Great Cinderella Circus Arrives in Bridgeport Tomorrow
Bridgeporters will witness a major circus spectacle tomorrow as Ringling Brothers opens a 89-car train caravan from Stamford. The parade reaches downtown by 10 a m with 1370 staff, 1008 wild animals and 735 horses joining a three mile street display. The Big Top opens at 2 and 8 pm with Cinderella as the main attraction, backed by 400 foreign artists and a circus within a circus for children.
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Bridgeport
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Ringling
Stamford
Ringling Brothers
Agerie
Bingo
America
Ring‘lingville
Ringling Concret Band
Animal Land
Fairyland
Prince Charming
Great Palace
Flag Raising Program Planned by Pequonnock Yacht Club
Arrangements are complete for a flag raising ceremony at the Pequonnock Yacht Club on Memorial Day morning at 21 o'clock. A 110 foot flag pole, built by club members, will carry the National colors at the masthead. The program includes Locomotive Brass Band selections, calls to colors, and a speech by Judge Alfred B. Beers. After the events a luncheon will be served. memorial yacht races are canceled.
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Pequonnock Yacht Club
Chit House
California Street
Locomotive Brass Band
Buglers
Dean
Denton
I Angel
Arthur C. Bennett
Elmer Ogden, Jr
Uncle Sam
Cy Chittenden
Jack
Louis C. Fenton
George Lush
George H. Torgoff
James Holt
Alfred B. Beers
G. A. R. ‘America
Lo‘compboile
Frank Braithwaite
Board of Governors
John F. Babineau
James Anthony
Harry F. Hamilton
William H. Brown
Louis Brock
Charles C. Blackman
Frank EB. Elliott
George Gunther
Henry L. Usinger
William B. Meyer
William G. Soper
Alfred V.elliott
Hiram S. Winterburn
Two Workmen Injured by Falling Timbers
Timbers injured workers Fred Hart of 190 Lewis Street and Georges Miller of 660 Prospect Street, employees of De Voe Tompkins Roofing Co., Saturday night on Grand Street. Lacerations treated at the emergency hospital by Dr. Canavan. Also an advertisement note for white millinery and flower seeds from local businesses.
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Fred Hart
Lewis Street
Georges Miller
Prospect Street
de Voe Tompkins Roofing Co
Grand Street
Dr. Canavan
Emergency Hospital
Denman Flays Goethals Over Ship Attitude
Washington May 28 Chairman Denman of the United States Shipping Board sharply criticized Major General Goethals executive manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation for discussing policy at a New York dinner. Denman said the board aims to defeat the German submarine campaign and defended rapid, large scale shipbuilding while denying any breach with Goethals. He noted swift congressional support and warned against discord among government branches over shipbuilding policy.
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Washington
Denman
United States Shipping Board
Gen. Goethals
Emergency Fleet Corporation
American Iron and Steel Institute
New York
Philadelphia
Shipping Board
Berlin
Goethals
Congress
Senate
House
Treasury Department
Panama Canal
Council of National Defense
Department of Commerce
Army
Navy
Department of Labor
Steel Trust
Elbert H. Gary
Steel and Iron
United States
Althoug
Fleet Corporation
Plan for wooden ships gains favor in Congress
The Appropriations Committee backs building wooden ships as an emergency measure against submarines with Gen Goethals reportedly endorsing the plan. Congress may authorize both steel and wooden ships as quickly as possible. Frederick Roach, guard at Virginia Beach wireless station, was slightly wounded during an exchange of shots with two assailants nearby.
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Appropriations Committee
Goethals
Congress
Frederick Roach
Virginia Beach
Perfect Health How Gained an Old Broadside
Dr L W Bowers cites S Weir Mitchell on health as mutual blood exchange. He notes men average five million red cells per mm2 and women four and a half million. Pierce asserts natural purification with Golden Medical Discovery to improve digestion, liver, lungs, and heart, promoting blood nourishment and rounder corpuscles.
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L. W. Bowers
S. Weir Mitchell
Pierce
The
Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Senator Sheppard and notable contemporaries celebrated
A historical roundup honors Morris Sheppard born 1875 in Wheatville Texas and notes his rise from UT student to U S senator. It mentions Bishop Collins Denny, Archbishop Alexander Christie, and ICC member Balthasar H. Meyer as contemporaries, plus Asher Havens and the Texarkana inheritance of a physician’s estate case.
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Eph A. Bailey
Senate
Collins. Denny
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Alexander Christie
Oregon
Balthasar H. Meyer
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Congress
Morris Sheppard
Joseph Batley
Sheppard
Wheatville
Texas
University of Texas
State Capitol
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Yale
Pittsburg
Texarkana
Asher Havens
Clifton J. Edgar
New York
Congress
Winsted Havens
Jos
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Pequonnock Y. C
Rowland Ross
Elizbeth Gottschalk
Margaret Swailes
Benjamin Pulaski
Frank Brrthwaite
Vincent
Benham
Harry Maloney
E. H. Dillon & Co
Main Street
Milan
Panama
Bangkok
John Reck & Son
Committee For Wooden Ships
Particu
Puritan
Cudahy Packing Company
C. N. Shute
Megr
Water St
Conn
Senator Sheppard
James F. Hill
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