Taft Announces Major Reorganization of Customs Service
President Taft proposes a sweeping restructuring of the customs service set to take effect July 1. The plan cuts 165 districts to 43, abolishes 116 collectors, closes ports and sub-ports, and shifts to salaried officials to save about $700,000 a year. Connecticut ports listed include Bridgeport Hartford New Haven New London Stonington Middletown South Manchester Stamford Greenwich Norwalk.
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Washington
Congress
Customs Service
Taft
Treasury
Canadian
District of Connecticut
Bridgeport
Hartford
New Haven
New London
Stonington
Middletown
South Manchester
Stamford
Greenwich
Norwalk
Six Months for Brown in Mail Obscenity Case
Six months in the county jail was the sentence for M. Brown of West Haven a railroad clerk who pleaded guilty in New Haven to sending obscene matter through the mails. Anthony Comstock testified Brown offered obscene pictures for sale by the hundred. Also sentenced were Leroy J. Gile East Hartford six months for stealing from a letter Michael Gerdis New Britain for mail fraud and John Donovan two separate fines for scurrilous matter through the mail. Special diamond sale announced by M. J. Buechler Reliable Jeweler.
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Eo M. Brown
West Haven
United States District Court
New Haven
Brown
Anthony Comstock
New York
Leroy J. Gile
East Hartford
Hartford County
Michael Gerdis
New Britain
John Donovan
Donovan
Norwich
Special Sale in Diamonds Exchange for Larger Stone
A buyer advertises a diamond special sale and offers to exchange the purchased stone for a larger diamond after payment. The notice emphasizes a trade up option and the transaction terms.
Progress on widening roadbed for Berk shire double tracking
Extensive work continues on widening the roadbed for the Berk shire division with excavating completed to Oviatt's crossing. Northward rocks slow progress. a spur track for the mammoth steam shovel aids viaduct work over Great Brook.
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Berkshire
Oviatt
Great Brook
William Moore
Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company
St. Vincent
Bridgeport
Courtney
Gideon H. Welch
Common Pleas Court
Winsted
Arthur Rydell
Poplar Street
August Milley
B. W. F. Company
F. L. Bennett
Thomas Barr
Electric Steel
Philadelphia
S. S. Richmond
Julia M. Peacocke
Litchfield
Gertrude Riddiford
Marion Beach
Lassel Seminary
C. M. Beach
Wilbur Fuller
Still River
Chicago
Fuller
Beaver Brook
C. G. Bristol
Jackson
Sidney Clark
Ray Pomeroy
Uncle Sam
J. F. Addis
Hartford
Paul Redington
New York
Mr. Redington
Marcus G. Merwin
the Sayings Bank
Charles M. Beach
Electric Steel Company
New Milford Cold Rolled Steel Company
Wheeling
W. Va
LeRoy McPherson
Boston
Ina Allen
Waterbury
S. F. Bristol
Eleven year sentence upheld for five cent theft boy
The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed an eleven year term for Ollie Taylor thirteen for stealing a five cent bottle of soda, ending a three year effort by his father O F Taylor to overturn the decision. The boy had pleaded guilty and was sent to the Fulton Industrial Farm until age twenty one.
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Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Ollie Taylor
O. F. Taylor
Fulton
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O. H B. Brothwell
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PF. N. Benham, Jr
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Stor’s
T. L. Watson & CO
People's Savings Bank
Main Street
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Henry Atwater
State Street
Bridgeport, Conn
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Panama Canal
Leewith & Co
Telephone
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East Side
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West End
Burr & Knapp
M. J. Maloney
W .A. Miles
Jones Avenue
the Bank OF the People
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Westport
Hayes Fish CO
Water Street
People’s Dairy
Geo. A. Robertson
Crawford Laundry Co
Fairfield Avenue
W. E. Halligan
Broad Street
John F.fay
SUPE
Jos. P. Coughlin Co
Main St
Connecticut
M. J., Buechler
Middle Street
Gustav Broch & Son
California Port
House OF Lords
Moerlein
Cincinnati Beer
SMITH
Broch’s
Automobile Row
Geo. B. Clark & Co
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Bryant Electric CO
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Aelekgy
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NEW Milford News
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Foley
F. B. Brill
Stratford Ave
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State
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Bridgeport Distributing Company
Glenwood Ranges
Whittall
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Martner Abettis
Cpanettbad
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