Stock Market Report and Local Fatality in Hackensack
The New York market showed general declines with only Baltimore and Ohio and Mexican Petroleum firming slightly. A noon rally followed by a market lull mirrored cautious trading amid Washington’s note to Great Britain on maritime interference. Albert Post, a coal wagon driver, was killed in Hackensack as coal collapsed in a yard. Orders for 5,000 tons of highly carbonized steels for shrapnel shells were placed in Pittsburgh for France and Russia.
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Mexican Petroleum
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France
Russia
Yuletide Courtesy Box Delighted by Huylers Delivery
Yuletide wishes recommend a box of Huylers as a grateful courtesy to ladies for pleasant evenings past year. Leave the card with us and we will deliver.
Stratford Red Men Elect Officers and Discuss Ordinance
The Okenuck tribe of Red Men in Stratford elected Deputy sachem James Vans Jr and others to officer posts, to be installed next Monday by Deputy Great Sachem William Lounsbury. The group also debated No 9 of new town ordinances restricting sales to farm and fish products with licenses.
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Stratford
Church Street
West Haven
James Vans, Jr
Prophet
John Graham, Jr
Saginaw
E. J. Cox
Jumior Saginaw
Ivan L. Morehouse
Robert Atherton
First
Rollin A. Curtis
Main
Hard's Corner
N.C. McDonald
Bridgeport
Mitchell Dairy Co
Lewis
Main Street
McDonald
Brent
B. Dunn
John Petruccelli
Stenee Wrens
Harold Speer
Dingbat Club
A Spgantiers
May Beardsley
Marjorie Silliman
Revill
Milford
Fairfilla
Ard Curtis
Robert L. Lewis
Spartanburg
South Carolina
Obsequies for trainer of Jumbo draw circus veterans
Nearly 50 veteran Barnum and Bailey workers gathered for the burial of trainer Matthew Scott known as Scotty, who guided Jumbo to America. Services at Cullinan Mullins chapel followed by interment in Park Cemetery in the Tigers plot with pallbearers William O Hara George Veay Harry Mooney and AL Goulden among the mourners.
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Barnum & Bailey Circus
Matthew Scott
Park Cemetery
Cullinan & Mullins
E. H. Kenyon
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Scotty
America
the Tigers
William O'Hara
George Veay
Harry Mooney
AL Goulden
Obituary of Michael Finn at 66 in city
Michael Finn died yesterday at his home 291 Harral Avenue after a lingering illness. He was 66, lifelong resident, widely known and respected. A member of the Court Nathaniel Wheeler F and A, he leaves a wife, three sons Thomas F Benjamin J and William Finn, two brothers James and Matthew Winn, and two sisters Catherine Finn and Mrs David Bibbins. The funeral from 33 Railroad Avenue and Sacred Heart church featured a high mass by Rev Thomas P Mooney, with floral tributes and pallbearers James Young James Sherry Bernard Reynolds Daniel O'Brien William Chestnut Octave Germain. Burial followed at Saint Michael's Cemetery.
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Michael Finn
Harral Avenue
Finn
Nathaniel Wheeler F
Thomas F
Benjamin J
William ©. Finn
James
Matthew Winn
Catherine Fimn
David, Bibbins
Patrick Flynn
Railroad Avenue
Sacred Heart Church
Thomas P. ‘Mooney
Charles Ogren
James’ Young
James Sherry
Bernard Reynolds
Daniel O’brien
William Chestnut
Octave Germain Purial
Jim St
Michael's Cemetery
Great Clearance Sale on Furs and Millinery
Extraordinary values in fur fprints and neck pieces including black fox red fox gray fox black wolf black lynx raccoon opossum and furs. Children’s furs at half former prices and winter millinery goods at less than half former prices. Metz a great German stronghold will allies
HALF SAVAGE NATIVES START ROWS IN PHILIPPINES
A belated report by Governor General Francis Burton Harrison says the insurrection is confined to an ignorant class and is not serious. Other items note a Chicago swindle case, a Christmas forger cheating merchants, gold distributions to miners in Cripple Creek, a tax dispute in Riverhead, a Washington agency referendum ruling, Newfoundland reservists arriving in England, and Americans William Thaw and Weston Hall joining the French Aviation Corps.
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Francis Burton Harrison
War Department
William Thaw
Weston Hall
Flagman Saves Express Train West of Stamford
In Stamford Connecticut a Boston express on the New Haven line was kept from crashing into a burning freight wreck by Flagman Raymond Simmons. Conductor Fox in the freight caboose noticed a gasoline tank car ablaze as the freight cars derailed. Simmons signaled the approaching express while running to the scene, and Engineer Murphy stopped the train within two lengths of the danger. Stamford fire department battled the blaze for an hour as traffic stalled.
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Conn
A& Boston Express
New Haven
Raymond Simmons
Sebeck
New York
Simmons
Fox
Murphy
Stamford -Fre
Congress Starts on Final Grind
Washington reports Congress resumes after Christmas with crowded calendars. The Senate and House prepare to tackle big appropriation bills and administration programs. ship purchase measure and immigration bill loom for debate. In the House the post office appropriation bill remains unfinished.
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Congress
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Fletcher
Commerce Committee
Mrs Miller Hurt In Norwalk Auto Crash
Mrs Frank Miller remained at Norwalk hospital after a high speed crash in an electric coupe. She suffered a broken collar bone and severe cuts with shock. Mr Miller and Elliott Upson escaped with minor injuries as the car, skidding on ice at Wall street and North Main street, struck a telegraph pole.
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Frank Miller
Mr. Miller
Elliott Upson
Norwalk
Miller
Upson
Wall Street
North Main Street
Freight Wreck Delays NY to Boston Rail Traffic
A rail derailment on the New York New Haven and Hartford line near Bradford halted through freight for over five hours. Six cars left the tracks after a brake beam broke, blocking both lines. no injuries were reported.
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Bradford
R. L
New York
Boston
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Here
Committal service for Michael McGrath held in city
Michael McGrath of 82 West Avenue had his committal at 2 pm from M J Gannon parlors 1061 Broad Street with Rev T P Mooney of Sacred Heart Church officiating Burial was in St Michael's Cemetery Katherine M Healey died after a six year illness at 413 Maplewood Avenue She was wife of John T Healey and mother of two daughters a son and two sisters and one brother She was born in Ireland 52 years ago Rev Dr Anderson of St Thomas Seminary will officiate at the funeral
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Michael M'Grath
Michael McGrath
West Avenue
M. J. Gannon
Broad Street
T.P. Mooney
Sacred Heart Church
Buriel
St. Michael's Cemetery
Katherine M. Healey
Katherine M. McKeon
John T. Healey
Maplewood Avenue
West End
St. Thomas’ Seminary
Hartford
Treacherous Ice Wins Affected Pedestrians In City
Many pedestrians injured on icy sidewalks with two stitches for Thomas Kelley on Atlantic Street and a fractured left collar bone for William Leonard on Main Street. January 1 notes reflect shifting gift customs and local observations.
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Thomas Kelley
Atlantic Street
William Leonard
Main Street
Catherine Street
Pocket Lawyer Book Sputters In Courtroom Quip
A witty exchange surfaces as a book agent offers a pocket lawyer guide, the victim declines, joking of not needing legal aid, reflecting a light moment in a legal setting reported by the New York Times.
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New York Times
Ancient Astronomy and Humorous Vignettes Mixed
A fragmentary antique note describes an Egypt discovery of an underground observatory at Meroe used for day and night sighting claimed as a copy of Assam’s earth circumference work. The rest parodies include a car boast and light quips about dreams and manners.
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Meroe
Assam
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