City Pays Double For Bridge Power Costs, Attorney Says
City officials claim the power and light charges for bridges will be at a double rate, with minimum monthly costs cited for Stratford and Yellow Mill bridges. A consulting engineer and city staff will finalize contract details while Bowmen serves as resident engineer on dredging and inspection duties.
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United Fluminating Company
A. L. Delaney
Public Works
A. J. Northey
Toon Tt
Yellow Mill Bride
Stratford Ayer
Northey
DeLaney
Yellow Mill
Uchta
Edwin J. Beueler
James A. McFhoy
Thought Company
Bridge steel bids cut cost for city project
The commission backed Beugler's plan to test structural steel for 50 cents a ton and reinforcing steel for 30 cents a ton, about half the usual price. American Bridge Co. to fabricate. testing firm on contract due to ongoing work with the same company. Official notices to utilities were approved. city to press Connecticut share negotiations. city attorney to speed traction talks.
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Beugler
American Bridge Company
WHL
I. Nichols
Connecticut Company
DeLaney
Hill Will Heads New Purchases Department
George S Hill was named president of the Department of Public Purchases created by a charter amendment. Other members are Carl F Siemon and Chris C Donahue. Louis J Reilly elected purchasing agent and clerk. Staff salaries rise. Miss May Condon and Miss Mary Fitzpatrick receive higher pay. department to absorb funds from the old board. An extra appropriation of 1416.87 for the remaining 10 months is sought. purchasing agent to be bonded for 5000.
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George S Hill
Board of Public Purchase
Dept. of Public Purchases
F. William Behrens
Carl F. Siemon
Chris C. Donahue
Louis J. Reilly
Hia
Misa May Condon
Acstant
Mary Fitzpatrick
Mary O'Neil
Board of Apportionment
Tax Board
Chamber of Commerce to Visit Easton Dam Anniversary
Chamber of Commerce members plan their final industrial visitation for the season to Easton Reservoir dam next Monday. Last inspection was June 7, 1926, when the dam was about 80 percent complete. The visit recalls an overcast day with rain, a luncheon in a nearby shed, and the dam spanning Easton Lake holding roughly six billion gallons of water as the lake runs high.
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Chamber of Commerce
Easton Reservoir
Chamber
Easton Lake
U.S. Marines Move to Tientsin from Shanghai and Manila
Washington reports a plan to transfer 4 000 to 5 000 American marines from Shanghai and the Philippines to Tientsin to meet any emergency after the northern Chinese army collapse near the Yellow River. Brigadier General Smedley D Butler heads about 3 000 in Shanghai plus 1 700 en route from the Philippines. legation guard at Peking may follow.
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Washington
Shanghai
Philippines
Tientsin
Yellow River
Smedley D. Buttler
China
Olangapo
Peking
Henan
Anhwei
North
One Month to Convert Veterans Term Policies In 1927
Veterans must convert WWI term policies by July 2 1927 or face voiding of about thirty billion dollars in coverage. Congress did not extend the deadline this session. conversions available include Ordinary Life Twenty Pay Life Thirty Year Endowment and Endowment at Age 62. Veterans may reinstate at low cost, with guidance from Bridgeport Red Cross at 53 Cannon Street nine to five.
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United States Veterans Bureau
Red Cross
Congress
Bureau
Bridgepost
The
Veterans Bureau
Cannon Street
Norwalk Driver Fined $135 For DUI Impersonation
James L. Donahue of 93 Sanford Ave was fined $135 and costs in Norwalk City Court after arraignment before Judge Freeman Light on charges of driving under the influence and while his license was suspended. He was arrested Sunday after a motorist complained he impersonated a police officer on Westport’s Post Road, ordered the driver to stop, demanded to see the license, and ordered the women in the car out. Norwalk police, warned by the complainant, arrested Donahue as he passed through Norwalk.
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Mqnor
James L. Donahue
Sanford Ave
Freeman Light
Norwalk
Donahue
Westport
Post Road
Potter Establishes New Funeral Home
George F P Potter, an undertaker with 11 years in the field, has bought a house at 880 Fairfield Avenue and opened his new establishment named The Pines yesterday. His previous offices were at 137 Elm Street and before that on Him Street, and he spent nine years with Henry E Bishop.
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George FP Potter
Elm Street
Fairfield Avenue
Potter
Broad Street
Him Street
Henry E. Bishop
King Ferdinand in Improved Health After Country Stay
Paris June 1 The health of King Ferdinand of Romania has improved during a country sojourn, per dispatches from Budapest noting better condition and observations by physicians.
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Paris
Associated | Press
Ferdinand
Roumahi
Budy
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