Stratford Board Recommends Site Purchase for Eight Room School
Stratford board of education reports to buy a ~25 acre Burritt estate site on Honeyspot Road near Sedgwick Avenue for an eight room school needing about 1.5 acres. Philo Havens to seek price. if refused, town may seek condemnation. Principal Merrill Paine resigns to take a job in Northampton.
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Stratford
Board of Education
Philo Havens
Louis Snyder
Honeyspot
Sedgwick Avenue
Burritt
Merrill P. Paine
Frank School
Paine
Northampton
Mass
Franklin School
Congregational Church
Edward N. Packard
D. D
Chi
George Mara O
Bridgeport
John C. Holmes
Ethel McKinnon
Howard M. Curtis
Main Street
Broad Street
Academy Hill
Longbrook Avenue
Haring
Parochial Society of Christchurch
H. M. West
Shore Line 60 Cars Operated After Strike Settlement
Norwich June 7 trolley service on the Shore Line Electric Railway resumed after a strike by conductors motormen and other employes. Cars ran on all lines under an agreement granting a minimum wage of 26 cents per hour, up to 32 cents after six years, 10 cents extra for overtime, and meal tickets when kept on the cars.
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Norwich
Shore Line Electric Railway
Steve MacGordon Dies In Air Crash At Newport News
Newport News, June 7 Steve MacGordon renowned aviator at the Atlantic coast aeronautical station died early today from burns after his plane crashed and caught fire. Co-pilot E F Keefer a student survived with minor injuries. MacGordon 33 a New York City native held the American altitude record eclipsing 15 000 feet and recently completed a non stop Newport News to Sheepshead Bay flight in a tournament.
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Newport News
Steve MacGordon
Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station
Botus
MacGordon
E. F. Keefer
Keefer
New York City
Sheepshead Bay
Torrington Woman Is Killed by Train
The body of Mrs. Harry Tiffany aged 49 was found on a siding near the Albert street railroad crossing early today. The head wound was caused by a freight car likely moved onto the siding three or four hours earlier. Medical examiner Dr. H. B. Hanchett said it probably was self-inflicted, but coroner S. A. Herman will issue an official finding after completing the investigation.
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Torrington
Harry Tiffany
Albert Street
Tdip
H. B. Hanchett
S. A. Herman
Mexican Raiders to be Executed in Deming Run
Seven Mexicans sentenced to death for the Columbus raid were moved from the Santa Fe penitentiary to Deming for execution after their sentence, then returned to Santa Fe for safekeeping.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Columbus
Deming
Bishop Dougherty Dead in Buffalo Diocese
The Right Rev Dennis J Dougherty D D was installed as the fifth Bishop of the Buffalo diocese at St Josephs Cathedral. Cardinal Farley and others spoke. Dougherty had been transferred from the diocese of Jaro in the Philippine Islands.
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Buffalo
Dennis J. Dougherty
St. Joseph's Cathedral
Cardinal Farley
Dougherty
Jaro
Philippine Islands
Thousands of suffragists march to G.O.P. platform
Chicago June 7 Thousands of suffragists dressed in NAWSA regalia from states gather in Chicago to march down Michigan Boulevard to the Coliseum. They present to the Republican convention resolutions urging endorsement of equal suffrage, led by Carrie Chapman Catt and other noted figures.
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Chicago
Coliseum
Resolutions Committee
National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
Michigan Boulevard
Republican National Convention
Grant Park
Dunne
Illinois
Kellogg Fairbank
Joseph T. Bowen
H. Mary Wilmarth
Mary McDowell
Raymond Robins
Katherine B. Davis
Stone Blackwell
Julinus Rosenwald
Catherine Waughn McCulloch
Lambert C. Wise
Progressive National Convention
Carrie Chapman Catt
Association
Anna Howard Shaw
James W. Morrison
Frank M. Roessing
Stanley McCormick
Henry Wade Rogers
Hannah J. Patterson
Walter McNab Miller
Patty Ruffner Jacobs
Jane Addams
Harriet Stokes Thompson
Yulia Holmes Smith
Ellen M. Henrotin
Ella Stewart
Mary HW. Holmes
Celia Parker Wooley
Charles E. Lane
Harrison Monroe Brown
Florence Bennett Petersen
Ida Darling Engelke
George Mathes
Moses L. Purvin
Marion Talbot
Marriet Stokes Thompson
Harriet E. Wittum
Ida L. Fursman
May Irwin
Elizabeth Christman
College
Vassar
Wellesley
Smith
Bryn Mawr
Northwester University
Universiies
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iowa
Art Schools
Kansas
New York
Chicago Political Equality League
Kaiser Praises Sailors After Jutland Victory
Berlin reports the Emperor lauded Wilhelmshaven sailors for defeating the British fleet at Jutland. He credited the victory with breaking Britain's sea supremacy and securing Germany’s freedom of the seas for commerce. The speech framed the engagement as a turning point in the war.
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Berlin
Wilhelmshaven
Jutland
Great Britain
Albion
North Sea
Verdun
Pennsylvania buys railroad system in Ohio
The Lorraine Ashland and Southern Railroad was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The deal adds 70 miles of track and access to another Lake Erie port, plus a line to the National Tube Company's Lorain plant. The line runs from Lorain to Ashland and connects south to the Pennsylvania system.
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Cleveland
Lorraine, Ashland & Southern Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Loraine
Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
National Tube Company
Ashland
College not a training ground for soldiers says leader
At New York University commencement Henry S. Pritchell of the Carnegie Foundation argues modern college curriculums lack room for military training and that land grant colleges contribute negligibly to a citizen reserve. In Chicago the University of Chicago announces a military science course for next year.
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New York
Henry S. Pritchell
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
New York University
Chicago
University of Chicago
Farino Held for Fairfield Burglary Case
Anthony Farino a 11 year old of 28 Benham avenue is held for Fairfield authorities charged with burglarizing the Brooklawn Country Club golf house. Also held are Byron Gile John Sheehan Harold Simpson Dominick Turko Walter Hill and Catherine street in connection with the case. A Federal Trade Commission hearing on the Shredded Wheat Case is set for June 21 likely in Buffalo New York.
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Fairfield
Anthony Farino
Benham Avenue
Brooklawn Country Club
Byron Gile
Buckley Street
John Sheehan
Laurel Court
Harold Simpson
Rosedale Street
Dominick Turko
Roselle Street
Walter Hill
Park Avenue
Catherine Street
Farino
Federal Trade Commission
Buffalo
N. Y
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