Bridgeport Sunday Baseball War Draws Clergy Fire
Connecticut newspapers weigh Sunday baseball and Bridgeport pastors push Mayor Buckingham to act. Clergy denounce professional games on Steeplechase Island while praising noncommercial Sunday leisure for workers. The dispute highlights public sentiment versus law and calls for workable rules.
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Earmel
Buckingham
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Nyor
Fereymen
Tate
Miridgeport
Bridgeport Mayor Confronts Sunday Baseball Controversy
Bridgeport Mayor Buckingham faces pressure from the Bridgeport Pastors Association to halt Sunday baseball at Steeplechase. He refuses to intervene, arguing enforcing one Sunday law would close many other establishments and call for statewide legal clarity from Hartford. The dispute highlights ongoing tensions over Sunday observance.
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Bridgeport
New Britain Herald
Buckingham
Bridgeport Pastors' Association
Bridgeport Post
Hartford
Police Lookout for Stolen Launch on the Sound
New Haven June 14 police along the Sound search for a 33 foot gasoline launch named the alco, owned by Harley B. Thomas of Brooklyn, N Y. Stolen in May, the craft valued at 3500 dollars, with two basin caretakers suspected of attempting its sale in eastern waters.
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United Press
New Haven
Sound
Harley 'S
B. Thomas
Brooklyn
Retail clerks favor weekly half holiday vote summary
A poll of 55 stores shows a majority of 198 in favor of a weekly half holiday over 6 oclock closing citywide. The Pastors' association opposed the half holiday, asserting clerks were not in favor. Clerks aim to secure wider endorsement from other groups for Friday afternoon closing.
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Retail Clerks’ Association
Pastors’ Association
Semi Annual Clearance Sale of Millinery Hats
Rare economies in this sale of millinery with trimmed hats and untrimmed hats priced low. Untrimmed Hats from 25c to 1.98, former prices 1.25 to 6. Trimmed Dress Hats from 1.98 to 20, former prices 5 to 65. Flowers and trimmings cut at similar price reductions.
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Ornhy
Park Socialists to Host Friday Oratory at Seaside Park
E H Dillon and Co announces a series at Seaside Park with the Park board granting use of the bandstand Friday evenings. The inaugural talk will be by Professor George Spices of Bristol, former professor of oratory at Notre Dame and Villanova. John Berger to chair, George Spash of Bridgeport to give a brief preface.
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Villa Nova
John Berger
George Spash
Paddock to Read Connecticut Letters on Parcels Post
Hartford June 14 Senator Garry Paddock of Bridgeport will read letters from Connecticut representatives in Congress as a national parcels post resolution comes up in the Senate. McLean and Reilly support a package post. Hill offers no commitment.
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United Press
Hartford
Senate
Garry Paddock
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Congress
Geo. P. McLean
Thomas L. Reilly
MecLean
Reilly
Senator McLean
Charles Greenwood
E. J. Hill
Norwalk
Hill
Bottomley Bracken Wedding at North Congregational Church
Miss Bessie Hanford Bracken wed Herbert Bottomley at North Congregational Church with Rev. John DePeu officiating. Attendants included Lucy Bottomley and best man Arthur I. Platt. ushers Charles A. Bottomley Ralph Champney Earl Russell and Howard W. Sulliv. The couple hosts a reception at the Bracken home and depart for a two week honeymoon before settling on Beechwood Avenue.
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John DePeu
Bessie Hanford Bracken
Herbert Bottomley
Thomas
Alice Hanford Bracken
Atlantic Street
Sophia
Charles Bottomley
Dowling & Bottomley
Lucy Bottomley
Arthur I. Platt
Charles A. Bottomley
Ralph Champney
New_York city
Earl Russell
Howard W. Sulliv
Vaughn
Atlantic St
New York
Beechwood Avenue
G. W. Fairchild's
Dying man spurned charity in New Haven slum
In New Haven on June 14, George Noschel an elderly man languished from neglect and starvation. He was found near his hovel close to the city center and within a hundred feet of the high school. Noschel refused public charity after his brother Ed ward died two weeks earlier. A minister offered aid but he hinted he would leave the city. He was found unconscious and is now at St Raphael s hospital.
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Bridgeport
Lighthouse Point
Buckingham
United Press
George Noschel
St. Raphael's Hospital
Noschel
Edward
City
Peter Peterson Dies at 78 Veteran of Civil War
Peter Peterson a Civil War veteran aged 78 from New Milford Connecticut died yesterday after a brief illness. He lived between New Milford and Bridgeport frequented Schmidt's Restaurant and kept his Second Company C Connecticut Light Artillery memories. A Danish immigrant he opened a second hand store in New Milford after the war and celebrated his 50th year in America last June inviting Denmark brothers to town. He was a Mason and his obsequies will follow Masonic ritual.
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Peter Peterson
New Milford
Conn
Bridgeport
Peterson
Schmidt
Fairfield Avenue
America
Denmark
Connecticut Light Artillery
St. Peter's Lodge
Masonis
Obituary for Rev Enos Pomeroy Baker and Frederick J Baker
Private services for Rev Enos Pomeroy Baker were held at his brother Police Commissioner Fred erick D. Bakers home. He died of pneumonia after attending a Presbyterian convention in Atlantic City and traveling to Ontario county for interment. Frederick J Baker, a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, had funeral services at his Harriet Street home with interment at Lakeview Cemetery.
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Frederick D. Baker
McLaren Richardson
First Presbyterian Church
Mr. Baker
Los Angeles
Atlantic City
Ontario County
Frederick J. Baker
Harriet Street
J. E. Wagner
Summerfield M. E
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Lakeview Cemetery
City Clerk Boucher Weds Miss Kenney
The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Anna Kenney and City Clerk Stephen Francis Boucher took place at St. Peter's church Howard Avenue with nuptial mass. The bride wore white satin and received ornate gifts. the couple planned a two week honeymoon to Niagara Falls before settling in Bridgeport.
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Elizabeth Anna Kenney
Stephen Francis Boucher
Thomas F
Katherine A. O'Rourke Kenney
Yale Street
St. Peter's Church
Howard Avenue
Thomas J. Kelley
May Frances Kenney
John F. Dowling
St. Peter’s
Thomas F. Kenney
Yalg Street
Niagara Falls
Bridgeport
Brooks Street
Boucher
Bridgeport High School
Kappa Mu Sigma
House of Representatives
J. L. Kennelly
Garrison Prisoners to Face New Penology Rules
Washington announces reforms in garrison prison management under Major General Leonard Wood. The changes reward good conduct with reduced confinement, allow probation after partial sentences, and shift to parole for work under officers to minimize armed guard use at military posts.
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Leonard Wood
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