Uneven Hemline Shifts Paris Fashion Tone for Season
Paris fashion reports new lines feature dramatic uneven hems ending at the knee or floor, with varied silhouettes. Chanel wears a tweed skirt and satin blouse aboard a Mediterranean cruise while rumors swirl about a possible engagement to the Duke of Westminster. Jewelry dominates the season, with special gowns pairing with gold belts and ornate stones, though clever imitations meet demand.
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C.F. Bertells C Special Cable Dispatch
Wy Faris
Madame Chanel
Duke of Westminster
Mediterranean
Constantinople
Sem
Chanel
Lanvin
Ganna Valska
Harold F. McCormick
Rue de la ‘Ax
Ram
America
Patou
Preston
Lelong
Master Barbers Gather for Shore Dinner and Address
Fifty members and guests of the Master Barbers association met at the Seven Gables House on Pleasure Beach yesterday afternoon. A dance followed the shore event, with outdoor sports planned or canceled due to melting rain. Guest of honor Mayor Behrens spoke. Benedict Tutoli acted as toastmaster, with contributions from Louie Brioia, John Stein, and Miss Tes Ye Ragga. Attendees included city officials, state and international barbers' leaders, and several presidents and secretaries of local unions.
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Mafter Barbers’ Association
Seven Gables Hore House
Pleasure Beach
Agor F. William Behrens
Benedict
Tes Ye Ragga
Mayor Behrens
Paul Delia
C. G. Cartllano
Hartford
Connecticut Associaion
Vito D'Ursa
En Haven
Antonin Merlino
Indianapolis
Journeymen — Barbers
John T. Stein
Bridgport
Connecticut Ssociation of Journeymen Barbers
Patey Diorio
Journeymen Barbers’ Association of
Bridgeport
Salvatore F. Abriola
E. G.tamberino
William Boda
Togstmaater
Flyers Message to Ex Kaiser Sparks Preflight Turmoil
DESSAU Germany August 14 The Bremen and Europa flights to be trans Atlantic dawn flight stirred excitement as a crediting message for the former Kaiser at Doorn was to be sent Junkers and North German Lloyd officials halted the dispatch arguing the source was irresponsible and most airmen refused to sign the message.
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Dessau
Germany
Associated Press
Bremen
Europa
Costume Parade at Old Mill Green Placed in Summer Program
Friday’s costume parade under Old Mill Green playground supervisors drew 101 costumed paraders representing Russia Spain Poland China Egypt Roumania Hungary Czecho Slovakia Holland Germany Sweden and India. The event featured a derby hat pipe oversized cross and oversized shoes as the funniest costume and was conceived by Dorothy Leckie Anna Robstock Leslie Hickey and John Owen, playground supervisors at Old Mill.
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Old Mill Green
Board of Recreation
Russia
Spain
Poland
China
Egypt
Roumania
Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Holland
Germany
Sweden
India
Dorothy Leckie
Anna Robstock
Leslie Hickey
John Owen
the Old Mill
Hope for tax cut still remains amid flood and Sacco case
A report notes Senator Smoot forecasts tax relief possible if ordinary and unusual appropriations for flood control Boulder Dam and navy are managed. Hapgood disrupts Sacco speech at Hermosa Church. police detain Caragotti after knife found, with bail set at 200. Sacco-Vanzetti hunger strike enters 29th day with hunger and feeding concerns. defense calls condition extremely serious and questions state responsibility.
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Hapgood
Sacco
Washington
Associated Press
Smoot
Senate
Congress
Mississippi
Boulder Canyon
White House
Lord
South Dakota
Utah
Boulder Dam
Mittee
Soap Box Row
Sacco-Vanzetti
Socialist Labor Party
America
Vanzetti
Carrott
Caragotti
Wealthy
Harvard
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Charlestown
Saccott
Vanzett
William Hendry
Rose Sacco
Dedham
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Promse
Asec As
Shooting Victim Santora In Serious Condition After Barber Shop Wounding
Patsy Santora thirty six of 23 Barnum Avenue remained between life and death at St Vincent s hospital after being shot Saturday morning in front of a Hallett street barbershop Police hunt for James Monone a grocer at 104 Hallett believed to be the shooter Rose Dodtona ten from 33 Kelly street was struck by a stray bullet while playing in the street and is resting at Bridgeport hospital Police describe the shooter as a one armed man about five eight blue suit were last seen and the motive remains unclear
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Patsy Santora
Barnum Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
Hillett Street
James Monone
Hallett Oo
Rose Dodtona
Kelly Street
Bridgeport
Santo
Theospital
Santora
Weston Town Sign Stolen Designed by Held Jr
Weston reports the theft of a town sign designed by John Held Jr marking another loss after a prior sign vanished a year ago at the Faston Weston boundary. A sign at Westport Weston boundary was tampered with and an iron brace broken. Held said he clamped the sign tightly, preventing its removal. State Police have been notified.
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Weston
John Held, Jr
Faston-Weston
Westport-Weston
Held Aard
Chiang Kai-Shek Resigns Ending Sixteen-Year Military Career
Chiang Kai Shek retires to private life amid waning confidence and health. He urges Hankow leaders to seize Nanking, mobilize troops across Hunan Hupei and Kiangsi to press the Northern front, and expel Red Kuomintang members, leaving Nationalist affairs uncertain after a 16 year career that began in Canton in May 1926.
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Hankow
Muilteary
Nanking
Kankow
Hunan
Hupci
Kiangsi
Kuomingtang
Chiang Kai-Shek
Canton
Bennington Opens Sesqui Centennial in Vermont
Bennington marks its Sesqui Centennial with wreath laying at the Seth Warner granite memorial by Colonel J W Tiner of St Johnsbury. Memorial services at old First Church and Congregational church feature Reverend Vincent Rath Booth and Governor John E Weeks delivering speeches.
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Bennington
Vermont
Associated Press
Old Bennington
J. W. Tiner
St. Johnsbury
Seth Warner
Warner
Green Mountain
Joan Stark
Frederick Baum
First Church
First Meeting House
Congregational Church
Vincent Ravt Booth
John E. Weeks
Earthquake in Turkestan Kills Fifteen, Injures Twenty-Five
From Fergana to Namangan and surrounding towns in Turkestan reports say fifteen people died and twenty-five were seriously injured after Saturday's earthquake. About 100 houses were destroyed at Namangan, where two tremors were strongest, with further damage in nearby villages and towns.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Fergana
Turkestan
Namangin
Srighboring
Andi
Chile Ships Radical Exiles to Mas Afuera Island
Chile's new government relocates radicals to Mas Afuera, a remote Juan Fernandez island 500 miles at sea, promising self rule and aid until self-sustaining. The plan aims to isolate and guard its exiles while testing utopian governance away from capitalism.
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Newspager Alliance
Que
Chile
Toaney
Mas Afuera
Juan Fernandez
D'Alessandri
Ibanea
I. W. W. Leaters
Amador Tre
Vino Traslavina
Juan Fernandes
Defoe
Mas Afueta
Four Hurt As Auto Hits Parked Truck Near Torrington
Four New Britain men were injured when the automobile they rode in struck a parked truck north of Thomaston. Frank Kurpleck suffered severe head lacerations and a fractured left elbow and was in serious condition at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. Dominic Bactowski had facial lacerations. William Dorson and Anthony Amasacey had minor facial cuts and were treated and discharged. The truck was on the road’s right side. the driver did not see it until too late.
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Torrington
Associated Press
New Britain
Thom
Aseon
Frank Kurpleck
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Dominic Bactowski
William Dorson
Anthony Adam-Racey
Massachusetts crops show mixed improvement in August
Boston August 14. All Massachusetts crops except fruits showed improved conditions per the crop reporting service. Apples were 62 percent good on August 1 with a commercial harvest near 649000 barrels versus 980000 last year.
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Boston
Associated Press
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Crop Reporting Service
Coolidge Jr Quizzed On Miss Trumbull Then Silent
Chicago sources report President Calvin Coolidge’s son John Coplidge on a summer trip to Washington. He spoke briefly about Miss Florence Trumbull and politics, noted plans for Harvard Law after Amherst, and said he hopes to study crime and boxing interests. He dodged questions on his father’s political plans.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Calvin Coolidge
United States
John Coplidge
Black Hills
White House
Crom
Albany
N.Y
Florence Trumbull
Connecticut
Johny
University of Vermont
Harvard Law School
Amherst
Dunols
Coolridge
Secret Service
John
Northwestern
Lindbergh
Washington
Obituaries for Mulligan Snowden Millette and Morehead
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs Catherine Gill Mulligan widow of Owen Mulligan at 25 Orange Street with funeral at Blessed Sacrament Church and burial at St Michael's. Also listed are Elizabeth Snowden wife of Edgay Barnard who died at her daughter’s home with funeral to be held. Peter Millette of Adams Massachusetts with Notre Dame church services. David Hugh Morehead of Stratford who died suddenly at his sister’s home, funeral at Seaview Avenue. and references to other survivors and funeral arrangements in terse local notices.
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Catherine Gil Mulligan
Catherine Gill Mulligan
Owen Mulligan
Orange Street
Mulligan
West End
Eucharistic League
St. Charles’ Church
Third Order of St. Franers
St. Mary's Church
William J. Ryan
Bridgeport
Blessed Sacrament Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Elizabeth Snowden
Edgay Barnard
John F. Deegan
Hanover Street
Edward
Deegan
William
Arthur
Charles Snowden
Yonkers
N. Y
George Snowden
City
Otto Hehn
Andrew Johnston
Frederick Palmer
Deagan
Alexander Alison, Jr
First Presbyterian Church
Peter Millette
Tin Home
Ormoque
Stratford
Notre Dame
Adama
Mass
Misa Georgisma DuPont
Edward Peter Millette
David Hugh Morehead
Aubrey A. Bradley
Seaview Avenue
American Bank and Trust Company
Little Theatre League
Utica
Bisaster
William H. Japson
Bt. Luke's Episcopal Shuren
Lakeview Cemetery
Obituary notices from Monroe and Stratford deaths
Multiple local obituaries outline sudden death of Minnie Frances Gurd in Monroe and deaths of Susan Mace in Shelton Avenue Stratford. Mary Beach Hurd’s daughter Minnie Frances dies after heart attack. Susan Mace dies at 566 Shelton Street with eight children surviving. Mirk Wallis of Stratford dies at Bridgeport hospital aged 56. Services planned at D Ang West, 884 Lafayette Bridgeport. burial at Long Hill cemetery. St John Nep church Stratford. Mountain Grove cemetery. survivors listed with spouses, children, and grandchildren.
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Minnie Frances Gurd
Mary Beach Hurd
Monroe
Edward We Monroe Puneral Services
Ang West, Inc
Lafayette Street
Bridgeport
Long Hill Cemetery
Susan Mace
Shelton Street
Stephen Macej
Julia Goda
John
Joseph
Stephen
Mary
Frank
Irene
Albert Mace
St. Stephen's Lodge
Free Eagle Branch No. 2
St. John's Nep
St. John’s Cemetery
Stratford
Pearl Sanford Becomes Bride of Ralph Harvey
Newtown Aug 1 By special Correspondent A charming afternoon wedding at the Sanford home in Bethlehem united Pearl Belle Sanford and Ralph Starr Harvey of Woodbury Rev Dr Gesner performed the ceremony with many Newtown residents in attendance The bride wore georgette with orange blossoms and carried white roses and Ophelia roses The couple left for Quebec and other points after a wedding luncheon and reception nearby
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Newtown
Joseph B. Sanford
Bethlehem
Pearl Belle Sanford
Ralph Starr Harvey
Woodbury
Richmond H. Gesner
Trinity Church
Brie
Rych
Mond H. Gesner
Guy Harvey
Georgette
Cormiett
Misa Ruth Gerard
Waterbury
Eugene
Salt's Textile Co Cleared of Charges in Unfair Competition Case
Salt's Textile Mills of this city was absolved of charges of unfair competition by U S Judge Edwin S. Thomas in New Haven. Sidney Blumenthal & Co of Shelton had claimed Salt's used the Burundelle name for a fur blanket after Blumenthal's Barundul blanket appeared. The judge ruled the blankets were not sufficiently similar in type or name to prove unfair competition.
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Sidney Blumenthal & Company
Shelton
U. S
Edwin S. Thomas
New Haven
Blumenthal Company
Seit
Blumenthal
Briezeport Company
Thomas
McCoy's Tablets Promised To Restore Youthful Flesh
Advertisements promise McCoy's Tablets will firm sagging flesh and restore a youthful figure. The copy targets underweight individuals, claiming dramatic weight gain and energy after four sixty cent boxes or a dollar bottle, with a guaranteed refund if goals aren’t met. It urges readers to ask for McCoy's Tablets at any drugstore.
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Moony
Reed
All Drug Tx
Americ@s
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Peter Milette
Minnie Frances Turd
Fila Wallis
Mirk
En Wall
Samuel G. Wallis
Lordship Manor
Wallis
Harold R. Hellsworth
James A. Pronovost
August G. Baker
Margherita Lawn
Crown Street
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Pearl Sanford
Ralph Harvey
Salt’s Textile CO
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