Engaged Couple and Local Social News Highlight Hartford Area
The notice line announces the engagement of Edward Bayless and Elizabeth Dempsey. Katherine Arroll and Prof. George H. Lamson Jr. wed at Trinity Episcopal Church with Walter Arroll as escort and Ruth Rose as bridesmaid. the couple will reside at Storrs after a wedding romance sparked during schooling. Hartford Theatre manager H H Jennings has leased his theatre to the Shuberts. The Hartford and Hyperion in New Haven are now exclusively Shubert productions in the state. A dispatch notes local nurses Miss Mary Finnigan and Miss Frances Ladd will study tuberculosis ward practices at Bellevue Hospital and propose changes. A boneless duck at Brooklawn Avenue, bred by Charlie Wintener, garners national interest. Mrs. Frederick Keppy is returning from Portland after her husband’s death and months of illness delaying her trip home. Heavy western rains slowed travel and delayed communications.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Katherine Arroll
George H. Lamson, Jr
East Haddain
Stoskoff
Walter Arroll
New York City
Ruth Rose
George H. Hollister
Washington Donn
James Arroll
Charles Russell
Miss Arroll
Storrs College
Lamson
Robert Arroll
Storrs
H. H. Jennings
Hartford Theatre
Bridgeport
Shuberts
Hartford
Hyperion
New Haven
Portland
Ore
Jesse
Frederick Keppy
Park Street
Fire tug urged to curb oil plant danger at Silliman site
In a Farmers Forum piece editor Charles L. Gaylord presses for a fire tug to prevent a possible blaze at the L. B. Silliman oil warehouse near Water Street, warning residents to avoid fires and noting the risk of handling 200 barrels of oil. The column mocks those opposing preventive action while urging city readiness to protect nearby properties.
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Charles L. Gaylord
L. B. Silliman
Mr. Gaylord
Water Street
Bridgeport Trades School Hearing Friday
Bridgeport moves to back a county trades school with broad support from Danbury Norwalk South Norwalk Stamford and other towns within 20 miles. Mayors of Danbury Stamford Norwalk and South Norwalk back the effort as Board of Trade leaders organize a 15 member committee to present before the State Board of Education.
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Bridgeport
State Board of Education
Stratfield
Park City
Danbury
Norwalk
South Norwalk
Stamford
Fred Enos
Board of Trade
Trades School Committee
South Norway
Y. M. GA
Manufacturers’ Association
Board of Education
Frank J. Mulcahy
Crane Valve Co
W. H. Webster
Bridgeport Brass Co
A. W.burritt
Burritt Lamber Co
EB. P. Bullard
Bullant Machine Tool Co
Board of ‘Trade
Jeremiah Holmes
Thomas H. Macdonald
American Graphophone Co
George M. Eames
Singer Manufacturing Co
Baby dug up and moved to cemetery from Potter's Field
Mrs Louise Loteske is allowed to remove her baby’s body from Potter's Field at Lakeview to the Jewish cemetery. The child died at St Vincent's Hospital in May and was buried without the mother's knowledge after authorities could not locate her.
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Louise Loteske
Potter's Field
Lakeview
St. Vincent's Hospital
Hat firm awarded damages in industrial alcohol recovery case
The John H. Wolthauser Co and related hat makers faced a suit from John Traggensen Steam Copper Works of Stamford. Judge Scott in Common Pleas Court awarded the defendants 218.70 dollars after a trial on a contract dispute over an experimental plant to recover and rectify alcohol used in hat production.
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John H.wolthauser Co
Hat Saeniratenen 2
Couaih Sirah
John Traggensen Steam Copper Works
Stamford
Scott
Common Pleas Court
Naval Reserve Called to Sea
Lieut Albert Merritt of the Third Division Naval reserves reports to Brooklyn Navy Yard with six Marines to board the Machias. They sail August 7 to Provincetown to join the North Atlantic fleet and train on battleships in target practice.
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Albert Merritt
Naval Reserves
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Frank Corwall
Naval Militia
Navy Yard
New Haven
Provincetown
Paying the Shah To Leave Persia
Teheran reports a new Persian government plan to cash overdrafts at banks to fund paying the deposed Shah to depart Persia. The Shah remains a refugee in the Russian legation and is described as a political prisoner awaiting escort by Russian Cossacks toward Crimea in August. The Russian government has not refused assurances of close guarding.
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Teheran
Persia
Russia
Crimea
No. 1 Fire Company Gets Unnamed Goat Mascot
A two month old goat was delivered to Fire Company No.1 along with obsolete ice apparatus as a mascot. The animal arrived in a crate and has not yet been christened. The crew plans an engine test before any naming.
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NO. 1 Fire Company
New Haven
Fire Company No.1
Auto Chemical
Bit Tobin
Severest Test of Wright Aeroplane
Washington July 28 Captive balloons mark the straightaway course for Orville Wright to fly the aeroplane in the final government test. If weather holds the flight may occur this afternoon with Lieut Foulkes as passenger. The Wrights hope to exceed 44 miles an hour to claim a $10,000 bonus. President Taft praised the recent record by Orville Wright and Lt Lahm as they completed the first half of the signal corps requirements with a 1 hour 12 minute 40 second circle.
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United Press
Washington
Orville Wright
Signal Corps
Lieutenant Foulers
Wrights
Orville
Fort Myer
Shuter's Hill
Alexandria
Lahm
Taft
White House
Or Ear
Excitement in Cherbourg over Russian Imperial visit
Cherbourg prepares for the Russian Emperor and Empress reception. The French fleet will escort the Standart from Brest, with President Fallieres and Premier Briand boarding the Verite as executive HQ during the two days. The czar will lunch on the Verite, take part in a naval review, and sail to Cowes to meet King Edward.
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Jherbourg
United Press
Cherbourg
Russia
Standart
Brest
Fallerés
Briand
Verite
Czarina
Verice
Cowes
King Edward
Rubek
Makarom
Count De Thuin in prison on swindle charge
Paris reports Count Grenotten De Thuin in a cell awaiting trial for swindling insurers of more than 340000. Police say he led a gang that staged automobile accidents, insured worn cars, and used accomplices including a woman to claim serious injuries with hired witnesses.
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Count DE Thuin
United Press
Paris
Count Grenotten de Thuin
A Crumb of Bread and a Nose Averted
A vivid New York Press anecdote describes a vivacious society woman at dinner who unknowingly wears a large crumb of bread on the tip of her nose. Laughter erupts as the husband deftly removes the crumb, revealing how a tiny misfortune can transform appearances and provoke amusement among observers.
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New York Press
Topaz and Saucy Willy Tales in Old News Notes
A collage of antique notes blends topaz lore with humor about a saucy boy named Willy. It cites myths linking topaz to fire safety and treasure reveals, then shifts to light vignettes from newspapers and letters, including Pepys, Newark, and city jests about health, germs, and witty remarks.
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HUB Clothing
Lamb Chops
Bridgeport Public Market
Geo. B. Clark & Co
Broad Street
Post Office
Concords
Peck & Lines Co
Middle St
Conn
Bridgeport Distributing CO
State Street
Public Market
California
the Wooster-Atkinson Co
Edward Bayless
Elizabeth Dempsey
Mr. Bayless
Mary Finnigan
Frances. Ladd
Bellevue Hospital
Brooklawn Avenue
Charlies Wintener
Wintener
Continental
People's Forum
Plain Citizen
New York
Pirm
United States
Broadway
Whiting Cos
Whiting Miz. Co
Cyrus
Fairfield Avenue
Cannon St
Aree
R Winn
Stratford Ave
Trades School
Mother Getty
HAT Company
Naval Reserve
French Academy OF Science
Paria
Henry Lemoine
Academy of Science
Vincent de Bolamenu
Academy
Holsmenn
Bolamein
Lemoine
LLC
Wright Aeroplane
Lew Dockstader
James H. Decker
Mr. Decker
Shubert Theatres
Decker
Primrose & Dockstader
Dockstader
Shen
Primrose
Turkey
Constantinople
Crete
Greece
Earth
John Fahy
Howard Avenue
Misses Bittin
Aegelin
M. Walsh
L. O'Hearn
H. Kelly
F. Hayes
M. Fahy
Be.bosker
M. Murphy
M. Phelbin
J. Maloney
Kitty Burns
J. McGraft
N. Fitzsimmons
A. McBrullen
Tom Gallagher
Eddie Dibee
C. Ross
William T. D. Patchen
William Street
C. E. Barto
Washington Park M. E
St. John’s Lodge
Samuel H. Harris
T. O
John Bedlent
John Johnson
St. John's Lodge
E. T. Abbott
F. I. Bradbury
Washington Park Church
Cornelius Larsen
James Pol
Samuel Harris Lodge
Odd Fellows
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Gyges
Philostistes
Apollonius
Heliodorus
Theagenes
Charicles
Arsaces
Theagentes
Pepa
Willy
Youcester
Papa
Paps
Sesh
Puck
England
Pepys
Mr. Creed
Bronson
Il Woodson
Brooklyn Eagle
Tig
Sirius Barker
Washington Star
Boston Transcript
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