War Secretary orders action on removing conduit
Hartford ap report says Secretary of War Davis grants Hartford Electric Line Company 11 extension to March to remove conduit in the Park, with requirement to comply with order by then despite Supreme Court ruling. Navy, firms, and state court actions mirror delays and disputed timelines.
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WAR Secretary
Hartford Tan
Dwi J Davis
Elartford Electric Gialet Company
Dick Ini
Cie
State Supreme Court
Uhct Ee Cetoopans
We Department
Jenet
Sipcoe
Court admits Brooker as executor in Ansonia will case
The Ansonia will contest reveals Brooker named executor with Frere and Ta sort as executors. Opposing parties challenge the administration and claim the estate assets include a $8,090 note. The court fixed bonds and set terms for the executor duties and filing.
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Neoone
Prac Rr
Ansonia National
Alcohol Deaths Rise in Providence Record Year
City records show higher alcohol related deaths in Providence with spikes around Prohibition era years. Data indicate 1914 to 1922 show increases, including 17 deaths in one year and 19 in another, then 7 in the following year as enforcement shifted and temperance laws varied.
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Freien
Ipires
Leah Boapin
The Fun Shop News Weekly Humorous Sketch Notes
A quirky edited page titled The Fun Shop News Weekly parodies a shopfront scene with characters Maxeon Foxbad Judeh and Mrs Gilbert and a trio of acts. It features mock dialogues about holidays sales, fashion, and a three act play excerpt with family and marriage jokes, plus a lighthearted joke about oysters and egg production.
Forgotten Claims In Bankruptcy Admitted New Haven
In Ansonia, Scharmett Furniture Co faced involuntary bankruptcy last year. Hearing today, Referee Hoadley G A Scharmett said orders were completed for the company. The last bill from BB Atkiny claimed payment for mahogany. The firm denied knowledge, but bookkeeper Satvalewicz testified that tables were received in May 1926, aligning with the bill.
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New Havin
Scharmett Furniiture Company
Ansonia
Ture
Hoadley
Scharmett
BB Atkiny
Schamrett
Satvalewicz
Health bulletin links two colds per person and rising cases
The State Board of Health notes the Public Health Service finding that certain groups average two colds per person during water and spring months, predicting about three million colds in Connecticut. Over the past week chicken pox rose to 185 cases while scarlet fever and whooping cough also climbed with New Britain reporting 24 typhoid cases falling to four.
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Hartford
Health Bulletins
State Board of Health
Public Health Service
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Norwalk
New Haven
New Britain
Train Jump Traps Traffic Cop in Boston Collision
In Boston on January 10 a subway derailment near Governor Square injured Traffic Officer Rudolph R. Lever. He was carried six feet but his stand did not tip, likely saving his life as a two car outward-bound train jumped a switch. A sedan was crushed and several passengers shaken up.
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Boston
Rudolph R. Lever
Traffi
Bacon Street Reservoir
Governor Square
Lever
Hig Ufe
Crash injures man as Brighton property blamed for derailment
A man was injured and treated at City hospital after a train crash blamed on property owned by C. J. Yovenel of Brighton not being occupied at the time. The second trailer car swung against it, while passengers aboard the train were shaken but uninjured.
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City Hospital
C. J. Yovenel
Brighton
Merchant Dies at 90 in Illington Conn
Merettt Smith longtime conductor of general stores in Illington and Mansfield dies at age ninety after half a century as a merchant. He built a span of fifty years in commerce.
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Illington, Conn
Merettt Smith
Mansfield
Restore Water Rights Petition Seeks Repeal of 1911 Act
Hartford January 10 The repeal of an act granting New Britain rights to Burlington brook waters is requested by William E B Schwartzman of Burlington. The petition claims the city never exercised authority and land value and development near the brook suffer. Atlantic City January 7 Ernest H Sambaz and Eleanor J Connell wed. Recorder Joseph Corio officiated. The official awarded the bride a blackjack as a joke gift for the honeymoon warning couples to be prudent.
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Hartford
New Britain
Burlington Brook
Burlington
William EB Schwartzman
Secretary of State
Atlantic City
N. J
Ernest H. Sambaz
Eleanor J. Connell
Joseph Corio
Cry Hall
Coro
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Brooker
Providence
Fun Shop
Maxeon Foxbad
Judeh
Beneatta
Gibsert
Gilbert
Marion Verneee
THE
FUN Shop News
Howsehold
Philippines
New York
Vane
Misa Dobson
Meat Jackson
Marion E Burns
Humoresque
Armin H Peterson
Herman Goldberg
Jacob Goldberg
Jacob
Rebecca Kintelbaum
Herman
Rebecca
Alratty
Riffke
Niheggera Falls
Niayars Falls
Riffka
Dot
Ginsberg
Peter
Partory
Wae
Treen
Connelly
Essa
Donnelly
Nestle
BND
Merchant
ESSEX
Detroit
Erwin M. Jennings Co., Inc
Harrison Street
Conn
Danbury
Stemford
Waterbury
Branford
Brandford Auto Co
Erwin M. Aeronas Co., Inc
Cherry Street
View
Scherer’s Garage
Darien
Hudson - Essex Company
DERBY
Derby Motor Company
Greenwich
Hudson-Essex Co
Meriden
I. J. Gracey
Milford—Diamond
Naugatuck
Naugatuck Sales Company
NEW Canaan
Keiser and DeForest
McLay, J Jr. & Beatson
New Milford
Olford E. Castle Pie
Ara
Ridgefield
Seymour— Central
Shelton
Howe Avenue
Stamford
Stratford— Keating Brothers
Terryville
James J. Emmett Wallingford
Paul Koletzke
West Haven
Jos
Casner
Westport
Westport Garage
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