State Guard mustered out of service May 18
An adjutant general order, made public yesterday and effective May 18, disbands the remaining Connecticut State Guard, fifteen infantry companies led by Colonel Louis J. Herrmann with headquarters in Waterbury, transferring officers to the Connecticut State Guard and replacing the National Guard in state service. The new guard, with Bridgeport’s representative as the Fourth Company, will train at Camp Devens June 12 to 26. several officers from Bridgeport resign or retire under the order.
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Connecticut State Guard
Eurth Infantry
Louis J. Werrmann
Waterbury
National Guard of
Connecticut
Suetch
Connecticut National Guard
Laurien Burper
Miliary Emergency Board
Bridgepeart
Theen
Camp Devens
Suerd
Louis J. Herrmann
William Eorace
I. McIntyre
Russell Glenn
Leonard A. Ashaim
Albert Montross
Horace T. Wellington
Frank A. Ranz
Burton Felteman
Orville T. Burr
Frederick G. Tuandaren
Harry 5. Blakem
Urge Ford
Queen Olga of Greece Sells Jewel to Aid Need
Paris reports Queen Olga mother of King Constantine of Greece is in straitened circumstances and has offered family jewels for sale. A younger officer carried a large emerald brooch to the United States to fetch a high price but was arrested for not declaring it. The brooch was seized at New York customs and is held by the government with an unrelated emerald pendant also seized from a Ming Alexander crewman.
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Paris
Olga
Constantine
Greece
United States
York
On Yerk
The
Customs Service
New York
Vessels Cast Cargo Overboard In Storm At Sound
Storm tossed vessels released cargoes including oysters and eggs while two ships the 7 Wilson Les captained and the Virginia owned by John Williams limped toward harbor. Some crates spilled as crews manned pumps and a gulls fed on remaining provisions near Bridgeport and Port Jefferson.
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Wilson Les
Moint-No-Point Stratford
Dutan
Re. Paine
Virginia
John Willams
Port Fefferson
Bridgeport
Wits Wharf
Fly Swatters and Screens See Little Need
A garbled May report from Washington hints at agricultural policy shifts toward eliminating certain fly control measures. The fragment mentions the Department of Agriculture, a Virginia entity, and a test involving a peculiar poison in a garden. The text is severely distorted and several names and places are unreadable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
George S. Holmes
Virginia
Keen
Imes
No Arbiters Yet for Injunction Suit in Bridgeport Case
No arbiters were selected yesterday to pass on the correctness of Bridgeport Construction Companys claims for 200,000 in short term notes. Attorneys Day and Cullinan delayed announcing choices, while the Hartford hearing on the matter drew near. A later investigation reportedly found the bills correct, ending hopes of halting payment.
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Bridgeport Construction Company
David
Day
Liem Theun
Hartford
Thomas M. Cullinan
Ini
Attorey
Cullinaty
Lalionis
Evenstraction
Clark’s Window Exhibit To Be Seen At School
Cre mins new exhibitors will appear in the windows of George Clark’s furniture store and entertain for a half hour at a meeting of the North End community center at the Mall school on Wayne Street tonight. J. Marvin, president of the WH, preside at the meeting. More will also dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cremits
George Clark
North &Nd
Schoal
Wayne Street
J. Marvin
Pore
Bodies of 1 255 soldiers arrive in New York
In New York on May 3 the bodies of 1,255 American soldiers killed in France and Belgium arrived aboard the transport Somme, accompanied by 418 comrades returning from the German frontier. The report notes a grim homecoming and mentions related details from the front.
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New York
York
Ia Ame
France
Belgium
Somme
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Athletic Union
Fairfield Ave
Middle ST
White, Rose and Hollum Bread Y
Bridgeport Bread CO
National Drug CQ
Beston Ave
Conn, Coal CO
North Ave
State Guard
Adjutant General
U. S
Clark
Joseph Hilton
Fairfield Ave. and
Vador
Shade
N. Buckingham & CO. Inc
Venes
State St
Eaghlen
Moore
Horm Holland
Ryder Hayes CO
Water ST
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