Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Established at Hartford
The Hartford asylum forms to educate and instruct the deaf and dumb under state act. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet travels in Europe to learn Abbe Sicard methods, plans to visit Switzerland and Paris, hoping to return by spring. A New York Spectator item notes mutiny in New Haven and hospital aid.
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Asylum For
Hartford
Thomas H. Gallaudet
Yale College
New Haven
Notive
Pennsylvania
Europe
London
Ed“imburgh
Abbe Siard
Paris
Abbe Sicard
Switzerland
Pesta
Ome
New
Fenian Meeting Promotes Irish Independence Support
Fifty years ago a Baylies meeting was called to aid Irish independence. Attendees urged to bring military gear. Also reports on Fenian activity across Leavenworth Cincinnati and Buffalo, with legal actions and a presidents’ bulletin urging Irish autonomy and arrests under neutrality laws.
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Baylies
Friends of Ireland
Buffalo
N. Y
Fenian Office
Michigan
Clinton
Marshall
U. S
Parker
U. S. Marshall
Dail
Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Fund Authorized
The Federal and State governments authorize a fund named the Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Fund to assist noncombatants and injured Australians in securing permanent livelihoods after the war. A board of trustees representative of all states will oversee administration per a Commonwealth Act.
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Melbourne
Australia
Attendance Honors At Tashua School May Honors List
The Tashua school marked perfect attendance for May with pupils Louise Kne ehele Mary Kne ehele Dorothy Seeley Samuel Seeley Theresa Schmidt Paul Schmidt Rebecca Jones Elbert Fuller Alexander Vass Frank Guilemette. Community members visited and hosted at Tashua and nearby Long Hill with a picnic planned for June at Mrs Lorenzo Wildman's home.
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Tashua
Louise
Mary
John Kneehele
Dorothy
Samuel Seeley
Theresa
Paul Schmidt
Rebecca Jones
Elbert Fuller
Alexander Vass
Frank Guilemette
Rose Frickel
Herbert
Bridgeport
Albert Woolard
Bianca Meolman
Danbury
Richard F. Schmidt
Beatrice Clark
Long Hill
Robert Turney
Elm Street
Stratford
Henry Kaechele
Katherine
Charles Kaechele
John Kaechele
Chester Emack
Noroton
Emack
Lewis Hoyt
Tashua School
Lorenzo R. Wildman
Florence Dickinson
Diamond values rising invite buyers at old prices
Diamond prices have advanced in the primary market in recent weeks and retailers are expected to follow. The ad promotes cash or weekly payments for diamonds and invites customers to purchase wedding rings and presents at prices within reach.
Alumni of Old South School Gather for Seventh Reunion
A Hartford chance meeting sparked a society of over 600 former Old South School pupils, with reunions dating to 1908. The June 23 gathering in New Haven aims to elect William W. Jones president as the group considers renaming the “South School Gang” to a more formal society. Notables likely attending include E Warren Waters from 1837 and Henry J. Eaton from 1840, with Theodore Herzer as president and other officers listed.
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William W. Jones
Colorado Avenue
Hartford
New Haven
Jones
South School Gang
South School
E. Warren Waters
Brooklyn
Mary Demming Watrous
Middletown
Henry J. Eaton
Theodore Herzer
Bridgeport
A. W. DeBarthe
Wethersfield
John M. Knox
Glastonbury
Black Snake Tribe To Stage Fourth Annual Grand Council
The Black Snake Tribe of Bridgeport Woodcraft Indians invites the public to its fourth annual grand council at 8 pm Friday June 16 on council grounds above Beardsley park. Guides meet cars between 7 and 7 45 pm at the park entrance for direction to the grounds.
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Black Snake Tribe
Woodcraft
First House
Woodcraft Indians
Ernest Thompson Seton
Bridgeport
New York
Hartford
Greenwich
Rye
Boy Killed as Auto Truck Carries Circus Crowd
Norwich report dated June 14 says 14 year old Harry Hess died when he was run over by an automobile truck en route to a circus exhibition. The boy from New London lived at 516 Main Street with his parents Edward and a companion, Harry Noyer, 13, also from Main Street. Hess and others boarded the stalled truck on West Main Street hill and attempted to push it forward before the truck moved under its own power. Hess fell under the wheels and suffered fatal head injuries.
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O. G. Jennings
Fairfield
Osborne Hill
Geo. W. Longstaff Co
Long Island Sound
Jennings
Norwich
Harry Hess
Hess
Main Street
New London
Edward Hess
Harry Noyer
L. E. Harris
West Main Street
Normal School Graduation for Bridgeport Class of 33
Thirty three prospective teachers will graduate from Bridgeport City Normal School at a ceremony June 19 at 8 PM in the new high school auditorium. The program features the operetta June plus a masque and musical selections. Diplomas are presented by Samuel J. Slawson.
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Bridgeport City Normal School
New High School
Hamel
Veronica Ryan
Sorrow
Minnie Rakatsky
Helen Osborne
Lucy Chamberlain
Justine Lewis
Agnes, Clampett
Florence Murphy
Grace Schweidtle
Winifred Japp
City Normal School Orchestra
Mendelssohn
Horace Jones
de Bennot
McDowell
Latana
Samuel J. Slawson
von ‘Weinzierl
Ruth Olga Alvord
Ruth McCammon Anderson
Susan Anderson
Leila May Barnum
Gertrude Marie Becker
Susan Lucy Blaggs
Ida Mae Bowers
Beatrice Hdna Burns
Lucy Catherine Chamberlin
Mary Agnes Clampett
Pearl Clark
Agnes Ruth Dorsey
Blanche Frank
Adelaide Roberts
Knight Sells Washington Avenue Home to Baumrind
Henry C Knight of 146 Washington Avenue sold his residence to baker Lewis Baumrind for $18,000. Abrahan Sehnee facilitated the deal. Baumrind plans to live there and extend Knight’s rose gardens on the property just east of West Avenue.
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Henry C Knight
Washington Avenue
Lewis Baumrind
Knight
Abrahan Sehnee
Baumrind
West Avenue
Kobe Hospital Reclaims German Gift Over Kaiser Name
In Kobe Japan on June 14 the hospital trustees voted to return a 7000 gift from German subscribers for a Kaiser Wilhelm II Operating Room. English supporters objected to German warfare and refused any name linking the hospital to the German Emperor, forming a fund to replace the gift.
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Kobe
Japan
International Hospital At
Hospital
Wilhelm II
Grunewald Adopts Numbered Meat Distribution Plan
Berlin era report notes Grunewald suburb assigns numbers to residents to control meat sales on designated days. Butchers receive lists specifying which numbers may purchase on each Monday Wednesday sequence, aiming for equitable distribution amid scarcity.
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Berlin
Grunewald
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Fenian Brotherhood
Broadway
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Washington, D. C
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Phoebe A. Wales
William H. Stotts
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Walter
Addie Wedge
Newport
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Amos B. Mead
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Bridgeport Tvere
Otto Walters
Frank Lyon
Edwards’ Place
Stepney
Martin Castle
Ladies’ Aid Society
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wilson Sherman
Carl Fraunberger
Joseph Kohler
Bridgeport Hospital
M. J. Buechler
the Reliable Jeweler
Fairfield Avenue
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OLD South School
New England
C. E. Baldie
Kennebeck County
Waterville
Baldic
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John J. Phelandey
Frank W. Bucholts
Norwalk
John H. Lee
Lee
White Street
Kentucky
St. Louis
Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis
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John Reck & Son
Hayes Fish CO
Water Street
Kobe Hospital
Nothiagle’s
Main St
Corner Elm St
Germany
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