New England Railroad Consolidation Joint Committee Inspects Route
A large joint commission headed by Howard G. Kelley conducts a multi day inspection of New Haven and Hartford lines from Boston to Springfield and Maybrook New York to study a unified New England rail system. The panel reviews freight terminals Readville Cedar Hill and Nova connections while planning final consolidation report after exhaustive data review.
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Springfield
Mass
New England Railroad
New York
Haven and Hartford
Boston
Shore One
Hartford
South Station
New Haven
Commonwealth
Readville
Northup Avenue
Provincnce
Thames River Bridge
New London
Worcester
Vermont
United States
Cedar Hill
East Hartford
Waterbury
Derby
Maybrook
van Nest
Harlem River
Cos Cob
Howard G. Kelley
Grand Trunk
Joint ‘Commission
New England
Missing Stratford Man Found After Four Day Search
Scott Joy of 423 Bruce Avenue Stratford was missing from his home since Friday. Relatives enlisted police across the state in a search before Joy was located yesterday at Hillside Home by physicians and Stratford authorities.
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Scott Joy
Bruce Avenue
Stratford
Joy
Hillside Home
Governor to reappoint Frank J. Murphy to athletic board
Hartford report says Governor Charles H. Templeton will reappoint Frank J. Murphy of Hartford to the state athletic board for a three year term. Murphy’s current two year term ends July 1.
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Hartford
Conn
Charles H. Templeton
Frank J. Murphy
State Athletic Board
Murphy
Modified Coal Bill To Be Sought for In the Legislature
A late January report details a Connecticut drive for contributions to the Community Chest with totals near 307,248.10 from about 30,000 subscribers and expanded gifts from Columbia Graphophone Co. and others. The piece also covers a judiciary committee plan to report a fuel control bill allowing seizure of coal in storage or transit, amid hearings in Hartford with lawmakers and coal dealers present.
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Columbia Graphopiane Company
Richard F. Moore
Sacred Heart Church
E. T .Redford
Greens Farms
Financial Committee
Financial Federation
Community Chest
Health Department
Safety Steamship Co
van Dyk
Wartford
Judiciary Committee
General Assembly
Senate
Hiram Bingham
Leonard J. Nickerson
Senate Chamber
Ells
Allen EB. Vincent
Vincent Brothers Company
Harry E. Husted
City Ice and Coal Company
IX .W. Montange
Karm
Bridgeport
Ial, DeLaney
Senate Reader
Russell Hecktes
House
John Buckley
Thomas W. Russell
Buckley
Russell
Connecticut
Rusye
Lusitania Sinking Declared Act of War by Court
Albany Jan. 30 The court of appeals held the Lusitania sinking was an act of war in the case of estate of Altrea G Vanderbilt against an insurer. A policy clause voided payment if death occurred due to war, and the verdict upheld the insurer’s denial.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Altrea G Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Caue’s auto suggestion talks draw blind and war veterans
In BuUSION January 20 Emilie Coue the Nancy France druggist preached health through conscious auto suggestion to thousands including blind men and women crippled and nerve battered veterans. Mary Garden of the Chicago Civic Opera praised her voice improving and will preside at a Cove meeting tomorrow morning. She plans a 15 day treatment in Nancy from Coue next spring, leaving for Murapg February 20.
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Emilie Caue
Nancy
France
M. Caue
Mary Garden
Chicago Civic Opera Company
M. Coue
Cove
Miss Garden
Million Dollar Dictaphone Deal Seals New Corporation
Details emerge of a $1,000,000 transaction in which Columbia Graphophone transfers all Dictaphone rights to a new company called the Dictaphone Corporation. The deal includes leasing Columbia plant units and moving hundreds of workers. The new firm, independent of Columbia, will manufacture and sell Dictaphones and related supplies with strong cash resources and no debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Graphophone Company
Bridgeport
Columbia Company
Robert F. Crudgington
Columbia
West End
Dictphone Corporation
United States
Columbia Gictaphone
the Columbis
Tts
Canada
C. I. Woodbridge
I. I. Stowel
Morgan ‘Sk. Mercer
New Haven
Arrest Bandits Who Fled With Army Payroll
Newport News Va January 30 Corporals John S Ward and James Harvey of Langley Field identified by Captain Norman D Cota as the bandits who held him and four companions at the First National Bank of Hampton and escaped with the army payroll of 45000 were captured by a posse about 29 miles from here tonight. Most of the payroll was recovered though the bandits had to abandon 5000 in silver. A witness said the robbery was carried out methodically. one guard warned keep quiet or I will blow your head off. Officers began a search after Captain Cota’s absence drew no alarm from Langley Field officials. Details remain scarce.
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Newport
News
John S. Ward
James Harvey
Langley Field
Norman D
Roy Crockett
Hampton
Cota
Crockett
Langley Fleld
Captain Cota
Cote
Connecticut House Tables Ratification Resolution
Hartford January 30 House Leader John Buckley blocked the Mansfield introduced ratification measure for the eighteenth amendment by moving to table it again and ordering immediate transmission to the Senate to prevent reconsideration. Annie Vinton sponsored the resolution.
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Hartford
House
John Buckley
Connecticut
Annie Vinton
Mansfield
Buckley
Senate
Arbuckle signs to direct comedies in new contract
Roscoe Arbuckle announces he has signed to direct motion pictures for a comedy film company and will stop acting. He says his goal is to make people laugh and he will begin directing immediately, promising to communicate only through his directed work.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Roscoe
Eastern Star Matrons Aid Stratford Masons Supper Benefit
Stratford Jan 30 Past matrons of Avalia Chapter C E S will host a 4 supper for the Masonic sinking fund at Masonic Temple Friday evening from 9 to 8 o'clock The women’s auxiliary of the American Legion will hold a card party Friday afternoon in Sterling Memorial Building
Market Day Causes Halt in Excavations at Luxor Tombs
Archaeologist Tran’ eais reports work paused at Tutankhamen site as market day and bracing weather divert tourists. A mortuary chapel recently discovered in the Valley of Deir El Medina, brick pyramid form with wall paintings dates to Tutankhamen era. Dr Derry arrives to study mummies of princes found nearby as examination plans for Tutankhamen continue later.
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Arthur Weigald
Luxor
Egypt
Tutankhamen
Institute
Tran' Eais
Deir EE Medine
Thebian Mecropolis
Jnel Smith
Will of Percy G Rockefeller Filed in Greenwich Court
The will of William G. Rockefeller, millionaire brother of Percy A. Rockefeller of New York and uncle to John D. Rockefeller, was filed in Greenwich Probate Court. Real estate valued over 60 thousand dollars and personal property over 100 thousand. Executors include Percy A. Rockefeller and others. The will dates July 12, 1924, and outlines trusts for wife Essie R Rockefeller and descendants, with real estate in Greenwich on Lake Avenue and 132 acres.
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Percy G. Rockefeller
Greenwich Court
Greenwich
Jan
William Gg, Rockefeller
Percy A. Rockefeller
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Deceaseu
Harry W. Forpes
Ridgewood
N. J
Carl A. Meade
Chauncey P.garner
iEssie
Rockefeiller
Anne Stillman
Greenwith
Resi
Lake Avenue
Rockefeller
William E. & Griswold
Samuel ¥. Pryor
William A
Godfrey
James
John
Almira G. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller 2d
Frederick L. Rockefeller
Breach of Faith Charged By British When French Refuse to Quit Lausanne
London January 30 The British cabinet discussed Stanely Baldwin’s debt funding mission in the United States for an hour and a half with no decision. A final ruling is likely this week to allow action by the American Congress and to inform Baldwin’s March budget statement.
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Lausanne
London
Associated Press
Stanley Baldwin
United States
America
Will of Norwalk millionaire read in court
The will of late Norwalk millionaire John McMullen, president of Atlantic and Gulf Construction, bequeaths most of a two million dollar property in trust for Cornell University to support the engineering school. The probate appeal by nephews Frank and James McMullen cites undue influence and unsound mind as grounds. Witness Frank Taylor, the will’s drafter, testified he had only notes from McMullen and that a 13 page document was produced.
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John McMullen
Norwalk
Atlantic and Gulf Construction Company
Cornell University
University
Superior Court
John W. Banks
Frank
James McMullen
California
Banks
Frank ©. Taylor
New York
William H. Comley
Attorney Taylor
Hugh JL. Cooper
McMullen
Cooper
Cominy
MecMulen
G. F. Hammond
Student Kidnapped by Masked Men Refuses Talk
Charles Gleeson of Butte, a Montana University student, was abducted from a fraternity house in Missoula at 11 pm by masked men. This marks the second university student seized by masked assailants in five days, with Gleeson declining to discuss the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Mont
Charles Gleeson
Butte
University of Montana
Gleeson
Peace Conference Fractures Over Decision to Stay Motives
At a near east peace conference a rupture emerges as delegates announce a decision to remain in talks. The move signals intent to pursue further negotiations despite mounting disagreements and stalled progress.
British to Adhere to Original Plan at Lausanne
At Lausanne the British, outraged by the French move to stay on in hopes of Turkish agreement, vow to follow the earlier plan to depart Friday if not sign, while Turks and Allies project counter suggestions and a final session is set for tomorrow to decide whether talks continue toward peace.
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Lausanne
Harl Curzon
Lodon
Preas
France
Europe
Catediof Ouchy
Holdup Men Secure $70 In Raid on Drug Store
Two unidentified robbers entered Lever ty’s drug store at 1624 Main street last night and held a lone clerk at gunpoint to steal about $70 from the cash register. Clerk Joseph Prokop described the assailants and police were asked to search statewide pending an exact cash tally.
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Main Street
Leverty
Joseph Pro~ Kop
Kossuth Street
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New England R. R. Board
Commission
Hillside
Frank Murphy
Heckles Russell
Karm Terminal Co
Lusitania
Cone
Hub
Will
Corporation
Newport News
Fatty Arbuckle
Eastern Star
Stratford Masons
Baldwin
Will OF
Reof
Paris
M. LeTrocquer
General Weygand
Marshal Foch
Quat d’Orsai
Poincare
M Maginot
M. Delasteyrie
WL Reibel
WL Reibel, Minister of Liberated Regions
Pagot
Ruby
Dusseldorf
Germany
Degoutte
Ruhr
Berlin
Minister of Railways
Rhine
Belgium
Associated ; Press
Lausar
Wii Riza Nur Bey
Near el
Richard Washb Child
del Tion
Ermistice
Ismet Pasha
Leverly
Prokop
Mage
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