Miss Billie Burke in Mrs Dot at Jacksons Friday
Miss Billie Burke arrives at Jacksons on Friday evening June 1 in Mrs Dot the W Somerset Maugham comedy. The show features the same cast as New York and promises strong business as Burke’s star power grows with this satirical comedy about a widow negotiating love and desire.
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Billy Gurketx
Dot
Billie Burke
Jackson
Mrs. Dot
W. Somerset Maughan
Burke
New York
Elim
Sbe
Mrs. Det
Challen Protiman
Comedy Theatre
Loran
Miss Burke
Miz Remson
Sve
Julian E’estrange
Fred Kerr
Regil Halines
Kate Meek
Annie Eawaned
Ann Merideth
Motorman Dout Marks 40 Years in Service Today
A motorman on the North Main Street Seaside Park run of the Connecticut Company completes 40 years with local transportation firms. He began driving a single horse car for the Bri Horse Railroad and has remained in service through One mumpaar. Over two decades of work he has been late for duty only twice, recalling a long career in a changing city transit scene.
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Main Street
North Main Strnet-Seasite Park
Connteticut Co
Thaay
English Educator Guest of Brother
Charles Sparse, a well known advocate of England, recently retired from the leadership of a prep school, visits his brother James Sparse at the Tatler home on Noble Avenue. He is impressed with the Pemn- Pati SBI AE Nis CHUBLEY and plans to visit Canada and the United States before returning.
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Charles Sparse
Advcntor
England
Jamia Sparse
Tatler
Noble Avenue
Apargo Fe
Clare
Britain
Canada
United States
New Haven Shopmen To Renew Wage Demands
The New Haven shopmen will go before General Manager Higgins on Wednesday to renew demands for better wages and working conditions. The move follows a period of abeyance amid miner trouble and uncertainties about their prospects, with the outcome likely to influence the workers’ bargaining position.
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New Haven
Atanacer Higgins
Use Of Old Plan Sought As City Awaits Garbage Bids
The Board of Health received four bids for garbage disposal last night after none for burial or pig feeding. John L Severance offered one month of reduction at 80 cents per ton while the city decides. American Extractor Corporations bid 7500 yearly to buy and run By-Products plant for 30 million and bury options, with end price and contract terms to be set by arbitration. Lewis Bill proposed 90 cents per ton if the city provides the By-Products plant and upgrades. Charles C Pischer bid 1 per ton using York Pa method. The board took bids under advisement and reached no conclusion.
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Board of Hearth
John L Severance
Bridgeport By- Products Company
American Extractor Corporations
Hamilton
Lewis Bill
Charles C. Pischer
York
Pro-Austrian Party Wins Large Margin in Hungarian Vote
Budapest reports show the pro-Austrian party achieving an overwhelming victory. The Pan-Hungarians suffer a crushing defeat, with Imperialists set to gain strength. Several districts remain to report, but results unlikely to alter the outcome.
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Budapest
Big Bunco Case Tied to Bank Loot in Boston
Boston report ties New York Boston gang to the Cambridge National City Bank heist. The government probes a fake poolroom in the Boston business district run as the Western Union racing department. Key figures Big Bill Kelther Len Strasnyder and Martin Walsh linked, Walsh missing, hunt ongoing.
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United Press
Boston
National City Bank of
Cambridge
George W. Coleman
New York-Boston
Bill Kelther
Bostor
Western Union
Racing Department
Mass
Western Union Company
Crooks
John Marshall
Kelcher
Big Len" Strasnyder
Brooklyn
Martin Walsh
Malden
Coleman
Walsh
Jack Leonard
United States
French
Puzsling Bank
Massachusetts
Faro Gang
Bridgeport Club Banquet Heats Up With Toastmaster Buckingham
The Bridgeport Club annual banquet at Stratfield tonight features Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, as speaker. Mayor Buckingham will serve as toastmaster, introduced by Alderman William E. Primroae, with aims to boost American merchant marine growth and prestige.
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Bridgeport Club
Stratfield
Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
T. Buckingham
Willam E. Primroae
Chief Cowles Starts His Bicycle Cops On New Auto Campaign
New Haven police shift four bicycle officers to headquarters to spearhead a city wide campaign against reckless automobilists. Each officer will carry a stop watch, operate in pairs, and target drivers not showing reasonable care in the center of the city amid prior complaints of near misses and accidents. Hartford reports power firms end dispute over Windsor Locks dam plans with Northern Connecticut Power and Connecticut River Power to seek federal permission to build.
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New Haven
Cowles
Windsor Locks
Hartford
Northern Connecticut Power Company
Connecticut River Power Company
Connecticut Company
Connecticut River
Congress
Funeral of Author Webster Draws Noted Newport Figures
In Newport today a large funeral for author Webster was held at the Zabriskie Memorial Church of St. John the Evangelist with Rev. Charles Beattle officiating. Attendees included Congressman Hamilton Fish and family, Congressman Joseph Keane, Hamilton Fish Keane of New Jersey, Stuyvesant Fish, and Stuyvesant Fish’s Gar rison-on-the-Hudson associates. Pallbearers named were Edwin C. Pont, Rear Admiral Wrench FE Chadwick, Commander Frank Mactill, Henry C. Taylor, Hartford P. Powell, Henry Redmond, and Rear Admiral Charles.
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United Press
Newport
Zabriskie Memorial Church of
St. John the Evangelist
Charles Beattle
Hamilton Fish
Misses Fish
Joseph Keane
Hamilton Fish Keane
New Jersey
Stuyvesant Fish
Garrison-on-the-Hudson
N. J
Edwin C
Charities Board Boosts Pay at Lakeview Home
Lakeview home staff pay raised 35 a month for barn man cook matron and steward after board of charities meeting Dr Sheedy resigns replaced by Dr Schulz Supt Cowles cites large inmate numbers and staff retention concerns bids for plumbing work reviewed May reports show inmate counts at Lakeview and other city facilities Fire escape plan activity postponed awaiting Adler Hurst bid
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Lakeview Home
Board of Charities
Herman Schulz
Cowles
Kane
Somers
Behrens
Foster
Lakeview
Joseph Mullins & Co
N. B. Curtis, and Co
Bertilson and Co
John J
Brennan
State Insane Hospital
School For
Home
Bridgeport Hospital
St. Vincent's Hospital
Adler, Hurst Co
When a Man's Single comedy opens Newtown night
Tickets sell unusually fast for Friday evening June 2 as St. Rose's church presents the comedy When a Man's Single at the town hall. The 8 o'clock curtain promises a crowded house with camp chairs or standing allowed. Music interludes feature piano by Anna Houlihan and others, violin by Frederick Leiss, and vocal by M. E. Keane. Admission is 20 cents.
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St. Rose's Church
Anna Houlihan
Charlesina Driscoll
Jessie Gordon
Frederick Leiss
M. E. Keane
Hawleyville
Misa Ruth McCloud
Boston
F. J. Gale
New
Hartford Wants On New Hay Succeed J H Whittemore
Hartford push to appoint a Hartford born Connecticut director to replace the late John H Whittemore. Charles Hopkins Clark of the Hartford Courant named as leading candidate while an amateur theatre group staged a three act rural comedy at Trinity parish chapel. local sales ad promotes price cuts on hats plumes and petticoats.
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Hartford
NEW Hay
J. H. Whittemore
New Haven Railroad
Connecticut
John H. Whittemore
Charles Hopkins Clark
Hartford Courant
Chapel of Trinity Parish
Ostrica
Seabee Saat
Dillon & Co
One Man Who Discovered W Was Not Wholly Bad
Lem Jackson lingers in Tennessee mountains with a wife and many children. He loves lounging and fishing, yet after Civil War service he endures repeated wounds and surgeries, returning home with a stubborn stoicism. He quips that war isn’t so bad, since some days have nothing to do.
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Lem Jackson
Greenville
Tenn
Leit
Bose
Lem
Rip van Winkle
Dr. Girdner
Waal
Appomattox
Doc
Honest Lem
Harper’s Weekly
A Game of Ball How It Strikes a Stranger to Baseball
A curious essay argues that baseball elevates America in foreign regard. A fictional foreign spy watches 30,000 fans and a dramatic sequence on the field, wondering if the ball kills the bat or the batter dodges, as umpire calls strike one amid cheers.
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America
Ellis Parker Butler
Success Magazine
Grub Street's Pawnshop Legend persists in London
Grub Street in Fleet Street houses the famed Avant pawnshop, claimed oldest and best known since Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The shop, dubbed the poor writer's uncle, hosts legends and souvenirs of great men who, when broke, sought its patronage under the Grub Street name.
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Grub Street
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Fleet Street
London
Fragmented Dialect Jokes and Quips From Old Time Papers
A collection of quirky, partly garbled phrases and snippets from early humorous notes. The pieces include Newfoundland spell talk, a tailor and debtor exchange, a comic courtroom line, and light exchanges from social columns, all in a period voice.
Final Yale academic examinations begin today
Beginning of the end of the college year at Yale arrives as final spring examinations start today and run through June. Examinations in the Sheffield Scientific School begin tomorrow.
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YALE
U New Haven
Sheffield Scientific School
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