Bridgeport Harbor Features In Sunday Post Serial
A tintype voyage from Bridgeport Harbor travels through Antarctica in the Golden Days series. Fannie Hurst writes a winter themed tale titled What is it That is the Farmers Favorite Enjoyment. The issue also includes science features on why people like bones hair cinders and pickles. Adela Rogers St Johns offers a Hollywood love tale. Comics fiction and puzzles fill the magazine section alongside Will Rogers Leacock Don Herold Mantle and McIntyre humor columns. Winning letters and Evening High school Current Topic contest add local interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Hollywood
Will Rogers
Stephen Leacock
Don Herold
Burns Mantle
O. O. McIntyre
Pigeon Flying Popular Civilian Sport Expands West
Far West pigeon racing grows from military roots into a civilian pastime along the Pacific coast. Clinics and clubs loom across Salem to Oakland with 709 to 1,000 birds expected. Col. Cowan foresees wartime use and night flight training advancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pigrona
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
War Tome
Hanon
Pacific
Salem
Gré
Oakland
San Jonaun
California
West
Pocatello
Ida
Qaklang
Signal Corps
Thea
Mtountain
Arthur S. Cowan
Ninth Corps Area Headquarters
Panama
Rossfield
Calif
Honolulu
United States
America
Germany
England
War Department
Berlin
Devon Improve ment association awards bid for club house work
At a meeting of the Devon Improve ment association bid committee Sullivan and Bettany of Devon were awarded the contract for finishing the upstairs room of the club house on Bridgeport avenue as the lowest tarze bid. A slate of officers for the association to be presented March 1914 includes president not named vice president Howard F Stone secretary Lewis T Baldwin treasurer J J Toomey financial secretary Henry M Hanks assistant financial secretary Walter Smith house committee chairman Sammer Hoffman entertainment committee chairman J Harmidater membership chairman Lester Nutter. Nominations may be made from the floor next Monday night. Joseph Doulin visited from Waterbury to Myrtle Beach but slipped on ice and sprained his wrist while waiting for a trolley car on the Naugatuck avenue bridge. The Ladies Aid Society tea at Devon Union church drew a larger-than-expected attendance with Mrs William Sullivan Mrs Charles Root Mrs H S Riddell and Mrs George H Madden hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devon
Devon Improvement Association
Lewis C. Baldwin
Bridgeport Avenue
Sullivan and Bettany
Howard F. Stone
Lewis T. Baldwin
J. J. Toomey
Stenry M. Hanks
Walter Smith
Ssimer Hoffman
J. Harmidater
Lester Nutter
Joseph Doulin
Waterbury
Myrtle Beach
Naugatuck Avenue
Ladies Aid Society
Devon Union Church
Wiliam Sullivan
Charles Root
H. 5. Riddell
George H. Madden
Turko Russian treaty approved by Turkish assembly
The Turkish National Assembly at Angorg unanimously approved the Turco Russian treaty signed in Paris in December. The three year guarantee pact states neither side will attack the other and vows neutrality if either is attacked, while both refrain from joining any unfavorable compact against the other.
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London
Angorg
Paris
Turkey
Russia
Redskin Village Planned in New York Park
New York February 12 A proposed recreation of an Unami Delaware village near Inwood Hill Park would house modernly housed guides in period dress to lead visitors. Reginald Bolton and Francis Gallatin back the project which would feature birch bark huts, stone tools, and an automobile park along 207th Street with a recreated colonial Hudson River travel hub atmosphere.
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New York
Indiana
Manhattan
Tawood Hill
Unitedtates
Reginald Pelham Bolton
Francis D. Gallatin
Dyckman Street
Spuyten Duyvil
Wil
Cold Spring Hollow
Spuyten Duyvil Creek
Inwood Hill
Indian Life
Inwood Hill Park
Ranachatua
Spurten Duyvil
Harlem
Dobbs Ferry
Pelham
Bronx
Tolton
New York Historicalavy
Museum of Natural History
City Historical Club
Teh
Political writer dead at Albany station
Reginald Wilson, political writer and legislative correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune, died suddenly in Albany Union Station this afternoon while about to board a train to New York. He was prominent in state politics and journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Reginald Wilson
New York Herald-Tribune
Union
New York
Spelling Champion Martin Healy Jr Wins Gold Watch
Feb 12 report of Martin J Healy Jr winning a parochial school spelling championship at St Bernard s with a victory over William O Brien after 100 boys spelled down Healy credits his memory method not formal study Healy says he photographs words in his mind and recalls their printed form to spell them correctly while stressing he does not study spelling regularly though he reads and looks up unfamiliar words.
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Martin J. Healy, Jr
New York
Martin
St. Bernard's
School of St
Tle
Reverend Warren to Speak on John Bunyan in Easton
Easton February 12 Special Rev Howard B Warren pastor of Center Street and Jesae Lee Methodist churches will speak Sunday on John Bunyan as the fifth in his series on famous Johns in History An Ipworth League service will be held at the Lee Methodist church in the evening The Boy Scouts meet weekly in the Methodist hall Tuesday night The Board of Relief will revise the tax abstract Monday February 15 from 10 am to 3 pm Schools closed by snowstorm High school bus suspended due to travel conditions Mrs George Gregory returns from visit Mr and Mrs Clark Gruman announce birth of daughter Margaret Grandmother Mrs Amelia Grumman Mrs Alec Allen ill Meals and visits noted among local families Fann Bureau meeting pending at the home of Dr D D Gillette.
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Stown
Walter T. Aikans
Wethersfield
Wic
Hartford
Gaston
George Gregory
Urban Tyack
Cheshire
Clark Gruman
Spokane
Washington
Margaret
Amelia Grumman
Pollard Sol
Royd
Bridgeport
Philip Iinley
Stratfield
Teresa Porter
Georges Reid
George Reid
Fairfield
Leroy Turner
Dora
John Z. Mellen
Fred Candee
Investigate Two Brooklyn Deaths In New York
Police reopen inquiry into the February deaths of Nicola Vitacco and niece Piloména Vitacco in Brooklyn. An undertaker noted marks on the woman’s skull, prompting questions of possible murder linked to a January gas accident and a hurried arrival of a high niece found unconscious near cellar stairs.
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New York
Fes
Brooklyn
Nicola Vitacco
Piloména Y Vitacco
Battle Sneek
Mich
Battle Creek
Vilaceo
Fairfield Norwalk School Head 10 Address Banquet Tuesday
Fairfield Norwalk school leaders plan the Father and Son Banquet at First Church of Christ parlor Tuesday February 16 at 7 pm. Reservations via Willamo Burr Walter M Redfield or church office Fairfield 450. Eunola Club to serve supper. committee includes Mrs Biting Dove president and others. Principal speaker will be John, Norwalk schools superintendent, with toasts by Roger Wakeman and A A Saunders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Church of Christ
Assembly
Willam Oo. Burr
Walter M. Redfield
Eunola Club
Mra
Biting Dove
Byron Jersey
John 8. Bridgeman
H. & Riker
Ohn
Norwalk
Roger Wakeman
A. A. Saunders
Ihe
Nelson JF
Roger Ludiowe High School
John Grant
Lincoln
Douglas Volk
National Academy of Designs
Ile
School of “America the Beautiful
Roger Ludlowe
Prublic
Hhonor of Linevin
Southport
Fire Breaks Out at Meriden School
Meriden February 12 AP Fire broke out in the roof of the old North Colony street school house abutting a hor before four hundred pupils reported there this morning. The two story frame building was saved by the prompt work of city firemen who used sleighs and motor apparatus. A defective chimney is blamed for the blaze. Damage not heavy. school to reopen next week. The building had been condemned by state inspectors and officials have recommended a new one.
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Meriden
Two Ask Freedom Hoeback Divorce Action in Superior Court
Frederic Hoeback of Stratford sues for divorce claiming desertion by wife P Porter Hoeback, also of Stratford, who left him in 1921 after a fifteen year marriage. Ira Griffin of Trumbull seeks a divorce from Sarah Butler Griffin of Bridgeport, alleging desertion since 1910 after a marriage begun in 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic Hoeback
Stratford
Superior
P Porter Hoeback
Ira Griffin
Trumbull
Sarah Butler Griffin
Bridgeport
Titer
Turney hosts and Smith sisters visit Bridgeport notes
A Wednesday event was postponed due to poor travel conditions, now planned for March. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Turney recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Her bem Qurney in Shelton. Miss Anna Smith and Miss Elizabeth Smith spent several days in Bridgeport.
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Leroy Turney
Herbem Qurney
Shelton
Anna Smith
Ellizabeth Smith
Bridgeport
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Dorothy Jennings
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