolis Ferry. Engineer William Steffey and Fireman R H Bradham from Parkersburg along with Brakeman O J Moffatt of Huntington and Fireman R H Kantz were among the dead.
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United Press
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ohio River Division
Baltimore & Ohio
Mercers Bottom
Gallipolis Ferry
William Steffey
R. H. Bradham
German Comic Opera Co Tonight Opens Waterbury Run
German Comic Opera Co from Irving Place Theatre New York brings a big Christmas Day hit to Poli’s Theatre Waterbury tonight with two capacity crowds and heavy advance sales. Manager Ha Parsons hails them as among the best operatic companies to play his house and plans a return engagement as German singing societies reserve blocks for the performance.
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Irving Place Theatre
New York
Jackson's Theatre
Waterbury
Ha Parsons
Poli’s Theatre
Plays From Great Masters For Education Opens In Bridgeport
Julius Hopp of New Theatre company will assist in launching the Educational Stage in Bridgeport Sunday evening. The project aims to present plays by Ibsen Shaw Tolstoi Suderman Maeterlinck and other masters with amateurs and professionals. Hopp will speak on The Theatre and the Progress of the World followed by Up ton Sinclair's one act The Second-Story Man.
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Julius Hopp
New Theatre Company
New York
Lower East Side
America
Bridgeport
Educational Stage
Benj. J. Legere
New Theatre Association
Wage Earners Theatre League
American Dramatic Guild
Empire Theatre
Ibsen
Shaw
Tolstoi
Suderman
Maeterlinck
High Brows in Session at Providence Conference
Philo logists and scholars from across the nation converge in Providence for a four day joint meeting of the American Philology Association and the Archaeological Institute of America. About 200 delegates meet at Brown University and local galleries with sessions led by Paul Storey of the University of Chicago. An opening committee gathering and a Brown Union reception follow an address of welcome by Brown president Faunce. The American Folk Lore Society and American Anthropological Association also hold sessions this week.
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United Press
Providence
R. I
American Philology Association
Archaeological Institute of America
Brown University
The
Philological Association
Paul Storey
University of Chicago
Brown Union
Faunce
Brown
American Folk Lore Society
American Anthropological Association
Death of Prof James M North Ties Bridgeport Roots to Chorus
Bridgeport remembers Prof James M North who died December 25 in Kimmerick Missouri. A founder and principal singer of the Young Men's Fremont and Dayton club formed in Bridgeport in 1856, he helped start the forerunner of the Tippecanoe chorus. Only Major Thomas Boudren remains from the original group. North visited Bridgeport less than a year ago as guest of his brother-in-law, Major Boudren.
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Bridgeport
James M. North
Kimmerick
John North
Henry North
Thomas Boudren
North
Fremont and Dayton
Tippecanoe Chorus
Dhy
Young Men's Republican Club
Fremont Chorus
Major Boudren
The Coming of Sarah Bernhardt at Jacksons Theatre
The famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt is billed for a January Monday engagement at Jacksons Theatre. The event, likely her farewell American appearance, marks a turning point in a storied career noted for fiery temperament and dramatic masterfulness.
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Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Jackson's Theatre
Bernhardt
Madame Bernhardt
France
Theatre Francais
Phedra
Rachel
Hutchinson Pierce & Co to Ship From Bridgeport
Hutchinson Pierce and Company, owners of the Star Shirt factory in Bridgeport, plan a major change by moving shipping operations to Bridgeport from New York. The firm, one of the oldest and largest in its line, may later centralize its office here but not yet. New York will still handle orders, while goods will ship directly from Bridgeport, saving time and money.
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Hutchinson Pierce & Company
Star Shirt
Bridgeport
New York
Judge Blair Threatens Contempt as Adams County Vote Probe Expands
West Union Ohio December 27 Judge Blair resumes the Adams county vote sale probe as 35 Manchester citizens are arraigned and plead guilty. Governor Harmon signals a special legislative inquiry. Contempt arrest issues rise as charges detail defecting infirmary voters and buyers. The grand jury shifts to a second county-wide survey with hundreds more indictments anticipated.
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United Press
West Union
Blair
Adams County
Manchester
Harmon
Frank Salisbury
Franklin Township
Peebles
Salisbury
A. Z. Blair
Bend Latalenn
Hibernians in Stratford Eat Fine Banquet
Division No. 1, A. O. H., Stratford held a large banquet at the Hibernian hall on Hamilton avenue with over 100 covers. The program included music, toasts, songs by Michael Fitzsimmons and John Dunn, bagpipe airs by Patrick O'Brien, and an address by Timothy Ryan recounting the order’s history and progress in Stratford.
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Stratford
Hibernian Hall
Hamilton Avenue
Bridgeport
James J. Sexton
Timothy A. Hearn
James Whalen
Hibernians
Shamrock
Michael Fitzsimmons
Tara
America
Ireland
Joseph P. Reilly
Frank Flynn
Erin
John Dunn
Bruce Avenue
Hollister Heights
Killarney
Patrick O'Brien
Boston
Timothy Ryan
Gaelic Banquet Celebrates Irish In America Heritage
A large gathering enjoyed a vocal selection Minstrel Boy and encore Come Back to Erin. Terence B. McMahon recited On Fonte noy to six minutes of applause. Capt J J McCarthy spoke on Gaelic Language for the Irish In America to cheers. Final Irish melodies with God Save Ireland concluded after midnight. decorations were white and green with 60 candle candelabras. Banquet menu featured salmon, turkey, vegetables, drinks, and Shala las favors from near Donny Brook Fair Grounds. Banquet committee included James J. Sexton Charles Graham and Timothy A. Hearn.
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James H. Rooney
Erin
Terence B. McMahon
Fontenoy
J. J. McCarthy
America
Ireland
Michael Fitzsimmons
Bridgeport
Sauterne
France
Stratford
R. I
Donny Brook Fair Grounds
James J. Sexton
Charles Graham
Timothy A. Hearn
Death by own action of boy found hanging from pine tree
New Bedford Mass December 27 the body of 16 year old Herbert Potter missing since December 8 was found in the Connecticut Neck woods hanging from a pine limb by a short rope. He was a Freshman at Fairhaven High School and was last seen with Mr and Mrs George W Lawton of Fairhaven. The body was frozen stiff and discovered by a party of 20 boy scouts.
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United Press
New Bedford
Mass
Herbert Potter
George W. Lawton
Fairhaven
Scenticut Neck Woods
Fairhaven High School
Boy Hangs Self in Woodlands on Way to School
An unidentified boy aged about 12 or 13 hanged himself in the woods after leaving his bicycle and books by a tree on the way to school. A search by volunteers and scouts led by PD. Co. Potter and Frank Babbitt recovered the body this morning.
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PD. Co. Potter
Frank Babbitt
Detroit publisher August Marxhau sen dies at 78
Detroit obituary notes the 78 year old August Marxhau sen, publisher of the Detroit 4bend Post and early Republican party founder, died after a cold contracted at a local cemetery where he laid a wreath on his wife’s grave yesterday.
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United Press
Detroit
August Marxhausen
4Bend- Post
Republican Party
White Prisoner Shot While Handcuffed to Sheriff
Hot Springs Ark Dec 27 Oscar Chitwood a white prisoner was shot while handcuffed in deputies custody near the county jail as he was to be moved from a mob an inquest will precede a special grand jury to identify his slayers and avenge the death
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Hot Springs
United Press
Ark
Oscar Chitwood
Evans
Chitwood
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