Slavonians Dedicate Hall Seating 2000 in East Bridgeport
East Bridgeport witnessed the dedication of Sokol Hall on Hallett Street a $25,000 gymnastic cultural center for youth in gymnastics music and literature with a 2000 capacity. Mayor Henry Lee and officials attended as Slavonian leaders lauded thrift and industry amid a parade banquet and calisthenics by hundreds including 200 young men and 64 young women.
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Lee
Buckingham
Donnelly
Hawley
Cullinan
George E. Gill
East Bridgeport
Hallett Street
Maple
Arctic Streets
Derak
Hallett
Dean
E Cassidy
Barnum Aveue
Young i
sGeorge Halapin
Elmer H. Havens
Board of Education
William Fread
Louis Brock
George F. Simon
Henry Lee
East
Bridgeport
Europe
Cnd
Stefan Erhardt
Slavonian Gymnastic Sokol Union
Frank Stas
National Organization
Perth Amboy
National Society
George E. Hill
The
Dennis Kehoe Honored by Foresters at Danbury Session
Dennis Kehoe of Redport was elected Grand Recording Secretary at the Connecticut Grand Court Foresters of America biennial session in Danbury. Other officers named include Grand Chief Ranger Charles W. Bagley Waterbury and Grand Sub Chief Ranger Fred H. Wall Manchester. There were 21 delegates and 21 alternates chosen for the supreme convention.
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Connecticut Grand Court
Danbury
Connecticut
Grand Court Foresters of America
Charles W. Bagley
Waterbury
Fred H. Wall
Manchester
James J. Walsh
Meriden
Thomas O'Loughlin
Agatuck
Dennis Kehoe
Redport
Big Doings Among Pacific Firemen Tonight
Pacific Engine Company No 1 hosts Thomas J. Jones president of the Jones Firemen's Association Newark New Jersey and Charles W Cox secretary. Festivities include music refreshments and speeches as the group plans a parade in Newark on June 14 with 140 other companies and about 6000 in line. The headquarters will glow with electric lights and Chinese lanterns as 150 members and Wheeler Wilson band join the event.
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Pacific Engine Company No. 1
Thomas J. Jones
Jones Firemen's Association
Newark
N. J
Charles W. Cox
Wheeler & Wilson
Thirty Inch Water Main Crosses Pequonnock River
The Bridgeport Hydraulic Company will lay a 30 inch pipe across the Pequonnock River from above the lower bridge to Nichols Street to connect its water supply on the East and West sides. The conduit will be laid 20 feet below mean low water. F S and Wardwell of Stamford hold the contract to perform the work, with a near-term project cost estimated around $50,000.
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Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
Pequonnock River
Nichols Street
F. S&s Wardwell
Stamford
Bob Fitzroy Exhibits 10-Foot Snake at East Main Café
Bob Fitzroy's black snake is on display at Joe Della's cafe at East Main and Steuben streets. Patrolmen guard the crowd as visitors observe the ten foot reptile, with officials urging orderly viewing.
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Bob
Fitzroy
Joe Della
East Main
Steuben
Senate ConcurS With House On Utilities Legislation
Hartford May 13 The Senate concurred with the House to refer the public utilities commission matter to a joint committee of two Senators and nine Representatives for report by June 8. The measure passed after debate with mixed views and a related amendment proposed but withdrawn.
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Senate
HOUSE
United Press
Hartford
Senate Today
Public Utilities Commission
Fenn
Searls
Judiciary Committee
Senahe
Gen Assembly
Henry Ward Beecher
White Mountains
Beecher
Earls
God
Special Committee
Chase
Select Committee
Blakeslee
Piddleton
State W R C Meeting in Middletown
The twenty sixth annual convention of the Woman's Relief Corps Department of Connecticut opened at North Congregational Church in Middletown with about 150 delegates from 46 corps. Reports showed receipts of 2242.01 with expenditures 1530.13, assets 4054, and total relief expenditure 49285.44 with 15298.32 turned over to Posts. A double flag presentation to Middletown High School closes the day before officer elections tomorrow.
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United Press
Middletown
Conn
Woman's Relief Corps Department of Connecticut
North Congregational Church
Isadore Gladwin
Elizabeth Devine
East Lyme
Alice Slater
Hartford
New Canaan
Bridgeport
G. A. HR
Cromwell
Annie Hayes
Elizabeth Bevin
East Hampton
W. R. C. Home Board
W. RC
General Assembly
Minnie A. Crosley
State Department
Middletown High School
A. Howard Boardman
Bridgeport bill on public appropriation vetoed in legislature
Hartford May 13 The House and Senate reject a bill to let the Board of Apportionment refer appropriation questions to voters. The measure aimed to submit Bridgeport water supply funding. Allan W. Paige opposed it noting both Board and people did not want it. Senate also passes a bill to empower the estate administrator of the late Rev. George Csaba to sell all real estate. Charlies H. Peck presided in Speaker Banks’s absence and impressed lawmakers with his procedure knowledge. An alloy of cerium and iron is said to emit sparks when struck.
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Corres
Hartford
House
Senate
Board of Apportionment and Taxation of
Bridgeport
Secretary of State
John J. Phelan
Board of Aldermen
Citizens of Bridgeport
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
Allan W. Paige
Board of Apportionment
Committee On Cities and Boroughs
George Csaba
West End
Charlies H. Peck
Stratford
Speaker Banks
Count Boni Appeal Heard Again In Paris
Paris May 13 The hearing on Count Boni De Castellane s appeal to overturn the custody ruling granting the children to their mother the Princess De Sagan formerly Miss Anna Gould resumes. Bonnet asserts imminent separation between Prince De Sagan and his wife and alleges the mother plans to place sons in a provincial school to avoid custody by the Marquise De Castellane. He repeats charges of immorality against the Prince and notes the eldest children wish to enter a naval academy. Clemenceau for the Princess dismisses the claims as twaddle. Harrison B Freeman Jr addresses a Board of Trade meeting on Telephone Competition at 46 Cannon Street tonight.
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United Press
Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Princes de Sagan
Anna Gould
Maitre Bonnet
Bonl
Prince de Sagan
Marquise de Castellane
Bonnet
Naval Academy
de Sagans
Maitre Clemenceau
THAT ELECTRIC SQUEEZE MAY BE BOOMERANG
Hartford hearing today on a Connecticut electricity law reveals business opposition to a monopoly and a push to allow neighborly electricity sales. Howland Dry Goods Company wired power to a neighbor while United Illuminating seeks stronger penalties and injunctions. Prominent Bridgeport and Hartford figures debate repeal amid a growing coalition of business interests.
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Hartford
Committee On Judiciary
Princeport
Howland Dry Goods Company
United Illuminating Company
Bridgeport
New Haven
Howland Company
Light Company
A. M. Cooper
Wallace G. Taylor
Howland Dry Goods Co
William R. Brown
Union Metallic Cartridge Company
George R. Barnes
Bridgeport Business Men's Association
Hobart French
Stiles Judson
A. B. Beers
State
Bishop Brewster Ordains Six Deacons in Grace Church
Windsor Connecticut May 13 The annual ordination of priests for the diocese of Connecticut took place at Grace Church with six deacons presented to Bishop Brewster and ordained Arthur Adams John P Dallas Co Jarvis Harriman William B Olmstead Daniel E Putnam and Henry DeWolfe DeMarac The sermon was by Rev John N Lewis and litany by Rev S Wolcott Linsay The local Masonic order attended in honor of Rev C Jarvis Harriman.
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Windsor
Conn
Solemmn
Diocese of
Connecticut
Grace Church
Brewster
Arthur Adams
Trinity College
Christ Church, Hartford
John P. Dallas
St. John’s Church
Waterbury
Jarvis Harriman
All Saints
S. Wolcott Linsay
St. James, Winsted
Masonic Order
C. Jarvis Harriman
House Debates Philippine Tariff Bill
Washington May 13 The House moved into committee of the whole to examine the Philippine tariff bill endorsed by Philippine customs officials and introduced by Representative Payne Republican New York chair of the Ways and Means Committee This session focuses on the bill’s provisions and potential effects on trade with the Philippine Islands.
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Washington
House
Philippines Islands
Payne
Republican
New York
Yale crew man dies in India on wedding trip
William Kurtz Johnson, Yale 1906 and former Yale crew manager, died May 4 in Ceylon India while on his wedding trip. His home was Baltimore and he was one of the era’s most popular classmen, information reached New Haven today.
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New Haven
William Kurtz Johnson
Yale
Ceylon
India
Johnson
Baltimore
Whiting Silver Co to Bring 1500 Here to Bridgeport
Bridgeport will host Whiting Silver Co of New York, a leading sterling silverware maker, as it plans a modern fireproof plant on five acres in Bishop avenue. The Bridgeport Board of Trade raised 10000 to secure land, with 12 citizens contributing 52 each to start a 25000 fund, aiming to attract the company after firms in New York and Massachusetts also vied for the project. Groundbreaking is slated soon as the company prefers Bridgeport for its growth potential.
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New Concern
Bridgeport
East End
Board of Trade
Bishop Avenue
Whiting Silver Co
New York
America
Massachusetts
Fred Enos
Call To Criminalize Unpasteurized Milk To Fight Tuberculosis
Nathan Strauss urged the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis to criminalize selling milk unless tuberculin tested or pasteurized. He cited a 33 percent rise in New York tuberculosis and argued dairy cows spread the disease, urging action against bovine sources. He linked milkborne infection to cases in children and pressed for dairy farm reform to curb the disease.
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United Press
Washington
Nathan Straus
National Association For the Study and Prevention
Straus
New York
International Congress
Congress
Mohler
Department of Agriculture
Ravenel
Wisconsin
Theo Bald Smith
Harvard
Schroeder
Committee votes against repeal of compulsory vaccination law
Hartford May 13 The Public Health and Safety Committee reported unfavorably on a bill repealing the compulsory vaccination law allowing unvaccinated children to be denied admission to public schools. The Connecticut Anti-Vaccination Society led by Major Thomas drew of Bridgeport backs the measure, while towns worry about education implications.
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Committee On Public Health and Safety
Hartford
Connecticut Anti-V. Society
Thomas Drew
Bridgeport
Mittee
Nnw
Bury
New Britain
For Sale and Rent Advertisements Mix
Classified notices list rentals and sales for multiple properties in Bridgeport area. Items include two five room tenements at East Main and Maple, a 12 room two family on Union Ave, a large Elmswood Place mansion, a 6 room cottage on Hazelwood, 3 room house on Colorado Ave, and a 10 room Fairfield property with barn. Also posted are employment notices for girls on Powell presses and corset making, plasterer, and general shop work, plus two electric ceiling fans for sale and a 4 room flat for rent. A meeting notice for Mountain Grove Cemetery Association is included.
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Cor
East Main
Maple Sts
Powell
Pryant Electric Co
Union Ave
Watson
Fairfield Avenue
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Sokol
Havens
Muirhead
Joseph Bajus
Anton S. Ambrose
National Slavonian Society
Andrew Burgo
Julius J. Wolf
Joseph R. Sekera
Adam Faducs
John Pistey
Michael Fech
Steve Emerson
John Water
John Snarnix
John Chalapin
Sidney BE. Hawley
W. H. Marigold
P. Nobbs
W. R. Brown
John M. Donnelly
Andrew Byuzga
William R. Muirhead
R. T. Rock
W. M. Cowles
Mason
John Hotz
Kilpatrick & Hotz
Erhardt
George ©. Hill
Joseph Bayus
Moses W. Manwaring
Thomas Arnold
Primrose
Hartley
Feyer
Brock
Sokols
Kosciuzsko Guards Polish Society
St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Society
St. Joseph Catholic Union
St John’s
C. S. P. S. Polish Society
Mieskiewicza Adam Polish Society
New Haven Slavonian Sokol
Slovak Gymnastic Union
Foresters
Pacific
New Jersey
Bob Fitzroy
W. R. C. Meeting
Harrison B. Freeman, Jr
Taylor Building
Cannon Street
Harrison
Secre Connecticut
Hart
Windsor Locks
Nathan Strauss
National Association For Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Elmswood Place
Watson, & Field Avenue
Provements
Hazelwood Avenue
Se Son
Colorado Ave
Fairfield Ave
Nues
Tranistan al Watson
Fairfield Aye
Caesar Miseh, Inc
Manend
Fairfield
W. S. Pickett
W. H. Sheppard
Newtown Inn
Newtown, Conn
Main St
Stratford Center
Warner Brothers Company
Burne
Myrtle Ave
Four Club
Perry’s Hall
Speidel
Steinert & Sons Co
Bain ‘St
Seaview Ave
St. Rits
Grove St
Park Avenue
Fiat
William St. U
Tfio
Bridgeport Steam Laundry
Tio
Ui2zto
Wi Brothers Company
Warren and
Atlantic Sts
Columbia
Miller Motor Car Co
Mountain Grove Cemetery Association
Masonic Temple
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