Allies Blockade Plans Perfected
London reports the Paris blockade council has completed all arrangements to reimpose the Allied blockade on Germany if the peace treaty is not signed. After a 72 hour notice, British French and American forces would advance into Germany and enforce a tight blockade to curb German imports. Neutral-nation protections and restriction of food and raw materials would be revived to isolate Germany.
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London
Paris
Germany
Neighborhood committee to conduct beautification meeting
Inspectors will be instructed in campaign details at 8 tonight in the Chamber of Commerce room. Four inspectors from the city fire department will view lantern slides of Dayton before and after beautification and see local views of increased Main Street charm from flower boxes and baskets.
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Chamber of Commerce
Dayton
Main Street
Bridgeport Slacker Husbands Targeted by City Plan
Bridgeport officials cite Hillside Home as a reform effort to employ non supporting husbands. Five men are placed to work, with wages paid to their families. Superintendent Angus P. Thorne notes the program lowers city non support rates versus nine comparable cities, citing one man returned from California after deserting his wife and four children.
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Board of Charties
Hillside Home
Bridgeport
Charities
Angus P. Thorne
California
Thorne
Bridgenorthes
Preventorium Proposed for Children at TB Center
In the annual Board of Charities report to City Auditor Bernard Keating, a preventive facility is urged for children predisposed to tuberculosis. The proposed preventorium would operate with TB patient care, aiming to build health through diet, exercise, and treatment, following last year’s count of 77 tuberculosis patients.
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Board of Charities
Bernard Keating
Memorial Day Parade Planned for Derby and Shelton
Perry May 28 J J Hickey announces memorial day parade routes. The procession forms in Shelton then goes to Derby and Oak Cemetery for services and grave decorations. Derby Shelton public school children, Board of Trade, fraternal groups, G A R Sons of Veterans and Woman's Relief corps will participate.
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Perry
J. J. Hickey
Ana
Shelton
Derby
Oak
CUI
Board of Trade
So's of Veterans and Woman's Relief Corps
Burglars Hit Ansonia Dry Goods Stores on Main Street
In Ansonia on May 28 burglars entered L. H. Missett dry foods and Peter Hart men’s furnishing stores on Main Street. Goods were taken from the Missett shop with about eight hundred dollars in cash missing. Hart’s shop suffered less loss and the jewelry case was rifled.
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Ansonia
L. H. Missett
Peter Hart
Main Street
Hart
Missett
New York Bomb Plot Inspector Dissects Deadly Devices
The wholesale bomb plot to strike prominent Americans led to New York where chief bomb inspector Owen Eagan dissembled infernal machines loaded into mailed packages. A device exploded, severing a maid’s hands, as the investigation traced packages sent to ex-Senator Bardwick of Georgia and other targets. Officers from the High School Mar-Shaul, Air Stack, Dr. Sides, and Mr. Carr aided the inquiry.
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New York
Owen -Eagan
Bardwick
Georgia
Mar- Shaul
Air
Stack
Dr. Sides
Mr. Carr
School Parade Plans Complete in Memorial Day Event
Superintendent Samuel J. Slawson leads a city wide parade plan with 29 marchers per school including captains color bearers and platoons. Each division will include seven drum corps and ten schools march with American flags only. Divisions list six marshalling pairs and school groupings with named principals and assistants.
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Samuel J. Slawson
Lincoln
Shelton
Elias Howe
Barnum
Waltersville
High
Whittier
Robert L. Zink
Joraleman
Roger Sherman
McKinley
Kossuth Street
Franklin
Provocational
St. Augustine’s
Harrison G. Streeter
Maplewood
Bryant
Long
Hal
St. John's
N. Kk. Weller
Warren L. Brown
Read
Sheridan
Island Brook
Columbus
Grand
Madison
St. Mary's
Women Lose Lead in Texas Election
Dallas Texas May 28 Elections returns late last night and today overcame a lead of more than 3 000 in favor of woman suffrage amendment and gave a majority of more than 5 000 against the amendment Prohibition has carried according to latest returns.
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Dallas
Texas
Seven Barks and its promised health benefits
The ad touts Seven Barks as a safe herbal remedy of seven roots and herbs for indigestion constipation liver and kidney issues. It claims fifty years of steady sales, low cost at 10 cents a bottle, and a dose of 10 to 80 drops in water after meals. It urges buyers to ask their druggist if unavailable.
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Seven Bares
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U.S
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J. W. Hickey
Ansonia Burglars
Missett Dry Goods
U. S
Slawson
Smith-Murray Co
Wamen
Smith-Murray Ca
Thorndyke
Kempton
Holiday
Kodak
Elindle
Goodyear Shop Repairing Co
Black
Goodyear Shoe Repairing Co
Winfield S. Black
Cannon Street
Lehigh
Patrick McGee
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