New West End Branch Library Opens Around March
Bridgeport plans a March 1 occupancy for the West Branch library at State street and Fairfield avenue Mountain Grove street. The Colonial style building cost about 75000, with Leonard Asbetin as architect and William Martin and Long as general contractors. The library expects to house over 16090 books and aims to surpass prior records as total volumes loaned reach toward 41,000,000 this year.
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Bridgeport
State Street
Fairfield Avenue
Mountain Grove Street
Leonard Asbetin
Wiliam Martin
Long
Chicago
Henry N. Sanborn
School Head to Speak at Annual Teachers Meet in Hartford
Bridgeport officials report Superintendent E. Riverett Cortright departed for Hartford to address the Connecticut State Teachers Association on School Health Service. He will not stay for the full three days, aiming to be back by Saturday morning. teachers in Bridgeport had been urged to arrange substitutes, though none applied by closing yesterday.
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E. Riverett Cortright
Hartford
Connecticut State Teachers’ Association
Cortright
Brigeport
Bridgeport
Kid Moran Arrested on Non-Support Charge
Police trace Sam Dorkin known as Kid Moran to Troy, WN.C. under arrest on non support charge. He allegedly abandoned his wife and two children after disappearing from his home at 147 Steuben Street last December 11, with the Missing Persons bureau pursuing the case.
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Wifs
Sam Dorkin
Kid Moran
Troy
WN. C
Bureau of Missing Persons
Steuben, Strest
Debaters Enter League In WesLe yan Triangular Contest
Vacancy in the Wes leyan Triangular Debate allows Bridgeport High to join New Haven and Hartford Highs for the annual Wesleyan Alumni cup. Each school fields affirmative and negative teams to argue the Bonus Bill vetoed by President Warren G Harding.
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Wesleyan
New Britain High
Bridgeport High School
New Haven
Hartford
Wesleyan Alumni Association
Bridgeport
Theodora Schwartz
Emerson Cooper
Joseph Donnelly
Carroll Meeks
Moris Hoffman
Rudolph Peterson
Joseph Bernstein
Alex Fraynberger
State Senate rejects hospital appropriation bills
Hartford Feb 8 special from the state capital reports the Senate and House rejecting hospital funding measures. Bridgeport $50,000 and St. Vincent's $25,000 grants were turned down, with hospital needs folded into the general appropriation bill. Other bills on Milford Norwalk Danbury hospitals and local waterway naming were also rejected or amended.
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Hartfoad
Bridgeport Hospital
St. Vincent's Hospital
Senate
Committee On Appropriations
Rodgers
New London
State Board of Finance
House
Milford
Norwalk
Danbury
Sons of the American Revolution
Housatonic River
Stevenson
Humphrey's Lake
Buckley
Judiciary Committee
Fairfield
Committee On Constitutional Amendments
Trust Co officials to attend mid-winter meeting
The fourth mid-winter conference and annual banquet will be held at the Waldorf Astoria New York next Thursday. Attending from Bridgeport Trust Company are H L Morehouse H B Merwin Norman Gaynor Robert Goddard F G Hall and Charles Bitzer with Ellsworth Brown from Morris Flan Ho Bia Diristin and Walter Goddard from the Birattordghrest Company.
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United States
Waldorf- Astoria
New York
Hill
Astor Gallery
Bridgeport Trust Company
H. L. Morehouse
H. B. Merwin
Norman Gaynor
Robert Goddard
F. G Hall
Charles Bitzer
Bridgeport Grammar Schools Register 512 Pupils
Five hundred twelve new pupils enrolled in Bridgeport grammar schools for the second semester after a canvass by the School Board. Enrollment will continue until tonight. no forecast on final numbers. In Seattle a man believed he was Harding and women wonder what the next craze will be.
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Bridgeport Grammar Schools
Seattle
Harding
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Theodore Schwartz
Smithe Murray
Cameo Records
Buckingham
Foundoney
March St
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
State St
Bridgeport Savings Bank
S. W. Cor
Main & State Sts
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