Health Board Postpones Election and Tuberculosis Actions
The Health Board postponed an election and reappointed officials due to absence of Supainten dent. two tuberculosis cases were reported from the Hotel Astor as the board advised action to remove infection. Plans were set to relocate tubercular pavil ion from Lakeview Home to Bridge- Bort Hospital for isolation, with the Contract and Supply Board authorized to secure digs. An investigation into local meat tubercular practices was ordered, and a new automobile for the Health Officer was authorized as a committee on purchase was appointed. A Plaza theatre sign by F J Abercrombie is to be installed today drawing praise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Johnson
Hotel Astor
Lakeview
Bridge- Bort Hospital
Lakeview A. A. to Meet Sunday to Organize Team
Members of the Lakeview Athletic Association are urged to gather Sunday at their rooms to elect a baseball manager and captain. East Side residents will watch the Lakeviews closely this year as many have signed up to play. Players will wear black and white uniforms this season and tickets are being sold to raise expenses, plus two valuable prizes awarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeview A. A
East Side
Lakeviews
Pugilistic Annals Highlight Historic Ring Wins
Boxers and rings feature across dates with bouts in Milwaukee Davenport New Orleans and New York. Notable results include Packey McFarland KO Joe Gilligan in Davenport and 1907 Ad Wolgast defeating Jack No-Late in Milwaukee. Other entries mention various fighters by name and outcome across early 1900s venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Maher
Bob Fitzsimmons
New Orleans
Packey McFarland
Joe Gilligan
Davenport
Ad Wolgast
Jack No
Milwaukee
Bartyo
Martin Urns
Tohnny Coulton
Young Fitzgerald
Ise
Marvin Hurt
Tony Ross
New Orima
Clarence “Wildcat
Ferns
Eddie Costello
Bartlesville
Oklaigh
Young Shugrue
Louis de Ponthier
New York
Owen Moran
Pat Moore
Walsh to Speak at St Patrick's Day Lecture and Concert
Hon David J Walsh Massachusetts lieutenant governor will lecture on The Irish Heritage and its Responsibilities at the Plaza theatre next Sunday evening. Congressman Thomas S Reilly will introduce him. Tickets are selling rapidly with exchange of seats at Hartigan's pharmacy starting tomorrow.
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David J. Walsh
Massachusetts
David I. Walsh
St. Patrick’s Parish
Bar State
Governor Walsh
Plaza Theatre
Ing
Thomas S. Reilly
Meriden
Emmet
Hartigan’s Pharmacy
Mrs W B McGrath Completes 55 Atlantic Crossings
Boston March 12 Mrs W B McGrath of London, once resident of Swampscott, departed on the White Star liner Arabic for Liverpool on her fifty fifth Atlantic crossing. She has never been seasick, enjoys rough weather, and hopes to voyage often more. She loves the sea and would be happiest if she spent the rest of her life aboard ship. Her son Fred commands the British steamship Georgia and she has many Boston area friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Atlantic
W. B. McGrath
London
Swampscott
Liverpool
Beard
Stop Neglecting Your Stomach Stop Neglecting Your Stomach
An old fashioned ad urges Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for indigestion. It claims the pill supplies gastric juices to finish digestion after meals and promises quick relief from fullness gases and sour tastes. It touts one grain digesting 3,000 grains of food and sells at 50 cents a box in drug stores.
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Stuart
Newtown People See Jobs and Events in March Plans
John L. Sanford joins Curtis and Son Berkshire while John Seamon returns to driving for Charles Hawley in Newtown. Local meetings discuss St Patrick Day observance, Lenten services, and Grange activities. Millinery show at E. H. Diller & Co. tomorrow features spring hats and Parisian designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Sanford
Curtis & Son
Berkshire
John Seamon
Walnut Tree Hills
Charles Hawley
Newtown
First
France
St. Mary’s Hall
New England
Burnett
Botsford
Edward Peesa
Sylvan Avenue
Sandy Hook
St. Rose’s
George F. Synnott
Woman's Auxiliary
Trinity Parish
Hawkeyville Chapel
Trinity Church
J. H George
G. N. Laine
Pootatuck Grange
Grange
Edith W. G. Mitchell
Frances Schermerhorn
George Washington
F. H. Mitchell
Woman's Home Missionary Union
The
Congregational Church
New Britain
H. M. Smith
Harlow Benedict
Palestine
Newtown Farmers
Bridgeport
Samuel Snow
Stepney
E. H. Diller & Cos
Vicinity
Canada Glad Friedmann Came to Montreal Doctor At Royal Edward Inst
The Royal Edward Institute in Montreal treated fifty six patients as Friedmann arrived in the city. A doctor provided care to those affected during this period in the facility.
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Canada
Glad Friedmann
Rare operation injects vaccine in neck vein in infant recovery prophesied
Dr Friederich Friedmann of Berlin demonstrated a tuberculosis vaccine treatment at the Royal Edward Institute in Montreal before about fifty physicians. Fifty six patients received injections, with ages from 14 months to 50 years, including a rare neck vein intravenous injection in a young child followed by an hip injection. The procedure stunned local doctors who noted rapid administration and the potential for full recovery in the treated cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Friederich
Friedmann
Berlin
Royal Edward Institute
E. 8
Harding
Medical Board
New York
Mount Royal Club
Eever
WOWOMPON Tribe Big Smokers Camp Fire Nite
Final arrangements set for Wo wompon tribe IOR Big Smoker at wigwam this evening with revival and entertainment committees staging a strong program. The Criterion quartet and several soloists will perform followed by corn and venison. The smoker supports a Great Sachem's class initiation in April. Nine palefaces reportedly scalped. E M Snyder of 491 Grand Street left Saturday for a two week stay with his brother Dr Frederick Snyder of Kingston New Jersey.
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Wowompon Tribe
Criterion Quartet
Louis Fenton
George Lush
George Tordorff
Jim Holt
Frank Braithwaite
George Greenspun
Fred
Monk
Chas
Hall
George Rajette
E. M. Snyder
Grand Street
Frederick Snyer
Kingston
N. J
Syrup of Figs Endorsed As Safe Laxative For Children
An old fashioned remedy story urges parents to replace harsh castor oil with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It touts gentle cleansing of the bowels, no griping, and quick relief for stomach upset and feverish symptoms, advising to ask druggists for the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Retiring Exalted Ruler Flint Receives Silver Testimonial
Joseph IL Flint town clerk of Fairfield and retiring exalted ruler of Andera lodge was honored last night with a silver chest in a mahogany case. Dr. Philip J. McLaughlin spoke as Flint's successor. A banquet at Fairfield Restaurant featured banqueters and an Elks toast, ending with Auld Lang Syne and general felicitation for a highly successful lodge administration.
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Lodge of Elks
Joseph IL Flint
Fairfield
Andera
Philip J. McLaughlin
Flint
Filint
Boniface
Elks
Esqaire
Charles F. Chadwick
James Mahoney
Bridgeport in Motion Pictures
Bridgeport’s main street buzzed with smiles as the Town and Cities Film Co of New York filmed city views during the morning rush. Two moving picture machines captured scenes of principal thoroughfares and shoppers, with several thousand residents photographed as they went about their day. Miss Maer
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Bridgeport
Town and Cities Film Company of
New York
lBridgeport
Takime
Maer
Miss Everywoman Seeks Miss Bridgeport in City Scenes
Walsh a New York moving picture star portrays Miss Everywoman seeking her sister Miss Bridgeport played by Rosalie Brennan of Howland's. Viewings of local shore resorts are planned this afternoon. Tomorrow Mayor C B Wilson and officials will be filmed at city hall. The 60 foot Bridgeport Exposition electric sign atop the Atlantic hotel was lit last night drawing attention and promising strong enthusiasm as opening day nears.
Thieves Put Out Town Lights to Rob in Hazardville
Hazardville Connecticut March 12 an unidentified person last night broke the thirty arc lamps on Main street plunging the town into darkness Soon afterward Michael Laddy a reporter for the Thompsonville Press was held up by three masked men after he escorted a young woman home Laddy drew a revolver and the assailants fled He had received anonymous death threats over articles and the Thompsonville Press owner Prosecuting Attorney Mulligan suspects a link between the lamp sabotage and the attack coincidentally arc stamps on Main street Manchester were broken at the same hour
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Hazardville
Conn
Michael Laddy
Thompsonville Press
Luddy
William J. Mulligan
Tastormey
Main Street
Manchester
Lump Cut From Her Brain
Baltimore March 11 2 Resorted to seldom used means only when little hope remains Dr S J Crowe of Johns Hopkins Hospital performed a difficult operation yesterday. The subject was the fifteen year old daughter of W C Likly a Rochester New York manufacturer. A large growth wedged at the edge of the brain above the roof of the mouth. It affected development hearing and speech. Previous operations had failed and the planned removal used a powerful illuminating apparatus to trace the abnormality. The operation lasted almost an hour and anaesthetics were given multiple times. The girl rallied after the procedure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Boston
Crowe
Rubber strike at acute stage in Akron assault
Akron Ohio reports the rubber workers strike has escalated with Sheriff announcing a proclamation prohibiting a parade by Industrial Workers of the World. Meanwhile Paterson New Jersey notes IWW leader William D Haywood plans to travel to Akron to oversee the strike, handing control to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Haywood
Paterson
N.J
D. Haywood
Woman Dies From Smoke In City Lodging House
Philadelphia report says Annie Maguire, a lodger, died from smoke after an upstairs room fire in a central lodging house. Two other lodgers were overcome and hospitalized in serious condition, with two firemen also hospitalized. damage to the building was slight.
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Philadelphia
Annie Maguire
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Ta National Institution
Chef’s
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F. J. Abercrombie
Akeviews
Byuring
Cyrus
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Faircheild Avenue
Cannon St
Evan ‘Seone
Pollan
Hust
Winn
Ocean
MacGrath
Ituart
Lyford Bros
Lonsdale
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Freyler
Spend
Pas of
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