Opening assignments set for city schools fall term
Superintendent Carroll R Rest announced teacher placements after term end and Reed publicized changes in school lines effective with September 7 opening. A portable school will replace the fire damaged Palisade unit while Beardsley Madison and Hallen buildings welcome new facilities. Lincoln School adds a ninth grade and eight week term plan. 1927 Bridgeport Normal grads receive postings at Beardsley Hallen Read McKinley and other schools with 12 graduates still unplaced.
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Carroll R. Rest
Aistries
Reed
Beardstey
Nethan Fale
Lincoln School
Warren Harding High School
Palisade Avenue
Bridgeport Normal School
Josephine Kane
Bedrosiey
Grace Vocella
Hallen School
Edith Rosendluh
Madison School
Mary Connor
Hallen
Madeline Hanley
Longfellow
School staffing reshuffles and district reorganization announced
The district lists new teachers at multiple schools across Columbus and Madison, adds three Central High instructors and four Warren Harding High teachers, and reallocates students to relieve Jefferson school congestion. Seventh and eighth grades are moved from Jefferson to Prospect or Roosevelt, with further boundary changes for north of State street students.
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Veronica Coulter
Read
Mary Healy
Columbus
Laura Huenerberg
Nathan Hale
Katherine Anson
Black Rock
Helen Exior
Mcinley
Edith Fitzgerald
Kathleen Oliver
Madison
Central High School
Warren Harding High School
Central
Elaine Cooper
Portland
Oregon
Verna Swisher
Somerset
Kentucky
Hugh Barron
Pittsfield
Mass
Warren Harding
Regina Randall
Brockton
William Dworski
New Haven
Merri! Doolittle
Corry
Helen Warren
Leicester
Jefferson School
South End
Reed
Jefferson
Prospect
Railroad Avenue
Myrtle Avenue
Roosevelt School
Roosevelt S School
Seaside Village
Roosevelt
State Street
West Avenue
Lieutenant Virelli Arrests Driver in Westport Incident
State police Lt Frank Virelli arrested Harry Taub of Hewlett after a near collision on the Westport Post Road. Taub was given a summons to appear in Westport Town Court. James Sullivan of New York was later charged by state police with reckless driving after a collision on the Post Road. Sullivan posted a $50 bond for later court appearance. In Easton, James L Edwards of Westport was charged for illegal lights after a two vehicle crash with Joseph Sabo and officers Burns and Fratino summoning him to Justice Hill on August 31.
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Frank Virelli
Westport
Virelli
Harry Taub
Hewlett, L 1
James Sullivan
West Ninety Birth Street
New York
Charles Quigley
Post Road
Sullivan
Money Shine
East Eightieth Street
Salvatore Fratino
Easton
Fiiece Joseph Sabo
Osborn Street
Bridgeport
Eugene Burns
James L. Edwards
Main Street
Sabo
Edwards
Joseph Hill
Remarkable new remedy Prox for piles advertised
An advertisement promotes Prox as a natural pile treatment. It claims preventing vessel rupture, easing movement, reducing itching and bleeding, and restoring normal condition after the first day. Available at multiple local drugstores and pharmacies.
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J. J. Hartigan
Leverty Drug Companible Drug Stores
James Palmer Porter
Scharton'’s Pharmacy
Ars Pharmacy
O. H. Smith
I Ady
Washington G O Chief Says State Supports Hoover
A Washington G O chief reports that state support for Hoover is strong as a coast delegation led by Senator Jones of Washington seeks approval from President Coolidge for a vast Columbia river basin reclamation project. The group, arriving by automobile, aims to press for timely action and a potential extra Senate session to clear the Smith and Ware election contest.
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Rapid City
S&s. D
Associated Press
Columbia River Basin
Coolidge
Senator Jones
Washington
Jones
United States
Senate
Ware
Congress
Hoover
American Mining Congress
Goollige
Bingham
Con Henticut
Senator Curtis
Kansas
Newell
Nisland
Pinch bar snaps injures worker at General Electric plant
John Doolan aged 31 of Pembroke Street suffered a compound fracture of the right leg when a pinch bar he used to move a heavy wire roll snapped in two at the General Electric factory. He received first aid at the plant and was taken by Emergency hospital ambulance to Bridgeport hospital. The accident occurred about 7 30 PM in the shipping room during overtime.
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John Doolan
Pembroke Street
General Electric Company
Bridgeport
Sydney Mooney
Doolan
General Shipping
Lynch Arrested for Drunken Driving on South Park
Thomas M. Lynch twenty eight of 567 Seaview avenue was stopped by Motorcycle Officer William Jaggers for driving his automobile while under the influence on South Park avenue. Lynch endangered other motorists as observed by the patrolling officer and was placed under arrest.
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South Park Avenue
Thomas M. Lynch
Seaview Avenue
William Jaggers
Lynch
Returning Home From Portland Maine Aboard A Steamer
The writer describes travel from Vermont and New Hampshire into Portland Maine during Labor Day week, meeting Harle at the station, shopping for school clothes, and choosing Knollwood Stratfield as a homesite. They tour Lowell and Portland sites, note Casco Bay, and reminisce about Longfellow’s birthplace, then sail to New York. They anticipate home shopping at D M Reads and Steiger Poole Co Dollar Day, with plans to resume school prep and family life.
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Harle
Wakting
Portland
New York
Melys& Co
Steiger-Poole Co
Theft of Jewels Is Perfect Grime Police Admit
Southampton Aug 20 By Associated Press absence of a single clue leads police to describe the crime as the perfect robbery in the disappearance of 8100,000 in jewels belonging to Mrs James Hastings Snowden wife of a wealthy financier Investigators think an unknown Boston Billy Monahan and Barry gang may be involved Noel Scaffa a private detective who solved similar cases was called in He has past indictments for attempting to recover stolen gems and has recovered gems from several other high profile cases earlier work included gems stolen from Mrs Stedman Bent and from the Ritz Carlton hotel in Philadelphia
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Southampton
Associated Press
Jimmy-Mark
James Hastings Snowcen
Boston
Billy’ Monahen and
Barry
Monahan
Sang Sing
Noel
Scaffa
James P. Donahue
Hotel Plaza
Snowden
Sam Layton
Bendue
Willam W. Willcock
Oyster Bay
Sands Point
L. J. Hoe
Cosden
Stedman Bent
Overbrack
Ritz Carlton
Philadelphia
Missionary expelled after questions on resurrection belief
Rev. Walter A. Hearn, 32, former Seochow University professor, says he was dropped from Methodist Episcopal Church, South missions for denying the physical resurrection. He told a mission board committee he holds a spiritual view of the resurrection while remaining a China Conference member. The expulsion leaves his ministerial status intact.
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Nashville
Tonn
Associated Press
Walter A. Hearn
Seochow University
China
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Wig. c
Board of Missions
W. N. Aineworth
Hearn
Henrn
China Conference
Auto Tire Thieves Active in Surrounding Towns
Police in Bridgeport and nearby towns warn of a tire thief gang active over the past week. Four stores robbed in Ansonia Shelton Derby and New Haven with several thousand dollars worth of tires taken. All officers mobilized to track the suspects.
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Bridgeport
Game Gang
Ansonia
Shelton
Derby
New Haven
City Employee Injured While On Duty
Harold Plumb twenty four of 485 Broad Street a city employee sustained eleven stitches and two finger lacerations at the Emergency Hospital last night He was treated by Dr Sydney Mooney An accident caused him to lose sight of his right eye earlier in the night urging alert for gang activity in the area
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Harold Plumb
Broad Street
Sydney Mooney
Man says he took poison in suicide attempt in Buffalo
A mentally unbalanced man identified as Anthony Ogisposenik of Buffalo was taken to Hillside hospital after saying he drank poison to end his life. He was found at Pembroke and Hallam streets by Fatrolman Robert Dunnigan and told Dr. Chester Hab erin he asked a drug clerk for something to kill a dog. No test of the poison was found.
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Hillside
Anthony Ogisposenik
Buffalo
Pembroke and
Hallam Streets
Robert Dunnigan
Chester B. Hab
Erin
Injury from broken glass cuts William Cousley
William Cousley aged 29 of 80 Columbia Street was treated at 1 St. Vincent's hospital last night for a badly lacerated left wrist after being cut by broken glass. He initially sought treatment at the Emergency hospital but was sent to St. Vincent's after aid was given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cousley
Columbia Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
St. Vincent's
Georgetown Notes From August Readers Add Small Local News
Georgetown residents report summer travel and home updates. Mr and Mrs William Hun and daughter Betty Hunter return from two weeks in the White Mountains while Mr Hunter resumes his Gilbert and Bennett duties. Various locals move or visit relatives including Axel Johnson relocating to the Lutheran parsonage and Gustave Kramer’s newborn daughter in Weston Road. Seventeen Connecticut Volunteer Association holds its sixty fifth reunion at Roton Point park with few members due to stormy weather.
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Georgetown
William Hun
Betty Hunter
White Mountains
Hunter
Gilbert and Bennett
Halder Johnson
Crofut and Knapp
Norwalk
Frank Johnson
Axel Johnson
Fritz Hansen
Smith
Portland Avenue
Z Mon Bend Place
Martin Engdahl
New Yort
City
Wilfred Hughes
Gilbert and Bennett Mill
Stanford Hospital
Gustave Kramer
Weston Road
Edward Pinkney
Redding Road
Connecticut
Roton Point Park
Pinkney
Cherles A. Jennings
North Math
Swallows Medicine Death Attempt Fails in Bridgeport
Mary Puidak, 17, Sylvan Avenue, reportedly attempted suicide by ingesting throat wash with high argyrol content. She was rushed to Bridgeport Hospital, stomach pumped, discharged after showing no signs of ill effects. Domestic trouble cited as motive. ambulance called, Dr. Sydney Mooney assisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Puidak
Sylvan Avenue
Bridgeport Hospital
Sydney Mooney
Gas tragedy claims Miss Mertha Nagle in Southington
Miss Mertha Nagle a 28 year old woman suffocated when a heating heater tube detached from a wall jet allowing gas to escape in her room. She had been employed by the Aetna Life Insurance Co in Southington and died yesterday morning.
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Southington
Mertha Nagle
Miss Nagle
Aetna Life Insurance Ca
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