Summer Suits Offerings Across Wide Range at Low Prices
Headquarters for Summer Suits presents a vast selection in tans browns grays and blues in worsteds cassimeres and serges. Emphasizes high class style and tailoring with prices of 10 15 20 25 30 and 35. Two piece suits priced at 15 20 and 25 with minimal lining and strong stitching.
The City at Polis Is a Hit
The City at Polis draws strong crowds with Clyde Fitch's play about the Rand family in a small town. Hannock advances in politics while a love triangle ends in tragedy, prompting Rand to choose honesty and reform over power. Remains of William C. Foote from Bradford are brought to Milford.
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I Stock Co
Clyde Fitch
George Rand
Ept
Aetesa
R. Rand
Leiate
Aiden Farmer
Hemnock
Rand
Mr. Rand
Igo
Hannock
New York
Cicely Randmari
George Fa
Cicely
Govekite
George Alts
John Ince
Pia Hand, Jr
Hiner
Kirke
Kitnot
Joseph Eggenton ‘Vorhees
York
Jon
Villien
Don van Vrankin
Charles Schofield
Mr. Schofield
John Junior
Mr. Junior
Fred Hannock
Anne Hollinger
Eleanor Vorhees
Teresa
Cicely Rand
Helen Hilton
Zendore Martin
Olive Rand
Miss Rand
William C. Foote
Bradford
Cheertaker H. E. Bishop
Foote
Milford
Simon Lake
Merchants Rally for Friday Half Holiday Trend
A meeting at the Retail Clerks association rooms drew score or more retail executives in favor of Friday afternoons off during July and August. The movement has labor backing and lists many firms including Surprise Store, Davis & Savard, Foster Besse, Kline Bros, Walkover Shoe Shop, Fairchild & Son, Harris, Beach, Keane, Thing Shoe, Emergon Shasish Woolen Mills, Samuels O, Keller Bros and others preferring Friday half holiday to 5 o'clock closing.
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Retail Clerks’ Association
Surprise Store Co
Davis & Savard
Foster- Besse Co
Kline Bros
Walkover Shoe
G. W. Fairchild & Son
Samuel Harris
F. E. Beach & Co
John F. Keane & Co
Thing Shoe Co
Emergon Shasish Woolen Mills
J. Samuels
Keller Bros
Frank Jacoby
Lynch
the Tailor
4Watkins
Wissner Piano Co
Radford B. Smith
Fox Piano Co
Flamm’s Millinery
Kresge
Ten Cent
Wheale the Tailor
Weissman Trunk
Bridgeport Family Shoe
W. R. Hurley & Co
Wilson and Rusling
George N. Noth- Pass
Wooster & Co
Burr M. Coley
Douglas Shoe Co
W. K. Mollan
Moss & Kreiger
Gately and Brennan
Reid & Todd
Dail & Lee
Caesar Misch
Newark Shoe
Annual Banquet of Girls Team Celebrates Season
The girls' basketball teams of public schools held their annual banquet at the Boys' club on Middle Street with Supervisor Harvey C. Went as toastmaster. Nine tables, decorative settings, and dancing followed. Attendees included school principals, the Board of Education president William Lieberum, and numerous officials and their spouses.
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Middle Street
Harvey C
William Lieberum
Board of Education
Loretta Cunningham
Anna Hanson
Catherine Schaack
Freda French
Mabel Purrell
Ruth Hargrove
Mary Mannix
Elizabeth Coughlin
Loretta Kiely
Shelton School
Lois Hill
Marion Krause
Lincoln School
Matilda Hoff
Edith Leach
Mildred Somers
Hugh Lavery
Lyda Meyer
Barnum School Orchestra
Raymond Anthony
Leroy O’hara
Joseph Pengue
Herbert Williams
Girl and Parents Seek Missing Teenager After Picnic
Sixteen year old Mary Stalz disappeared after leaving for a noon picnic from 155 Church Street. Her worried father Joseph Stalz reported her absence to police, fearing harm. She later returned home late at night saying she had been away on a picnic and had not reported to Bridgeport Brass Co. work.
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Mary Stalz
Joseph Stalz
Ives
155
Church Street
Bridgeport Brass Co
Chairman McNamara probes stink from garbage plant
Thomas J. McNamara, chairman of the Ninth and Twelfth Ward Association, said the gar bage stench is as bad as ever and that citizens would seek the plant’s closure. He cited odor from the sewer draining into Berkshire bridge.
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Thomas J. McNamara
Ninth and Twelfth Ward Association
Berkshire Bridge
Board of Education seeks 400000 for new high school
The Board of Education voted to seek bonds totaling 400000 for a new high school site and construction, up from 300000 after a Finance Committee visit. Senator Garry Paddock asked for board details to inform senate action.
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Board OF Education
Garry Paddock
Senate
Wooster
Mr Clancy Returns to Bridgeport After Years Away
John F. Clancy returns to Bridgeport after over four decades away and war service. He now resides at 604 Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport, owning the Clancy homestead. A former local cashier for Adams Express Company in New York, he recalls early ties to the area and notes Bridgeport’s growth and changes.
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Bridgeport
John F. Clancy
Adams Express Company
New York
Clancy
Stratford Avenue
The
Express Company
Gould
Yale Law School honorsHubbard youngest in top ranks
John T L Hubbard of this city ranks among the first in a Yale Law School class of about 140 graduates. He is one of the youngest and must wait seven months to be admitted to the bar at age twenty one. He is the grandson of Dr Robert Hubbard and related to noted legal figures on both sides. His friends extend congratulations and wish him success in his chosen career. Chicago health officials plan to inspect wealthy homes to address high infant mortality.
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Yale Law School
John T. Ludeling Hubbard
Bridgeport
Hubbard
Robert Hubbard
Sherman Hartwell Hubbard
Fairfield County
ESTEE
John Theodore Eling
Ister
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Mystery baby found at rectory prompts sparse clues
A baby girl was found abandoned near St. Augustine's rectory on Washington Avenue. Miss Nellie Begley and James Gill brought her to police, and Dr. McQueeney sent her to St. Vincent's Hospital. Authorities found no identifying clues in the clothing or bottle.
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St. Augustine's Rectory
Washington Avenue
Nellie Begley
Jones Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
Miss Begley
James Gill
Rosedale Street
Webb
McQueeney
Hamilton Flies Over Capitol
New Britain aviator Charles K. Hamilton added a new record by flying over Hartford and circling the Capitol dome at 5 30 pm. He then skimmed 300 to 400 feet over the state arsenal and armory before continuing toward Broad Street Sloward Park.
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Charles K. Hamilton
New Britain
Hartford
Capitol Dome
Gilded Dome
Hamilton
Burr
Dome
State Arsenal and Armory
Broad Street
Sloward Park Street
Early aviation flights set state passenger record
Hamilton conducted several brief flights at Corbin Corners aviation field drawing spectators from New Britain. Johnston Vance son of the late Congressman Robert J. Vance completed a six and a half minute flight reaching 200 feet. Passengers included A E Magnell Edward McEnroes and Benjamin Burdette with flights ranging from eight to ten minutes, marking a new state record.
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Hamilton
Johnston Vance
Robert J. Vance
New Britain
Hartford
Edward McEnroes
Farmington
Benjamin Burdette
Farrell Thumb Laceration At Lake Torpedo Plant
Ben Farrell aged 26 employed with the Lake Torpedo Boat Co sustained a slight laceration of the right thumb at work this morning. An excited fellow worker summoned the ambulance corps but Dr Krause found the accident trifling and required only a small dressing. A second item notes that John Scullin, the street railway magnate, has left St. Louis for his old New York home farm amid local suspicions of rich men.
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Ben Farrell
Lake Torpedo Boat Co
Ambulance Corps
Krause
St. Louis
John Scullin
New York
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Adell Blue
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M. A. Boland
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Emma C. Parker
Helen Parlow
Ethel Pearsall
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Jessie Watkins
May Welch
Olive D. Welles
Katherine Wetstine
Bertha Wheeler
Ethel Wheeler
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Lela M. Wurm
Henrietta Wyrizen
Laura Zink
MR. Clancy
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Adams Express Co
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Lehigh Coal
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Triorch
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IRA Gregory & GO
Main
Sprague
Sprague Ice & Coal
East Wash. Ave
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Coe
Wheeler & Howes
East End
Congress Street Bridge
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