School Board Expands Controls and Creates Committees
The school board approved a purchasing committee to review all supplier orders before contracts and formed a teachers committee to evaluate staff qualifications. Superintendent Slawson supported reforms amid questions of power, while resignations and salary increases were noted.
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Samuel J. Slawson
Slawson
Louis F. Schweidtle
Robert DB
Goddard
John A. Hurley
Blawson
Elmer H. Havens
William R. Webster, Jr
Nathaniel W. Bishop
W. W. Hackman
High Schol
Slawcon
Dendlinks
Jackson
Elias Howe
Shelton
Barschools
Brades
Bot
Ambulance Regiment to Present Carmen in Bridgeport
The Ambulance Company of the Fourth Connecticut Infantry will stage Carmen at Pol i's Theatre in Bridgeport with 40 member orchestra and 60 member chorus. Soloists Signor La Monte Vincenzo Rob strong will perform tenor and baritone roles. Proceeds aid ambulance corps fundraising. Committee heads include Major G Skiff Ford Captain David B Wason Sergeant Irving El on and Private Alexander Howell. Tickets have already brought in about 1200 in sales.
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Hed
Bridgeport
Synerie Jones
Fourth Regiment
Connecticut Ome Guard
Poli’s
Metroma Grand Opera Company
G. Skiff Ford
David B. Wason
Irving el
Alexander Howell
Hlad
Judge Scott Rallies At Home After Stroke In Danbury
Judge Howard B Scott of the common pleas court, struck by apoplexy last Saturday, is resting at home in Danbury. He had tendered resignation to take effect September 2, casting doubt on a return to presiding. The current term ends in about three weeks and his illness has been met with widespread regret.
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Howard B Scott
Danbury
Scott
Weather Brief: Corsen Captain Receives Bordeaux Medal
Capt. Allen Tucker is prescuted with a Bordeaux silver medal for aiding an armed American vessel during the war effort. In New Jersey, two people died and 19 were wounded at South River when pickets attacked strikebreakers and guards escorting workers, amid tension over an Atwam handkerchief dispute.
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Allen Tucker
Bordeaux
South River
N. J
San Salvador’s History Of Earthquakes And Volcanoes
Recount of San Salvador’s repeated disasters with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, noting six major events since its founding in 1525. Details on the capital’s population, location near the Pacific, nearby volcanoes Izalco Santa Ana and San Miguel, and government efforts to bolster agriculture amid recurring natural shocks.
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Salvador
Republic of Salvador
San Salvador
Republic
Pacific
Tive
Republic of San Salvador
Central America
Izalco Craters
Thrift Day Specials and Household Goods Ad
Thrift Day Special offers include 65c neckwear, 46c silk four in hands, 35c stamped corset covers, 79c pillow cases, 29c cretonne centers, and 89c rounded and square sweet grass baskets. Home items feature a Jewel Refrigerator with ice capacity, a 50 ft shower hose set, and 3 ft wide varnished door screens. Also notes on missing boats from the British ship Southland found safe, Croix de Guerre awarded, Coast Patrol expansion, Gypsum Empress abandoned, and U S ship crew returns.
Social and Personal notes honor Essie Peabody and local events
Social items detail Miss Essie Peabody's summer wedding to Howard Sweet with gifts at a Huntington Road card party. Frances Coggswell's dancing class exhibit includes a Tarantelle by Waltersville girls and a “Preparedness” pageant. YWCA East Side plans a jitney party at 56 Beach Street with musical programs at 8:15 and 9. Marie Silliman chapter D A R officers elected. Mrs Rose urges patriotic service and war relief drives. A birth announced for Pauline Wintter North. Irene Liberty to wed.
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Essie Peabody
Howard Sweet
Ruth Cone
Huntington Road
Heryg Home
Miss Peabody
Frances Coggs- Pwell
Waltersville School
East Side
Beach Street
Joseph J. Rose
Mary Silliman
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Willliam B. Cogswell
Frederick A. Strong
Mirs. Frederick &. Stevens
Frederick A. Parsons
Orville Rector
Jennie
Ille Rector
War Relief Committee
Society
Marie
Frederick B. Grannis
William B. Ferguson
Beach and Odell Wed at St Marys Milford
Beach and Mr Jack Odell of this city were married at 8 30 yesterday morning at the rectory of St Marys church Milford Rev Peter H Mc Clean officiated Miss Viola Whalen attended the bride and John Kirby was best man A wedding breakfast followed at Milford Inn then the couple left on a wedding trip through the Berkshires
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Beach
Jack Odell
St. Mary's Church
Milford
Peter H. McClean
Viola Whalen
John Kirby
Milford Inn
Odell
Berkshires
How to Be Fit by Walter Camp
Walter Camp offers practical health tips urging regular outdoor exercise and simple daily habits. He promotes five glasses of water daily away from meals, daily baths and rubs, cool dress for walking, warm for riding, and breathing through the nose. He warns against overindulgence in alcohol, tight shoes, and overeating. He extols walking four miles daily, open windows, foot care, and maintaining clean clothes to prevent illness. He argues exercise and moderation improve digestion, circulation, and longevity, noting the value of outdoor activity for health and credit at the bank of health.
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Bank of Health
Golfers chase nothing and doctors none
A quirky line notes a contrast between men chasing a golf ball and a doctor who need not pursue anyone. It uses a humorously surreal image of a dog filling its mouth with food then taking a drink to wash it down.
Exodus of Negroes From the South
Georgia faces a growing Negro outmigration driven by higher Northern farm wages and conscription fears. The exodus, affecting farms and factories, prompts white and black mass meetings and pushes state lawmakers to consider laws to retain Black workers at home.
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Europe
South
Georgia
Utopia
War Mathematics and Explosives Lecture at Y M C A
George W. Mitchell will lecture on War Mathematics and Explosives at the Y M C A evening school. The talk is open to interested men in industrial education and is the fourth in a series on industrial topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Mitchell
M. E
Mitchell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E. B. Floyd
Franklin School
Stratford
Bridgeport
Textile ads list varied fabrics and bedding prices
The fragment outlines a catalog of textiles and home goods with prices, including half bleached muslin, curtain tye scrim with colored border, Turkish towels, bleached pillow cases, Marseilles pattern bed spreads, summer portieres in silk blends, bleached sheets, mercerized table cloths, and silk mixed waistings.
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Seiad
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