The Road to Yesterday closes Lyric season with praise
The Frank Carpenter company presents The Road to Yesterday at the Lyric Theatre. Audiences applaud the cast led by Miss Cleveland and Miss Strickland, noting strong performances from Carroll, Miss Carpenter as Black Malthe sy, and a vivid dream sequence. The season ends with anticipated reopening and strong local support.
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Frank Carpenter
Lyric Theatre
Miss Cleveland
Mr. Carroll
Miss Carpenter
Black Malthe Sy
Mise Strickland
SOE
Bridgeport
Sea Breeze Island opens with record attractions in 1912
Sea Breeze Island resumes season with hydro airplane flights from Long Island Sound, new Wild West shows by Frank A Robinson Jr and Arizona Joe, Wheeler & Wilson band concerts, vaudeville acts, and a grand fireworks display. Manager Gallagher touts rapid renovations and a busy opening schedule including a Harvey Hubbell baseball game and extended ferry service from Stratford Avenue.
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Sea Breeze Island
New England
Island Inness
Long Island Sound
Frank A. Robbing, Jr
Wheeler & Wilson
Crack West Emde
Harvey Hubbell
Industrial League
New Ca Sino
Knablin
W. L. Gallagher
Thomas
Baldwin
Beckwith
Glenn
Curtiss
Toledo
Bridgeport
Beckwith Havens
Frank A. Robbins, Jr
Wild West and Indian Congress
Arizona Joe
Alvora
Clinton
Nolan
Seabury
Sea Breeze Dock
Stratford Avenue
Henry Street
Lily Belasco drama thrills Bridgeport at Poli's Theatre
Poli Players present The Lily a Belasco drama based on a Pierre Wolff and Gaston Le Roux play. It explores a grown woman's right to love amid convention and law with Blanche Hall as Christiane and Marguerite Starr as Odette. Special matinee Thursday includes a stage reception. refreshments served.
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Bridgeport
Poli
Pierre Wolff
Gaston le Roux
Christiane de Maigny
Odette
Comte de Maigny
Belasco
Belasco Theatre
New York
Lightning Hitting Human Rod For Third Time
Danbury reports a strange event as a man named Benjamin Butler, a carpenter, was struck by lightning for the third time. His first strike occurred 14 years ago, injuring his left leg, with no other details confirmed.
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Danbury
Benjamin Butler
Woman Leaves Large Gift to Support Scientific School
In Madison Connecticut probate court today Maria Hotchkiss of Deep River wills gifts totaling about 500000 for salaries of professors at the scientific school. The will directs use of 600000 in gifts for the purpose specified. Overflow auction at Wood Avenue barn draws hundreds, stock unsold, sale to resume Saturday. In Chicago, a man quips to a judge asking to be sent to the Bridewell.
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Madison, Conn
Maria Hotchkiss
Wood Avenue
Chicago
Judge Himes
Fred Masters
Bed Bugs Drive Renters Away From Rooms
Public notices that rooms stay vacant due to bed bug infestations and a suggested remedy promoting Cyrus Presto Killer as a harmless cleaner. The ad claims a clean home can be achieved with a 25 cent can and promises satisfied applicants.
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Cyrus Presto
Decorator falls to death at Meriden armory
Walter W Bartholomew 35 died at Meriden hospital from brain concussion after falling from a ladder at the Second Regiment armory last night. He was decorating for a reception for Major Donovan, a painter by trade, and his fall from about 20 feet left him unconscious before he died today. He leaves his mother.
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Meriden
Walter W. Bartholomew
Meriden Hospital
Bartholomew
Donovan
Lodge of Elks
Easton Social Notes Include Funeral and Dance
Miss Marjorie Jennings returns home after weekend with grandmother in Aspetuck. Edgar Wheeler dies at his Warren home. funeral held Sunday. he leaves a wife two children a sister and a brother and nieces and nephews. A dance at E P Mills barn in Aspetuck draws about 35 despite rain. another dance planned for June 7. Local residents visit Weston Bridgeport and Norwalk in a new Ford touring car. Grace Wisner stays with Mrs. Nichols. Broadbin family returns from Sport Hill.
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Marjorie Jennings
Georgia
Jennings
Aspene
Mary Wheeler
Wakeman Wheeler
Elmer Hall
Grace Williams
Edgar Wheeler
Warren
Mr. Wheeler
Wheeler
Mary C.wheeler
Grace Willams
Stratfield
Milton Williams
Aspetuck
E. P. Mills
Elmer ‘Andrews
Lillian Andrews
William Andrews
Weston
Bridgeport
Westport
South Norwalk
Wilton
Grace Wisner
Hayden's Hill
Charles F. Nichols
John Broadbin
Sport Hill
Remains of Margaret Colgan Reinterred in St Rose Cemetery
The body of Margaret Colgan wife of Joseph Lavery was returned to Newtown for burial in St Rose Cemetery after a Requiem High Mass at St Mary's Bridgeport. A large gathering attended from Newtown and Bridgeport, with pallbearers and many floral tributes. Funeral rites were conducted by Rev E J Egan and Rev George Sinnott with prayers at the cemetery.
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Margaret Colgan
Joseph Lavery
Newn
St. Rose's Cemetery
St. Mary's Church
Bridgeport
E. J. Egan
Seabright
N. J
Newtown
J. W. Gordon
William J. Driscoll
William
Margaret Egan
Elizabeth
May Egan
M. J. Leavy
William H. Egan
New York
William Driscoll
James Colgan
James E. Colgan
William A. Gordon
John Gordon
W. H. O'Hara
Joseph Egan
John F. Brown
Kate Ward
Charles Ward
John Campbell
Hugh Campbell
James FB. Colgan
Lillian Colgan
Thomas McGowan
Watertown
John Casey
Fairfield
St. Rose's
Thomas Cavanaugh
Queen Street
Lenox
All-Newtowns
Henry Rupf
F. H. Mitchell
Trinity Guild
Parish Notes and Local Events Set in Bridgeport
Parish sections report a series of social updates from Bridgeport including visits by Miss Marion Peck and Rev. E J Egan, Ember days and Trinity notes. St Rose cemetery rules tighten, Frank Evitts gains Gea Breeze concession, and Juliette the monkey undergoes a tail surgery becoming Yetta.
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Frank Evitts
Gea Breeze
Wilbur H. Hoff
Frances Robinson
New York
Juliette
Bill Tuttle
Mr. Tuttle
Yetta
William Bedell
Long Island
Clarence Goodell
Southport
Srrlteer
Ferry road widened to twelve feet at Stratford meeting
Stratford voters approved widening the Ferry road to 12 feet on each side of the tracks after a tied vote was broken by Judge Charles H. Peck. The plan requires widening a concrete bridge over Ferry creek and prompts tree removals along the route. The meeting also funded repairs to Bruce Avenue California Street and fire hose, and unrelated town items were noted.
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Stratford
Ferry Road
Bruce Avenue
California Street
F. E. Conine
John McSheehan
Trolley Company
William Bassett
Hollister Heights
Charles H. Peck
Messrs
Conine
Bassett
Ferry Creek
Hudson Rammed by Berwind in New York Harbor
In dense fog off Robbins Reef the French liner Hudson carrying eighteen first class and 65 steerage passengers was rammed by the Berwind of the New York and Porto Rico line. The Hudson sank off 72nd Street Brooklyn and passengers were rescued by tugs Dalzelline and Dalzell. Both ships suffered heavy damage and Berwind was towed to Erie Basin for temporary repairs.
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New York
Hudson
Berwind
Porto Rico
Robbins Reef
Dalzelline
Dalzell
72Nd Street
Brooklyn
Florence
Italy
Erie Basin
The Third Degree serial in The Farmer
Charles Klein drama The Third Degree will be serialized in The Farmer starting today. The hypnotism themed tale follows Helen Jeffries and Edmund Breeze in a plot about police methods and forced confessions.
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Charles Klein
Poli
Edmund Breeze
Helen Ware
Helen Jeffries
New Haven
Howlands Return From Abroad and Keenan Family News
Mr and Mrs John G Howland are back at their Park avenue home after abroad on La France they plan a summer home trip to Quebec Vermont Alexander Keenan and son Thomas B Keenan depart for Buffalo to attend the ordination of Robert Joseph Keenan at the cathedral Baker California urges the House immigration committee to report his bill to exclude Asiatic laborers noting the Japanese population grows by 1600 yearly with 3074 admitted and 1285 returning last year
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Stratford
Ferry Road
James Lally
M. J. O'Connor
Manchester
Elizabeth O'Connor
Triangle Park
Dorman
California Street
Stratford Cemeteries
John W. Thompson
G. R
C. Dickinson
H. P. Stagg
C. E. Curtiss
N. B. Middlebrook
John G. Howland
Park Avenue
la France
Quebec
Vermont
Alexander Keenan
Thomas B. Keenan
Buffalo
N. Y
Robert Joseph Keenan
Washington
House Immigration Committee
Baker
California
United States
Japan
Rostron hailed as dearest man in world at Carpathia reception
In New York May 29 Captain Arthur Rostron, commander of the Carpathia, received cheers from Titanic survivors and guests as the vessel berthed. A committee presented Rostron with a silver loving cup and crew with medals, honoring his heroic rescue of Titanic refugees. Rostron remained modest, stating his duty was to his ship and to suffering humanity.
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New York
Ar— Hoe
Carpatha
J. J. Brown
Denver
Earl Aasny
Carpathia
Cunard Line
Arthur H. Rostron
Mike
Ieee
Sende Carpathia
Prederick K. Stewart
Channel
Rostron
A. H. Rostron
Hankinson
McGee
Steward Hughes
Brown
Rostryn
Congress
Pointblank
Washington
Senate
Frederick K. Stewart
Karl Behr
Bjornstrom
Steffeson
Fred C. Steddon
Tuxedo Park
George ‘A. Harder
Brooklyn
William Stone
Cincinnati
S. D. Goldenburs
Paris
Bucknell
Philadelphia
Senate Delays Workmen's Compensation Bill Action
On May 29 the Senate delayed action on the workmen's compensation bill after Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia opposed it. House Judiciary committee members including Representative Hardwick of Georgia and Representative Henry of Texas forced a postponement until Saturday.
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Washington
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Representative Hardwick
Henry
Texas
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SEA Breeze
Poli’s
Armory
Colm
Easton
THE
United Illuminating Company
Marion Peck
George Clark
Trinity Notes
J. H. George
Ee Girls’ Club
A. B. Blakeman
Trinity
Joseph Keane
George T. Sinnott
Stratford Ferry
Center School
Assembly Hall
Hamelin
Jack O' Lantern
Miss Turner
Congregational Church
Academy Hill
N. York Harbor
Bea
Traveler Shoe
Malin ST. Cor
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