Danbury Orders Street Car Firm To Remove Tracks
Danbury city issues formal notice to Danbury Power and Transportation to remove trolley tracks on Main and South streets as part of a paving program. City plans to remove 11 miles of rails. Mayor rejects offer to give Lake Kenosia property in payment of 817,000 owed for paving in 1917.
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Danbury
Danbury Powe and Transportation Company
Lake Kenosia
Danbury City and Company Clash Over Pavement After Track Removal
A lawsuit emerges as Danbury debates whether the company must replace street pavement when rail tracks are torn up. The city asserts replacement is mandatory while officials fear disruption. Buses remain the sole transport between districts in the meanwhile.
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Danbury
Boy Falls From Cherry Tree Injures Arm
Eugene Lewis age nine of 454 Palrview avenue is a patient at St Vincent hospital with a compound fracture of the left arm after falling from a cherry tree yesterday noon. An Emergency hospital ambulance transported him after examination by Dr Mark Gild. The accident happened when a branch broke and he fell about twenty feet to the ground.
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Eurgene Lewis
Palrview Avenue
St. Vincents Iuospital
Mark Gild
Res Want
Ahn
Circus hand applies for Navy enlistment at recruiting station
Clarencr Edward Smith of Sharon Pennsylvania pressed his application at the Naval recruiting station today seeking enlistment. Navy officials will examine his record before any acceptance.
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Clarencr Edward Smith
Naval Recruiting
Navy
Smith
Sharon
De Autremonts Begin Sentences In Oregon Prison
Prison gates closed on the De Autremont brothers in Salem as they began serving four murder sentences for the Siskiyou mountain trail hold up of October 1923. In Ashland, they were hanged in effigy during a reaction by hundreds of residents near the crime scene.
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Salem
Oregon
Jane
de Autremont Brothers
Siskiyou Mountain Trail
Ashland
Charles O Johnson
Ray
Hugh
Flasg Dealer Dies in Winsted at 66
Frank E Capewell longtime jeweler and music dealer who sold 2600 pianos and built substantial wealth died at Litchfield County Hospital in Winsted on June 24. He was 66.
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Flasg
Winsted
Frank E Capewell
Litchfield County Hospital
Diplomas Awarded to Stratford Intermediate Graduates
Stratford June 24 Special Correspondent diplomas were awarded to 234 graduates of Stratford Intermediate School at graduation exercises in Stratford High School auditorium Friday evening. Most graduates plan to attend high school in September. The program opened at 8 o'clock with an invocation by Rev Cyrus Severance, pastor of Stratford Methodist church. Arthur Lewis and Fred Priestly played an instrumental duet followed by "The Little Boy Who Wanted to be a Soldier" by Marie Wagner. Anna Jones, Eugenia Kine, and Robert Kramer gave a vocal solo, and Frederick Smithson played the piano.
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Stratford High School
Cyrus W. Severance
Stratford ME
Arthur Lewis
Fred Priestly
Marie Wagner
Anna Jones
Eugenia Kine
Robert Kramer
Frederick Smithson
School diplomas presented as capacity crowd cheers
Ruth Lathrop gave an essay Our School while Richard Wootten and Leslie Coleman played an instrumental duet. Principal W. W Mogers presented diplomas with BE Ward Ireland supervising. Dozens of graduates named include Madeline Apel Marjorie Atherton Lillian Edwards Mary Foater and many others as relatives filled the auditorium.
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Madeline Eblen Apel
Marjorie Wood Atherton
Lilian Grace Edwards
Mary Grace Foater
Lian
Ella Happel
Mary Frances Jankowski
Anna Mae Janoska
Sophie Mildred Knapp
Ruth Lathrop
Margaret Starr Morehouse
Lenore
Elizabeth Ochsner
Frances Madeline Olsaveky
Helen Terasowich
Rosalie
Helen Wyvott
Norton Lewis Beach
Charles John Bennett
Robert Clarence Gowor
John George Jackie
Ivar Joseph Laveen
Edward Francis Lynch
Joan Edwin Morton
John Horton Pinkerman
Raymond James Rinkel
Joann Kenneth Stone
Byron Whitford
Gardner Jr
Pete Stewart I8 Named ELT Leader
Pete Stewart, varsity coxswain at Yale, named elect leader after captaining Yale crews for two years. He will coach next year in New Orleans, guiding the freshman eight then the varsity. Stewart has three years as helm of Yale crews, succeeding Captain Ro J Pulon of New York.
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Pete Stewart
Yale
Stewar
New Orleans
Stewart
Ro J Pulon
New York
Kuaoda
Stewart Mullheed
Cameo and Palace Amusements Showcard Highlights
Tomorrow at 7 30 pm and daily 2 15 and 8 30 pm Vitaphone programs headline with Cradle Snatchers The Fourth is Dallas and The Happiness Boys featuring Stella Dallas star Belle Bennett Also Ed Wynn in Rubber Heels and Palace last shows for Husband Hunters vaudeville bill including stepping Along Jimmie Finlayson in Love em and Weep plus News Fables and shorts Formatted for a 1920s theater listing covering multiple acts and attractions.
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WIZ Radio Juveniles
Mary Carr
Benjamino Gigli
Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra
Record Boys
Radio Fame
Loomis Twins
Moscow Art Ensemble
Ed Wynn
the Palace
Wynn
Tn Alded
Chester Conklin
Palace
Toto
O'Connor
Edna Dreen
Dagmar
Melody Artista
Johnnie Berkes
Company
Dainty Pirle
Paul Carroll
Donald Reed
Jimmie Finlayson
Majestic Screen
Florence Vidor Sunday at Polls Vaudeville
Florence Vidor headlines Polls Vaudeville with The World at Her Feet in a tale of a worldly woman whose wealth alters marriage. Also on the bill Wilbur Sweatman’s 12 entertainers, Bridgeport Follies finale with local girls, and Ken Maynard in The Land Beyond the Law.
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Tomorow
Poll
Paramount
Florence Vidor
Richard Randal
Evient
Jane
Wilbur Sweatman
Bridgeport McDevitt
Kelly
Quinn
Alberts
Riley
Bridgeport
Wilbus
Bridgerport
Ken” Senvnard
Silions
Pleasure Beach Park presents dance skate and rides
Pleasure Beach offers a breezy water edge dance palace led by Capt. Julien Webster and the Bay State Aces. The rink, roller coaster, aeroplane swing, caterpillar and other rides provide exercise and thrills while games offer prizes. Bathing swimming facilities and a shaded picnic grove invite full day family outings.
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Pleasure Beach
Julien Webster
Bay State
Long Island Sound
Colleen Moore Sows Mischief in Naughty But Nice
Colleen Moore stars in Naughty But Nice at Poli's Majestic. When an oil fortune raises Colleen's uncle, she is sent to a reforming finishing school in Texas where she and Alice Attwood stir trouble and chart a naughty but nice path. The story follows their escapades from the boarding school to a downtown hotel confrontation with the school matron.
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Texas
Colleen
Poli
Majestic Theatre
Burr McIntosh
Alice Attwood
Kathryn McGuire
White
Alice
Radio saves woman ill aboard vessel in mid Atlantic
A passenger on the Italian Brenta Ti fell gravely ill with typhoid fever. A radio message from the ship reached Conte Biancamano, meeting off mid Atlantic north of the Azores. The liner's surgeon transferred the patient to the Conte Biancamano, and she improves toward recovery.
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New York
Associated Press
Conte Biancamane
Giadrosich
Brenta TI
Conte Biancamano
Hner
Soccer Star Crowned Boothbridge
Thomas Trainer an 18 year old native of Dublin Ireland and new arrival last October shines as star player for Wellaworth A A during the June 24 event at Edeer's in Landerdale.
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Maas
Thomas Trainer
Wellaworth A. A
Edeer's
Landerndale
Dublin
Ireland
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