Social visitors to bridgeport choir rehearsal for Northeastern Sanger
The Schwaebisher Louis insineer delegation will meet visitors from New York this evening at a local society chorus rehearsal representing Bridgeport at the Northeastern Sanger in Madison Square Garden in June. Prof. Carl Heim will conduct the rehearsal. Estelle Rinck’s family hosts.
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Schwaebisher
Louis Insineer
Fir
New York
Bridgeport
Madison Square Garden
Carl Heim
Personal musical appeals and funeral notice in Mountain Grove area
The city notes a donations appeal backed by pastors for a family linked to Mrs Mary Peck who died in a New York Subway incident. Sergeant Suckley visits, stating Mrs Peck was frail and near sighted, likely losing balance before the incoming train. The body will be moved here for burial at Mountain Grove cemetery near the family plot.
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C.H. Suckley
Mary Peck
Aicely
New York Subway
Peck
McCord, Copeland Company
Suckley
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Lew
Man Kills Wife Then Ends Own Life on Metropolitan Tracks
Chicago police seek motive in the murder of Mrs. Joseph B. Hinze by her husband who then killed himself by stepping in front of a tram. Hinze died on the tracks. his body was found an hour later. Neighbors note his jealous fits, offering no clear light on the tragedy.
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Chicago
Joseph B. Hinze
Metropolitan
Hinze
Boy Struck By Automobile On Courtland Hill
Edward Thompson aged 12 escaped serious harm after losing control on Courtland hill at 7 last night. James C. Tice, real estate broker, driving a car, aided the boy after the collision on Fairfield avenue. Thompson suffered minor injuries. Tice bought a new bicycle for him and was not blamed for the accident.
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Edward ©. Thompson
South Avenue
Courtland Hill
Fairfield Avenue
James C. Tice
Mr. Ticew
Five Points House of Industry Closes Settlement Era
The Five Points House of Industry in Mulberry Bend, a fifty five year landmark, closed yesterday as the last girls were moved to Ossining and the boys to Brace Farm School at Valhalla. The old building is for sale and may be torn down or converted into a factory.
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New York
Five Points House of Industry
Mulberry Bend
Ossining
Brace Farm School
Valhalla
White Plains
Weather Indications in New Haven May Forecasts Showers
May forecast from New Haven notes increasing cloudiness with local showers tonight and Friday as a trough extends from Kansas to Lake Superior. Central and eastern sections see rising temperatures while Atlantic coast stays pleasant. In this vicinity expect fair weather today, then increasing clouds with showers late tonight or Friday.
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New Haven
Kansas
Lake Superior
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi River
Lake Region
Atlantic
World Commerce Sets 1907 Record in Global Trade
Washington May 13 The Department of Commerce and Labor reports a new global trade peak for 1907 with sixty named countries and colonies totaling 30 billion dollars. Exports reach 14 billion and imports 16 billion, driven by European trade. U.S. accounts for about 9.2 percent of exports and 14.4 percent of imports, with most U.S. exports to adjacent regions and nearby ports.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
United Press
Washington
Department of Commerce & Labor
United States
South America
Lawyers Divide $400000 In Will Contest For Baldwin
In Los Angeles on May 13 lawyers who arranged a final compromise in the Lucky Baldwin will contest are to divide a $400,000 fee. The amount is the largest ever paid in a similar case in the city. The fee goes to former Governor Henry T. Gage, Garrette McEnerney of San Francisco, and the firm of Dubnon Trask Crutcher & Dun of Los Angeles.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Baldwin
Henry T. Gage
Garrette McEnerney
San Francisco
Dubnon, Trask, Crutcher & Dun
Hosiery Magnates Oppose Payne Tariff Reductions
In Philadelphia on May 13 members of the National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers announced plans to visit Washington Friday and Saturday to appeal to the ways and means committee to strike reductions on hosiery duties from the Payne tariff bill. The association counts about 350 member firms nationwide.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
National Association of Hosiery & Underwear
Washington
National Association
United States
Tolman Agent Arrested In Winnipeg Money Lenders Case
Miss M A Glynn of New York city, Tolman agent, is jailed in Winnipeg on breach of the money lenders act after a police raid on Tolman branch office. The raid followed a flood of 30 000 Tolman circulars offering to purchase notes and loans.
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Hartford
D. H. Tolman
Chicago
Addie Winberfield
Minnie Hurlburt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
M.A. Glynn
New York City
Tolman
Winnipeg
Canada
Miss Glynn
Porch Shades for Summer Vador Screen in Green
A simple privacy screen for verandas called the Vador Screen made of thin linden strips bound with twine. It can be raised or lowered instantly and comes in dark green olive green or mottled green and brown. Sizes 4 by 8 and 6 by 8 priced at 2.25 and 3.00 respectively. Carpet Store first floor.
Yachting Flags and Pennants For Sale
It is not too early to place orders for Flags Burgees and Pennants We furnish all kinds of general and private signals American Standard Bunting Flags in all sizes These are the accepted U S Government Flags and our prices are the lowest possible for this reliable quality Lower floor center stairway.
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U. S
D. D. Smith's
Garment Hangers With Moth-Proof Enclosure
A combined garment hanger and hanging receptacle for enclosing suits for men or women. Mothballs may be placed inside but not in direct contact with clothing. Each hanger includes a package of mothballs. 25 cents. Basement Furnishing Store offers strawberries and cream in the Tea Room.
Read Co Remnants Offered in Dollar Packages
The D M Read Co offers remaining textiles priced at one dollar per package. Coupon holders may choose packages at 48 cents each, including muslin sheetings ticking flannel cretonnes gingham prints cheese cloth silks and more.
Thrifty Wife and Early Meat Magnate in Hilarious Anecdotes
A humorous pair of vignettes contrasts a cautious English noblewoman who disapproves of shoeing a pony with Lady Eldon's fear of ruin over horse shoes. The piece shifts to Gustavus Franklin Swift, a Cape Cod native who built a meat empire in Albany and Chicago, pioneering refrigerated rail cars and expanding dressed beef as a national staple amid fierce opposition.
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Gustavus Franklin Swift
Albany
Chicago
America
England
Europe
A Voice From the Gods in a Melodrama Theater
A London theater delivers melodrama to a demanding gallery. The hero bungles lines. a bold line prompts a heckler cry. The crowd, trained to extras, shifts the mood as the show nears its crisis and the actor’s fate hangs in the balance.
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London
Spiteful dialogue quoted from Sphinx and Wuripides
A compact exchange features a daughter recalling her mother and a suitor who sought marriage despite prior meetings. The line echoes two classic voices, the Sphinx and a Wuripides reference, pondering duty, desire, and providence in human intent.
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Meigs & Co
Fifth Avenue
Boston
Pieigs
Outfitters
Women& Children
Conn
Estelle E. Rinck
Augustus Poten Helen Street
J. J. Bar- Francisco
Cal Tsan
Young Ladies’ Society of
St. 'S Church
Monk
Iranistan Avenue
First Congregational Church
Ruth Kenyon
Mr. Kenyon
St. Paul's Church
Michael’s Sick Benefit Society
Joseph’s Church
Dehme
St. Boni ¥. Co
St. Joseph's Sick Benefit Society
John
Waldeyer
Sterling Lodge
Lessing Te Fall
Amy Peutting
Leo Whaley
Mar Ryan
Howard Richel
McDermott
H. Lund
Ryan
Sarah Corrigan
J. J. Collins
Corrigan
Doyle
L. Donahu Marcella Dugan
Li. Jayne
Clark
Courtney
J. J. Kearns
R. A. Sharrs
Morgan
Alice Waters
Margaret
Mary Ryan
Rose Shaw
Jack Murphy
Roemer
Dan O'Neil
Dan
Rex Miller
John Grant
Carl Parker
Fairfield
Southport
K. of C
Flynn
G. E. Scofield
R. T. Rock
P. Bullard
Little Sisters of the Poor
Five Points
Ayer
Lucky Baldwin
Yaara
The
D. M. Read Co
Radford B. Smith
Main St
Fairfield Av
Lord Eldon
Bis Lordship
Bob
Eldon
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Fort Worth
Sphinx
Seth
God
Wuripides
Halligan
Joseph P. Couc
EAS
People’ S Dairy
GEO. A. _ROBERTSON
Spalding’s Baseball Goods
Post Office News
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
State Street
D. D. Smith
Bridgeport Distributing CO
Public Market
California
Buzzard’s Bay
Marthas Vineyard
Wantucket
Narragansett
Newport
Shore Line
Connecticut
A. B. Smith
NEW York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Union Pacific
New England
W. Massey
Washington St
Bosto
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