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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jun 21, 1921

Page

3

Governor Lake Receives Honorary Degree at Wesleyan

Middletown June 20. Wesleyan University conferred ten honorary degrees including Doctor of Laws on Governor Everett J. Lake of Connecticut and Doctor of Civil Law on Robert Newton Crane of England. The ceremony featured remarks by President W A Shanklin and Dean Morris Crawford, with a luncheon afterward and plans to raise the university endowment.

Middletown Memorial Tall Wesleyan University Governor Lake Connecticut Charles H. Hoover W. A. Shanklin Everett J. Lake Labert Meredith Remsen B. Ogilby Clinton Dewitt Burdick Brooklyn William Ingraham Haven New York Robert Newton Crane England David Wrevyer Eddy Boston Frank Surone Townsend Kingwood W. Ways Edward Laird Mills Portland Oregon Henry Osborn Taylor New York City Herbert E. Arnold Shank- Hin Fayweather Gymnasium Shanklin Three Milllon University Morris B. Crawford Sehrmak of Spirit W. T. Dunmore Utica Sherwood Eddy Lake Trinity College Jesus Christ Philippines

New Railroad Wage Cut Order Expected This Week

Chicago June 20 Announcement of a wage reduction order covering most railroads in the 660 million dollar July 1920 wage award is anticipated. A brief hearing on wage cuts for about 30 roads was held, with a decision from the June 4 hearings to be issued as an addendum to the June 1 order. The reductions are expected to be about 12 percent.

Chicago

Two Locomotives Destroyed by Fire in Rail Yard

Portsmouth New Hampshire June 20 Two locomotives were destroyed and two others badly damaged in a fire at the Boston and Maine railroad round house today. Officials estimated loss of building and rolling stock at about one hundred fifty thousand dollars. Main line trains on the Portland Division and the southern division were delayed for a time.

Portsmouth SN. H Boston and Maine Railroad Portland

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