Progress and events in Westport town notes
Westport town column describes school exhibition at Staples High on the 11th and graduation at National Hall on the 25th. Town hall public whist, benefits by Women’s Town Improvement Society, and plans for pavilion bathrooms and viewing area. Local business updates include a trolley upgrade, postmaster salary rise, new semaphore invention, property sales, and civic club meetings.
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Staples High School
National Hall
Wien
Salmon
de Nayer
New Rochelle
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Goneny
Richard
Historical Society
Jesup Memorial Library
Roland Sherwood
Compo Skiff Club
Washington
Franklin M. Raymond
Frank Hawkes
Main Street
Tressa Mangoine
G. Taylor
Mary
Silk
Saugatuck
Eee High School
Women’s Town Improvement Society
Musical Society
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State Street
Arthur Kittle
Emma Kemper
John A. Kimber
James F. Keeler
John F. Godillot
Mackenzie
Sniffin
George Bunnell
D. B. Bradley
Ruth Weld
Greenwood Lake
New Jersey
Erie R. R
Civic Club
Selectmen's Room
New Town Hall
Hyatt
Bridgeport
Norwalk
Filowerdom
Bridge Street
Lloyd Nash
Church of the Assumption
Thomas Edwards
Judge Foster
New York
Metropolis
A. S. Burr
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John N. Partridge
Bessie Taylor
Turkey Hill
Geo. B. Smith
Kate Donaher
Riverside
Countess of Aberdeen Attends Montreal Conference
New York dispatch notes the Countess of Aberdeen, Irish anti tuberculosis leader, arriving on the Cedric to join the International Conference of Women in Montreal and urge stronger American engagement against the white plague in Ireland.
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New York
Cholera Epidemic Threatens Havoc in St. Petersburg
Special from United Press reports St. Petersburg in June faces a rising cholera outbreak with hundreds of cases. Health officials decry half hearted efforts, water supply river Nava found infected, city filthy, and doctors warn of a potential epidemic sweeping Europe.
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United Press
St. Petersburg
Nava
Europe
Meriden Youth Dies After Personal Crisis in Hartford
Henry Villette of Meriden died after a frenzy at his fiancee Miss Clara Bloomingdale's Hartford apartment. Police believe he drank poison in her presence following a day after the Yale Prince term ball game in New Haven. The incident follows injuries from an earlier automobile crash and a medical examiner's ruling of poisoning as the cause of death.
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Hartford
Henry Villette
Meriden
Clara Bloomingdale
Drowned in Bantam Lake while rowing near Camp Columbia
Litchfield June 7 Charles Eckhorn drowned Saturday night after the boat tipped one third of the way across Bantam Lake during a rowing trip with Otto Johnson and Ned in Miller both New York men building Camp Columbia dormitory. Northrop of Waterbury rescued the others. Eckhorn disappeared. He was married with three children.
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Bantam Lake
Litchfield
Charles Eckhorn
Otto Johnson
Nedin Miller
New York
Camp Columbia
Eckborn
Born
Meagire
Childran
The D M Read Co Presents Baby Carriages and Carts
The D M Read Co showcases a range of baby carriages Go Carts and related vehicles on the fourth floor of the Furniture Store. Styles include English Perambulators Taxicabs Pullman Sleepers and Collapsible Go Carts with nickel trimmings and leather cloth seats. Prices list extra large bodies and hoods at 7.25.
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Pullman
Coat Suit Materials and Wash Goods Sale Highlights
Materials for coat suits Pongett fine mercerized cotton offered in champagne lilac nile green rose lotos and sky blue. 32 inches wide 25 cents a yard. Linen special colors lilac lotos blue nile green copper plaid white 26 inches wide 29 cents a yard. Striped Galatea reliable cottons special at 12 1 2 cents. Taffetas newest styles limited quantities. Percales black brown blue green striped with white 32 34 and 36 inch lengths. Fine summer skirts special at 69 cents. Seersuckers and Madras 69 89 and 98 cents.
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Seersuckers
Madras
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