Editorial on aspersion and the Hartford Courant
The Evening Farmer condemns aspersion against the Supreme Court and Judge Banks, arguing aspersion harms public opinion and court integrity. It contends rate regulation bill support provokes hostile mischaracterization, notes courts cannot police such attacks, and urges restraint to avoid undermining justice.
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Supreme Court
Banks
Courant
Senate
Shell
Waterbury Embraces Sunday Baseball For Morality
In Waterbury clergymen concluded baseball, including professional play, supports morality after investigation. Sunday games, both amateur and professional, are now played in Waterbury as in New Haven and Bridgeport.
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Waterbury
New Haven
Bridgeport
Enticing Away Employes
The Postal Telegraph criticizes a rival for enticing away employees as a breach of business ethics. It argues such practices should be publicly rebuked while noting the paradox of a supposed free market allowing workers to advance. The piece questions how a universal practice can align with equal opportunity.
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Postal Telegraph
Postal Telegraph Company
Senate agrees to popular election of U S senators
The Senate passed a constitutional amendment for electing U S senators by the people 64 to 24 and, with a tied 44 to 44 vote, adopted a federal supervision amendment after Vice President Sherman broke the tie. Senator Brandegee opposed the popular method, while aims center on breaking deadlocks in the lower house and pushing a constitutional convention if needed.
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United States Senate
United States
Sherman
Brandegee
Connecticut
Senate
Congress
Irrational Objection to Hartford Public Utilities Bill
The Hartford Courant critiques opposition to a minority bill regulating public utilities. It argues courts may enforce a commission order and questions who makes Hartford ordinances. If an ordinance is lawful the court will sustain it and nothing prevents later repeal.
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Hartford Courant
the Courant
Caft
Commission
Hartford
Sewage Pollution Theme Urges Action in Connecticut
Tax Commissioner William H. Corbin writes to the Connecticut delegation in Congress enclosing a National Shellfish Commissioners resolution. He calls for action to prevent sewage and factory wastes from entering rivers and coastal waters, starting with inland waters like the Naugatuck River, and slowly extending to larger streams and Long Island Sound. The piece notes water quality concerns and possible relief for the Connecticut and Housatonic rivers.
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William H. Corbin
Oyster Investigation Commission
Connecticut
Congress
Nangatuck
Naugatuck Valley
Housatonic River
Long Island Sound
New Haven Harbor
Sewage into Coastal Waters Draws Mixed Reactions
Community voices challenge the Shell Fish Commission on claims about sewage impact, arguing the environmental harm is far less than officials assert. Experts and residents cite local data and call for balanced oversight and transparent reporting.
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Shell Fish Commissioners
Sunday Baseball Divide In Connecticut Editorials
Connecticut newspapers largely back Mayor Buckingham stance not to interfere with criminal authorities on Sunday baseball. Palladium frames ministers’ tactics as a personal attack while praising local practices at Lighthouse Point and Steeplechase Island. Journal and Courier of New Haven says clergy should work with the community and avoid harming influence over broader principles.
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Connecticut
Bridgeport Pastors’ Association
Buckingham
Palladium
Bridgeport
New Haven
Lighthouse Point
Journal and Courier
Reilly Sees Wool Schedule Woes In Clever House Speech
Congressman Thomas L. Reilly of Connecticut attacks Schedule K the woolen schedule in the House praising the coming reform. He mocks wool trusts and vows to repeal protections, urging 1912 political change and broader tariff revision. Laughter and applause mark the speech on the Democratic side.
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Washington
Thomas L. Reilly
Connecticut
George P. Mortis
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Tiber
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G. Oo. P
Congress
George P. Morris
God and the Editor on Women’s Voting Rights in CT
A New London Telegraph piece questions divine limits on sex and asserts women will win voting rights in Connecticut before aging editor Mr. Clark retires. The writer mocks Hartford Courant views, argues votes for women are a policy matter, and warns about divine judgment if misused.
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New London Telegraph
Hartford Courant
Courant
Connecticut
Clark
Fight Against Vaccination in Hartford Post Piece
An anti vaccination movement grows past opposition among doctors and educated readers. The Anti Vaccination League plans a statewide campaign targeting school boards and districts in New York and beyond. The article notes years of data gathering to support the campaign and broader reach.
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Hartford Post
New York State
Schoo Board
Read Company offers a wide range of summer fabrics
The Read Company lists black cottons and fine materials for mourning and summer gowns. Textiles include lawns Egyptian voile Argentine poplin batistes suttee marquisette soiste and Himalaya in black with stripes checks and dots from 12 to 75 cents. Wash Goods Section on lower floor.
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Himalaya
Dainty Lace Trim Handkerchiefs for Graduation Gifts
Upholstery Store offers dainty lace trimmed handkerchiefs in many designs for graduation gifts at 25 to 75 cents and up to $3.50. Edges feature Venise lace. also offers lace curtains, Nottinghams, muslins, and Madras fabrics on clearance with reductions on each pair. Third floor showroom.
Read Company Offer on Towels and Fabrics for Bathers
The B M Read Company promotes towels and fabrics for the salt water bathing season. Deals include bleached and unbleached muslin, sheeting, ticking, cheviots, prints and more at a dollar in-store offer. Also features Rub Dry Towels and various textiles.
Pro and anti vaccination rhetoric and its claimed harms
The text argues against vaccination, asserting it is fallacious and criminal. It promises extensive league literature and lectures to prove harm, deny efficacy against smallpox, and credit sanitation as the true cause of smallpox decline, alleging vaccination causes greater evils than disease. It ends with an unclear, garbled line about John Hotz and smoking.
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League
Bayonne Election Board to Decide on Commission Plan
Special from United Press Bayonne New Jersey June 14 The board of elections must decide if Bayonne will have another vote on the commission form of government. The past election tally showed 2336 against and 2334 for the plan with two ballots rejected as improperly marked.
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United Press
Bayonne
N. J
Board of Elections
Commission
Cop Scully Quits After Spirit Music Mystery
Greenwich reports Chief W E Ritch seeking a mysterious woman who haunts North Street at night calling down spirits and provoking wrath. Officer Thomas Scully heard a voice and 2 am whispers while investigating an empty Hyde house and an organ at the nearby church. Scully then resigned after a month on duty.
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W. E. Ritch
North Street
Thomas Scully
William Truslow Hyde
New York
Scully
Second Congregational Church
William Cooney
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