Pedestrian Safety Fender Aims to Avert Auto Accidents
Dutch inventor S S Weyl unveils a scissor like front bumper with a nets mechanism that lifts pedestrians before the car reaches them. Trials in Central Park show a rider caught in a protective net without injury, promising reduced harm at speed.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Severa
Pedear
France
Franz Salvator
Austria
Simeon 5
Central Park
Mr. Weyl
Denly
S. S. Weyl
Washinston
Pequonnoquoque Camp Officers Elected in Port Jefferson
Pequonnoquoque Camp has reorganized as Camp Liebersprung occupying the former Camp Woodbine site in Port Jefferson. Officers named include President James D. Grady, Vice President Fred Hawes, and Secretary-Treasurer W. T. Meyer. The camp name derives from two Indian terms meaning a wide open space.
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Camp Pequonnoquoque
Camp Liebersprung
Camp Woodbine
Port Jefferson
James D. Grady
Fred Hawes
W. T. Meyer
Vegetable diseases threaten our crops in Connecticut report
New Haven June 30. Connecticut Agricultural Station summarizes two years of work by Dr. G. P. Clinton on tree garden and field crop diseases and prevention. Pine currant disease found in a few areas, spread only between pine and currant hosts. Spraying potatoes for blight proves profitable even in years with little blight, boosting yields. The report notes successful growth of oospores of the potato bug in culture for study.
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New Haven
Connecticut Agricultural Station
G. P. Clinton
Rainbow
Clinton
Love's Romance Finds Its Way to Altar in Fairfield
In New Haven a three year courtship ends in an elopement as Lewis Root a grain firm salesman and Miss May O'Neill daughter of Mrs Mary O Neill wed at St Thomas church Fairfield after her mother blocked a local license. They honeymoon in New York.
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New Haven
Lewis Root
May O'Neill
Mary O'Neill
Carlisle Street
Father O'Dell
St. Thomas' R. C
Fairfield
New York
Root
O'Neill
Miss O'Neill
Ryan
Wallace Street
Registrar of Births, Marriages
W. F. O'Dell
St. Thomas’ Church
Four Evangelists Travel 4000 Miles In Gas Boat
Four evangelists from the Israelites colony at Benton Harbor Michigan arrived in Wilmington after a 4000 mile voyage in a 26 foot gasoline boat. They survived storms including a 100 mile sea drive and faced dangerous conditions on their journey.
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United Press
Wilmington
Colony of
Benton Harbor
Mich
Posse With Bloodhounds Pursues Attacker of Wealthy Farmer’s Daughter
Cumberland M I June 30 A posse with bloodhounds searches for the assailant of Miss Marie Bradiur 18 daughter of William G Bradiur a wealthy farmer living near here She was seized in darkness by the grape arbor dragged into the cellar bound gagged and left for three hours Doc Luby is in town and is behind Nagget.
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United Press
Cumberland M.I
Marie Bradiur
William G. Bradiur
Miss Bradiur
Doc Luby
Nagget
Indictments Rumored Against Steel Trust Leaders
New York June 30 sensational rumors say the Federal Grand Jury has voted indictments against leading United States Steel Corporation officials and related bodies. District Attorney Wise would not discuss the rumors, but it is understood indictments may be in court today.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
United States Steel Corporation
Wise
Day portrait scandal prompts dismissal of two State Department officials
Washington June 30 The House Committee on Expenditures adopted a report urging the dismissal for the good of the service of Morrison Disbursing Clerk and Michael former Chief Clerk now U S Consul General at Calcutta both linked to the misappropriation of 1600 dollars unaccounted from a 2450 dollar Day portrait appropriation.
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United Press
Washington
House Committee On
State Department
Courtney W. Hamlin
Morrison
Michael
United States
Calcutta
Hamlin
Unknown man found on New Haven road tracks in Milford
Remains believed to be an unidentified man were found on the New Haven road tracks in Milford by a train crew yesterday. The body was ground beyond recognition and no local resident is reported missing. Authorities speculate he may have been connected to the Ringling Brothers Circus.
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United Press
Milford
New Haven Road
Ringling Brothers
N. Waldo Kennedy
Bridgeport
F. J. Abercrombie
H. H. Jackson
New Haven Lodge
Michigan Arrives for Yale Harvard Boat Races
The battleship Michigan of the North Atlantic squadron reached New London for the Yale Harvard rowing regatta. Police and detectives from Boston New Haven and New York also arrived to safeguard crowds expected at the event.
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United Press
New London
Michigan
North Atlantic
Boston
New Haven
New York
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Tiffany
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America
Lippincott's
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Willy
Toledo Blade
M. Morano
Woodbridge St
Hartford
Conn
Foley Kidney
F. B. Brill
Curtis Pharmacy
Far ‘R
Steel Trust
Shelton School
Beatrice Harrigan
Theresa Musante
Sadie Richards
Lena Emt
Helen Klein
John Wallis
Mary Cassahburo
Joseph Keane
Minnie McCartie
Rolland Halquist
Daisy MacEwen
Kathleen Gallagher
Otto Saur
the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea CO
Lion
PAC A&p
A&p
Peerless Or
van Camp
Campbell
A&p Borax
Main St
Alaska
Elgin Creamery
Tee
East Main St
U. S
Leship Michigan
YALE
Harvard
Stoddard
Foster
Sanford Stoddard
University Club
Washington Star
H. Lynge
State Street
Joseph P. Coughlin Co
East Main Street
W. E. Halligan
PARK_ CITY
Ann D. Driscoll
Mgr
Sohn F. Fay
New England
Telephone
Toobermuda
Griesinger & Son
John Street
Dickinson
The
Peck & Lines Co
Middle ST
Bridgeport, CT
Lehigh Valley
Niagara Falls
Rochester
G. A. R. National
N. W. Pringle
Church Street
Tel
Patrick M.gee
E.washington
Ave
Morris Sample
Fairfield Ave
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