Platt Rules Paine Patent Invalid in Bridgeport Case
Judge James P. Platt dismisses the Paine Metallic Packing Company suit against Bridgeport Metallic Packing Company. The court finds the Jedediah C. Paine patent for metallic ring packing invalid and notes questions about priority and novelty. The ruling ends the bill and limits any injunction or accounting action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paine
Patent Office
Bridgeport Metallic Company
Pratt
Ae Hie
Weekend Steamer Trip to Port Jefferson and Fisher Market
A local advertisement promotes weekend excur sions on the Steamer Park City to Port Jefferson with 1:30 pm departure and 4:30 pm return. It touts meals from Garry's Fish Market and lists many seafood options and other foods. The ad also notes a Band concert by the Wheeler Wilson band in Washington Park tonight with the same program as last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sal
Port Jefferson
Park City
Pairfeld Avenue
Bridgeport
Wheeler & Wilson
Washington Park
A Bed Bug Fear Drives a Tenant From a Prize Room
A distressed speaker laments that a bed bug outbreak would force him to abandon the best room he has ever rented. He argues that such pests reveal lax cleanliness and careless habits, proving his choice of residence was mistaken and harming his pride. The passage hints at a troubling view of pest problems as a personal failing.
Social Personal Social Life Notes Across Town
Progressive supper rounds the Sigma Epsilon Society with Miss Harriet Benton and others organizing courses. Later notices mention a regular hospital social, summer plans for Grace and May Gray visiting relatives, travels by G Cziller to Europe, and local society events including a German Reformed church Ladies' Aid meeting, Berkshire Hills auto tour, Hancock Life Insurance outing, and Bridgeport Yacht Club activities with dancing and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sigma Epsilon Society
Harriet Benton
W. H. Griswold
Pearl A iLiskom
James Robinson
Isabelle Bruce
Gerrie L. Treadwell
Troops Deployed to Halt Mining Riot Threats
Halifax dispatch notes troops sent from Halifax to Dominion Coal Company mines amid strike by United Mine Workers of America. Mayor Douglas declined request for guard. five hundred soldiers to patrol after yesterday’s disturbances at Reserve Caledonia and Dominion. UMWA leaders insist company must concede to demands.
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United Preas
Halifax
Dominion Coal Company
United Mine Workers of America
Reserve
Caledonia
Dominion
Douglas
Glace Bay
Cape Breton
Witmore
Royal Canadian Regiment
United Mine Workers
No Sympathetic Strike Expected by Miners
Pittsburg July 8 officials of the Amalgamated Association of Steel Tin and Iron Workers say they have moral and financial support from United Mine Workers in the fight against the Open Shop policy at American Sheet Tin Plate plants. They declare no sympathetic miners strike is anticipated and note miners hold yearly contracts with operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Steel, Tron and Tin Workers
United Mine Workers
American Sheet & Tin Plate Company
Amalgamated
DANGER OF GIVING TOO MUCH POWER TO BOARDS OF HEALTH
A farmers editor denounces Connecticut law granting Health Boards power to set sanitary rules. He argues such boards misuse authority, risk coercive vaccination and detention, cites a Duluth case of a police chief detained in a pest house, and warns that police powers threaten citizen rights without redress. He urges lawmakers to reconsider board authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards OF Health
House of Representatives
Hartford
Health Board of
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Toledo
Duluth
Pest
Pest House
Clearance Hat and Apparel Clearance Sale Listing
A clearance sale advertises trimmed dress hats and wash jumpers, coats, auto coats, and skirts with varied prices from four fifty to six dollars. The ad notes linen auto coats and linen skirts in white and blue, signaling a broad mid century garment clearance for multiple garments and colors.
Dillon Company Seeks Safeguards Against Medico Political Humbugs
A historic snippet notes calls by Major Thomas Boudren urging Senators to wield influence to protect the public from mercenary medico political figures dominating the workforce, highlighting concerns over manipulation in public health policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Boudren
Secretary Meyer Charged With Violating Race Law at New London
Revenue officers accuse Secretary of the Navy George Von L. Meyer of defying enforcement at the Harvard and Yale boat race in New London. A Dolphin launch, bearing the Secretary’s flag, followed the race lane without a proper permit, violating Coastal Law during the event. The incident was reported to Capt. Oberhoff and then to Washington by revenue officials.
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Meyer
Boston
George von L. Meyer
Harvard
Yale
New London
H. Harriman
Coass
Department of Commerce and Labor
Revenue Cutters
Dolphin
Gresham
Oberhoff
Secretary of the Navy
Revenue Cutter Fleet
Secretary of the Treasury
Diberhoff
Nagel
Revenue Fleet
Washington
Zaza Triumph At Poli's Amid Paris Fashions And Souvenir Coupons
The Theatres present Zaza starring Miss Fleming with Ince as Bernard Dufrene in a week of extraordinary success for Poli Stock. Scenic effects from Poli studios showcase the production. The Pantaloon Gown attracts attention as the first public debut of the new Paris fashion in this country. Souvenir photos and coupons for a 60 hand embroidered pongee suit will be given at matinees. coupons issued at each Zaza performance, with Leah Kleschna opening next Monday afternoon.
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Zaza
David Belasco
Poli
Miss Fleming
Mr. Ince
Bernard Dufrene
Poli Stock Company
Laborde Company
Main
Cannon Streets
Leah Kleschna
Premonition of Death Prompted Farewell Letter
Augustus J. Meyers aged 73 of Waterbury wrote a goodbye letter to his son in Pawtucket R. I. last night after a week of foreboding. He fainted on the way and died a few minutes later in a doctor's office. Meyers belonged to the I.O.O.F. Hartford and the G.A.R. Post in Seymour.
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Waterbury
Augustus J. Meyers
Pawtucket
R. 1
Meyers
I. Oo
O. F
Hartford
G. A. R. Post
Seymour
Teutonic Passengers Subjected to Search at Quarantine
Three hundred fifty seven passengers aboard the Inner Teutonic faced a search by three central office detectives at quarantine in New York. Officials sought three swindlers wanted in Europe for a large theft and examined all aboard, refusing to name the suspects. The officers promised to widen checks to other incoming trans Atlantic liners if needed.
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New York
Teutonic
Central Office
Europe
Ordination Sparks Clash Over Bible at Old First Church
George A. Fitch, Union Seminary graduate, was ordained at Old First Presbyterian in a ceremony that critics say signals throwing out the Bible from the church. Dr Daniel S. Gregory denounced the Presbytery action, while Rev John Fox warned of a protest to the Synod. Fitch plans to be a missionary in China despite ordination, after being licensed to preach in a joint exam with two other Union grads amid liberal orthodox tensions.
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New York
George A. Fitch
Union Seminary
First Presbyterian Church
Daniel S. Gregory
John Fox
China
Lost Count of Wives After the Fifth Round
San Francisco July 8. Police believe they have Christian Johnson a 65 year old man as a likely candidate for a record number of wives. His memory of matrimonial ventures is hazy as he says he lost count around the fifth marriage. Investigators report Johnson admits marriages to Josephine Tretheway a Stockton widow and to Mrs Henrietta Leopold of this city. He is also said to be married to Ida Mitchell and Minnie Cather of this city with additional wives in Toronto Quebec Missouri and Ohio.
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United Press
San Francisco
Christian Johnson
Mormon Church
Turkey
Johnson
Canada
Josephine Tretheway
Stockton
California
Henrietta Leopold
Ida Mitchell
Minnie Cather
Toronto
Quebec
Missouri
Ohio
Washington Orders Release Of Ethelwood From New York
Government authorities have cleared the British steamer Ethelwood of filibuster charges. Loeb, acting by authorization, will issue clearance papers after investigation found no legal basis to detain the ship in peacetime. The cargo contents must be shown on the manifest.
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Washington
Ethelwood
New York
Loeb
McHarg
Department of Commerce and Labor
Ethelwold
Haiti
Chinaman's Son Hurt Celebrating Independence Day
Elmer King a 13 year old son of a Chinese laundryman at 222 Wood Avenue was treated at the emergency hospital for a hand injury believed to have been caused by neglect since the Fourth. He is one of two boys who ran away from home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer King
Wood Avenue
Krause
Young King
Irish Mascot Goat For Battleships Dies
Boston July 8 The Skellig mor an Irish goat dies aboard the Vermont after two years as mascot for the battleship fleet The goat circled the globe with the fleet and was presented to the crew by Col Roger Scannell ownership established by the Commonwealth court The body will be preserved and sent to Charlestown navy yard
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Boston
Skellig-mor
United States
Vermont
Roger Scannell
Court of the Commonwealth
Charlestown Navy Yard
Weather Indications For New Haven And Regions
Forecast from New Haven on July 8 calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with increasing clouds and a chance of showers by Friday night and Saturday. Light scattered showers have occurred in the Dakotas to Indiana, heavy rain on the South Atlantic Coast, with Savannah 1.18 inches, Jacksonville 1.92, Charleston 9. c. 114 and Macon 114 inches. A high pressure area over the lake region brings cool, pleasant weather from the upper Mississippi valley to New England and along the coast north of Hatteras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New Haven
Dakotas
Indiana
New England
Hatteras
Mrs Taft's Sister Assumes Social Duties
Beverly Massachusetts July 8 Professor Louis T Moore of Cincinnati who will spend the summer with his sister in law Mrs Taft has arrived at the summer capital here Mrs Moore has long been the companion of her sister Mrs Taft and will assume social duties during the President's stay at the Point Dr DeLaney U S A is her attending physician
Fireworks Contract Cancelled After Poor Island Display
An evening on Steeplechase Island featured a disappointing fireworks show by contract 412. Investigations found workers unused material, leading to the contract’s cancellation of a Bri 4 discharge. The company promises a renewed display of unprecedented scale for an upcoming city event.
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412
Son
Boyton
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