Ward Begins Court Fight Over Will Tales Of Drinking
Elizabeth Ward fights to nullify a will leaving her $100 and Ward’s estate to Mary Creighton Ward of Bridgeport and two children. Testimony described Ward’s frequent intoxication off duty and Mary Creighton’s alleged status as Ward’s partner. The trial before Judge Waldo Marvin continued with Ward’s will likely be contested further as Mary Creighton Ward presents evidence.
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Farmhand Dies Upright in Dooryard Mystery
Danbury May 19 AP The death of James Sheridan a farm employer found upright against a tree in the dooryard of Ethan Allen New Preston is thought to stem from alcoholism State police Ridgefield barracks investigated found no violence marks Automobile tracks nearby dismissed idea he was moved by car A driver identity remains unknown
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Rutgers Discontinues Spring Football Drills
Rutgers University in New Brunswick announces the end of spring football practice. Head coach Jack Wallace and adviser Foster Sanford led a 70 man squad including ten varsity players seven first string substitutes and sixteen from the 1923 freshman team.
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Telephone stock offering to stockholders announced by AT&T
Boston May 19 AP The American Telephone and Telegraph directors voted to offer to stockholders additional stock at 6 shares for each 1 held. The issue totals about 154 million dollars for about 370000 stockholders with record date June 8. Payments run eight months from August 2, 1928 to April 1, 1927 aging. Regular dividends of 2.25 per share were declared payable July 16 and October 16 1926 and January 15 and April 15 1927 to holders of record on specified dates.
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American Telegraph and Telephone Company
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Ladies' Aid presents play A Poor Married Man in Fire House
EASTON TASTON May 19 Special The Ladies' Aid Society of the Lee M E Church presents two act drama A Poor Married Man directed by Thaddeus Adams and Miss Ethel Knapp at the Fire House Friday night May 21 at 7 50 P M The cast includes Cyril Kendall Rosalind Worththin Hull Jupiter Fred Marsh and others Ice cream and cake after the play Also features Boy Scout Orchestra and vocal numbers. attendees include local Masonic members and residents from Stratfield Bridgeport Bethel Monroe and nearby towns.
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Bridgeport
Chester Hull
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Monroe
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Arthur Wheeler
Harry Escott
Edward Knight
Aurel Ruman
Edison Peck
Willard S. Gillette
Clifford Gillette
Wesley Norton
W. L. Norton
Stratfield
William Randall
Adrian
Dwight
Victory Street
Millard Call
George Andrews
Elliot
Bethel
Robert P. Davie
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Probe completed in Lakllle Florida coroner's inquest
The coroner's investigation into the death of Henry Patterson in Lakelle Florida concluded yesterday. Florida National Guard troops, who had been on duty for six days, have been withdrawn following the probe's completion.
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Henry Patterson
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Florida National Guard
Coolidge Extends Congratulatory Messages to Two Rulers
President Coolidge sent congratulatory messages to King Haakon of Norway and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy for their nations participation in Amundsen’s polar expedition. He praised Norways and Italians who joined the expedition and noted Lincoln Ellsworth and Commander Nobiles roles in the undertaking.
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Foot Guards Pay Tribute At Lafayette Tomb In Paris
Five hundred Connecticut and Virginia troops in Lafayette era uniforms paid tribute at the hero’s Paris tomb in the presence of Marquis de Chambrun. U.S. officials Myron Herrick and Robert Skinner attended as Lieutenant Thomas McKone of Hartford placed a bronze plaque and delivered a tribute citing Webster and liberty’s global spread.
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Daniel Webster
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Grave Robber Nabbed at Scene in Syracuse
Frank Min Allen, 19, of 114 Barnes Avenue, a former Rome State School inmate, confessed to exhuming Mrs. John H. Murphy from St. Agnes Cemetery. He claimed he mistook the grave for another woman and intended to move her to “get her out of the graveyard.” He was chased from the scene by an early-morning prowler and dropped the body as he fled.
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St. Agnes Cemetery
Frank- Min Allen
Barnes Ave
State School For Mental Defectives
Rome
John H. Murphy
Copper King Must Pay Wife 1000 Per Month Alimony
York May 19 AP Mrs Jeannette Aldrich to receive 1900 a month permanent alimony from copper and railroad magnate husband Sherwood Aldrich by a Supreme Court decision handed down today. She sought 75000 annually. Aldrich recently won a suit for separation on ground of abandonment.
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Jeannette Aldrich
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