Fire Devours Raybestos Plant Produces $2000 Loss
Dense black smoke billowed from the Raybestos company 1437 Railroad Ave nas as a shaft fire in the drying department caused $2000 damage. Spontaneous combustion is blamed. firefighters fought the blaze after 3:52 a.m. alarms and a Box 245 call at 5:59 a.m. A nearby garage blaze at 71 Crescent Ave preceded the larger fire, drawing a crowd as crews contained the flames.
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Raybestos Company
Avenas
Apparatua
Atll
Box 245
Bostwick
Railroad Avenues
Rayhbestos Company
Crescent Avenue
New State Regulation to Guard Drinking Water
Dr. Stanley Osborn the state health commissioner announced in Hartford a new regulation No. 118 to require double check valves in Catterlea buildings to prevent backflow contamination of drinking water. He cited hearings this summer on replacing single with double check systems and noted many factories rely on independent supplies for factory and fire uses separated by single valves that can fail and allow non potable water into the public system.
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Stanley [. Osborn
Hartford
Catterlea
Osborn
Pullman Hot Box Upsets Ball Team
Last minute discovery of a hot box on a Wabash Pullman car carrying the Detroit Tigers to St. Louis for a two game series with the Browns caused players led by Ty Cole and Mayers to evacuate their berths in pajamas as smoke filled the car. The train halted at Decatur Illinois and the team was moved to other cars to avert disaster.
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ST. Louis
raPj
Detroit Tigers
St. Louis Browns
Ty Cole
Mayers
Decatur
Kent to Host Big Street Fair This August Eve
The town of Kent plans a street fair on August 12 13 and 4 with transformed thoroughfares for a carnival atmosphere. Attendees are urged to dress in costume to heighten curiosity for visitors. Matthias Trean will exhibit rattlesnakes while an orchestra provides music for dancing evenings.
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Kent
Mathias Trean
Catholic parish in Black Rock to get new church building
Parishioners of St. Ann's parish in Black Rock plan a new permanent basement and Romaneque styled super structure to replace the portable chapel now used. The basement will seat about 700 with the super-structure accommodating more, and the project aims to finish the upper church later without interrupting services. Plans by William Schrmidt, bids to be received this week, with construction to begin soon beside the present church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Ann’s Ho Cathelye
Brewster St. Black Rock
F. J Ford
Weing
John J. Nilan
Hartford
William Schrmidt
St. Anne's
North End Spring Declared Unfit by City Health Officer
City Health Officer Dr William H Coon condemned a spring of water off Quarry street near Beechmont avenue and North Main street as unfit for drinking after an illness in a neighborhood child. Analysis shows polluted water likely to cause typhoid. source and landowner unknown.
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City Health
William H. Coon
Quarry Street
Beechmont Avenue
North Main Street
Board of Health
Woota
Health Department
Sore Throats Puzzle Guilford Physicians
In Guilford August 11 APD doctors investigate a sore throat outbreak. Dr Knowlton from the state health department aids in diagnosis. Three deaths traced to sore throat illness occur in New Haven institutions. Several others remain seriously ill as local physicians respond with additional help.
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Guilford
APD
New Haven Hospital
Arthur Enka
Grace Hospital
New Haven
Knowlton
Squalls Force Out Swimmers in Channel Effort
The Channel thwarted two hopeful crossers Mime Jane Sion of France and Omer Perrault of Canada who started from Cane Or at 10-05 last night, braving heavy seas and rain squalls until forced to abandon toward Dover. Clare Belle Barrett of New Rochelle plans a Sunday restart and Lillian Cannon of Baltimore a Monday attempt aiming to beat Gertrude Ederle's 4 hour 31 minute record. Ishak Helmy and Georges Michel dismissed shark reports, noting dogfish instead. Tiderie travels to Eliskien to visit a grandmother as rivals await today’s luncheon in Calais.
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Jane Sion
Omer Perrault
Gertrude Ederle
Tiderie
Channel Henx
Calais
Eliskien
Stuttgart
Germany
Ishak Helmy
Georges Michel
France
Dog Fish
Birthday party honors Ingrid Delfs tenth birthday
Ingrid Delfs of Pembroke District celebrated her tenth birthday at her parents home with games and refreshments. A Sunday School picnic is planned August 19 at Ball Pond, and registrars of voters meet August 13 for enrollment or transfer. Many residents and visitors are noted in town happenings and visits.
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New Fairfield
Ingrid Delfs
Pembroke
District
Helen Johnson
Illen Delfs
Alice Peck
Laura Morgan
Helen Guetz
Helen Soenenger
Auster Peck
Richard Delfs
Hubert Morgan
Balla Pond
Connecticut
Ruth Raffles
Clara Peck
Myrtle Carpenter
Jennie Teck
Emule
Emma
Pheda Stieber
Marion Osborne
Danbury
Balls Pond
Daniel Berow
Smalley
Althea Pugsley
Ramond Smalley
Irving Gerow
Peach Lake
Ruth Sanford
Nathan Bostwick
Lew Milford
Frank Mixa
Ames
Iowa
Loy Wiidman
Charles Stegman
Dorothy Stegman
Lewis Wells
Stratford
Mulkeever
Bethel
Kenneth Joyce
Helen
Kenneth
Harriet Peck
Levi Peck
Bear Mountain Bridge
Storm King Highway
Ernest Slate
Violet Slate
New York City
Isabel Wallace
Willis Jolveeya
Hrewster
Andrew Particelli
Kent
Arthur Disbrow
Walter Howe
Cornelia Towe
Manleystle
K. J. Peck
Bertha Mallory
New Milford
Gewin Pugsley
Minnie Pugsley
Lewis Disbrow
Misa
Lois Disbrow
Striefs
Frank Lawrencea
New York
Frank Brown
Mies
Jane Warings
New Jersey
Jennie Post
Carl Johnson
Postponement of Legions Visit to Paris Debated
Washington August 1. The proposed Paris trip for 26 000 World War veterans next year is a key issue at the American Legion national convention in Philadelphia October 9 to 11. The Paris meeting is scheduled for 1927 as announced by White House leaders, though some members question the venture due to anti American expressions in Paris and prefer waiting until the situation cools.
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Washington
Paris
American Legion
Philadelphia
White Legion Headquartry
Legion
Overseas Doughboys Excursion Date To Be Fixed At Convention
The men formerly in the doughboys and their families await the overseas trip plan with the exact date to be set at the forthcoming convention. Delegates may resend the resolution or postpone action.
Trolley Employees Leave for Stamford Outing
Nearly 40 workers from Congress Street car barns depart this morning for Hallowe'en Park near Stamford with families. Four cars will carry men, women and children to the seaside park for a day of picnics and events. About 25 Westport and 50 Norwalk division employees join, featuring athletic contests and an afternoon baseball game. Connecticut Company band of 60 will provide music during the ride and at the park.
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Congress Street
Connecticut
At & O'Clock
Hallowe'en Park
Stamford
Seashore Pleasure Park
Westport
Norwalk
Old Heart Balm Suit Revived in Fight Over Will
In St Louis federal court dated August 11, AP reports breach of promise filings 49 years old against William Edenborn, a Louisiana railroad magnate who died last May at 78 leaving a 378,000,000 estate. Four nieces and nephews seek court to bar Mrs Sophie Met farmer from pursuing her daughter’s share in Circuit Court. The suit cites Miss Fida Dettig claiming Edenborn broke a promise to marry and fathered her child then three. An accompanying affidavit asserts the child is Mrs Meyer’s child.
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HT. Louis
William Endenborn
Louisiana
Counse
Edenborn
Sophie Metfarmer
Gumba
St. Louis County
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Raybestos CO
Phillips Milk of
Magnesia
Phillips
Pullman
Black Rock
St. Ann’s Church
North End
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Rex Fallowsship
Guilford Physicians
Ommer Perrault
Rockwell & Co
Thrift
Hoover
Chambray
America
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