Masked Bandits Hold Up Train and Escape
Four robbers stopped a Cincinnati to Montgomery mail train near Columbia and Pulaski Tennessee early today. They forced the engineer to detach the mail car and ran it a distance while rifling the car and covering the crew. No passengers were harmed though the loot amount was not available.
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Nashville
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Louisville
j.Nashville
Cincinnati
Montgomery
Ala
Columbia
Pulaski
Fairfield man sues over death of horse
John Casey of Fairfield filed in Superior Court against John J. Radley of Stamford seeking 800 damages for a horse killed in a collision last June in Fairfield. Casey alleges Radley’s chauffeur negligent driving caused the accident and claims injuries kept him from farming for several weeks.
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John J. Radley
Stamford
Fairfield
John Casey
Radley
Casey
Three More Petty Robberies Reported to Police
The police report three additional petty robberies bringing the total since Sunday to 12. Victims include Michael Samachuk of 530 Gregory Street losing $2 from a trunk, Meyer Labor of 316 Osborne Street losing $40 while washing, and Mrs. Cy Bidmeade of 36 Fremont Street losing $2 from her home on Wednesday afternoon.
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Sudy
Michael Samachuk
Gregory Street
Meyer
Osborne Street
Cy Bidmeade
Fremont Street
Legion Block Party Dance Hosted by Shelton Legion
Shelton August 21 Special Hundreds of visitors expected to attend the block party and dance by Charlies W. Sutter Post No 16 American Legion Howe avenue between Bridge and White streets will be roped off from 8 to 12 with the Governor's Foot Guard band providing music. City stores are decorated in patriotic colors as post members seek contributions to swell their building fund.
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Charlies W. Sutter Post
American Legion
Howe Avenue
Bridge
White
Governor's Foot Guard
The
Post
Socval Post
Hartford Man Charged With Adulterated Goods
FP Sturtevant of 248 State Street was arraigned before Commissioner Catrull on charges of shipping adulterated goods from Hartford to Springfield in May 1917. He is held on a 1007 bond for the next term of the U S district court. Assistant United States Attorney George H. Cohen for the government. The act of June 30 1906 sets penalties up to 200 dollars for a first offense and 300 dollars or a year’s imprisonment for later offenses.
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Sturtevant
United
Catrull
Springfield
Mass
United States District Court
United States
George H. Cohen
SINGER AND HEIRESS IN SECOND MARRIAGE
New York dated Aug 21 reports Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana soprano and Metropolitan Opera tenor wed for a second time to Mise Maria Esther Tellez daughter of Cuban sugar magnate Lorenzo Tellez and niece of minister Dr Carlo Manuel de Cesperes. The civil ceremony occurred in New Jersey and the church ceremony in The Bronx. A dispensation was granted after his first wife Mme Margarete Matzenauer had married him in a Lutheran service. Cardinal O Connell of Boston reportedly administered baptismal rites to their daughter Adrienne.
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New York
Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana
Metropolitan Opera House
Mise Maria Esther Tellez
Lorenzo Tellez
Havana
Carlo Manuel de Cesperes
United States
New Jersey
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Eighty-seventh Street
Hughes Avenue
Bronx
Francisco Magliocco
Ferrari-Fontana
Mme
Margarete Matzenauer
Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Adrienne
Murphy Fined Five Dollars for Hurling Brick Through Window
Patrick J. Murphy of 534 Water Street admitted drunkenly throwing a brick through a shoemaker shop window on Water Street Wednesday night. He was arrested and arraigned in City Court and fined five dollars by Judge Wilder. Also reported, Mrs. James B. Hughes of 405 Nichols Street is unconscious at Bridgeport Hospital after neighbors found her ill this morning, doctors suspect an apoplectic stroke.
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Patrick J. Murphy
Water Street
Wilder
James B. Hughes
Nichols Street
Neighbbors
Bridgeport
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Connors Clothing
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Elk Brand Clothes
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