Summerfield School addition bid totals in Bridgeport area
Four bids submitted for the Summerfield School addition set the base cost at 38682 dollars with possible 300 dollars for wall work and 250 for cornice. Contracts awarded include masonry 16319, heating and plumbing 9700, carpentry 11864, and painting 799. Coal contract set at 5.80 a ton, wood at 7.50 a cord. Major William Wright Starr, Bridgeport engineer, died aged 78 after a yearlong illness. survived by wife and three children.
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Summerfield
Joseph W.northrop
Board of Education
Gillette Construction Co
New Haven
William P. Kirk Co
S.W. Hubbell Co
Peter Dawe
James A. Black Coal Co
Lehigh Coal
Ity Ice & Coal Co
Morbid Fear of Growing Girl in Greenwich Sanitarium
Greenwich Connecticut June 15 After a night of excitement the teenage patient Emma Crozier aged 15 of East Portchester escaped from a hospital through a bathroom window triggering a villagewide chase. She was later found asleep under a tree on Mrs Blake’s estate. A boy alerted authorities and officers brought her back. The girl suffers a nervous condition described as morbid fear of growing. First Woman Chosen Conference President. Special from United Press Buffalo June 15 Miss Jane Adams of Chicago was elected president of the National Conference on Charities and Correction the first woman to hold the post. Dr L N Gulick spoke on public recreations. Rev S M Freedman argued against moving advanced consumptives to distant health resorts. F A Fetter of Cornell spoke at the general session. WANT ADS CENT A WORD.
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United Press
Greenwich
Conn
Emma Crozier
East Portchester
Dewey
Blake
Buffalo
Jane Adams
Chicago
National Conference On Charities and Correction
L. N. Gulick
New York
S. M. Freedman
Denver
Col
Pleasant Weather Forecast From New Haven Desk
Weather indications report cool pleasant conditions tonight and Wednesday across central and eastern areas as a high pressure center over Illinois moves eastward. No defined storm region east of the Rockies, suggesting two to three days of agreeable weather for the region. A stray advertisement mix appears with wart remover and household products included in the text.
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United Press
New Haven
Rocky Mountains
Illinois
Actress Fleming Helps Lifted Elevator Boy Hero of Bridgeport
Miss Alice Fleming, the lead in Poli's stock company, rushed to the Stratfield hotel scene when 16 year old elevator boy Robert Murphy was crushed. She delivered care at the hospital, calmed his mother, and kissed his forehead as he neared recovery. Murphy later thanked her, saying many people would be willing to be hurt for that.
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Alice Fleming
Poli
Stratfield
Bridgeport Hospital
Miss Fleming
Robert Murphy
Murphy
Mrs. Murphy
Bridgeport
the Stratfield
Tragic Stumble Nests In Dim Kitchen In Night
A dark night scene in a quiet kitchen ends in tragedy as a well meaning man, barefoot and seeking water for his fretful child, missteps into a cellar fall. The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the grim outcome with a somber reflection on a good man undone by a simple mistake. Also a Berlin shop window advertises a reproduction image titled The Coming Storm as a wedding present.
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Cleveland Plain’ Dealer
Berlin
Thinking Oneself Old and the Columbus Motto
A clipping reflects on aging mindset citing a Health Record note about self-perception and future age. It then includes a witty Columbus anecdote where a schoolboy answers the master that discovery lacked appreciation because it wasn’t advertised.
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Columbus
Shaving and Tyrants Recounted in Witty Epigram
Talleyrand quips that a king must be shaved by others though they who gain kingdoms shave themselves. Dionysius of Syracuse fearfully spared a barber, ending with a singed beard from a glowing walnut. The note adds that pleasure once tasted yields less than the craving for torment.
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Napoleon
Talleyrand
Dionysius
Syracuse
Diplomas and Chase Medal Presented to Bridgeport Nurses
Sixteen women graduated from the Training School of Bridgeport Hospital receiving diplomas. Miss Alice Houlihan of Waterbury won the Chase Medal for highest standing. ceremony at Park Street Congregational Church drew notable supporters and featured remarks by Judge John S. Pullman and Hon. Edward W. Marsh.
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Training School of
Bridgeport Hospital
Holihan
Waterbury
Chase
Alice Boulihan
Park Street Congregational Church
Edward W. Marsh
Bridgeport Hospital Association
John S. Pullman
Pullman
Horace H. Jackson
Winnifred Ahn
Dison
Ada M. ‘Tuck
Nellie Reilly
Lena Schneider
Elizabeth Fowler Oliver
Emily Nelson
Julia Augusta Whitford
Alice Houlihan
Marie Elizabeth Ingebrethsen
Karen Ulricka Kelson
Florence Mabel Lewis
Lucy Joaquim
Sara Elizabeth Colgan
Myrtle Treleaven
Anna Bernardotte Giblin
Florence Glazebrook
Laura Rohrbach
Nellie Agnes Matter
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HUB Clothing House
Bank S
East Main St
RGE B. Clark & CO
Daylight
Broad Street
Pile Peck & Lines Co
Middle ST
Bridgeport, Conn
Crawford
The
Fairfield Avenue
Harriet Street
Charles D. Minor
Wwoood & SO Som. Ic
Poli’s
Major
William W. Starr
Brigh
William Wright Starr
Fairfield
Hancock Avenues
Bright
U. S. Coast Survey
Connecticut Brigade
Major Starr
Derby
Susan Hotchkiss Starr
Brooklyn
Susan Townsend Ireland
Joseph N
Mary A. A. Ireland
New London
U. S
Horace G. Scofield
Scofield & Starr
Court Exchange Building
Maurice F. McKenna
McKenna
Starr
City Engineer
4Th Regiment
American Society of | civ Engineers
Sons of the American Revolution
Seaside Club
Calumet
Argonautn
William Ireland Starr
H. A. Mayse
This City
H. E. Ellsworth
Simsbury
Greenwich Sanitarium
Cyrus
Cyrus Pharmacy
Cannon St
Wm & Wien
Strattera Aves
Elevator Boy
New York Press
Ethel
Paps
John
George
Papa
Elineator
Main ST
Davaos
Washington
Davacs Constabulary
Ford
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Walker
Bandholtz
Cannon
jCurtice Broz
Alaska
Frankfurts
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