Immortality the Hopeful Star in Eagles Memorial Speech
Homer S. Cummings delivers a memorial address before Bridgeport Eagles honoring deceased brothers. He argues dreamers like Socrates Lincoln and Columbus shaped history, urges resilience, faith, and the belief in immortality through noble effort, ending with reflections on hope amid hardship.
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Homer SS. Cummings
Bridgeport Eagles
Socrates
Graccus
Emmet
Joan of Arc
Lincoln
Pollowing
Homer
Cummings
Madison Hell
Order
Homer S. Cummings
Order of Eagles
James Russell Lowell
Livingston bids for New Haven garbage contract
J B Livingston of National Bi-Products Company bids to remove New Haven garbage by scows for 66 cents per ton for ten years. He argues incineration costs and ash disposal, versus a municipal plant, with regional transit by barge and references to health board estimates, city population, and comparisons to Boston and Baltimore.
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J. B. Livingston
National Bi- Products Company
New Haven
Bridgeport
Long Island
Livingston
Mr. Livingston
Wealth Board
Scranton
Civic Society
Health Board
Boston
Baltimore
Board of Health
Health ‘Board
Stoke-upon-Trent
England
Maher
Martin
Miller
New York
Philadelphia
Bee
Cleveland
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Detroit
Washington
Indianapolis
Toledo
Allegheny
Columbus
Paterson
Reading
New Bedford
Duluth
Johnstown
McKeesport
York
The
City
New Castle
Elopers held on bail after New York love triangle
Anna Strong, 22, and Dean Rankin, 23, were arrested in Fairfield Avenue room on a statutory charge. Strong’s husband, 35, accused her of infidelity and pin theft while Rankin, a Russell Sage estate chauffeur, claimed she was abused and that he acted as a protective brother. Both were released on $500 bail awaiting trial.
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Russell Sage Estate
Elopers
New York
Anna Strong
Birmingham
Ladd and
Coughlin
Strong
Arnold
Albany
Rankin
Russell Sage
Strongs
West 41Th Street
Capt
Dean Rankin
Kidnapper Boyle Faces Preliminary Hearing in Sharon
James H. Boyle, alleged Whitlaad kidnapper, left Mercer at 11 a m for Sharon where a 2 p m preliminary hearing is set before Justice S S Gilbert. He will be returned to Mercer at four. Witnesses including Billy Whitla Thompson and others are subpoenaed to identify him. Mrs Boyle to be brought to Sharon tomorrow.
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United Press
Sharon
James H. Boyle
Whitlaad
Mercer
Justice S.S. Gilbert
Billy Whitla
Thompson
Liveryman
Boyle
Congregation Splits After Prayers Read Then Lays Faction Foss
A Jewish congregation in Fairfield splits after a stormy meeting over reading prayers left to right. A drawing allocated cemetery halves, treasury, and Talmuds between old and new factions. A six year old drew the lots. The street committee plans paving contracts for Main and Golden Hill streets.
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Michael Boon
Aguda Achim Anchie
Lexington Avenue
Fairfield
Harris Auderman
Aldermanic Street Committee
Main
Golden Hill
Population of 10,140,000 backs reduction plants
The passage argues that a population of 10,140,000 would benefit from reduction plants because disposal is cheaper when value is extracted from the material. It notes it is cheaper than burning and cites Sestouton as a source of value.
Mary Farmer Executed in Auburn for Sarah Brennan Death
Special from United Press. Mary Farmer confessed to her priest that her husband James D. Farmer had no involvement in Sarah Brennan's murder. She was executed in Auburn prison at 6:15 a.m. after being condemned for the crime, marking the first female execution at the facility and the second in New York State. The story notes the emotional impact on her infant son and details the execution procession and device setup.
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Sarah Brennan
James D. Farmer
Mary P. Farmer
B. F. Wingar
Cayugan County
Auburn
N. Y
Mary Farmer
New York State
Benham
Brownsville
Lfe
Hickey
Bellinger
Jefferson County
Lody
Tom
Crowley
Martin
Helen Westfall
Patterson
Davis
Wall Street Opens Higher as Southern Pacific Hits New Peak
The market strengthened in early trading with most stocks advancing to new highs. Southern Pacific rose to a new high around 122.42 as outside buying and short covering supported prices while activity cooled after the first hour.
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United Press
Pa. m
Southern Pacific
Crazy Snake Defies Oklahoma Troops in Ridge Camp
Chief Chitto Harrose Crazy Snake has gathered heavily armed Indians in a fortress ravine two miles above his former camp. Militia under Colonel Hoffman remain at Hickory Hill as volunteers and armed Negroes bolster Crazy Snake's force. Reports suggest a long-planned uprising with signals calling more tribes to join.
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United Press
Stidham
O&la
Chitto Harrose
Crazy Snake
Hoffman
Hickory Hill
Mrs. Obruchaj Not To Be Deported
Attorney Jesse A. Stewart learned Saturday from the Bureau of Immigration in New York that Mrs. Sofia Obruchaj of this city would not be deported. She will be returned here once the department is satisfied she will not become a public charge. Stewart heads to New York tomorrow to arrange her return after a government inspector took her there weeks ago for a hearing before Commissioner Wachthorn.
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Jesse A. Stewart
Bureau of Immigration
New York
Sofia Obruchaj
Stewart
Obruchaj
Wachthorn
Nolan Begged Onced Too Often
James Nolan was arrested Saturday night by Patrolman Anderson for soliciting alms under the pretense of being a cripple. He was fined five dollars and costs and sentenced to jail for two hundred days in city court this morning.
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James Nolan
Anderson
Negroes Welcome Jack Johnson to Nations Big Burg
New York crowds greet heavyweight champion Jack Johnson arriving from Chicago with his wife and manager Abe Arends. Johnson posts 5000 to bind a match with Jeffries, warns Burns and Langford, and prepares a Hammerstein Victoria Theatre engagement. He says a champion should defend the title anywhere. Trout fishing will be lawful Thursday amid high waters.
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United Press
New York
Hbig
Jack Johnson
Chicago
Abe Arends
Jeffries
Johnson
Langford
London
Burns
Sam Fitzpatrick
Arends
Ime
Son
Forty- O Street
Twenty-seventh Street
Nue
Astoria
85Th Street
Australia
Hammerstein
Charles
Kid
Wanted and notices mix in Stratford area ads
Classified notices include wanted a nurse girl at 357 Norman Street a dress maker at 339 State Street and salesladies at E H Dillon Co 1105 Main Street Also jobs learn automobile business by mail from Empire Automobile Institute Rochester NY and a call to attend a Harmony Council pinoche event at 181 State Street Tickets 25 cents Card of thanks from Dolan Monahan Callahan and families for funeral kindness and floral tokens to be sent by Live Oak Camp W O W and Bridgeport Brass Co departments and Warner Bros office flowers
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Avon St
Stratford
Surf Ave
E. H. Dillon & Co
Main St
Harmony Council, Jr
State St
Empire Automobile Institute
Rochester
N. Y
Live Oak Camp
Dennis W. Dolan
Bridgeport Brass Co
Warner Bros
Thomas Sele
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Mopyllae
Marathon
Carlyle
Ute
Hesperus
Heaven
NEW Haven Garbage
Wall Street Today
Gaynor & Mitchell Mfg. Co
Oklahoma
Commissioner of Immigration
Nolan
Jim Jeffries
Norman St
State Street
Main St. S
Wood
Cannon St. S
O'Neill
O'Neill's
Richard Carroll
Joseph Monahan
Elizabeth Callahan
Good Road House
Harrison, N. M. J
Bray
Warner Brothers Company
M. J
Strateford Ave
J. x. Tucker
Fairfield Ave
Glenbrook
Conn
Fetch Piano Co
Catherine St
Read’s
Anderson & Co
Randall Ave
James J. Sheehan
E. Main St
M. M. Nagel
East Main St
Mark Naggie
East Matin Street
John Porter
Warren St
Biltz
Hilt
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Morton
Fairfield Avenue
Everhardt
Smith
Stratford Ave
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