Census Team Marks Bridgeport Work as Thorough and Precise
Jones census enumerators under Nathan H. Jones completed a meticulous Bridgeport tally with aid from 71 letter carriers. They traced faulty enumerations, ensuring under 100 uncounted residents, and resolved numerous absences and misreports while the circus workers’ registrations were being finalized in Washington.
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Bridgeport
Nathan‘tel H. Jones
Post Office Department
Jones
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Washington
New Haven Route Restores Ferry Rates to New York
The New England Navigation Company boats between New Haven and New York restored old one way fares at 50 cents. The June 1 increase to 60 cents was withdrawn immediately after orders came from New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad. No reason given for reversal. passengers face unchanged price moving forward.
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New England Navigation Cam
New York
Seaich
The
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New Haven
Senate asks for rate change report on proposed railroad advances
Senate adopts Bur ton resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to report full details of proposed rate increases and furnish 100 examples of impact on key commodities. LaFollette will speak. New York Central raises 2 to 13 percent on some items. Roads east of the Mississippi plan increases before July 5. Memphis grain and hay association files complaint alleging discriminatory freight rates across the Mississippi valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Senate Today
Burton
Republican
Ohio
Inter-State Commerce Commission i
Senate
LaFollette
Inter-State Commerce Commission
New York Central
New York
St. Paulice
Commission
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Erie
Potomac
Missouri River
Southeast
Pacific Coast
Memphis, Tenn., Grain and Hay Association Today
Mississippi Valley
Alleg
Memphis
Indiana
Michigan
Stork Delivers A Newborn Boy To Watson Family
A baby boy was born yesterday at the Watson home on Norman Street. Mrs. Vera Shepard of this city is the mother, and friends report both mother and child are doing nicely. Mr. W. H. Harty has moved to YH Wen with his family and is involving his son in the Milner coal business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Watson
Norman Street
W. H. Harty
Washington Terrac
Yhwen
Law
B. F. Milner
Ap4
Levins Buy 30 Feet in Main Street
Louis and Charles Levin, dry goods dealers, purchase the property and building on Main Street opposite the Hotel Stratfield from Mrs. Caroline Sutter. The 50 foot frontage sold for about 50 000 dollars with a front foot value of 1000. Coe and White lease the building to April, with remodeling planned by the Levin brothers.
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Louis
Charles Levin
Water Street
Main Street
Stratfield
FB Coe & White
Caroline Sutter
Providence
Jacob Sutter
Atlantic Hotel
Sutter
I. M. Zimmer
East Side
J . Loewith & Co
Coe & White
Levin Brothers
O Brien suit against Marshall is off docket
Matthew E. O'Brien a former city lawyer now in Washington filed a slander suit for 100000 against W. L. Marshall of Chicago The case was removed from the Civil Superior Court Marshall once taunted O'Brien during the 1908 gubernatorial campaign repeating a claim that O'Brien had stolen six watches in Taunton Mass O'Brien says the statements damaged his reputation and are false and malicious
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Matthew E. O’brien
National Capitol
W. L. Marshall
Chicago
Civil Superior Court
Marshall
O’brien
M. EB. O'Brien
Taunton
Mass
O'Brien
Lecture on Evils of Vaccination in Bridgeport
L W Anderson of Waterbury will present an illustrated lecture titled The Evils of Vaccination at Lincoln hall 60 Cannon street Monday at 8 pm under Bridgeport Branch Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League. Mrs W M Terry and her mother Mrs Woodhull of Fairfield avenue have returned from a pleasure trip through Long Island.
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L. W. Anderson
Waterbury
Lincoln Hall
Cannon Street
Bridgeport
Democratic State Central Split Over Governor Nominee Buckingham
The Democratic State Central committee in New Haven discussed the gubernatorial nomination at the Tontine Hotel. Bridgeport leaders urged Mayor E T Buckingham, citing his undefeated record and youth, while Judge Simeon Baldwin faced concern over age and unknown campaign strength.
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Democratic State Central Committee
Tontine Hotel
New Haven
Connecticut
E. T. Buckingham
Buckingham
Edward T. Buckingham
Simeon EB. Baldwin
Jeremiah Donovan
Norwalk
Judge Baldwin
Udge Baldwin
Bridgeport
Archibald McNeil, Jr
Dennis O'Neill
McNeil
State Central Committee
Fairfield
Litchfield
Daniel Walker
William H. Russell
New Haven Journal-Courier
Hyperion Theatre
Hartford
Love at first sight lover sues Peck for breach of promise
Esther Quinn testifies in Boston that her romance with Professor Harry Thurston Peck of Columbia University ended when he revealed he was married. She sues for 50000 dollars, saying his promise to marry her was broken after years of engagement and letters.
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Esther Quinn
Prof. Peck
United Press
Boston
Harry Thurston Peck
Columbia University
New York
Miss Quinn
Cambridge
Professor Peck
Clergyman Swain to Lead South Church in New Pastoral Call
Dr. Richard L. Swain Ph D arrives from a decade in Laconia New Hampshire to serve as pastor at South church for seven Sundays. He preaches Sunday on The New Sense of Man's Worth and In incentives to Going Forward in the evening. Swain, born 1860 in Iowa, has a varied frontier background including coal mining before entering ministry. He studied at Clark College Union Biblical Seminary Yale and Otterbein and previously served as college pastor and lecturer. He and his wife have four children with two oldest sons at Syracuse University.
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South Church
Richard L. Swain
Swain
Laconia
N. H
Newell Dwight Hillis
Iowa
United Brothern Church
Richard L
Clark College
Union Biblical Seminary
Yale
Otterheim
Dr. Swain
Syracuse University
Belmont Recovering From polo Injury at Meadowbrook Club
Belmont, the New York financier and recent husband of actress Eleanor Robson, is recovering after a polo accident on Long Island. A broken rib and facial lacerations followed his Mallet pinning horse and rider during a chase for the ball. he was unconscious but up by today and expects to visit his office tomorrow. A month’s mind mass for Joseph A. O’Brien will be held at St Augustine’s Church tomorrow at 7 a.m.
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United Press
New York
Belmont
Eleanor Robson
Meadowbrook Hunt Club
Long Island
Joseph A. O'Brien
St. Augustane
Man Crushed to Death in Connecticut Factory Shafting
Pine Meadow Connecticut June 3 George Brooks fifty five an employee of Chapin and Stephens Rule Company died after his arm was caught in shafting and body pulled into roaring machinery. He died instantly with most bones broken and skull crushed. Fellow workers could not help him. It took about an hour to remove the body. A family survives. Charles H Rogan of Seaview Avenue is recovering from burns after shaving and using bay rum containing carbolic acid.
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United Press
Pine Meadow
Conn
George Brooks
Chapin & Stephens Rule Company
Brooks
Charles H. Rogan
Seaview Avenue
Mr. Rogan
Meet Me Tonight at Brooklawn Dance
An invitation to a dance at Brooklawn tonight promising a cool evening. Also classified notes announce a six room house for rent at 87 Hazlewood Ave and a five room unit at 232 Wells with improvements and window shades. Auction sale of furniture and hardware listed for Saturday June 4 at Elwood & Sons Salesrooms 171 John St with terms encouraging attendees to bid at their own price.
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Brooklawn
Hazlewood Ave
Edward S. Hotchkiss
Harbor St
Elwood & Sons
John St. A
John St
A. Elwood & Son, Inc
Elwood & Son
John St. Elwood & Son
Blood & Son
John T. A
Cigarette habit fuels teen crime at Newfield park
Louis Christianson, 16, described as physically and mentally wrecked by smoking up to a hundred cigarettes daily, faced a city court with a dozen youths for burglaries at cigar stands around Newfield park. Police say he confessed to park thefts and a grandstand fire scare, with multiple youths remanded to probation or facing burglary charges.
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Louis Christianson
East End
Newfield Park
Christianson
Hewitt Street
John H. Massey
Harry Massey
Connecticut Avenue
Joseph Perry
Patrick Malaidy
Drew Place
George H. Miller
Carroll Avenue
Robert F. Brown
Beardsley Street
Brown
Malaidy
Perry
Young Christianson
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Auction Sale Tonight Offers Second Hand Furniture
Auction sale at 1287 Stratford Ave features seven rooms of parlor dining room bedroom and kitchen furniture with bargain prices. Also listed are a fine upright piano at 110 Ann St Hartford and other items from enamel signs to novelty stamps.
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Walter E. Marsh
Fairfield Ave
New York
Peter Hron
Stratford Ave
Standard Art Store
Main St
Stratfield Building
Bridgeport
Ann St
Hartford
State St
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Postal Service
William B. Bailey
Marigold
West End
N. Y
Interstate Commerce Commission
Levins
S. E. Baldwin
Fairfield County
Archibald M’neil Jr
Fisher
Mayor Fisher
Middletown
Peek
Peck
New York Commercial Advertiser
Dr. Peck
Frontiersman
Belmont Recovering
J. A. O'Brien
Mansfield
O'neill’s
Main St. A
Mabel
Brooklawn of
ponEse A
Warner Bros. Co
August C. Leith
Mechanics Hotel
T. J. Murphy's
Wm. R. Hogan
Mer. A
Bommes & Biltz
Albert Tiska
Lincoln School
Chiildren
O’connor’s
East Main
Walter Sts
Anna
Edith
Alice Fleming
Poli
American Graphophone Co
Howard Ave
Diba
Schwerdtle Stamp Co
Cannon St. Dia
C. Pardee & Co
Pembroke St
Kelly
William A. Brooks
J. N. McNamara
E. Main
Barnum Aye
Tom
East M. Street
Thomas Meath
Dutforts
Cannon St
Gregory St
Brooklawn Ave
General House
Beechwood Ave
American Graphophone Co Disc
Torent
Carroll Ave
A. Kregling
Ee Rence St
Eugens Vv. Debs
Poli’s
Dial & Lee Music Co
P.O
Inquire
Washington Terrace
Maplewood Ave
Larrabee's Market
Hartmann’s
Wall Street
William J .Mead
Newfield Building
Warner Building
Sears
Newfield Avenue
Ralph L. Miller
P. O
T. Mannion
Union Avenue
Water St
McPadden
F. & M. Schaefer N
M. McPadden
Berra
E.J. Manville Machine Co
Waterbury, Conn
Dibto
Gold St
Stratfield Hotel
Mose Krieger
Main
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