David Armstrong Dies in Huntington Manufacturer
David Nash Armstrong a native of Bridgeport and for 30 years president and general manager of Armstrong Manufacturing died at his Huntington home after a lingering illness. Born August 6, 1876 he studied locally and joined the family firm. Survived by wife Mary and daughter Lillian Elisabeth funeral Monday at 2 o'clock at his Huntington home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Nash Armatrong
Bridgeport
Shearmatrong Manufacturing Company
I Knowlton Street
Huntington
Frank Armatrong
Charles H. Armstrong
Morim
Rockies
Mary
Lillian Elisabeth
Armstrong
Burial arrangements under Rev Henry E Kelly leader
Reverend Henry E Kelly of St George's Episcopal Church will officiate the service and burial is planned at Mountain Grove. The notice notes the clergy involvement and final resting site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry E. Kelly
St. George's Episcopal Church
Mountain Grove
Chest Appeal To Be Made In Churches
The Community Chest drive targets a $360,000 goal with church pulpit messages tomorrow. Workers will address worshippers and ministers, with the drive expanding Monday across luncheons, radio segments, and street corner red heart signs reading share. A gold indicator will track daily Chest progress in a busy town district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Chest
Chamber of Commerce
Army Defenses Lacking Strength Warned by Officer
Lieut Jos Dillon, coast artillery instructor, warned Exchange Club that U S army defenses are near insufficiency with 118000 men available of 126000 needed. He cited aging equipment, budget cuts, and a policy of national defense while praising camps, reserve corps, National Guard, and university programs as partial strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
Coast Artillery
State Armory
Exchange Club
J. William Hope
Lieut
Coast Artillery School
War Department
Massachusetts
Dillon Apid
National Guard
Five Persons Hurt by Automobiles in Bridgeport
Five people were injured in seven automobile accidents on Bridgeport streets yesterday and last evening. Victims include Anthony Norkakis of 22 Jetland Avenue who suffered a head wound and possible skull fracture after being struck on Fairfield Avenue, and a boy named Blanchard hit at Bishop and Stratford Avenues. Other incidents involved Robert Ahearn on Wordin Avenue, Mrs. H. Cummingham Morris on Main Street, and several hit and run injuries on Madison and North avenues. Police and doctors treated minor injuries, and one driver blamed himself for a crash at Maple and East Main.
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Bridgeport
Anthony Norkakis
Jetland Avenue
Fairfield Avenue
Fox Street
Lancaster P. Clark
Wakemen Street
Fairfield
Norkaitis
John Lerman
Clark
Norkaudla
J. H. Beaudry
Rowsley Street
Philip Blanchard
Bishop Avenue
Bishop and Stratford Avenues
E. Walter Miller
Holmes Street
Stratford
I. L. Nettleton
Robert Ahearn
Lee Avenue
Wordin Avenue
Irving L. Leonhard
Thomas P. Taylor Company
Ahearn
H. (. Mores
H. Cummingham Morris
Fourth Avenue
Lordship
Gray Line
Main
John
Connors
North Avenue
Jennie Fiehr
Beers Street
Madison Avenue
John Lerjan
Maple Street
East Main Street
Harald Lynch
Arctic Street
Second Precinct
George Smith
Louis Bruno
Prench Street
Kossuth Street
US must force disarmament or face war, Lewis warns
At an Armistice Day event in Aurora Newfoundland Lewis urged immediate global disarmament. He argued Congress should pass laws barring credits or supplies to any nation at war without arbitration and warned the United States must prepare to use force if disarmament isn’t achieved.
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Aurora
United States
James Hamilton Lewis
Union League Club
America
Europa
Lewis
Belmont admits she has never voted in her life
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, leader of the National Women’s party, confessed on returning from Europe that she has never voted and will not until the party presents a presidential candidate. She made the remark in New York on November 11 as Associated Press reports.
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New York
Associated Press
O. H. P. Belmont
National Women's Party
Europe
Aquitania
Women's Party
Trainload of Milk Dumped Into Creek in Rutland
A trainload of milk collected in northern New York for New York City and Boston markets was dumped into a Rutland creek after the cars were submerged in muddy water at Procter. Owners Borden Whiting and others put losses at $15,000.
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Rutland
Ascociated Press
New York
New York City
Boston
Procter
Borden, Whiting
Western Union to Sell Canadian Lines
Negotiations for sale of Western Union Telegraph local lines in Canada's maritime provinces to Canadian National Telegraphs have been under way but not completed. Newcomb Carlton, president, confirmed a Toronto dispatch. Western Union holdings in the maritime provinces to close, but Carlton and cable connections stay unaffected. Main offices at Halifax and North Sydney will be retained.
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New York
Navy
Associated Press
Western Union Telegraph Company
Maritime Provinces
Canada
Canadian National Telegraphs
Newcomb Carlton
Toronto Dispatch
Western Union
Carlton
Halifax
North Sydney
Borah Urges Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment
New York Nov 11 Senator William E Borah urged repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in a letter to the Women’s Committee for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment He praised the group for advocating repeal calling it the only honorable course and urged that the proposal be an issue in the 1928 election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
William E. Borah
Women’s Committee
Boarding-house fight leaves man hospitalized
Edward Perendna, 37, a boarder at 469 Gregory Street, was taken to St. Vincent's hospital after a fight at his home. He says Tony Sambroski, owner of the boarding house, struck him with a milk bottle. Blood spurted from a scalp wound, and flour was used by a storekeeper to stem the bleed. Sambroski had not been located by 3 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Perendna
Gregory Street
St. Vincent‘s Hospital
Tony Sambroski
Perendna
Bambroski
Boy Watched Doctor Stitch Hand After Window Break
Eleven year old James Stewart of 450 Broad Street sustained cuts to the back and fingers when a pole crashed through a plate glass window on Broad Street. He attempted to stop the pole and was cut by broken glass. Dr John Lerman at Emergency Hospital treated him with seven stitches, and he did not cry out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Stewart
Broad Street
James
John Lerman
Swan to Speak on Traffic Control Here
Herbert S. Swan of New York, a nationally known voting expert, is to speak at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday in Bridgeport. He has been commissioned to study traffic congestion and zoning, and his subject will be traffic control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Herbert S. Swan
New York
Bridgeport
Swen
Reporter Burglar Is Held For High Court
Raymond Emerson Delaney twenty six of 1044 Howard Avenue former insurance investigator and police reporter was bound over to the December term of the superior court under a bond of 96000 when arraigned before Judge William J Buckley In the City court yesterday charged with 19 burglary counts Unable to furnish the bond Delaney was taken to the county jail to await a hearing next month in the higher court Delaney s father came here from Wallingford Thursday and arranged with Attorney Hugh J Lavery to appear for his son but said he would be unable to furnish a bond for his release
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Emerson Delaney
Howard Avenus
William J. Buckley
Delaney
Ewalt
Wallingford
Hugh J. Lavery
Ill on Street Woman Stricken Along Benham Avenue
Mrs Lilley Merley aged nineteen of 21 High Street was stricken with hemorrhages while walking on Benham Avenue and taken to 272 Benham Avenue before an ambulance arrived. Dr Joan Lerman administered first aid and transferred her to Bridgeport Hospital where she is resting comfortably.
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Lilley Merley
High Street
Benham Avenue
City Ambulance
Joan Lerman
Mertey
Bridgeport Hospital
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