Freeing of Atom Energy Sparks Warnings and Hopes
In Williamstown chemists discuss releasing atomic energy as a potential boon or ruin. Visionaries predict discovery within five years with risks of misuse. Sir Frederick Soddy cites vast untapped tidal and terrestrial energy while warning that power may be misused rather than wisely harnessed.
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Williamstown
Mass
Institute of Partition Todas
Trajan
United Metres
Federickh
Maglish
Mikewise
Pomillo
New York City
Pomilly
Frederick Soddy
Italy
Frederick
Sahara Desert
Government civil service rolls shrink after WWI
Washington reports the federal civil service declined from 435,057 in 1916 to 480,947 men and 79,758 women employed by June 30, with 85,805 men and 25,608 women in the District of Columbia. The 4,030 net reduction in the fiscal year follows the wartime peak and Armistice era cutbacks.
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Washington
Smith
Columbia
Married Twice Unfit to Marry Again Says Man in Morcuster Case
Charles Flbey of Morcuster mass claims in probate court that his two marriages render him insane and unable to consent to further unions. He asserts his first wife May Corinne Chilips was incompetent to wed, had prior marriage, and no divorce was granted, while his second marriage to Gladys M Wilson occurred without proper separation or divorce from the first wife. The petition notes the first marriage date in October 1921 and the second in September 1927, with unclear addresses.
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Morcuster
Charles A Flbey
Tagane
Owas
May Corinne Chilips
Thin Clivy
Skowheran
Maine
Gladys M. Wilson
Cambridge
Freight Steamer Hits Lightship at Old Lyme
The freight steamer Boston from Providence struck the Cornfield Shoal lightship off the Connecticut River mouth Friday night. The lightship was reported undamaged and remained in position with its lights burning.
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Old Lymm
Cornfield Shoal
Connecticut River
Long ‘s+ vand Sound
Boston
Providdence
R. I
New York
Advertising Club Plans Season of Social Events
The Advertising club of Bridgeport laid preliminary plans for its annual October dinner dance at the Stratfield hotel yesterday noon selecting Edwin J. Enoch of Welditch Brothers Manufacturing Company as general chairman. A meeting next Tuesday noon at the Stratfield will finalize committees and personnel while Wallis Stevenson announced a strong speaker lineup for fall. Summer meetings focus on member problems and plans for rents to be undertaken during the year.
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Advertising Club of
Bridgeport
Stratfield Hotel
Edwin J. Enoch
Welditch Brothers Manufacturing Company
Advertising Club
Stratfield
Furiher
Wallis Stevenson
Farragut Sailor Dies at Age 72 in Middletown
James Farragut sailor aged 72 dies at St Francia hospital. Born in New York City he spent years in Middletown, served aboard Admiral Farragut's flagship and later the Navy. Survived by widow seven children and three grandchildren. John F Palmer district game warden dies from injuries after last spring auto crash.
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Wim Card James
Zgets
Asa
Bar
United States Payy
Shel
St Francia’ Hospital
New York City
Dune
Ivera
Navy
Farragut
Mansfield Post
Middletown
Palmer
John F. Taman
Official declines to act against Still Partsm an Official
Chicago August 17 district attorneys today release the report that their offices planned wholesale action against merchants selling stills and liquor paraphernalia. No move to bring these men before the grand jury is contemplated, and no conference with H W Yellowley is planned.
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Chicago
Lady Ba Win A. Qivon
Fleales
H.W. ¥Ellowies
Yelowley
Dietz Reports Florida Recovery Amid Real Estate Cooling
Rotary club hears Carl Dietz discuss Florida’s post boom stability noting conservative policies and bank prudence. R M Fames recalls Maine trip while Mercletx West Coast Unaffected comments on state conditions. Dietz cites mortgage trends, road building push, and steady investment from Middle West farmers driving growth.
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Rotary Club
Stratfield Center
Carl ¥. Dietz
Florida
R. M. Fames
Maine
Call Diets
Mr. Hames
Mercletx
Dietz
Floani
Plonda
Dietzald
St. Petersburg
Lifer escapes at Illinois prison in Statesville case
Clarence Langerd, thirty nine, serving a life term for murder, escaped last night from the new penitentiary in Illinois. Authorities believed he hid inside the walls at first, but he was not found after a long search. Several months earlier, other inmates escaped under a deputy warden, with only one recaptured.
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Statesville
Clarence Langerd
Langerd
Two Injured in City Auto Crashes report
Two persons sustained injuries in separate automobile crashes reported by the Traffic Bureau yesterday. Fred G. Campbell age twenty two of 833 Main Street was thrown through a windshield on Boston Avenue near Lakeview Cemetery, suffering a scalp laceration. Louis P. Hamel of 72 Colorado Avenue was struck at Fairfield Avenue and Water Street by a car driven by Walter C. McGrimw of 409 Benham Avenue. his injuries were minor.
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Traffe Bureau
Fred G. Campbell
Main Street
Boston Avenue
Lakeview Cemetery
Louis P. Hamel
Colorado Avenue
Fairfield Wavenue
Water Street
Walter C. McGriaw
Benham Avenue
Silvermine Artist Seeks Foreclosure in Norwalk Court
Frank T. Huteins, a noted Norwalk artist, files for foreclosure in Superior court against Ruth A. Hawthorne. He holds a $20,000 mortgage note on Hawthorne’s Silver Mine property. The note dated March 1824 evidences a $23,600 loan and alleges default for nonpayment, seeking possession of the property.
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Frank T. Huteins
Norwalk
Ruth A. Hawthorne
Silvermine
Afton
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Twige
Worcester
Farragut Sailor
Gaye Warden
Municipal Filling Stations, Inc
Crescent Ave
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Congress St. Bridge
Eames
Middle West
Juetz
Lifer
Illinois
Smith=Murray Co
Birfield Ave
Dee
Dr. Scholl
Scholls Zinopa
Sweimd
Sidney
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Barnum
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