Westport voters oppose town building code in debut vote
In Westport a brief meeting at Fine Arts theatre saw around 600 attendees, including Chairman John Adams Thayer and sponsor Hayward M, reject the proposed building code section by section as cars and crowds expressed mixed support. The adjournment came amid debates over readability, scale, and local impact on small properties such as a chicken coop.
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Westport
Fine Arts Theatre
John Adams Thayer
Dellice
Hayward M
Greevis Forma
Cailing Exch Num
Grout
Moss Downs
Altis
Grouts
Oider
Witas Shoalitar
Arget
Segalot
Kinc W. Manefield
Pole Cape Jol Dolan
Manefot
Paul Nab
Srumfjord
Cita
Sade Po
Re Montes
Field House Construction for Coed Facility Near Completion
The project, slated for mid July or early August, features a field house with showers, lockers and dressing rooms for both boys and girls. Mr. Bedford funded the present facility after disapproving the original plans. The committee ordered furniture, a massage table, and a frat aid kit with ten lockers for women and twenty for men. Bleacher seats for 320 persons have been ordered, with more to be added if needed.
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Bedford
Danbury High School Commencement Tonight Graduates
June 26 special correspondence Danbury High School will hold commencement in the new auditorium. Sixty six graduates receive diplomas as mid year graduations reduce class size. Rev James M Coughlin delivers the address. honor students include Miss Mary Gregach Miss Alice Culhane Miss Frieda Stieber Martin Sauer and Paul Stint.
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Danbury
Danbury High School
New High School
James M Coughlin
St. Joseph's R C Church
St. Joseph's Parochial School
Mary Gregach
Alice Culhone
Frieda Stieber
Martin Saur
Paul Stint
Robert Joseph Barrett
Alice Veronica Culhane
Mary R. Gragach
Bernard Anthony Jurinski
Margaret Pauline Miahtco
Martin Carl Sauer
Frieda ‘Oc Stiber
Mary
Zwynar
Thomas Emmet Curtin
John Joseph Ducibella
John Edward Harty
Janet Victoria Haviland
Felix James Keane
Rose Londa
Mary Its McKenney
Frank Reid Doran
Frank H. Fitzsimmons
Willam_ J Gallagher
Aldren Hathaway Hale
Walter Mathias Kunsch
Donald J. McLechlen
Wiliam Augustus Minck
James Joseph Murphy
Roger Sherwood Pattiid
E. Lous Kappel Rovelli
Stanley I.taylor
Domenick
Francia Testa
Ruth C Anderson
Walter Balzarini
Doris Bradshaw
Rose L. Biew
Madelyn Goldenface H Gorman
Edith May Han
Gertrude D. Hatch
T. Lawrence McMullan
Ellen Kathryn O'Neill
Oliver Taylor
Penny John Victor Prokopy
K. Louie Ratchford
Ruth B. Robinson
Norma B. Secor
Paul M Strait
Marcus J van Wis
Mary Emily Allen
Gladys Bradshaw
Agnes May Browlee
Dorothy M. Burnie
Francis Leonard Dunn
Evelyn Durkin
Mary Fay Loretta Cecilia Hoey
May Christine Keane
Howard A Kelly
Robert John Lee
Katherine MacNulty
Etta Marcus
Dominic Anthony Molinaro
Jane Agnes Melvin
Margaret Helen Mishinko
Mary K Ratchford
Theresa Jeannette Rotello
Margaret M. Ryan
Perfect Attendance Lists From Sport Hill and Academy Schools
Easton reports June perfect attendance at Sport Hill School in Rooms 1 and 2 with many students named. Also listed are term and year perfect attendances at Academy School under different teachers. Social notes mention society meetings and visits, with local residents visiting relatives in nearby towns and a volunteer fire company meeting upcoming.
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Eleanor Marsh
Gertrude Marsh
Lois Marsh
Jean Silliman
Gina Rossi
Raymond Candee
Francis Escott
Albert Fensky
Robert Fensky
Robert Silman
Salvatore Bellassal
Ernest Groschel
Frank Szabo
Raymond Rossi
Acaeemy School
Margaret
Catherine Dom- Uioski
Lida Krisk
Catherine Kosa
Mation Conklin
Helen Knazun
Ellen Isrink
Elizabeth Baksay
William Sandoue
Otto Kora
Edward Svetlik
Helen Bie
Anna Kasper
Florence Anderron
Rona Milinat
Margaret Baksny
Anrs Rost
Mary Rosin
Peter Nalden
Wilbert Conklin
Christine McStays
Carlos Laskey
Tony Laskey
John Visa
Finest Rosa
Charles Laskey
John Baksay
John Kasper
Rudolf Bratz
Ernest Kos
Harold Maquat
Joseph Favlick
John Stanszyk
Joseph Rosin
Eleanor Pierton
Milford Junior Prom a Colorful School Event in Milford
The Milford Junior Prom at the Municipal Building featured lavish decorations with gold and blue streamers a rainbow fountain and a grand central display. Student leaders Herbert Freich Martha Cravelle and Lawrence Warner headed the committee as faculty and parents welcomed guests. graduates from 1927 announced plans to attend Oberlin Skidmore Yale Cornell and other institutions.
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Milford
Herbert Freich
Martha Cravelle
Lawrence Warner
Chester Clemens
Eda Tilson
Alice Miller
Betty Quimby
Bessie Gilpatric
Hugh Sivel
Princcipal
F. 8
Miss Standen
Miss Knox
Harold Wilder
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Chico
Helen Smith
Skidmore College
Saratoga
New York
Adele Smitth
Yale Music School
Oliver Hull
Yale
Mable Lewis
Cornell
Bernice Hyde
Goucher
Baltimore
Caroline Pratt
Elmira
Irene Bodnat
Orange Avenue
Iss
Philadelphia School For Christian Workers
Angtawn
Northampton
Sunset Farm
Bodnar
Cleveland
Homestead
Porn
Louise Martin
Christian Martin
Joseph E. Smith
Bridgeport
H. R. Kelley
Boy Scouts of America
New Haven
Wells River
Vermont
Scout
Patey McDermott
Orenge
McDermott
Orange
Mid Wong
Pacific Coast
United States
Clarence Baldwin
Ber‘ce Hyde
Home Missionary Conference
Northfield
Benevolent
Voy
Rotary Club
Taylor Library
Mes
Old Clothes Dealers Clever With Judge From Omaha
New York snapshot pieces describe a humorous scene with Federal Judge Woodrough from Omaha, mocked by secondhand clothes dealers on Seventh Avenue. The piece riffs on theater goers escaping heat to cool venues and satirizes Manhattan leases, bones found on Eighth Avenue, and a bustling Bowery Chinese restaurant scene with optimistic ads for early airplanes.
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al Unnee
New York
Woodiough
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Thal
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Times Square
Woodrouzl
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Battery
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Voyager
Coney Island
Instung
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Eighth Avenue
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Wein
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Reese
Rosse
Tamly
Nalice
Wall Street
Messereor Boy
Badin
Soloman
Lindbergh Returns To Davison Mansion After New York Talks
Col Charles A Lindbergh, after a busy day in New York, returns to F Trubee Davison’s Glen Cove estate. He declines reporters and commercial offers, says no formal arrangements yet, and spends time poring over atlases. Guards remain at the gates as observers note his quiet schedule.
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New York
Associated Press
Charles A. Lindbergh
F. Trubee Davison
Aviation
Glen Cove
Long Island
Paris
Holling
Lindbergh
Harry
Legion to Build French Village for Danbury Convention
Danbury Legion men began a night work project to assemble a Field Village as a carnival feature for the state Legion convention in Danbury on August 18 to 20. Under Commander Joan J. Fitzgerald, a fatigue detail will craft a wartime France scene using birch beer in place of wine, with General James F. Ryan and other officials expected to attend.
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Danbury
Danbury Legion
Joan J. Fitzgerald
Legion
France
Secial
James F Ryan
Ai i Prattacite
West Point
Fairfield County Republicans Women Plan June 28 Meeting
Fair field County Republican Women will meet Wednesday June 28 at the home of Mrs FOG H Schenck in Wilton with an 11 a.m. business session, a 12:30 basket luncheon, and a 2 p.m. talk by Senator F Hall on The New Method of Finance for Connecticut. Sisters' Night at Harmony Grange noted with refreshments. Roberta Kellogg of Danbury to join class of candidates June 28. Local residents mentioned include Miss Dorothy Habersham and Mr Edward Curtiss visiting Middlebury. Martha Chapter OBE 8, No 103 food sale in Long Hill planned for early July.
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Monrol
Fairfield County Republican Women’s Asso Ion
Fog H Schenck
Wilton
F. Hall
Connecticut
Harmony Grange
Newtown
Roberta Kellogg
Danbury
Dorothy Habersham
Edward Curtiss
Middlelawh
Clarence Newkirk
Eugene Northrop
Mattertown
Edger Northrop
Arthur J. Hult
Long Hin
Danbury National Guard to Demonstrate Gun Battery at Putnam Park
Danbury public notices Battery D 192nd Field Artillery will stage a public demonstration of battery handling and action on Sunday July 10 at Putnam park as part of maneuvers and a recruitment aid. Camp for training at Tobyhanna Pa August 13 for two weeks with 117 officers and men.
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Danbury
Putnam Park
Tta
Morgan Mogenson
New Haven
George B. Clark
Merritt H. Green
George J. Beheen
Coal Rates Drop on Southern Railroads
Roanoke Va June 26 The Associated Press reports freight rate cuts of ten cents per net ton on lake cargo coal hauled by several southern carriers Norfolk and Western Chesapeake and Ohio and Louisville and Nashville announced from Norfolk office Virginian railroad undecided The move follows Interstate Commerce Commission rulings allowing northern carriers a twenty cent per ton cut by August 10 to lake ports but southern carriers face restrictions and revenue loss estimated at about half a million dollars annually for Norfolk and Western
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Roanoke
Associated Press
Lake ceTgo
Southern
Norfolk and Western
Norfolk and Western Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northern
Lake Porta
Southern District
Commission
Huntington Notes and Bridgeport Circus Visit
Huntington residents attended a Bridgeport circus with many local dignitaries present including Mr and Mrs John West Miss Barbara West and Miss Muriel Peterson. Other town news includes social visits Hariett Leverin’s Hartford trip horse death and local entertainment at the Huntington Fire company dance.
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Huntington
Charles W Goldspink
Edwin
Vargoshe
Poughkeepsie
Citrcus
Bridgeport
John West
Barbara West
Muriel Peterson
Olint Shelton
Harriet Leverin
Lemon City
Fla
Hartford
Frank Laborie
Thompson Street
Frank Wendowski
Shelton Vavenue
Emerald Sewing Club
Percy E. Card
Stratford
Edward A. Beers
Mobigen Street
Stanley Booth
Rosdator
Frederick Duball
Ellsworth Blakeslee
Huntington Fire Company
Huntington School
Tokyo Berenaders
Curtiss Ferris
Isinglasa Street
Herbert Wright
Step
Woman found strangled in bed in Portland apartment
Mrs Zell Stebbins, thirty two, was found bound and strangled in her well furnished Portland apartment. Her hands and feet were bound and a man's handkerchief stuffed in her mouth. Police found no clear motive and believe the crime occurred Friday. A note on separate oil depth and India cotton production appears in the same column.
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Portland
Ore
Associated Preas
Zell Stebbins
Bristol Teacher Feted By Pupils After 60 Years Service
Miss Nellie E. Hills, retiring Forestville Grammar School principal and teacher of 60 years, was honored by about 500 pupils in Bristol. She received a purse of several hundred dollars, a banjo clock from the 1927 graduates, and a desk set from the class of 1926. She will be principal emeritus with a year’s paid absence.
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Bristol
Nellie E. Hills
Forestville Grammar School
Fannie A Green
General Edwards to Head Banquet of Yankee Division
More than 500 guests expected for Friday July 1 banquet at Stratfield hotel honoring General Clarence R. Edwards founder and wartime commander of the Yankee Division. Attendees include former Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, Mayor F William Behrens, Mons. Patrick J McGivney, Rev. Alexander Alison Jr. and Chief Justice George W. Wheeler.
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Seral Varese D & Edwards
Stratfield Hotel
Clarence R. Edwards
Clifford B. Wilson
F Wilam Behrens
Patrick J McGivney
Alexander Alison, Jr
George W. Wheeler
Edwards
Dr Ia
Joseph P. O'Brien
New York
103D
Thomas Wall
Harald Youd
Paul Schuber
Divsion
The
Comfort Club
Yanker Division
Annaryes
Charles H. Sprague
Henry Beebe
John R Wanodhull
Wellington Allen
George S Wills
Jerry A. Bcott
William E Wert
William F. Bol-lard
Willem W MecElroy
Charles F Wilkerson
Alfredd Wurtzen
Russell. Moore
J Crosby
Herbers Flanagan
Belet Roach
Joseph Winkoop
Cankin
Frank W. Stevens
L. R Barlow
Ellen Cootes Flower
Boner
Fred Keves
Mlton MacsKinnon
Wirs
Timmy V. Davis
William Lounsbury
Lawes Avenue
Hartford Com Second in Tobacco Production I
Hartford county ranks second among U S tobacco producing counties, according to the Bureau of Census data for 1924. Hartford produced 28,878,600 pounds, second only to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with statewide and national figures showing Connecticut's tobacco industry large in a year of extensive production and exports.
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Washington, D. C
Hartford County
United States
Bureau of Census
Ford County
Pennsylvania
Hartford
Lancaster County
Connecticut County
New York
New Jersey
West Virgteis
Pennsylvaniia
Kentucky
North Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
South Carolina
Maryland
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Dana
Connecticut
Ida
Georgia
Safe robbed at Bridgeport Casting foundry study
Thieves broke into the Bridgeport Casting Company foundry at 250 North Avenue and stole about $100 in small denomination bills from a safe. The safe was opened with a sledge hammer and a thief or thieves entered by breaking the lock. An employee discovered the swinging safe door in the morning and alerted police. The investigation is ongoing.
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Bridgeport Casting Company
North Avenue
New Indigestion Treatment Promoted In Advertisement
An advertisement touts Lt. Medords Dispepsia Tablets as a highly recommended remedy for indigestion. It claims rapid relief for stomach troubles and urges readers to purchase at sixty cents for a large package from local sellers.
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Medords
Tex
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