Found Dead After Fall Down Stairs at Myrtle Ave
Daniel J. O Leary was found dead in his bed at 663 Myrtle Avenue yesterday morning after a fall down stairs. Physicians cited cerebral hemorrhage or heart failure as probable causes. He had vertigo and a prior fall about a year earlier. Survived by wife, daughter, two sons in Waterbury, two sisters, and three brothers. He worked as a machinist for Standard Coupler Co for twenty years.
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Myrtle Avenue
Daniel J. O'Leary
O'Leary
Fitzgerald
Waterbury
Joseph’ S Arpenter
Pulmotor Used In Mass Rescue Of Seven Family Members
A pulmotor resuscitation was performed on seven members of the Santo family after gas exposure in a Hallett Street apartment. J H MaccDonald Emergency Surgeon assisted with two previously unconscious victims revived within about thirty minutes. This marked the first local instance of multiple simultaneous pulmotor use.
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Hallett Street
Antonio Santo
Joseph
Grace
Olympia
Annie
Belem
J. H. MaccDonald
Women avoid society and seek health with Lydia E. Pinkham
An advertisement urges women unhappy with dizziness backache headache nervousness and the blues to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, claiming as thousands of testimonials attest it restores health. Also promotes Cyrus Wart Remover and CleanEasy Hand Soap with pricing and store details.
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Lydia HB. Pinkham
Scalp Specialist ad seeks Olly Hairdf specialist
Garret E Sherwood lists scalp treatment services at 413 Security Building with address 138 Main St Prone 1373. One cent a word classifies Want Ads in the paper.
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Garriet E. Sherwood
Main St
Prone
Reverend Father McGivney To Meet Parish Men
Announcements from St Charles church say Father McGivney the new pastor will meet the men of the parish for a social reception in St Charles hall next Sunday evening. The pastor and parishioners will address greetings and welcome at the event.
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M’givney
St Charles’ Church
Father McGivney
St. Charles’ Hall
Rochester Murder Admitted in Cemetery Case 1909
Police say Jacob Wolfssohn confessed to killing Anna Catharine Schumacher in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Rochester in 1909 after his larceny arrest in Philadelphia. He described choking, dragging the body to a grave, digging a shallow grave, and concealing it with leaves and dirt. His remorse led to a note to the district attorney and a suicide attempt in custody.
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Anna Catharine Schumacher
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Rooster
Philadelphia
Cameron
Philadelphia Detective Bureau
Jacob Wolfsohn
Rochester
Schumacher
Wolfsohn
Barcnard
Capt
New York
Ida Bermen
City
Hell
Fountains React to Wood Block Pavement on Fairfield Avenue
Truckmen report water seeping beneath wood block on Fairfield avenue between Clinton avenue and the railroad viaduct. Heavy traffic makes it spurt into the air up to a foot and a half, signaling a defect and possible costly repairs before frost. Blocks have begun to buckle in places as the section was laid hastily, suggesting much of the work may need repeating.
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Fairfield Avenue
Clinton Avenue
No Quarantine Maintained on Foreign Potatoes
Washington reports the federal horticultural board will indefinitely maintain the quarantine against potato imports from the British Isles Germany Austria Hungary Newfoundland and the French islands St Pierre and Miquelon to prevent potato wart, canker and black scab. The board cites promising 1913 US potato crops and expects no imports this winter.
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Washington
United States
Federal Horticultural Board
British Isles
Germany
Austria-Hungary
New Foundland
St. Lawrette
St. Pierre and
Miquelon
London Bureau of Agriculture
Horticultural Board
Stolen launch rammed police boat in three hour pursuit
Two 15 year old boys Richard Witte and Joseph Davis stole a launch in Buffalo and fled from the police through river and harbor. After a long chase the gasoline ran out and the youths tried to ram the pursuing boat. The collision wrecked the smaller craft and both boys were captured. They will face theft charges and their parents face a $300 damages bill.
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Buffalo
Captain Kidd
Grover Cleveland
Niagara River
Richard Witte
Joseph Davis
Alderman Carroll Named Manager for Lighting Co
Alderman Peter J. Carroll will become local manager for the American Street Lighting Co. of Baltimore on October 1. He succeeds John Kelly, who resigned, as Bridgeport faces potential contract abrogation if service does not improve by October 5. Carroll, in his third Common Council term from the Seventh district, may resign to take the city job, and has been a clerk at 6% Washington Avenue for Edward Finlan, the grocer, before accepting the new outdoor role.
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Peter J. Carroll
American Street Lighting Co
Baltimore
Bridgeport
John Kelly
Carroll
Common Council
Edward Finlan
Washington Avenue
National Farmers Congress Sees New Laws Ahead
Chicago Sept 28 Charles E Sanford president of the farmers national congress expected new legislation affecting farmers from the 33rd annual convention at Plano Illinois during the week of Sept 23 Topics include a system of rural credits and rural schools.
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Chicago
Charles E. Sanford
Farmers’ National Congress
Plano
Ill
Terror in Koritsa: American mission schools seized
Reports from Vienna and New York describe Greek authorities seizing the American mission schools at Koritsa Albania where nearly 100 Albanian girls study. Many Albanians returning from abroad were detained and then released only if they vowed to push Greece's southern Albania inclusion. The American mission, under Congregational oversight, expanded from a school to a girl’s college with financier Charles Crane backing the project.
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Vienna
Koritsa
Albania
Aviona
America
Greece
Monastir
Kingdom of
New York
Congregational Church
Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Edward =. Smith
C. T. Erickson
Boston
Salonika
Chicago
Mortica
Elbason
Congregational Mission Board
Frost Hits Middle Tennessee First Time This Season
Nashville reports its first frost of the season, occurring last night in Middle Tennessee. The touch was not severe but appears widespread, a rarity in the weather bureau’s records with frost earlier than this occurring only four times in history. Six Paris dressmakers race to craft gowns in twenty minutes, the challenge to see who takes the longest.
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Nashville
Middle Tennessee
Weather Bureau
Paris
Bond Issue for New Haven Road Still in Doubt
Boston, Sept. 22. Chairman Freder J. Macleod of the public service commission says swift action on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Co. petition for approval of its $67 million bond issue is prudent but not a snap judgment. The status of the premium account and total capital stock after adding stock and premium accounts are key questions affecting the legality under Massachusetts law.
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Boston
Freder J. Macleod
Public Service Mission
Commission
New York, New Haven & Hartford Co
New Haven
New Haven Company
Massachusetts Commission
Massachusetts
H. la Rue Brown
Providence Securities Company
New York, Westchester & Boston
New Haven Line Delays In Day Trains Slowed Oct 5
Beginning October 5 the New York New Haven Hartford railroad will lengthen daytime Boston to New York schedules by 5 to 20 minutes. The five hour limited trains gain 10 minutes, while one other train adds 20 minutes. Night trains remain unchanged.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Boston
New York
City Court Fines for Reckless Driving and Disturbances
John Kovacs of South Norwalk paid 50 dollars and costs after being found to exceed 45 miles per hour on a motorcycle near the viaduct. He claimed speed was to reach a sick wife. Others in city court faced fines for assaults, disturbances at a wedding, and various offenses with details of dates and locations in Norwalk.
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John Kovacs
South Norwalk
Atrolman Gorgas
Kovacs
Fairfield
Norwalk
Constantino Constantine
Virginia Carsi
Calhoun Avenue
Charles Austin
Hidward Boland
Water Street
Joseph Casey
Cigiar
Adam Stadalusky
Broad Street
Patrick Kish
Pembroke Street
Nicholas Matenero
Lexington Avenue
Mary Matenero
Tate
Jeremiah Sculley
John Bordosh
Bostwick Avenue
Frank Petroteky
Stanley Benofsky
Fortria
James Robbie
Royal T. Starr
Clitus King
Abe Geduldig
King
Starr
John Cox
John Connelly
John Warren
evEe S. Cohen
Woods Leads Republican House Campaign Effort
Washington on September 22 Rep Frank P Woods of Topeka faces the task of directing the congressional campaign next year. He plans to lay groundwork to win back several congressional districts for the Republicans, seeking a stronger showing in the upcoming elections.
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Washington
Frank P. Woods
Towa
Congressions Picetier
Woods
Police doubting Wolfrsohn confession in murder tale
Philadelphia officials prepared to say Jacob Wolfsohn lied about killing Ames Catherine Schumacher in Rochester four years ago. Detectives doubt the confession, and Rochester authorities hold a neutral view while New York sheriffs and district attorney investigate the claim.
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Philadelphia
Piladelphia
Jacob Woesohn
Catherine Schumacher
Rochester
Carters
Hureng
Flereen
Wolfsohn
Peet Éster
Cnet Ce
Sunteloedt
Weilsohn
New York
Hamil
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Cyrus
Cyrus Pharmacy
Wm. R. Winn
Stratford Avenue
Alderman Carroll
Lighting CO
Hes
National Farmers’ Congress
Tennessee
Worcester
Middle ST
Crooker
Domestic Utilities Co
New Haven Road
Redgetes
Congress
Carrie Chapman
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