Oyster grounds tax debate voiced by Shore Line Times
The Oyster tax issue gains support from a Guilford area application by Rowe & Company for 2,300 acres. The Shore Line Times argues for higher valuations and a state tax based on Rhode Island style leases, citing potential revenue and equitable oversight.
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Rhole Island
Guilford
Shore Line Times
Rowe & Company of
New Haven
Times
Rolan
S. Woodruff
The
Rhode Island
Woodruff
Connecticut
EXPECT STEEL WAGE CUT IN ONTARIO HISTORY
Teledo Ohio March wage reductions are predicted among the iron workers within a week. President James A Campbell of the Pittsville Works asserts wage cuts for puddlers may begin July 1 if demand and sales do not improve. Lackawanna Company wage cuts upset the industry and threaten shutdowns if rivals cut further.
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Teledo
Onio
James A. Campbell
Duce
Lackawanna Company
Bridgeport Market Reopens With Major Remodeling and Bakery
This week at the Bridgeport Public Market a large remodel and relaunch introduces many new departments and fixtures making it the state’s largest general market. The bakery occupies the top floor with modern machinery. the grocery section expands with domestic and imported staples and fancy items. a new butter and cheese refrigerator enhances the department. The bake shop promises quick, sanitary service in a bright, clean space.
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Bes
Bridgeport Market Expands And Reorganizes Store Layout
The store doubles space for the department and stocks a high class line of goods with spices and extracts. Vegetables fruit fish and provisions are rearranged. Fresh meat counters extend 65 feet with plate glass fronts and refrigeration. A 15 ton ice machine and new refrigerators are installed. Money saving sales are planned for a store warming week. LIEUT FLANNERY DEAD. Patrick J Flannery aged 59 former lieutenant of the New Britain police died suddenly of heart failure. He served twenty years on the force and later held roles at the New Britain Brass Co and Plumbing supplies business. He is survived by six children.
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Bridgeport
Flannery
United Press
New Britain
Patrick J. Flannery
New Britain Brass Company
Pleasure For Measure Humorous Exchange At Font
A London Tit-Bits quip features a suave minister presenting a comically long name Augustus Philip Ferdinand Codrin from Chesterfield Livingstone Snooks at a font demanding water from Mr Perkins. The scene contains wordplay and refined social satire of ceremony.
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Augustus Philip Ferdinand Codrin
Chesterfield
Livingstone Snooks
Walshes Defeated In Greenwich Vote For New Town Government
After more than twenty years of control the Walsh brothers and their circle were defeated as Greenwich voters rejected a plan for a new town government by 1112 to 549. A committee found graft and a near million dollar debt prompting calls for state investigation and a Wake man led push to defend town meeting rights. The result sparked celebration and plans for a Wake man tribute at Mianus.
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Greenwich
Conn
R. Jay Walsh
James F. Walsh
New York
New York World of
Edwin H. Baker
Percy D. Adams
N. A Knapp
Luke Vincent Lockwood
Charles Mallory
H. B. Marshall
Augustus I. Mead
Charles A. Moore
William H. McCord
James McCutcheon
George G. McNall
William H. Truesdale
Walsh Brothers
Percy Adams
EB. H. Baker
H. B. Stevens
Duncan Edwards
Thaddeus B. Wakeman
Walshes
Mittee
Senate
Wake
Mianus
Admiral Sperry to Lead Naval War College
Newport March 6 Rear Admiral Charles S Sperry may spend spring and summer at Newport The navy circles say he has agreed to accept the presidency of the Naval War College in place of Rear Admiral John P Morrill who is to retire Morrill now holds the college and Newport Station plus a seat on the naval general board.
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Newport
R. L
Charles 5. Sperry
Navy
Sperry
Naval War College
John P. Morrill
College
Second Naval District
Newport Naval Station
Naval General Board
Morrill
WANTED MONEY IN EXPRESS SAFE
Cincinnati report says a plan to raid an express safe on the Pennsylvania Flyer failed when a freight crew found an obstruction and stopped the train six miles from the city around 2 pm. In New Haven, James A Hazelton, a colored man, was indicted for first degree murder for killing his wife whose body was found in a trunk on Eaton Street February 6.
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Cincinnati
March
New Haven
James A. Hazelton
Hazelton
Eaton Street
Carpet Store Displays A Wide Range Of Inexpensive Car Pets
A first floor exhibit offers car pets at reduced prices from 1.25 to .50 with several marked down for quick sale. The Art Department presents decorative home furnishings including canvas pillow slips with cross stitch and rose designs, white lawn ruffled slips for embroidery, Russian Crash centers, and lace edging in color. Sizes for round centers include 12 22 27 and 36 inches.
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Art Department
Royal KA
Scarce Turkish Towels Offered By Department Store
The D. M. Read Co. offers scarce extra large white Turkish towels from 9c each or 3 for 25c. The lot, intended for 15c or two for 25c, came from the loom a bit narrow for sale at the original price. Available at Railford and 1072 Main, end Avenue stores.
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Railford B. Smith
Main End Department
Oend Av
Caterpillar Fever and Other Briefs From London and New York
A collage of short items covers caterpillar dermatitis warnings from London Mail and Good Health on exercise, plus snapshots on Andrew Jackson’s triumph, the song Robin Adair, England’s youngest bride Catherine Apsley, a Cleveland Leader quip, a New York Herald cafe moment, a Punch classroom gag, and related curiosities. Read as a late 19th or early 20th century miscellany.
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London Mail
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Meigs & Co
Pieigs
Incorporated Outfitters
Hartford
Sea Boundary
George C. Waldo
State Shellfish Commission
Lackawanna
Pittsburg
Plato
Smediis
Egislature
Admiral Sperry
War College
Expres Safe
D. M. Read Co
Body Brussels
Ades
Robin Adair
Caroline Keppel
Earl of
England
Catherine Apsley
Earl Bathurst
Catherine
Lord Bathurst
London Chronicle
Jack
Cleveland
Bobby
New York Herald
George II
Pelham Ministry
George III
Southern New England Telephone Co
the People’s Dairy
State ST
GEO. A. Robertson
Maemay
WoCerTen
Ketene
Broad Street
John F. Fay
Pelentia
Maneteria
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
State Street
Cape Cod
Buzzard’s Bay
Marthas Vin
Nantucket
Narragansett
Watch Hill
NEW York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Los Angeles
BP. C. E
Union Pacific
Chicago
New England
Ene W. Massex
N. Few & P. Bostic
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