Currency Reforms Cut Size of U S Bills Overhaul to Combat Counterfeiting
Treasury plans new smaller bills after 1861 design, trimming length and width to six and fourteenths by two and eleven sixteenths inches. Engravers craft finer portraits to deter counterfeiting, with higher paper quality and strength. Transition to new notes expected in about two years, affecting all denominations except some bank and national notes. The reform aims to reduce note classes to gold certificates and Federal Reserve notes, while national bank and United States notes fade from circulation.
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Stamford Firm Gets Normal School Work
Stamford firm wins contracts for a new dormitory at the State Normal School in New Britain. Total project cost includes plumbing by Harold C Dahl Norwich 827951, electrical by C N Flagg Meriden 227, refrigeration by Flick and Company 400, lichen equipment by Wrought Bon Rise Company 10 802, and other bids. Legislature 1927 appropriated 8009000 for the building. awarded bids total 290 456.
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Meriden
Flick and Company
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Mayor Walker Returns to Work After Florida Trip
New York March 29 Mayor James J Walker returned from a Florida fishing rest and immediately plunged into meetings and conferences. He sought the real location he had said he failed to find in his recent remarks and attendance.
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Associed Press
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Florida
Hatch and Minerney Finish Jail Terms in Fairfield County
Two Fairfield County youths Howard Hatch of Southport and Wayne Finerney of Norwalk had terms completed after pleading guilty to operating vehicles while intoxicated. The incidents led to the deaths of acquaintances, including Robery Thomas, as a joyride ended in crash and fire. Court records show Hatch’s drunken driving on December 4 and subsequent fatal crash, while McInerney’s eve of October 15 incident killed Thomas as he drove along Posy road.
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Waam F. Inerney
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Custack
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Norwalk
Cliford Wemett
Lim
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Wernett
Harry D Fita- Berald
North Avenue
Martin Meyer
Myrtle Avenu
McInerney
Robery Thomas
Thomas
Becam
Dien McInerney
Ao Ivert
Negro Kills Wife and Self in Street at New London
A man named Nells MacGregor shot his wife in street vigil where bystanders heard four shots and found both dead. MacGregor, 32, had recently sought help to compel his wife to live with him after she left him in New York. A nine-year-old son reportedly survives.
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New York City
MacGregor
New York
Agai Unti
Saturday's Children Actor To Marry Soon
Hartford March 28. Humphrey Bogart, 28, stage actor from New York, and Mary Philips, 25, city actress, applied at the municipal building for marriage. Bogart is divorced and this would be his second marriage, Philips states this is her first marriage.
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DeForest Bogart
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Bogart
Man Held for Illegal Possessing of Alcohol
Joseph Wloka of 143 Caore siree! was taken into custody by federal officers on a charge of illegally possessing 22 millions of alcohol. Dirdsecutor Joseph Wood had named a charge of having liquor with intent to sell. He will be tried at Hartford. The alcohol was found in a gisolite station operated by Wish Some and was prepared for consumption.
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Fire drives 50 from seven story Hotel Manhattan Square
Fifty guests, many women and children, were orderly evacuated from the seven story annex of the Hotel Manhattan Square as fire was found in the top ten occupied apartment. Operators guided guests to safety as elevators proved slow in the crisis. The building was checked and the danger spread contained.
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