Last descendant of Indian tribe freed in court
George Sherman of Nichols, last survivor of the Golden Hill tribe, was freed of a fishing license charge when the court suspended judgment. He described his ancestry from Chief Konckopotanaun and said the state had exempted him due to his lineage. Sherman, about 65, lives on Nichols road and works as a mason. Also at Nichols School, 17 graduates received diplomas in a gala ceremony with full auditorium attendance and praise for teachers leaving Nichols.
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Thomas
Nancy Mansfeld
William
Nancy Hopkins
London
George Sherman
Mary
Hamilton
Nichols Road
Nichols School
L. B. Matthias
Edward Knight
Trumbull
Knight
Regret and Joy Mark Harding High Graduation
Louise M. Comer reflects on leaving Harding High School as graduates celebrate diplomas and the start of life’s journey. She notes gratitude to teachers and friends, acknowledges bittersweet parting, and wishes future success as the class departs with a hopeful farewell.
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Louise M. Comer
Harding High School
Stone
Civitan Club Menu Skunk Cabbage Dessert Demo
Civitan members at Strat Field Hotel were served skunk cabbage for dessert by Harvey Went, Bridgeport schools’ director of physical education. He showed it could sustain someone in the woods and boiled water in a paper container. Arnold Sorenson, new boy scout leader, urged a city spot map of youths with juvenile court histories, aided by Clarence King, noting 73 percent of crimes by boys stem from gang action.
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Civitan Club
Stratfield
Harvey Went
Bridgeport
Mr. Went
Arnold C. Sorenson
Clarence King
Community Chest
Hoover predicts Mississippi flood loss at 400 million
Washington reports flood damage in the Mississippi basin totaled about 400 million, with crop and railroad and highway losses reaching 269 million. Secretary Hoover announced a health drive for the south including a month long sanitation campaign funded by the Red Cross to combat typhoid and other diseases.
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Washington
Mississippi
Hoover
McMillan to Lead Labrador Expedition Voyage in June
Preparations complete for the Rawson MacMillan Field Museum expedition to northern Labrador from Wiscasset on June 25. Commander Donald B. MacMillan will command the Bowdoin with a flotilla, to map bays, study botany zoology ornithology anthropology, and establish a yearlong scientific station near Nain. The team includes Dr. Duncan Strong and a roster of Field Museum scientists with radio links to the outside world.
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Wiscasset
Maize
Associated Press
Rawson-Macmillan Field Museum
Labrador
Donald B. MacMillan
Governor Brewster
Christmas Cove
MacMillan
Bowdoin
Arctic
Duncan D. Strong
Quebec
Field Museum
Chicago
John Crowell
Kenneth Mayo
Massachusetts Nautical Training School
Albert T. Gould
Ralph Robinson
John Jaynes
Martin M. Vorse
Kenneth Rawson
Koatawain
Joseph Field
Dr. Strong
Alfred C. Weed
Sharat K. Ray
Arthur S. Rueckert
Charles Sewall
Novia Bula Providence
R. I
Long Hill Church holds Children's Day service
Long Hill M E church hosted a Sunday morning Children's Day program despite rain. Students performed songs recitations and group numbers led by Rev P St John Colman with several participants including Jean LaBarr Eve lyn Cotton Virginia Kitcher and Jeanette Wildman. Remarks by Colman followed by songs and a closing hymn.
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Long Hill
Long Hil M. E
Jean LaBarr
Evelyn Cotton
P. St. John Colman
Ruth Emack
Virginia Kitcher
Kenneth Keeton
Helfer
Jeanette Wildman
Donald Schneider
Beasle Lea
Shirley Jennings
Gloria
Mary Cummings
Renzullll
Ethel Al~bert
Evelyn Lange
Claire Atkins
Josephine LaBarr
Hark
Ridgefield
Lee M. E. Hall
Easton
Lee M. E
Clarice Radciife
Wesley
Stratford
Lawrence Sherman
Charles Radcliffe
Ralph Huntley
Solon P. Wales
Monroe
Samuel G. Seeley
Tashana
Rarph Huntley
Gladys
Albert Huntley
Loom Fixers Strike in Chicopee Mills for Wages
Chicopee Mass June 21 Loom fixers of the Chicopee Manufacturing company carried out a threatened strike over wages. About 227 workers left the plant and seven night workers also quit, signaling broad wage discontent at the facility.
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Chicopee
Mass
Associated Press
Chicopee Manufacturing Company
Ink Tata W. EL
Village Justice Captures Bandits Near Pittsburgh
Three automobile bandits fleeing a Butler gasoline station robbery are engaged by village justice Abert Lerch of Allison Park. In the shootout two bandits are wounded, one escapes, and the officer recaptures the car before the third escapes. Prior stop came from motorcycle officer Brady Peal who was disarmed.
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Pittsburgh
Loren
Lorcn
Brady Peal
Lerch
Lorch
Vienna Turns From Flyers to Trial
Vienna reporters note three days of excitement over Chamberlin and Levine as Madame Nelly Grosavescu faces a sensational trial. She shot and killed her husband Traian Grosavescu, famed tenor of the Vienna state opera, last February and promises startling revelations about his alleged infidelities to the court.
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Vienna
Chamberlin
Levine
Nelly Grosavescu
Traian Grosayvescu
Vienna State Opera
Madame Grosavescu
Caruso to plead jealousy as motive in murder case
Caruso will plead that the murder was amply justified because she was goaded to bitterest jealousy by the openness and multiplicity of Grosaveb cu's love affairs with other women.
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Caruso
Murde
Grosavebcu
Eames Busy Closing Shore Front Deal
George M. Eames, president of the Park board, pushes an agreement to let the city develop Grovery Hill Black Rock shore front. Plans await final signatures with a Finance Advisory board meeting likely. About $12,000 from 1917 bonds will fund roughly a dozen tennis courts on the Laurel avenue plot.
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George M. Eames
Park Board
Grovery Hill Black Rock
Financial Advisory Board
Laurel Avenue
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