Handsome Forktail the Barn Swallow Featured in Tail Tale
In Young Folk's Corner Johnny Chuck and Skimmer discuss Forktail the Barn Swallow famed for a deeply forked tail and striking steel blue back. Forktail boasts beauty and agility, nests on Farmer Brown's barn, unlike Twitter who builds in a tree, while anticipating a contest for catching prey.
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Johnny Chuck
Skimmer
Twitter
Martin
Worktall
Forktall
Farmer Brown
Forktail
Green Meadows
Seymour Strikers Given Higher Wages and Mill Reopening
Seymour Manufacturing Company will raise wages for employees and reopen Monday. In Ansonia, 1,000 workers have returned to work with plans for the remaining staff to follow. The American Brass Company reports 3,000 on duty with 300 more expected back Monday as the strike dwindles. A shell primer, not a bomb, is now believed to have injured George Fingerhut in yesterday’s explosion.
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Seymour
Seymour Manufacturing Company
Ansonia
American Brass Company
George Fingerhut
Will of Ilsie Bulkley probate in Fairfield
The will of Miss Ilsie Bulkley, estate valued around 50 000 to 60 000 dollars, was accepted for probate in Fairfield. Her Westway Road Southport house is left to Annie Bulkley of Main Street, stipulating 3 500 to the estate within six months, with 1 000 each from Eliot Payson Hermann Thorn and Hien L. Hermann of St Louis. Five thousand dollars goes to Trinity Episcopal Church for repairs and 1 000 to the Pequot Library, to fund non fiction purchases in memory of her uncle George Bulkley, its first vice president.
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Fairfield
Jima
Ilsie Bulkley
St Louis
Mass
Miss Bulkley
Trinity Eiscopal Church
Pequot
George Bulkley
Drum Corps Enter for Denver Contests Sayin Rock Event
Devon June 27 special meeting of the Devon Boys’ Fire and Drum Corps completed plans for Victory Field day. Lancraft Drum Corps of New Haven to perform at Savin Rock tomorrow. Bands from across the state to compete at the Denver event and Sayin Rock venue was set for celebration.
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Sayin Rock
Devon
Devon Boys’ Fire and Drum Corps
Lancraft Drum, Corps
New Haven
Savin Rock Toomorrows
Two New Recruits Enlisted at Naval Station
Enlistments at the United States Navy Recruiting Station yesterday included LeRoy Chigie from New Milford and Michael Fedorko from Watford. Willan Westerly has been temporarily relieved from duty and departed for Pittsburgh to spend the next two weeks there.
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U. S. Naval Station
United States Navy
LeRoy Chigie
Ft. Ely
New Milford
Michael Fedorko
Whatford
Willan Westerly
Pittsburgh
No'ke Wuch Vanderbilt Toasts Fashion in New York
A fragmented OCR piece recalls Cornelius Vanderbilt at a chic New York restaurant amid praise for Paris gowns described as sleeveless and cut out. He comments on modern fashion and remarks on propriety, while nearby notes mention baton swinging contests and awards at a park and the White City pavilion with corps men to perform.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
New York
Paris
Mr Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
White City
New England Men Granted Distinguished Service Cross
The War Department announced General Pershing awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to sergeants Thomas Murphy of New Haven Connecticut John Hussey of Holyoke Massachusetts and Frederick J Haake of West Greenwich Rhode Island for their service in June 1927 in Washington sources say the ceremony followed routine dispatches from the War Department.
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Washington
War Department
General Pershing
Thomas Murphy
New Haven
Conn
John Hussey
Holyoke
Mass
Frederick J. Haake
Wast Greenwich
Schwab on Experience Versus Ability Amid Shipbuilders
In a Los Angeles Times story, Charles Schwab contrasts experience and ability to a shipyard audience. He remarks that many claim experience but lack real skill, likening it to a braggart requesting references. The anecdote underscores the gap between claimed and true competence.
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Charles Schwab
Bridget
Los Angeles Times
New Thought Advocate Recommends Fruit Alive Liver Tablets
A. A. Young of Schenectady testifies that although New Thought favors natural medicine, he found relief from severe liver and stomach troubles using Fruit a Tives Liver Tablets. He reports improved complexion and blood flow after use and notes Welltreatives as a pinnacle of New Thought in medicine.
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A. A. Young
Schenectady
S. Y
Fruitatives Limited
Ogdensburg
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