Sermon clash over Sunday baseball and church wealth
Dr. Peters accuses the pulpit of acting from theory and interest rather than principle. He warns that church alliance with great wealth endangers clergy prestige and questions Rev. Beard’s zeal against Mayor Buckingham as potentially stirred by powerful local interests seeking Buckingham’s removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald H. Beard
John P. Peters
Peters
Dr. Peters
Dr. Beard
Buckingham
Mr. Beard
Living Must Pay for Their Own Improvements, Auditor Warns
City Auditor Keating warns against excessive debt and endorses funding permanent city improvements through serial bonds paid off over 50 years. He argues a 25 year bond is safer, with cost spread to current residents, while posterity should not bear the bill. He notes railroads and corporations practice similar financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keating
Railroads
Crowning George V in a Modern Democracy
The article argues that royal power is archaic and ceremonial in England. Kings rely on Parliament since Magna Charta and the 1688 Revolution ended divine right. George V rules by statute, with limited governing power, while England moves toward pure democracy and closer to the people, not divine mandate.
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Europe
Asia
George V
England
Solomon
Zadoc
Nathan
United States
Englad
Private Monopoly Versus Public Enterprise
A critique of private monopolies in gas, water, electric light, and railroads. It argues private owners place self interest above public welfare, citing graft, inflated rail prices, and debt-financed expansion as common, legalized practices. The piece warns toward public municipal management as a corrective, citing Steel Trust investigations and historical corruption.
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Tweed
New York
New York Street Railway System
Steel Trust
Pennsylvania Railroad
Loothe Meade
New Haven
Lund
Train Wreck In Essex Injures Three People
In Guilford, Connecticut, a touring car carrying E. P. Dickey, his wife, and Marion Dicker man of New Haven was struck by a freight train near the village center. All three were seriously hurt with Mrs. Dickey and Miss Dickerman unconscious. Dickey, nearly 70, was badly cut and bruised. the auto was crushed and the rear occupants buried in debris. Dickey is a former New York banker with an local estate.
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Guilford
Conn
E. P. Dickey
Marion Dickerman
New Haven
Essex
Dickey
New York
John D Rockefeller As A Matchmaker
John D Rockefeller helps pair Cleveland socialite Harriet Scofield with Yale graduate Winthrop Bushnell of New Haven. Gifted $10,000 alabaster wedding token. ceremony in Cleveland attended by relatives. Rockefeller arranged introductions during entertaining visits in Georgia and Augusta. The Farmer advertises vacation subscriptions.
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Cleveland
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
Harriet Scofield
Levi T. Scofield
Winthrop Bushnell
New Haven
Scofield
Bushnell
Yale
Mr. Rockefeller
Levi Scofield
W. W. Bustard
Revealer Wins And Rich Father Lose In Love Battle
Chicago reports a court struggle over a love affair as Mildred Bridges, 17, stands by her teacher the Revealer Evelyn Arthur Lee. Stephen Bridges, wealthy father, pleads with gifts to secure her testimony against See for alleged ruin. The girl resists State cross examination, maintaining her stance.
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United Press
Chicago
Mildred Bridges
Evelyn Arthur Lee
See
Stephen Bridges
Evelyn Arthur Les
Read Companys 1857 Clearance Of Fine Garments
The B M Read Company presents a clearance of La Grecque drawers Marcellas chemises and night-dresses in fine materials with lace embroidery and ribbons. Empire gowns feature wide neck and waist ribbons. Long skirts show elaborate embroidery. Sale continues this week.
Character Dolls for Children in Neverbreak Family
Dennison Section describes queer dollies called character dolls for children. They are heavy cloth bodies with tough plastic heads hands and feet. Notable characters include Buttons the bellboy Mugsy the newsboy Marceline the clown Sunbonnet Sue Sambo Rastus Colonial Lady Dutch he Dutch she Teddy Jo and Smiling Sue. Two sizes and styles priced at 1.00 and 1.50. Sold nowhere else in the city.
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Buttons
Bellboy
Mugsy
Newsboy
Marceline the Clown
Sunbonnet Sue
Sambo
Rastus
Teddy-Jo
Smiling Sue
Dennison
Pioneer Rugs And Kitchenware Display At Storefront
Pioneer rugs in all wool, sizes 26 by 54, thick reversible weave, over a hundred designs in good colorings. Linoleum mats 24 by 36 bordered designs at 40 cents. Sample squares of linoleum and oil cloth 25 cents. Kitchen knife set three Chrystie style knives with black enameled wood handles, bread cake paring, 10 cents for the set.
Prolific Hamden Strawberry Crop Sends Carloads to Boston
New Haven June 22 Hamden growers report an extraordinary strawberry harvest. Merchants and households face high prices while Hamden farmers ship 20 to 25 carloads weekly to Boston at 12 cents a quart wholesale. Andrew Ure owns a 20 acre patch and daily Italian picker contingents, 500 to 900 workers, are seen entering the city. Meanwhile Newburgh wicker chair makers unveil a specially braced chair for President Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Hamden
Boston
Andrew Ure
Degrees Fifty Years Deferred at Wesleyan University
At Wesleyan University in Middletown Connecticut four Civil War veterans were awarded bachelor degrees decades after leaving college to enlist. Trustees unanimously approved granting the diplomas to the white haired former students, amid a reunion of Wesleyan Army and Navy Union members.
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Middletown
Conn
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan Army and Navy Union
City finances vs private monopoly costs in electric light debate
Debates on municipal finance critique private monopoly for cutting wages and raising prices. Public pay goes to labor, while monopolies divert profits to dividends. Connecticut electric light monopolies extract profits far beyond wages, allegedly corrupting legislatures and bribing electorates, unlike city operations.
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Electric Light Monopolies
Connecticut
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Bridgeport, Conn
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Bridgeport
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Pioneer
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Main ST
A. M. Wooster
U. 8
M. J. Maloney
W. A. Miles
Rochester Nor Lac
Kelley’s Cigar Store
Emckers
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F. C. Brady
John Street
W. D. Cook & Son
Water Street
Fairfield
Post Road
S. Perry
Frisbie’s Pies
United
Nish
Ictric
Inating Co. Treet
Eckler & CO
Che B. M. Read Company
Sio
Palmer
Bresplechase
Newburgh
Taft
Wesleyan
Samuel P. Hatfield
Samuel M. Mansfiel
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Henry B. Brown
East Hampton
Wesleyan Guards
Connecticut Volunteers
Alling Rubber Co
Main Street
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Poli’s
London
Paris
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Bloombury Street
Iusoag
POLI
Clyde Fitch
Paul Boyton
Mgr
Sidney Hinman
Newfield Park
Waterbury
Farmers’ Supply & Roofing Co
Mullins’ Typewriter Exchange
F. J. Abercrombie
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