Trigger launches reshape U S battleship weighing
Washington May 31 report on new mechanical trigger for launching battleships shows Texas slid down the ways with 200 tons resting on supports. Device promises faster, safer launches. New York and other dreadnoughts to follow. South Africa marked two years of union governance under Gladstone with growth in agriculture, industry, and education amid Boer friction and social change. Also an anniversary sale at EB H Dillon Co offers hats, coats, and accessories.
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Washington
U. S
Texas
Newport News
Secretary of the Navy
Meyer
New York
United States of South Africa
Transvaal
Natal
Orange River
Cape of Good Hope
Viscount Gladstone
Unon
Dominion of
Canada
South Africa
England
Cape Town
Pretoria
Cape Colony
Poer
Awakening of Old China Brings New Coins and Trains
Washington reports new Chinese Republic dollars minted with two lions and the phrase Current Money Chinese Republic. Yuan Shi Kai approved them. Shanghai to Nanking sleeping cars began April 11, 68 feet long with 7 foot bunks. The revolution spurs theatre growth with a new Shanghai stage and 80 actors engaged.
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Washington
China
Yuan Shi Kai
Shanghai
Nanking
Police discredit tale of house of bondage claim
Police found the story of being held in bondage at 38 Water Street, tied to Es ther Lawrence, to be fiction. A woman named Gladys Breeny invoked police aid to recover belongings said to be kept there after escaping capture through a window weeks earlier. The escape proved a means to avoid debts to the Lawrence woman.
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Water Street
Esther Lawrence
Gladys Breen
Lawrence
Police Commissioner’s Car Bows Over Grocer
Chauffeur Joseph O Connell driving Police Commissioner George S Hill s car with Mrs Hill and guests could not stop when Vincent J Jablonski rushed into Park Avenue near Johnson Street at 3 pm The man suffered facial cuts and ruined clothes in the muddy street O Connell was not held responsible after eye witnesses said he was going at a moderate rate and he rushed the injured man to emergency hospital
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Park Avenue
Johnson Street
Joseph O'Connell
George S. Hill
O'Connell
Motorcyclist Fined For Traffic Rule Violation
Herman Schwartzbacher of 182 Osborn Street was fined 25 dollars and costs after passing on the wrong side of a standing trolley as passengers alighted. Judge Carl Foster warned cyclists to heed traffic laws and threatened heavier penalties for repeat offenses.
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Herman Schwartzbacher
Osborn Street
Carl Foster
Schwartzbacher
Molly Pitcher Hall of Fame push gains support in Easton notice
Easton society notes with residents hosting relatives in Bridgeport and Sport Hill. A June 2 Union service features Prof. F. P. Beal from Imperial University at Tien Tsin, with a China famine fund collection to follow. The item lauds Molly Pitcher as the only woman sergeant and backs her Hall of Fame inclusion as champion for women's rights.
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Betsy Seeley
Sport Hill
Frederick Wheeler
George Goessinger
Bridgeport
James Tyler
Darien
Esther Thorpe
Austin Thorpe
Eliza Smith
Howard Edwards
Walter Behn
Ida Rawling
F. P. Beal
Imperial University At
Tien Tsin
Congregational Church
Beal
China
China Famine Fund
Frank Staples
Mary Staples
Molly Pitcher
Chauncey M. Depew
New York
Monmouth
Molly
Washington
United States Army
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National
Freshman Outing and Senior Day Notes at Local High School
Readers learn of a freshman afternoon outing to Rivercliffe Park scheduled for next Friday to avoid crowded Senior Day events in assembly hall. The piece covers bicycle shed plans, the Commercial baseball team’s 10 wins in 12, early departures for seniors, and a bridgeport high school characteristic day outing with a long list of student awards. It also mentions a Dixie lullaby poem fragment and a note about an annual baseball game at Newfield Park between B H S and Wesleyan Sophomores.
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Rivercliffe Park
Newfield Park
Wesleyan
St. Joseph’s Hall
Bridgeport High School
Anna Gray
Greenfield Hill
Main
Congress Streets
Fairfield
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Edison
Special Agents
Alfred Fox Piano Company
Talking Machines
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Hugh Lavery
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Criterion Board
Simonds
Fairfield Center
Miss Gray
Greenfield Country Club
Stuart Hamilton
Natalie Newman
Stuart Foster
Fannie Northrop
John Devine
Millicent Bee
James Dargan
Charlotte Marsh
Frank Malcolm
Blanche Chapin
Ezra Dimick
Walter Keating
Helen Prentice
Russell Ayres
Phyllis Tomlinson
Arthur, Weiss
James Jensen
Isabel Baker
William Coulter
Lillian Whitcomb
Isidore Seltzer
George Lebenthal
Bettina Buonocore
Howard Lee
Joseph Howard
Grace Wagner
William Tuttle
John Shaver
Stanley Challenger
Bessie Wells
Florence Lewis
Hulda Chapman
Asabel Baker
Strickland Giliian
Joe Chapple
Yankees
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MRS
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