Stratford Votes Preserve Main Street Building Line
A special town meeting voted to keep the building line on Main Street as established April 21 from the Tred Beardsley property to Broadbridge Avenue. A hearing on benefits and damages for Main Street will be May 6 at x o'clock, with all residents invited to attend and voice input on the compensation.
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Stratford
Speary
Main Street
Selectman Lally
Board of Selectmen
Une Town
Ker
Lking
Lyington
Lynn
Mass
Wash Bridge
Priscilla Tea Rooms
Rem
R. C. Writehead
Packard
James
Utah
Bethany Church
Willan. Sicha
Rindaygehoal
Youngs Egonle
Lecal
Jongra
Villa Seizes Half Million in Parral Loot
Parral, Mexico, April 25. Villa forces seized about $500,000 worth of ammunition and rounds from a Federal garrison. They also levied loans totaling about $20,000. Reports name De Luz Herrera former Parral mayor Melchor Herrera and Jerlino Herrere as executed figures connected to the raid.
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Parral
Rez
Mexico
Sco «Villa
Carral
Federal
de Luz Her
Melchor Berrere
Vor
Juarez
Jerlno Herrere
Res
Weidenhammer to Direct Concert at Elks Club
Under William Weidenhammer an attractive concert is planned at the Elks Club tomorrow for members and friends. The program includes Axmen and performers such as Jon Att Weller and Josephar Weller, with Debra Weller among the invited attendees.
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Weidenhammer
Elks’ Club
William Weidenhammer
Ecks
Tomor
Axmen
Sidaway
Jon 1Att Weller
Josephar Weller
Debra
Marion society leader named sponsor for port scan launch
Mias Florence Marshall Gray of Marion Kentucky, a society leader, was chosen by the Navy department as sponsor for a port scan launch. The ship will be named the James after the late Kentucky Senator Mie James. Miss Gray was a friend of Senator James.
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Mias
Florence Marshall Gray
Marion
Kentucky
Mie Jame
Navy Department
Taie James
Miss Gray
James
Prosecute Soldiers Who Misuse Uniform
Department of Justice vows action at military request against panhandlers in uniform. Citizens urged to cooperate to keep veterans from becoming professional beggars. Employers who use soldiers’ uniforms to solicit sales may face prosecution. Programs exist to aid discharged service members with distress, employment, and relief.
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Department of Justice
Panhan
Professor Kent to address Chamber of Commerce luncheon
Professor Charles Foster Kant of Yale will speak at the noonday Chamber of Commerce luncheon on May 7 on civic improvement of Middle West cities. The address draws on practical analysis of western cities and municipal progress.
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Middle West
Charles Foster Kant
Yale
Chamber of Commerce
Kent
Wife Granted Divorce Over Habitual Intemperance
Evelyn A. Wallace of Stratford obtained a divorce from William A. Wallace in Superior Court by Judge Wein M. Malthie. The grounds cited were habitual intemperance. she testified he was hardly ever sober and never retired at night sober. The couple married April 28, 1915 and separated 14 months later.
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Evelyn A.’ Walace
Stratford Day
Wein M. Malthie
Wiliam A. Wallace
Wallace
Hartford Society Loans One Million for Victory Bond Drive
The Society for Savings of Hartford announced a subscription of 1.4 million dollars to the Victory Loan, detailing it as four percent of its deposits. In a separate case Angelo Lepatoris was fined fifty dollars in city court after being found guilty of stealing a watch and a cigarette case from a room of a man who died days earlier.
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Htantford
Society For Savings of
Connecticut
Angelo Lepatoris
Hoover Restores War Bread in Europe for Three Months
Paris and New York report a rise in milling percentage by the Supreme Food Council under Weyover, signaling a return to war bread in Europe for the next three months. Americans will resume white bread as J. Warfo and the food administration officer James L. Warfo note.
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Paris
Supreme Food Council
Weyover
New York
Supreme Feod Council
Fool Administration Grain Corporation
Federal Wheat
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Prof. Kent
Evelyn A. Wallace
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Bedell
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