Dr Empringham to Speak at Wet Meeting in Norwalk
Westport Norwalk business leaders will attend a Friday banquet at 7 PM in Norwalk to hear speakers on prohibition. Pastor Dr James Empringham and John Erskine are invited. Captain Edgar A Ewing will be toastmaster and discuss the economic angle of prohibition.
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Westport
Norwalk
Royal James Um
Inne
Association Against the Prohibltion Act
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
James Emptingham
Church Temperance Society
Episcopal Church of America
John Erskine
James Benton Warner
Crunch Temperance Society
Edgar A Ewing
U S No 6
Ewing
Annapolis
Association Against
W AC Fape
Captain Ewing
Anmnapolic
Prohibition Debate Linked Tax Plans To War Debt Solution
An address at a banquet by Captain Ewing argues that taxing alcoholic beverages could resolve war debt and taxation issues, comparing to the cigarette tax. Norwalk organizer Treut cites 36 years and sixty million dollars to enact the Eighteenth Amendment, noting prohibition’s unpopularity. Congressional Records are cited for supporting arguments.
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Qne
New Yorks
Captain Ewing
Op Treut Jr
Norwalk
Senatoral Investigation Committee
Congressional
Russian Czar Rasputin Theme Shocks Berlin Stage
German theatre presents Tolstoy Rasputin drama depicting Rasputin and the Russian imperial family. A staged Bolshevik victory ends the piece with Lenin and Trotsky rising to power amid revolutionary songs as Communist sympathizers applaud.
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Czar and
Rasputin
Berlin
Associated Press
Rasputin Empero
Nicholas II
Russia
Emperor William II
Germany
Francis Joseph
Austria
Lenin
Trotzky
Foch
Haig
Alexander
Communist Theatre
Erwin Piscator
Alexei Tolstoy
Soleleya
Wis i
Dimitri Rubenstein
Paris
Dimitrii Orenstein
Rubinstein
Tim
Lenine
Trothy
Diphtheria Claims Two Bridgeport Sisters
Bridgeport health officer Dr William Coon announced on a radio program that two sisters, Mary Chiewski and Stella Chlewski, died in quick succession from diphtheria and heat paralysis linked to the illness. He urged parents to vaccinate children and thanked the welfare office for free nurse services. The younger girl died after hospitalization and emergency care, while the older sister had been reported late by her parents.
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Bridgeport
L Lttle Girt
William Hell Coon
Mary Chiewski Fix
Stella Geven
George Chlewski
Henry Street
Celve
Coon
Wicc
Main Street
Coop
Vounger Schlewski
Enplywond Hospital
Honpste
Tron
Sten Lid
Coou Rela Ant
Few Cars Locked as Thieves Abound in Bridgeport
An insurance adjuster and a detective surveyed Bridgeport streets from Courtland to Water and from Strate to Congress, finding only five percent of parked cars actually locked. Eighty percent were unlocked, and fifteen percent locked with keys left in ignition, fueling a car theft surge. Various stolen vehicles were later found abandoned with mismatched markers.
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Budgeport
Bridgeport
John Ciglar
North Patasvenue
Ciglars
Shipping Men Puzzled by Fate of Schooner Adelaide Day
Bridgeport harbor watchers recall the schooner Adelaide Day a lumber laden vessel built in 1917 by John J Day of Newbourne NC. Found off the Virginia coast with decks awash deckhouse torn away and sails shredded the ship lies a floundering hulk and its cause remains uncertain.
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Adelaide
Bridgeport
Virginia
John J Day
Newbourne
Obituary notices from Bridgeport and surrounding areas
Obituary items list Edwin Campbell of Bridgeport who died in Willerbury hospital after moving to Waterbury sixteen years ago and was a Pequonnock Yacht Club member, survived by wife and four sons. Also announces Katherine Clancy Barett funeral details and survivors. Other notices for Henry O Connor, Mrs Frances Buckley, Mrs Dewy W Haver, and multiple relatives, with funeral arrangements at local churches and cemeteries.
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Edwin Campbell
Bridgepat
Waterbury
Willerbury Hospital
Katherine Clancy
Hober Barett
Teuchman
Seaview Avenue
Buiert
Yeas
Richard
Robert V John
Joseph F
Jerome C
Raymond F
Lulu Vo
Anna May Kasters
John Clancy
Brookfield Mass
James
Bridgeport
Ireland
Mary Woods
Blessed Sacrament
Henry O Connor
Frances Bucsley
Norwalk Oak Place
Mine
Chuck
Mary
Old Volunteer Fire Department of
New York
New York World
Dewy W Haver
Leroy W Hoe
Nichols
Park City
Chale Wo Walker
Bicheport
Les He Vigan
Mis J A Hettinger
Californa
Alin O Walker
Wellington Walker
William Horace Day
Union Cemetery
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Harter
THE
Hartford Special Machinery Co
Hartfor
DR. Empringham
Nothingles
Main St. Col
Elm St
Carchive
International
Stella Chlewski
Molly Mumimay
Miay
Emily
Nathan Heje
Coleman Steel
Law
Katherine Cline
Barrett
Reray
Poughkeeptl
Hoboken
Smith
Birbeld Ave
Madewell” Union
Rotlers
Murray
Kelloggs
Allbran
Xelogg Company
Senta Ce Tome
Eve
Kellogg's
Kellogg Company
Battle Creek
Mich
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