RIGHT FIREMEN INJURED FIGHTING $826,000 BLAZE
Eight firemen were hospitalized after a $826,000 fire in Woonsocket Rhode Island gutted the Mailloux block and damaged two adjoining buildings. One fireman has a broken leg and others were overcome by smoke. The blaze lasted about three hours with extensive apparatus, affecting a department store and nearby theatre and hotel structures.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Ag & Result
of & Fir
Mailloux
Chemistry of the forest shapes everyday life in Wise lecture
Dr. Louis Wise of Syracuse University described the chemical uses of wood in daily life and fashion. He cited items from neckties to hosiery and shirts, showing how wood constituents underpin textiles and common products, insisting the forest chemistry is integral to daily existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis 4. Wise
Department of Forest
New York State College of Forestry
Syracuse University
Wise
American Planes Reach Port au Prince in Haiti
American planes that departed Guantanamo Bay this morning on a flight from San Antonio to Puerto Rico arrived in Port au Prince Haiti today. The report notes the leg of the journey was completed as part of the ongoing operations.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Associated Press
Guantanamo
Cuba
San Antonio
Porto Rico
Obituary notices from Stratford area deaths and services
A string of obituary notices lists Miss Mary J Halpin and others with funeral times through Stratford Ansonia Shelton and surrounding towns. The items name deaths at homes on Lewis Street Beechwood Avenue Farm Rockland Avenue and more, with church services at Sacred Heart St Michaels Union Cemetery Pine Grove Riverside and local mortuary parlors, detailing survivors and affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary L. Halpin
Mary J. Halpin
Lewis Street
Sacred Heart Church
Thomas Mooney
John J Sullivan
S J Mary’s Church
New Britain
John A. Sullivan
Sacred Heart Parochial
Schoo
Adeline C. Raymond
Fihn Street
Frederick Raymond
Morning Star
Shepherds of Bethlehem
Daughters of America
Henry E. Bishop
Fairfield Avenue
William Hi. Day
Pasetor
United Congregational Church
Park Cemetery
Eugene Hunt
Eugene Trant
Rockland Avenue
Stratford
Fireby T. Garing
August G. Baker
Stratford Avenue
W. Vack
Lafayette Street
Sacred Freak Church
Qwen Harrington
James Costigan
Paul Maloney
Richard Supple
Jen Cooney
Helen Cooney
Barnum Avenue
Robert C. Whitehead
Stratford ‘Congregational Church
Bupp
Union Cemetery
Kate Gunter
Skate Gunter
Central Avenue
William H. Jepson
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Lakeview Cemetery
Ida KiMin
Ida Bailey Kimlin
Summit Street
George J. Sutherland
Calvary Episcopal Church
Ellen Carless
Ansonia
Mar
Hillen Carless
Rockwood Avenue
Christchurch
Pine Grove
Mildred Hourigan
Henry Munson
Shelton
Nawe Avenue
C. Lewis and Sons
Derby
Riverside
G E Official Buys Greenwich Estate
James K R McKee, an official of General Electric of New York, purchases the estate of Mrs Beile L Wilfrey on Worth Street Greenwich. The Wilfrey property is valued at 260 000 and she has bought the Ames W Leonard estate in Belle Mayon, while residing at the Plaza Hotel in New York during renovations.
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Greenwich
James KR. McKee
General Electric Company of New York
Beile L. Wilfrey
Worth Street
Wilfrey
Millard Explains Proportional Representation to Women Voters
Walter J. Millard of the American Proportional Representation League spoke to Bridgeport League Women Voters at the Stratfield hotel urging adoption of proportional representation as essential to democracy. He argued it elevates minority influence, illustrated with ballots, cited global use in 18 countries and many U.S. cities, backed city manager government, and warned against petty czars and ward systems.
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Walter J. Millard
American Proportional Representation League
Bridgeport League
Women Voters
Stratfeld Hotel
Mr. Millard
Atatistica
Millard
United States
Bridgeport
Milard
England
America
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Coldar
Coldais
Coldak
Liberty Building
Coldak Sales CO
Reed
Ecru
Whitney
N. Buckingham & Co., Inc
State ST
Touraine
Ene
Ee Agence Quinby Company
Marte
K. Sorensen
Marie K._ Sorensen
Peter Sorensen
Beechwood Averuue
Mountain Grove Cemetery
James Baker
Thomas Baker
Glendale Avenue
McKeon, Brown
Adley
St. Michael's Cemetery
Hezekiah W. Parks
Trumbull Center
Marie B. Blindenbacher
Marie Bischel Blindenbacher
River Road
George Blindenbacher
Rose Wetmore
Roxbury
Lillian Collina
Riverside Cemetery
League
Cudahy
The
Cudahy Packing Cou.sa
Congress
Washington
la Follette
Wisconsin
Brookhart
Iowa
Robinson
Arkansas
Ralston
Indiana
Harrison
Mississippi
Lodge
Massachusetts
Capper
Kansas
Wm. J. Bryan
James A. Cox
Ohio
Interior
Ruhr
Joe
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Balkans
Manila
Matin Street
Broadway
Manhattan
Oskaloosa
Oshkosh
Literary Digest
W. W. Hodkinson Corporation
Fathers and Mothers of America
Funk & Wagnails
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