First 1923 theft report includes car stolen after chase
The year begins with looting of an automobile and thefts from a market and a confectionery. Earl Bramon reported a stolen car after it refused to stop on Kossuth Street while owners searched hours later. A burglary damaged meat and groceries at Anton Pajewski’s 3 Park Avenue market. Cigars and cigarettes were taken from Rehael Forte’s 250 Seaview Avenue store. An attempted break in at Martin Weisberger’s pawnshop on Water Street failed when intruders were frightened.
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Eaward Bramon
River |Reet
Nichols
Kossuth Street
Mike
Anton Pajewski
Park Avenue
Mr- Rehael Forte
Seaview Avenus
Martin Weisberger
Waterveet
Dry Dock Rates Fall in New York District Survey
Foley chief surveyor of the United States Salvage Association reports dry dock charges in the New York District are now less than one third of wartime gross tonnage fees. The present rate is five cents per gross ton, down eleven cents from the war rate and two cents below the 1913-14 level. The tug James McWiams of New York arrived with two bituminous coal barges destined for Connecticut Company and Goether for United Illuminating. The tug Laura Keeler left New York yesterday with several reefer barges yesterday.
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Foley
United States Salvage Association
New York
Couiny
James McWiams
Blue
Yeserday
Connecticut Company
Goether
United Illuminating “Company
Tsingtao's German to Japanese imprint through years of change
A National Geographic Society bulletin traces Tsingtao in Shantung from a German port to a Japanese influenced city. It details the 1898 German conquest, the 1914 flag’s fall, mass Japanese settlement, and the transformation of streets, docks, schools, and commerce into a Sino-Japanese hub. The piece notes years of strategic rebranding and the port’s enduring global trade links.
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Washington
Db. C
Tsingtao
Kisochow
Japan
Sama
Washington, D. C
Geographic ‘Society
Shantung
China
Kiaochow
Germany
Yamen
Tsingato
Berlin
Hongkong
Lite
America
Tony
Taéingtao
Shanpins
London
New York
Nippon
Railroads Show Big Increase in Operating Income
Washington reports that 137 of 183 class one railroads filed incomplete November 1922 figures with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Total operating income reached 68.46 million, up from 59.71 million a year earlier, while operating revenues rose to 460.41 million, up 2 percent. Expenses climbed to 362.03 million, up 1.14 times from November 1921. Eastern district lines posted net income of 29.48 million on 239.40 million in revenues, with expenses at 195.10 million, up 13.6 percent and 16.6 percent respectively. A stray note adds advice on baking beans cheaply using a small tin oven.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Milford Police Board To Award Patrol Contract
Milford authorities consider a $1,700 appropriation for a new combined police patrol and ambulance unit. The Fire Board meets to discuss the resignation of Department Electrician Clarence Masson. Open forums begin January 7 led by William I Doughty of the American Board of Relief for the Near East. Community meetings and church annual elections follow in Milford through mid January.
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Milford Police Board
Milford
Board of Police Commissioners
Fire Board
Clarence Masson
Lewis F. Stowe
Masson
Ladies Aid Society
Ladies
Aja ‘Society
Bevon Union
Lewis P. Baldwin
W. M. O'Hara
New Haven Avenue
Joseph O’hara
New York Policy Department
Charles Smith
West Main Street
Riverside Reading Circle
Lucy
Ruth Hinsch
John Hinsch
New York
Brooklyn
George Dugan
Maple Avenue
Myrtle Beach
Mary Taylor M
William I. Doughty
American Board of Relief
Near East
Doughty
Sons of Pymouth
Carlton Clark
J. D. Roverts
Methodist Church
Leslieb. Briggs
First Church
Plymouth Workers
Charles L. Graves
Lafayette Street
Plymouth Congregational Church
E Eclesiastical Society
Plunkett Tours U S Agriculture for Irish Nation
Sir Horace Plunkett arrived in New York aboard the Adriatic on January 1 to study American farming methods for Ireland’s Free State Senate project. Also aboard was sculptor Clare Sheridan who last sparked controversy with a Kipling interview. The Hansa preceded the Adriatic, docking as the year’s first liner, with hundreds of German immigrants aboard.
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New York
Horace Plunkett
Irish Free State Senate
Adriatic
United States
Congressional
Clare Sheridan
Rudyard Kipling
Pritigh
America
Hansa
Hamburg
Wiis Island
Fairfield Booster club seeks new meeting place
In Fairfield on January 1 the Fairfield Booster club said it will search for a new meeting venue. Owner A Tu Donovan plans to close Unquows hotel this week until spring. He will travel to Florida and Cuba, then reopen with improvements including a glass-effect dancing hall. The group meets Tuesdays at Unquowa. a decision on a new site is due at tomorrow's gathering.
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Ifairfield
Noeelul
Fairfield Booster
Booster Club
Unquowa
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Laura Keeler
Tokyo
Curtice Bros
Bridgeport
Buckinghams
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
Barstow
State St
Fairfield Club
Sale Home Furnishings
Hoosier
Avery
Hoover and Bee-Wac
Glenwood Coal and Gas Ranges
Andes
Estate Heatrolas
Aeolian Vocalion
Sonora
Tantiary
Saif
Whittall
Geo. E. Nothnagle & Son
LE Redu
Main Street
Elm Street
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