Glowing Embers End Debt Of The Algonquin Club
At a banquet for 170 members President George S. Hill lit a taper to a pile of debt papers totaling 10 200 dollars. The flames died as the crowd sang America and celebrated wiping out the club debt amid plans to convert the bowling hall into a billiard room.
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George S. Hill
Algonquin Club
America
James Wines
Hill
Bic
New England
Robert A. Beers
George ©. Crawford
Joseph W. Northrop
James Vines
Ince
Frank Wison
Henry Setzerey
George S. Porter
George M. Eames
Frank Hastings
Angus H. McKenzie
Henry Mann
Hugh Stirling
C. D
Milter
J. He Peace
Magsa
George Eames
Frank
Oldest Stratford resident lauded in club tribute
The piece recalls a venerable Stratford native's stories as Frank speaks much like aged wine. President Hill is praised for his leadership and helpful role in the organization. Steward James Vines receives a remarkable tribute for keeping the club financially sound, with extended applause afterward.
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Stratford
Hill
Stam
James Vines
Committee Afraid of 10-Foot Centers on Streets
Streets and Sidewalks committee reports unfavorably on 10 foot center lines for Congress street and Fairfield avenue from Courtland to Park. It supports a six foot building line on Fairfield from Courtland to Park and votes against widening North Main Street layout review. Connecticut Co. may relay tracks at nine and ten foot centers except from viaduct to bridge. petitioners to widen Fairfield avenue withdraw.
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Courtland
Ark
North Main Street
Hartford
Bridgeoor and
Danbury Railroad Co
Connecticut Co
King Street
Barnum Avenue
Kirin Fire Destroys Buildings and Homes in Manchuria
London reports a Kirin Manchuria fire wrecked 8,387 buildings left 40,000 people homeless and caused 20 million dollars in property losses. Scottish Macrons plan a Providence visit next Wednesday to confer the 27th degree for Rhode Island Consistory.
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Kirin Fire
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Harbin
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Manchuria
Scottiish Macrons
Providence
Rhode Island
Oil Trust Plans to Divide Into Four Sections
New York May 17 United Press says Standard Oil lawyers plan to dissolve the trust. A tentative scheme divides into producing, manufacturing, transportation, and selling subsidiaries. Final decision not expected soon. new companies may form under defined territories.
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United Press
New York
Standard of Company
Supreme Court
Moritz Rosenthal
Bridgeport Man Bound Over in New Haven
Bridgeport teen Morris Rosen, 171 Waterstreet, bound over to the superior court on a pick pocket charge after a circus grounds arrest. Sawyer alias Sawyer, a New York man, linked as Rosen's alleged accomplice, was spotted near the police station and captured.
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United Press
New Haven
Morris Rosen
Waterstreet
Bridgeport
Charles Soley
Sawyer
New York
Rosen
Circus
Missing roofer returns home denying disappearance
Willimantic May 17 Charles Veane a local roofer mourned by family as lost and temporarily deranged was at his home today denying the stories that followed his sudden disappearance from this place last Thursday He said he lost his job and went to Revere Island to look for work On learning police were seeking him he decided to return home The prettiest face and hands are disfigured by a wart Cyrus Wart Remover offered at Cyrus Pharmacy 253 Fairfield Avenue and 186 Cannor Street Additional ads for stove polish and rust remover are included.
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Willimantic
Chas. Veane
Revere Island
Cyrus
Cyrus Pharmacy
Fairfield Avenue
Cannor 81
Col Heft Named Vice President of Denver Laramie And Northwestern
Col Heft, back from a Colorado trip, is elected second vice president and director of the Denver Laramie and Northwestern Railroad. The line aims to run from Denver to Seattle shortening the distance by 300 miles, with rich coal fields and timber along its route. Heft praises the project’s potential, outlines the Kent coal district, high grade ore near Bradley Peak, and the road’s planned shop town Scott, while noting his continued Bridgeport residence and role as an inventor in electric traction.
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Chicago
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Rocky Mountain
Utah Junction
Celeryville
Traggville
Vollmar
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern
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Milliken
Greeley
Horace Greeley
Scott
Heft
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Rock Creek
Fish Creek Canons
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Wind River Reservation
Pacific Northwestern States
Laramie
Northwestern
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William EB. Green
Spangler
William Barth
Senator Carlton
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William Skinner
A. Wright
Judge Milliken
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R. Kent
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W. Cole
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Dl. Heft
Bridgeport
Col
Mrs. Heft
Park Avenue
America
Calverton
Samuel Heft
Rebecca Wilson
New Jersey
Princeton College
Broderick
Early career and electric railways pioneer Heft
Heft began as a miner in Valley earning 50 a month and rose in 12 years to the highest company position with a comfortable home and capital. He gained coal mining and electrical know how, led many inventions, then moved to New York in 1890 to study rapid transit. He organized Bridgeport Traction and later led the electrical department of New Haven Railroad in 1894, advancing electrical development nationwide.
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Valley, & 3
Heft
Elk Mountain
New York
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Traction Company
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New Haven Road
Women’s votes help defeat in Tacoma recall
Tacoma May 17 two new faces will join Tacoma’s municipal commission after a recall election the fifth in ten weeks Commissioners Wood and Freeland are re elected while Commissioners Boys Lawson and Roys face changes Lawson and Roys were targeted amid a campaign led by the Royal Arch saloonkeepers organization anti treating ordinances and recall petitions were filed against the four other commissioners Roys blamed women’s votes for his defeat Fawcett’s recall spurred the broader upheaval and changes in city hall.
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Unite Press
Tacoma
Wash
Municipal Commissions of
Public Works
Wood
Finance
Freeland
Public Safety
Lawson
F. H. Pettit
Roys
B. J. Weeks
Royal Arch
Saloonkeepers’ Organization
Fawcett
Plot to Kill Her by Phone in Ole Bull Will Case
Alfred Maine May 1. New disclosures in the trial of Ole Bull widow’s will contest show the widow’s daughter claims the widow trusted spirits and housed East Indians to ward off enemies. Attorneys say the widow believed an enemy awaited to kill her by telephone via evil thoughts sent over the wire. The estate involved totals nearly half a million dollars.
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United Press
Alfred
Ole Bull
Olea Bull Vaughn
Cambridge
Mass
Pauline Chase and Grahame-White Engagement Off
London May 17 Claude Grahame-White responded to Pauline Chase claiming their engagement was at an end. He said he would let Miss Chase speak for herself but implied the engagement may be over. Miss Chase cited insufficient compensation for leaving the stage as the reason.
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Claude Grahame-White
United Press
London
Miss Chase
Claude Grahame- White
Grahame-White
A Farmer's Column Mixes Verse and Sport Notes
Readable fragments weave poetry by Maria Conway Demler with baseball tips and an essay on the Senate without a boss by Robert Wickliffe Woolley. The page blends literary quatrains, practical coaching lines, and political commentary on Nelson Aldrich and congressional power.
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