Education Board Signs Contracts for Architects and Bond Plans
The board approved contracts with Caldwell Beckwith and Walker plus Wiliam B Itther for the design of East Side High School with Tttner as consultant. They will receive fees totaling 6 percent of costs. A superintendent of construction will be hired. Transfers of funds were authorized to cover fuel and stationery as the board seeks a $900000 additional bond. Three teachers including Catherine Reilly resigned amid illness.
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Caldwell
Beckwith
Walker
Wiliam B. Itther
St. Touts
East Side High School
Board of Education
Jfirst National Bank
Ittner
Wynkoop
United Illuminating Company
Hallam
Burns
Illuminating Company
Misa Catherine Reilly
Crank Sends Fourth False Alarm in Week
A so called crank, famed for false fire alarms, telephoned Fire Headquarters last night claiming a blaze at 42 Palisades Avenue. The switchboard knew the voice, previously tied to a Sunday call about City Savings Bank, and no apparatus was dispatched. Fire officials checked the address and neighborhood and found no fire needed.
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Palisades Avenue
City Savings Bank
Fire Department
IRISH STAGE QUEEN MAGGIE CLINE ILL IN RED BANK
Maggie Cline, famed as the Irish queen of the stage and author of Throw Em Down McClusky, lies seriously ill at her Red Bank New Jersey home after several months of illness. Doctors from New York and Philadelphia have been summoned as her condition worsened in the past month.
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Red Bank
N. J
Maggie Cline
McClusky
New York
Philadelphia
German Miners Strike Hits Ruhr and Pits Stand Idle
From Dusseldorf on 22, German officials report a putsch style strike across state and private mines. Workers descended but did not work, paralyzing mining and railway operations in Dortmund. A ban on speaking French on telephones hindered French military communications as operators blocked French speakers.
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Dusseldorp
Ruhr
Dortmund
Thay
Weeks Criticism of House Provokes Vigor in War Debates
Washington Jan 22 Critics of the House army bill provision denying Major General Harbord retirement pay drew responses from Secretary Weeks the Senate and House. In the Senate Senator Caraway Arkansas said Weeks shed tears over Harbord while joking about the soldiers bonus defeat. In the House Representative Tincher Kansas attacked Weeks saying he should resign or at least not denounce Congress.
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Washington
Weeks
Harbord
Caraway
Arkansas
Senate
Tincher
Kansas
House
Weens
Mr.Tincher
Congress
Milford to Hire Expert for City Charter Draft
Milford voters authorize a 15 member committee to obtain expert advice for drafting a city charter. The panel will prepare a bill for legislative introduction and seek a referendum at the next fall election, prompted by concerns over town meeting representation for the 4,200 residents.
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Milford
Chamber 9
Commerce
Western Reformer on Job Cleaning up the Village
From the West Stanley Kelley arrives to purge Greenwich Village, aided by the Washington Square association. He seeks leniency for seven girls found guilty of improper dancing at Cushman's restaurant, detained at Florendon home awaiting sentence, with reports of desire to avoid Greenwich Village in the future.
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York
Out of the West
Stanley Kelley
Greenwich Village
Sereetary
Washington Square Association
Kelley
Jefferson Market Court
Cushman
Soal Magnates Trial Is Today
London dispatch says Essen miners resumed work under French conditions for a brief general strike plus no sentries with fixed bayonets and no detrainment. German French struggle over Ruhr output grows with rail and telegraph costs soaring and parity currency concerns in Duesseldorf. Paris presses alarm over possible German conscription as workers flow from Poland and Italy to Ruhr.
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London
Essen
Times
Dortmund
Paris
Duesseldorf
Reichsbark
Berlin
Germany
Poland
Caecho- Slovaka
Italy
Ruhr
France
Belgium
Saar
Silesia
Nordau German Philosopher Dies in Paris
Paris Jan 22 Associated Press Max Nordau the renowned German author and philosopher died today at his home after a long decline. He had lived in poverty and stopped writing over a year ago leaving a major philosophy work unfinished. During World War I he was interned by the French, then released on parole and went to Spain.
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Paris
Max Nordau
Savant
Zomiel
Nordau
Spain
jAkhnanon Lid
Smenhkara
Tutank
Hamen
Xte
Horenheb
Tutankhamen
Horemeab
Egypt
France Plans Stern Measures to Meet Strikes
Paris reports France will cut Ruhr Germany communications, deport Reich officials, double occupying forces, and deny Ruhr supplies while strike persists. Hundreds of French railway workers are rushing to the Ruhr as banks come under Allied control. Armed resistance would be crushed immediately.
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C. FP
Berti
Paris
France
Ruhr
Germany
Aternest
Maher Fined for Assault on Mother-in-Law in Milford
Milford January 22 Stephen I Maher convicted of assault upon his mother-in-law Mrs Katherine Sharpe of Fort Trumbull Beach and charged with breach of the peace. He received a fine of 25 dollars with costs after the judge censured both parties for the trouble. James Grady of Stowe Avenue Walnut Beach faced drunkenness charges and was released. Sergeant Henry Galbronner arrested Maher Sunday night after a scuffle.
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Milford
L-Aw
Katherine Sharpe
Fort Trmbdil Beach
Stephen I. Maher
James Grady
Stowe Avenue
Walnut Beach
Borah attacks Ruhr policy and calls for U S protest
Senator Borah denounces the Ruhr trench policy as inhumane and a violation of the Versailles Armistice, urging the United States to break silence and formally protest. He recalls Wilsonian principles and warns of suffering in Germany from invasion, military rule, and economic losses.
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Washington
Jaf
Ruhr
Publesa Militariem
Borab
Idaho
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
State Department
United States
Wilson
Germany
France
Ancient Egyptian Vases Containing Perfume Still Emitting Fragrance
ARTHUR WEIGALL reports from Luxor on Tutankhamen tomb finds including alabaster vases with perfumes that still emit scent. Also notes fragile mummy and objects damaged by dampness, with musings on royal succession and possible biblical plague links. The piece blends archaeology with speculative connections to Exodus and dynastic gaps.
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Arthur Weigall
Alliance
Luxor
Egypt
Tutankhamen
Sham
Beau
Haa
Petrie
Wat Tutankhamen
Buckley Skips House Session Amid Illness
Hartford January 23 Major Buckley III will not attend the House as it heads into a final week for new business. On doctor’s orders he remains at home recovering from a quaver cold that once threatened pneumonia.
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Major Buckley
Hartford
House of Representatives
Ford
Grant Has Shot Bolt Pastors Here Declare
Reverend Percy Stickney Grant, pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in New York, repudiates the Divinity of Christ. Local clergymen deem him unfit to serve, noting years of theological drift and social readjustment. Reverend Stephen F. Sherman of St. John's Episcopal comments downplay the uproar, citing similar cases.
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Grant
Bolt
Percy Stickney Grant
Episcopal Church of the Ascension
New York
Christian Church
Lugml
Stephen F. Sherman
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Dr. Grant
Christ
Prosecutor says Ku Klux Klan behind reign of terror in parish
Assistant Attorney General A V Coco heads a force of state cavalry to Morehouse Parish as he claims the Ku Klux Klan instigated disorder and violence, with up to twenty five to forty arrests expected on charges from murder to assault, while witnesses falter during a storm and key testimony unfolds about missing witnesses and dynamite incidents.
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Bastrop
Walmaley
Harold Tegershou
Watt ‘Ansel
J. F. Hichard
Parker
Baton Honghe
Victor
Teegerstrom
Harold Teegerstrom
Southern Carbon Company
Spyker
Tor Querions
Army WINS Flag In First Day Drive For Federated Charities
Several hundred workers raised about $65,067.25 on opening day for the Federated Charities campaign aided by Army and Navy divisions. Army Team No. 2 led by Mrs. A. M. Cooper collected the largest total, while Navy contributors posted strong results and Mercantile division showed brisk early pledges.
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Community Chest
Federated Charities
Army
George H. Woods
Seward Price
Jed Admiral
Edmund CG. Mayo
Navy
Mercantile
A. M. Cooper
Fred Marrison
W. . Northcott
H Wy Hinds
Mya
John Merwin
Marion Betts
Alice Ives
Nelle Upson
Murray Chapin
Henry D'Over, Jr
B. R. Feicht
Louise Warren
Robert Ames
Karry Read
J. P. Friable
City agrees to new park lease with private operator
Common Council votes 14 to 6 to authorize a negotiated agreement with a private company led by bridgeport interests to operate Pleasure Beach for up to five years with land ownership transferring to the city at the lease end. Rental set at $1 a year for an overall term not exceeding 15 years, with possible future rent increase if operations profit. Details include amendments restricting term and outliningDepreciation and insurance costs to be borne by the city.
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Board of Park Commissione
Pleasure Beach
Ingersoll Ewing Co
Bridgeport
Corneil
Yeas
Beera
Kenney
Fitzgerald
W. H
Veness
Price
Hogan
Sanfi Py Seamey
Ragnak
Conteilo
Bric Baird
Noon
Kelly
3Apleade
Doherty
Kilpatrick
Trapit Engineering and Concorporation
Iensee
Pleasure Bench
Board of Park Commissioners
Board of Park
U S Sailors Refuse Bribe During Smyrna Fire Evacuation
A 1923 report recalls American sailors in Smyrna resisting Turkish bribery as chaos raged along the waterfront. Greek merchants offered large sums to be evacuated first, but U S sailors kept faith with their pledge to protect American refugees and refused lucrative offers amid the evacuation effort.
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Mark O. Prentiss
United States
Canada
Great Britain
South America
Worth American Newspaper Alliance
Mediterranean
America
Smyrna
God
Amica
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Eesen
May. Nordau
Philosopher
Rhineland
Jesus
KLAN
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Mor Rouge
Daniel
Michard
Ater
Watt
C. Andrewe
Wood
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Cahir
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