Judge Lets Jury Doff Coats in Wilt Challenge Trial
In Superior Court Judge Jennings allowed a hot courtroom to cool when jurors removed coats despite rules, during a case to set aside a October 1924 will of Fannie G Young of New Canaan valued around 900 dollars. Relatives argued she was unduly influenced. attorney Hanford Weed said she was mentally alert and knew the will’s provisions.
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Fannie G Young
New Canaan
Jaicky
Young
Hanford Weed
Schoolmates Bearers at Gaudette Funeral
The funeral of Teon Joseph Gaudette five year old son of Mr and Mrs Leon J Gaudette 18 Pequannock Street was held Wednesday at 2 from his home and St Augustines Church. Rev Joseph Ganley blessed the bed. Interment followed at St Michael's cemetery. Leon was a pupil at St Augustines Parochial School where he attracted attention by his clever drawing. Many schoolmates attended and pallbearers included Thomas Keating Robert Wallace Richard Way Vincent Globong Frank Fa and Thomas Halligan.
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Teon
Joseph Gaudette
Leon J Gaudette
St Augustines Church
Joseph Ganley
St Michael's Cemetery
Leon
St Augustines Parochial School
Thomas Keating
Robert Wallace
Richard Way
Vincent Globong
Frank Fa
Thomas Halligan
Soap products and supplies list from Woodbury period advertisement
A compact catalog of soaps and cosmetics including Woodbury's and Lifebuoy soaps, Egyptian Palm Soap, Packer's Tar Soap, Cuticura Soap, D R Cold Cream, Odorono, paper and envelopes, face cloths, Velour Powder, and related items with prices and bundle quantities.
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Pure Foods Regularly Priced Message
Advert reads various discount food items with two for prices including coffee cocoa jams marmalade jelly lemon extract salad dressing beet cubes and peanut butter. Pricing shown per items with errors in OCR like misread product names and numbers.
Bridgeport Feeds On Last Year Oil Shipments By Water
Bridgeport’s harbormaster reports about 12 million barrels of oil landed by water in the year ending March 31. The year saw 62 percent of incoming vessels be steamers and towboats, 13 percent sailing craft, and 11 percent canal boats and barges, with coal, lumber, sand, rock, cement, iron, oil, bricks, pipe and other goods unloaded in the harbor. Waterborne shipments from the city also included oysters and miscellaneous materials.
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Bridgeport
Willam
Lamond
Alfred W Burdick
Ely
Pioneer Grapefruit Grower Lue Gim Gong Dies in Florida
Deland Florida June 4 Lue Gim Gong 76 Chinese American citrus expert historian credits originator of two famous grapefruit and orange varieties in Florida and California died last night Adopted and educated by an American woman he inherited her winter home on her death He lived on his plantation fifteen years advancing many fruit and vegetable varieties He helped perfect orange trees with fruit staying to maturity and developed cherry currant perfume grapefruit early Massachusetts peach growing under grass tomatoes three leaf orange and other varieties Thousands visited his groves He was a devout Christian and often took visitors to his private chapel after tours He died poor and mortgage payments on his graves were needed to continue his experiments
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Organges
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Fisuda
Macmillan Radio Equipment Tested For Arctic Flight
Philadelphia June test of MacMillan Arctic expedition radio gear in a half hour flight over the Delaware River demonstrated a short wave transmitting and receiving set with a range of about one thousand miles. Attempts to contact Naval Training Station on Lake Michigan and Hartford Connecticut were noted with Hartford reportedly answering the plane’s call as engine failure occurred. A second test was planned for later today.
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Connecticut
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Child Killed by Radio Falling Window Accident
A five year old girl named Darla Siewel was instantly killed in New York when a 23 pound radio set fell from a ninth floor department window at Cromdeg 42nd Street off Broadway. The accident occurred as a loaded cart passed beneath the window and the crate containing the radio toppled out.
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Darla Siewel
Cromdeg
42Nd Street
No More Shiny Noses Powder Advertises Mellagio
An old Freecnn process powder named Mellagio promises a shine free finish that resists perspiration and stays on until removal. It claims to give a soft velvety complexion by making pores seem invisible and offers a natural look.
Coast Guard captures Blairmore No 1 with contraband liquor
New York June AP the Coast Guard reports its first large liquor seizure since a rain blockade six weeks ago. The steam trawler Blairmore No 1 was captured off Fishers Island Tuesday with 900 cases and 140 barrels of alleged wet goods aboard. Captain C H Mood and nine crew members are held in heavy bail for trial in Federal court June 15. Blairmore is owned by a Halifax shipping firm and is at New London Conn pending court decision. The Cigarette, a fast rum running craft found abandoned in Zavonne NJ earlier, was released for lack of evidence after three prior detentions for illicit activities along rum row.
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Coast Guard
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C H Mood
Erew
Halifax
New Jondon Conn
Zavonne NJ
Big game hunter may join search for Amundsen
Ida Rubenstein famed former Gabrielle d Annu zzio fiancee and noted hunter may accompany Dr Jean Charcot on the Pomquepas Arctic voyage to rescue the Amundsen party at the North Pole. She says access depends on permission but would join as godmother if allowed.
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Papis
Ida Rubenstein
Gabrielle Dannunzio
Ang
Long
Tigers
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Acm
Jean Charcot
North Pole
Mme Rubenstein
Paris
Arctic Mission
Mariaux
the Invalides
the Bois
Sarah Bern- Aerdt
Asia
Pasig
D'Annunzio
Agriculture Is On Return Trip Says Grange Head
Roy Tucker of the Pompey Grange and Bridgeport Hydraulic Company told Bridgeport Kiwanis at Stratfield hotel that agriculture is returning after a period of decline. He cited rural population losses from aging mills and migration, noting renewed farming supports city living and that modern methods enable celery and lettuce to be grown well into February. James R Case, Manfield County Farm Bureau agent, and Vito Luciani spoke as a boy farmer who plans to become a farmer using practical effort and headwork.
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Pomona Grange
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
Bridgeport Kiwanis Club
Stratfield Hotel
Water Company
WairfielId County
New England
Milla
van Pentons
Bath
Tucker
Saares
James R Case
Manfield County
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