New Corporation to Locate Lumber Firm in Stratford
A new corporation is formed to locate a lumber firm in Stratford with 200 shares at 50 cents par. Incorporators include Fran kline S Weller of Stratford ward Morse and Florence Morse of Bridgeport. Citizens provide notes on donations to a fire department for proposed apparatus. In other news, a woman was fined five dollars and sentenced to 30 days in jail, suspended, after assault charges. The Bridgeport Christian Endeavor union funeral is set for Stratford Congregational church Monday evening June 14 with music and speakers. a social hour follows.
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Commion
Capital
Frankine S. Weller
Strettara
Ward S. Morse
Florence Morse
Bridgeport
Fire Department
Justice of the Peace
Richard
Stanton
Steffee
Bridgeport Christian Endeavor Union
Stratford Congregational Church
Spekers
Mrs Crosby Suffering After Appendicitis Operation
Mrs Peter W Crosby of Tesing Avenue, a well known North End figure, is hospitalized at St Vincent's after an acute appendicitis operation performed by her family doctor Dr William W Gray of 346 West Avenue. Hospital reports are encouraging and a speedy recovery is hoped.
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Peter W Crosby
Tesing Avenue
North End
St. Vincent's Hospital
William W. Gray
West Avenue
Fairfield Man Held After Razor Slashing at Saloon
Fairfield June 10 William A Nichols colored is held on $500 bail for a hearing on charges of assault with intent to kill after slashing Bert Rogers colored in a fight at Mastroianni's saloon Sub urban avenue Stratfield last night. Nichols is also charged with carrying concealed weapons. Rogers aided by a Bridgeport surgeon received a deep chest gash.
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Fairfield
William A. Nichols
Bacon Wakeman
Bert Rogers
Nichols
Mastroianni
Stratfield
Rogers
BB. Meeker Place
Bridgeport
Keen
Unquowa Tribe
Hamonasset Tribe of
New Haven
Mrs Spaulding Hosts Governing Board At Silliman Chapter
Mrs Katherine Moody Spaulding entertained the 26 members of the governing board of Mary Silliman chapter D A R from 4 to 6 PM at her home 477 State Street. Thomas F Howden president of Howden Tile Co died of heart disease in his New York office. Two hundred delegates of the Daughters of Pocahontas gathered in Watertown New York for the state convention.
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Mrs. Spaulding
Mary Silliman
Katherine Moody Spaulding
Haters Silliman Chapter
State Street
Thomas F. Howden
Howden Tile Co
New York
Daughters of Pocahontas
Watertown
N. Y
Germany's agriculture mobilizes for war effort on farms
Berlin reports a major reorganization of German farming under wartime needs. The Agriculture Department notes self sufficiency aims, new fertilizer substitutes, and centralization via the German Farmers' Supply Association. Labor is drawn from Poland, prisoners of war, and mobilized women. Cities like Cologne use waste land to expand cultivation and city contracts plant 1,500 acres for crops and peas.
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Berlin
Germany
German Farmers’ Supply Association
Belgium
France
Poland
Austria
Cologne
Inrent Opens Boston Branch for Foreign Trade Info
The Department of Commerce opens a Boston branch of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to speed distribution of trade information to New England businesses. The Industrial Bureau promotes export development by sharing foreign market data, dealers abroad, and methods of doing business. Confidential info is sent to registered firms, located in the Oliver Building, Boston. New Haven Industrial Bureau plans a foreign market library at South Station Room 519 for public use.
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Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Boston
New England
Industrial Bureau
Oliver Building
New Haven
South Station
Italians Intercept Austrians Wireless Messages
Paris reports that Admiral Thaon di Revel says Italian naval staff technology now intercepts Austrian wireless messages regularly via a Marconi invention, a breakthrough boosting military intelligence while allegedly blocking Austrian interception of Italian signals. In Chicago, Judge Carpenter allows Rock Island receivers $3,000 monthly per unit for services.
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Paris
AG@miral
Carpenter
Chicago
Rock Tstana
Citizens Improvement meets to back Grand Street bridge
The Citizens Improvement Association plans a mass meeting at Germania Hall on Friday at 8 o clock to promote the Grand Street bridge project and discuss the June 19 special election. Former Senator Moses W Manwaring will preside and an executive committee has been formed with leaders from districts six through ten and Dr H H Burlison.
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Grand Street
Citizens’ Improvement Association
Germania
Moses W. Manwaring
Commission
Michael H. Ford
Andrew M. Owens
Christian Haug
Frank X. Berger
Thomas Arnold
John M. O’connell
John J. Scanlon
Patrick Ryan
J. J. Buss
Louis Korff
Samuel Dawe
William Brechlin
J. H. Emmons
H. H. Burlison
Baltic Naval Battle Sinks German Collier Says Report
Berlin reports only one German collier sunk by a Russian submarine in the June 5 Baltic engagement off the Gulf of Riga. A German destroyer suffered slight damage but reached port, while Petrograd denies further sinks. authorities in Petrograd claim a German torpedo boat and a transport were sunk and another torpedo boat damaged in the same action.
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Berlin
Baltic Sea
Gulf
Riga
Army
Petrograd
Joseph R. Swan
Baltic
June Wedding of Miss Natalie Macfarlane and Ernest Hunter
Natalie Banks Macfarlane and Ernest Carlisle Hunter plan a June ceremony at the Hotel Stratfield ballroom with about 600 invitations. The couple, their families, and a large local and out of town guest list will attend a reception with a buffet supper and dancing after the ceremony. The event features a Tiffany platinum wedding ring and a meticulously decorated hall.
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George W. Nicholson
First Baptist Church
John Richard Brown
Macfarlane
Gladys E. Macfarlane
Bayard Boyd Webb
Brooklyn
Elizabeth Gibbs
Brookline
Mass
Mildred Foster
Josephine Lynge
Martha Marie Sleeper
New York
Anna Gildner
Mt. Vernon
N.Y
Miss Sleeper
Gildner
H. H. Gildner
Grace Sanford
Hunter
George Starr Humphrey
Litchfield
Ramon Vaill
Enfield
C. Milton Allen
Fulton
George Henry Barnum Hodge
New Haven
Local resident John Doyle welcomes friends at Iranistan event
John C. Doyle of 1487 Iranistan Avenue is greeting guests with handshakes and cigars as a large gathering forms. His wife Lana and baby are reported to be well, while Doyle is noted as a prominent local plumber.
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John C. Doyle
Iranistan Avenue
Lana Baby
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Pier 28
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