Roosevelt kills two big hippos in African hunt
Colonel Roosevelt faced deadly hippo attacks while navigating a lake in camp. He shot the leading cow hippo and a bull hippo, saving his rowers from overturning, then towed the killed animals back to camp amid anxious camp observers. Roosevelt plans to proceed to Nairobi next morning.
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Warrington Dawson
United Press
Sargosol
Roosevelt
Vinces
Colonel Roosevelt
Ina
Urs
Llonel Roosevelt
Nairobi
Tomorning
Colonel Took
Bwanapbo
Cooltess
Heller
Relt
Laniasig
Ol Roosevelt
Phelps Lectures Secured and Local Social News
Prof Phelps of Yale is booked for three lectures at the library, while Rev Geo Farrar plans a vacation starting the 30th with trips to Northfield and the White Mountains. A Green Farms wedding, local visits, a bridge club, and town events fill the notices alongside talks of lectures by Judge Curtis and brief society notes.
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Geo. Farrar
Northfield
White Mountains
Phelps
Yale
Lyceum
Joseph H. Thompson
Illa P. Taylor
Greens Farms
G. W. Bardydt
Branford
Taylor
Center School
East Broadway
Hunntwell
Clarence Swan
Roxbury, Conn
Gilpin
Ezra Graham
New York
Joseph Mott
Milford
G. C. Tompkins
Edith Lawles
Brooklyn
E. V. Skidmore
Port Jefferson
Fannie Pierce
Binghampton
M. R. Holbrook
Newark
N. J
Paul E. Teed
East Orange
Howe
Derby
Congregational Sunday School
Beardsley’s Park
Stratford
Ruth Bristol
Stamford
Julian Clinton
Frank E. Connine
Paul Goodell
New York City
Fairfield Old Home Week Fair Ticket Contest Opens
Old Home Week fair in Fairfield announced by the Hook and Ladder Company at their truck house to run the week starting Monday August 16. Prizes offer five dollars to the top ticket seller and two fifty to the second, with entrants Lowell Jacoby and Fred Granville already in line.
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Fairfield
Hook & Ladder Company
Lowell Jacoby
Fred Granville
Ithe
Yale Lad Weds A Shopgirl
New Haven July 22 Elopement of Frank L. Grant Jr of Brooklyn a Yale student and Miss Maud E McIntyre a New Haven shop girl announced by Judge Richard Hepburn of Milford who performed the ceremony June 17. Grant age 23 bride 21. The couple obtained a license and private ceremony and the judge will return the certificate after the thirty day period.
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New Haven
Frank L. Grant, Jr
Brooklyn
Yale
Maude
McIntyre
Richard Hepburn
Milford
Grant
Miss McIintyre
Hepburn
Would Lay Heavier T Rail Chapman Petitions for Time
Supt C H Chapman of the Connecticut Company appeared before the Permanent Paying Commission and won consent to leave Fairfield avenue between Main and Water streets in its present condition for three weeks. Chapman seeks to lay in Fairfield avenue the same T rail as on Golden Hill street with a three inch head, and said new brick will be laid on the company’s part if permission is granted.
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Congregational Church
Tiffany's
New York
Forsythe
Old Sun Hotel
Town Hall
Washington
Mil Plain Crossing
Southport
Elsie Och
Clarence Bradley
Piper
Russellville, Ky
M. R. Perry
A. D. Penny
Timothy Cumming
Bridgeport
C. H. Chapman
Connecticut Company
Fairfield Avenue
Main
Water Streets
Chapman
Golden Hill Street
Remarkable Clearance Sale Highlights Bought Yard Goods
One Pattern was 1.85 now 1.50 a yard. Other patterns discounted to 1.90 and 1.75 a yard. Embroidered pink pattern reduced. Four and a half yards per pattern with galloons to match in Checked Cotton Voiles in reseda lilac rose blue cream black. Wash Goods section features. Refrigerators urged during clearance. Allen Powder and Shaving Soap offer free Allen's Foot Powder with each Talcum Tooth Powder or Soap purchase.
Missing Greenwich treasurer Theodore Greenwald sought by search
A large search is underway in East Portchester for Theodore Greenwald former school district treasurer who vanished with district books and about 2500 dollars. A $3000 writ for attachment of goods or body was issued. Deputy Sheriff Ritch found no trace at Greenwald’s lodgings or relatives in Darien. Greenwald had just lost a district treasurer race and had been asked to manage books previously but declined.
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Greenwich
East Portchester
Theodore Greenwald
Greenwald
Wiegand Company
William E. Ritch
Portchester
Darien
International Alcohol Congress pushes world prohibition drive
The International Alcohol Congress gathers leading temperance advocates to promote a worldwide movement toward prohibition and to secure better financial returns from wages paid to workingmen on patriotic grounds.
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International Alcohol Congress
Ordinance to Keep Poles Off Street Corners
City Auditor Keating presented a draft ordinance to the permanent paying commission to regulate future trolley electric light and telegraph poles. The measure aims to keep poles away from street corners and entirely out of the rectangular spaces formed by crossing streets. The commission adjourned to July 30.
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Keating
Permanent Paying Commission
Trainmen killed in freight wreck at Camden crossing
Special from United Press reports a flagman missing at the West Jersey and Cheshire Road crossing north of Brighton Junction caused a freight wreck. Engineer Peacerock and Brakeman Heintz of the West Jersey line died instantly as trains collided at nearly right angles. Heintz rode the West Jersey pilot and was buried, while Peacerock was thrown and crushed.
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United Press
Camden
N. J
West Jersey
Cheshire Road
New Jersey
Brighton Junction
Engin Bss Peacerock
Harry Heintz
West Jersey Road
Central Freight
Heintz
Peacerock
Booze Cuts Worker Output by Ten Percent Says Reform Leader
London July 22 Rev Wilbur F Crafts president of the National Reform League told the International Alcohol Congress that eight ounces of drink daily reduces a working man’s output by ten percent by lowering efficiency. He cited German experiments covering many cases to support the claim and estimated the United States loses eight billion dollars yearly in manufactured goods due to alcohol’s impact.
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United Press
London
Wilbur F. Crafts
D. D
Washington
National Reform League
International Alcohol Congress
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Main St
Fairfield Av
Torrington
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W. J. Hogan
Bridgeport Gas Light CO
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American Loan Association
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
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