Battle cruisers favored over dreadnoughts by House panel
Washington May 19 The House Naval Committee rejects dreadnoughts for 1917 and authorizes five battle cruisers plus submarines escorts and destroyers at a total budget near 180 million dollars. Secretary Daniels notes mixed support and pace constraints while praising swift capital ships. The measure also funds aeronautics dry docks ammunition and reserve stocks.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
House Committee On Naval Esterday
Neva
Dancise
Sasa Recomeaen
Philadelphia
Britten
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Navy
House Committee
General Board
Congress
Padgett
House
Funeral Notices and Community Updates From Newtown May 19
Funeral services were held for Henry Rubley 73 in Dodgingtown with interment in Plumwood Bethel. Article lists local deaths, military funeral for William Wallace Dayton, pneumonia in Philo Nichols, and various parish, lodge, and civic notices including clean-up week May 22 27 and a Dartingtown fire company lawn party May 26. Also reports legal case for Joseph Naylis and convalescence of Mrs William Ryan.
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Newtown
Henry Rubley
Dodgingtown
Plmwood Cemetery
Bethel
Harold Wilson
Methodist Church
Leonard and
Henry Kindie
Bernard Moore
New Milford
A. E. Bevans
Gee Py
Charles
Christopher
George
William
Yonkers
Kate
Margaret Rubley
Angus Joy
Henry B. Read
Pallentine
Soldiers’ Hospital
Noroton
Heavy Artillery
Connecticut
Peet
Philo Nichols
W. H. Kiernan
Hiram Lodge
Walnut Tree Hill
William Loughran
New York
Berkshire
Charles G. Peck
Village Cemetery Association
Newtown Savings Bank
Lands End
Joseph Nayiis
Waterbury
Danbury
P. H. McCarthy
William Ryan
Middle Gate District 1
Health and public welfare slogans on disease control
A collection of concern raising lines asserting health priorities. It links dog muzzling to rabies eradication and frames public health as a duty to protect children. It questions temper, insanity costs, and links pellagra to mental decline while denying neutrality in disease battles.
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UD Public Health Service
Teachers May Get Increases In Their Wages
At a special board meeting President Elmer H Havens and committee members recommended salary boosts for teachers and principals. Teachers would gain 50 dollars per year. principals 50 to 100 dollars depending on school size. The plan, set for July 1, will be adopted at the June 12 meeting, affecting 518 current staff plus 33 new hires.
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Board of Education
Elmer H. Havens
William R. Webster, Jr
Nathaniel W. Bishop
Committee On
Princip
St Pauls Young Men’s Club Smoker Entertaining Affair
The St Pauls Young Men’s club held a monthly smoker in the club rooms at St Pauls parish house. Pinechie selections were played, card games enjoyed, and an entertainment arranged by committees. Harry Ireland recited a monologue and Winifred Neale spoke on Gas and Its Many Uses. Performers included J Broad Frank Munich P Barnes Clarence Lister and Harold Jewitt at the piano.
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St. Paul's
St. Paul's Parish House
Harry Ireland
Winifred Neale
Dick Mansfield
Sungy J. Broad
Frank Munich
P. Barnes
Clarence Lister
Harold Jewitt
Perry Harry Turner
Samuele Cutting
Harold Jewett
Fred Elliman
Archer Horton
Parl Burinell
Charles Mercer
Richard Mansfield
Staxnéy
Broad
Stratford
Frank Rogers
Charles Kamp
George Rogs
Robert Fox
James Giblin
Alfred Ones
Nellie Melba Birthday Remembrance in Melbourne
Melbourne born soprano Nellie Melba born May 19 1863 identified as Mme Nellie Melba daughter of David Porter Mitchell and Spanish descent mother. She pursued early music in Melbourne later studying in Paris and London debuting as Gilda in 1887 at La Monnaie Brussels before rising to Paris Opera and Covent Garden acclaim.
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Charles Nesbit Frederick Armstrong
Helen Porter Mitchell
Mme
Nellie Melba
Melbourne
Australia
David Porter Mitchell
Andrew Armstrong
Presbyterian Ladies’ College
City
London
Paris
Mitchell
Melba's Rise and Split: Opera Star and Divorce
Dame Nellie Melba rose to fame after conquering London and Paris, receiving a special command from the Russian Czar to perform in St Petersburg and later appearing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her artistic triumphs strained her marriage culminating in a 1900 divorce in Galveston Texas, with custody granted to Capt Armstrong of their one child.
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M. Gounod
Juliette
Marguerite
London
Paris
Mme. Melba
Czar
St Petersburg
de Hreszko Brothers
America
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Capt. Armstrong
Galveston
Tex
Youthful trio linked to near twenty auto thefts in city
Nearly 20 autos were stolen for joy rides and abandoned on roads and in nearby towns. Three youths Joseph O Bierne Ernest Hart and Clarence Clark were arrested after a battery key method allowed entry. O Bierne and Hart arraigned and the case continued to May 23.
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Joseph O'Bierne
Main Street
Ernest Hart
Lafayette Street
Clarence Clark
South Avenue
W. R. Phillips
North Avenue
Broad and
Gilbert Streets
Newtown
Bridgeport
O'Bierne and Hart
Bridgeport Market Ad Lists Lambs and Groceries
Specials for Friday and Saturday include spring lamb parts lean shoulders hams and roasts pork tenderloins duck roasts beef and veal cuts and a full dairy pastry and produce line. Market at Bridgeport Public Market State Bank East Main streets with phones. Also note the steamship Ennisbrook foundered near Glace Bay Nova Scotia and has been refloated.
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Armour’s Star
Bridgeport Public Market
State and
Bank Streets
East Main Street
Verdun not lost claims challenged by Berlin critic
Major Moraht of the Tageblatt disputes Allied Verdun triumphs as mere political moves. He cites German gains at Hill 304 and asserts French and British offensives fail unless outnumbering the Germans, comparing Verdun to Gallipoli and warning of misleading reports.
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Berlin
Verdun
Major Moraht
Tageblatt
Manchester Guardian
Marne
Ypres
Exill
Gallipoli
Fifty Years in Prison ends for Joel Warren dies
Hartford reports Joel Warren who served fifty years for the murder of his wife at Wethersfield died in Manchester at age 77. Pardoned June 15, 1912 he had lived in Mansfield since then and will be buried in Storrs cemetery.
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Hartford
Wethersfield
John Warren
Manchester
Joel Warren
Mansfield
Storrs
Warren
Bridgeport Youth Held in New Haven on Swindling Charge
Bridgeport youth G. A. Still living at 173 Pacific Street is held in New Haven on a swindling charge after authorities there notified Bridgeport police of the arrest. The case centers on an alleged attempt to swindle.
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Bridgeport
New Haven
G. A. Still
Pacific Street
Ile
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Naval Committee
Inmsures
Secretary of Navy
ST. George’s Church
St George's Parish
C. R. Clarke
J. Wilkinson
L. F. Wakeman
E. J. Higby
J. G. Raifstanger
E. R. Hunt
C. H. Armstrong
E. B Caldwell, Jr
G. B. Elwood
J .I. Hamm
A. E. Belisle
R. D. Cate
J. 8. Clyne
Earl G. Wakeman
Briggs,& Caldwell
Clinton and
Beechwood Avenues
Maplewood School
United States
ST. Paul’s Young Men's Club
Melba
Clark
Bohn Syphon
GEO. B. Clark & CO
Broad St. Opp
Ennisbrook
Glace Bay
N. S
Battle OF
Fairchild
Holmes and Hadwards
G. W. Fairchild — & Sons, Inc
State St
Gen Ams It
Gately & Brennan
The
Carbon Steel Co
Portsmouth
N.hl
Rydock
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