Hartford Gasoline Price Probe Opens With Heated Exchange
Hartford authorities begin an official inquiry into gasoline pricing amid claims of industry discrimination. Alderman Hol Haek leads a committee with representatives from Texaco Standard Oil Dixie Milling and others as officials press for answers on uniform pricing and competition impacts.
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Hartford
New England
Hol- Haek
Cander
Texas Company
Wet Oil Company
Standard Je Company
Dixie Milling Sta Fors
Atlantic Company
David L. Nair
Samuel Klolsky
New Britain
Ludlow
Hurling
F See
Dixis
Mr. Ludlow
Hereford Railway shareholders plan stock sale
Shareholders meeting in Sherbrooke Quebec yesterday voted to cancel the existing lease with the Maine Central and Hereford Railway and to consider selling their stock. The Maine Central may take over the line but details on the sale price or terms were not disclosed.
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Bherbrooke
Que
Hereford Railway Company
Mine Central
Real Hobo Wanders Into Bridgeport On One Night Stop
A dusty, dilapidated hobo pauses on Main Street steps near a Bridgeport theatre. He reports 35 years on the road across 48 states, finds Bridgeport lively but noisy, and plans to continue his wanderings after a brief urban impression. The encounter ends with him departing for the freight yards.
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Bridgeport
TelogYam
Priviler
Main Street
Miss Saippi
Q Ravity
Liverpool
States
W. Marsh Freed From Bankruptcy
W. Marsh, once with Bridgeport Land and Title Co and now with Russell Allen Russell Insurance, Hartford, was discharged from bankruptcy by Referee John Keogh despite Stratford Trust Co opposition. Debts totaling about $30,000 were noted with no assets. delays centered on a typewriter patent venture.
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Ditford W. Marsh
Bridgeport Land and Title Co
Russell, Allen & Russell
Hartford
John Keogh
Stratford Trust Co
Marsh
Soecal
Keogh
Goddard
Old Bridgeport Trust Co
Meana
Nota
Withdrawals Reach Million for Florida Land Investments
Bridgeport bankers report over 1,000,000 withdrawn from local deposits this year as investors pull funds to buy Florida real estate. Parkers and Realtors note unprecedented activity and many locals speculate on fortunes in southern property.
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Bridgeport
Florida
Parkers
Lfe Times
Families to stay in country as husbands surrender
Two Italian American men, Joseph Zarrella and Joseph Bellavite, surrendered to police after threats of deportation for their families amid a stabbing case that claimed Alexander Ladusky. The women and children faced hardship, with aid and rent issues lingering in the tenement district as neighbors noted charitable help and wage struggles.
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Italy
Joseph Zarrella
Hallett Street
Joseph Bellavite
Goodwin Street
Alexander Ladusky
Jackson Avenue
Stratford
Zarrella
Bellavito
Harry A. Goldstein
Luciano Zeffino
Hamilton
Melite
Port Chester Readies Historic Marathon Event
Port Chester prepares for a landmark cross country marathon tied to the Merchants Manufacturers Exposition and Knights of Columbus Silver Jubilee. Olympic and top marathon runners join local clubs led by Big Bill Kennedy for a first of its kind ethics convention. Prizes include bronze figures, silver cups, and a top trophy from the Chamber. entries close October 6.
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Port Chester
Kennedy
Wiliam Co
Texans complain of excessive small arms shipment rates
Washington August 19 Complaints that rates on 24 shipments of small arms ammunition from Bridgeport to Texas points via water from New York to Galveston were excessive are not justified. Examiner R G Taylor of the Interstate Commerce Commission recommended the Commission dismiss the case filed by a group of Texan merchants who alleged the rates were excessive compared with Shreveport Louisiana Oklahoma and Arkansas cities.
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Washington, D. C
Bridgeport
Tesas Ponty
New York
Galveson
R. G. Taylor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texagransware Merchante
Shreveport la
Oklaoma
Arkansas
Warrants Continued In City Court In Local Crackdown
In City court today the cases of Joseph Miller and Nick Dizenzio, both detained on $200 bonds, were continued until Friday as part of the ongoing local crackdown. Two additional defendants, among seventeen named in the operation, were also held.
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Joseph Miller
Warren Street
Nick Dizenzio
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Frobe
W. Marsh
New Jersey
Haif
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Luci
Smith=Murray Co
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Pairfeld Ave
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Batiste and
Nainsock
The
Smith-Murray vCa
G. W. Fairchild & Sons
Stationery of
Tom Holyoke
Mass
Mt. Tom
Holyoke
Northampton
Kennilworth Castle
Orton
Gorton Pen Fisheries Co., Ltd
Gloucester
Maia
Gorton
Newngland Conservatory OF Music
George W. Chadwick
Boston
Department of Public School Music
Conservatory
Ralph L. Flanders
Newspapreh Rihive
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