Merger Rumors Persist On Waterbury Brass Firms
Reports claim Beovitl Mfg and Chase Co of Waterbury may merge with Bridgeport Brass and Copper and Western mining interests. Officials from Chase and Seavill deny talks as possible early 1930s consolidation looms, with Bridgeport Brass named but not confirmed.
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Waterbury
Beovitl Mfg.Co
Chase Companies
Brass and Copper Company
N. Y
West
Chase
Seavill Companies
Milford man found dead after forest fire near Brunt Plain
Milford resident John Gammon, about 45, was found dead in an orchard adjoining Frank N. Platt’s Brunt Plain road farm after a forest fire swept the area. Medical Examiner Wy. Fisher ruled death due to heart trouble or apoplexy, noting the body was found amid burned brush with clothing burned but not charred. Gammon had been sent to fetch cows and did not return, prompting a search that located him at 3:30 a.m. amid the scorched plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milford
John Cadamon
Frank N. Platt
Brunt Plain
Cadamon
Wy. Fisher
Gammon
Harrys Livie
Kivie
Pisher
Anderson 70 to Be Re-Arrested on Leaving Prison
New York November 21. William H Anderson former superintendent of the Antisaloon League in New York is re arrested on pending indictments as he leaves Sing Sing on parole. Bench warrants will be served on release. Other indictments allege extortion of 2506 and 1357 in separate cases. Burtsalk Phillips, former chief field collector, is accused of taking 4578.14 from the league and 1750 in another instance.
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New York
Ofdale
William H.anderosn
Anti- Saloon League
Apat Anderson
Burtsalk Phillips
Ghief
Yale Heavy Favorite to Conquer Harvard Today
Yale enters the Yale Bowl as a heavy favorite over Harvard in a headline clash that tests the season’s upended psychology and team form. Yale carries prestige from an undefeated run, while Harvard’s steadier schedule and talent promise a spirited contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
Harvard
Fanec Laree
Merritt Seen Winning GOP Senate Nomination on First Ballot
Stamford wire reports Whittaker predicts Congressman Merritt will secure the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on the first ballot. He cites rising support across the state, especially outside Fairfield County, and dismisses fears of a special election defeating Merritt.
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Stamford
Wellgram Service
Howett
Whittaker
Achuyler Merritt
Merritt
U.S
Meritt
Gore
Fairfield County
House of Representatives
Stam
Ford
Coroner Clears Son in Death of Mother
Coroner Samuel A Hermur rules son John Lavieri not to blame in the death of his mother Mrs Sarmaine Lavieri killed when the automobile he operated lost control on Lake street hill and overturned.
Manchester Officer Injured in Stratford Hold-Up
Reports say Patrolman Edward Manchester of the Stratford Police Department is seriously hurt after a Saturday night shooting near the Towers of the Davey Brothers store on Barnum Avenue. Officials fear for his recovery as he remains in Stridgeport hospital described as decidedly weaker.
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Sridgeport Hospital
Edward Manchester
Stratford Polices Gepartment
Davey Brothers
Bar
Num Avenue
Rain May Mar Play Lineup Confusion and Weather Forecast
The text lists a confused lineup for Harvard versus Yale with multiple mis-spellings and names, mentioning Dean Coady Sturhabn Greenough Dunker Butterworth Linder Beals Stafford Traan Sayles Miller Allen and Jissees. It notes a two o'clock start and predicts inclement weather likely forcing play in mud like last year at Cambridge.
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Harvard Bingham Se
Dean
Toss
Coady Sturhabn
Theopold Lovejay
Greenough Root
Dunker
Butterworth
Linder
Beals
Stafford Traan
Gonehoe
Sayles
Miller Allen Jissees
Cambridge
Rein
The
Crimson
Yale
Bridgeport Fans Gather for Yale Bowl Day Festivities
Bridgeport prepares for the Yale-Harvard game with many dinner dances and social events. Traffic control and police aid will manage thousands of fans traveling to New Haven while 70 patrolmen and state police assist. Dirty trains and delayed mail were reported as fans crowded the New Haven road.
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Bridgeport
Yale Athletic Association
John Field
Yale
Nathaniel Wheeler
Police Department
Yale Bowl
Bernard Scully
Charles Myatt
Hanford W. Bigelow
New Haven
Brooklawn Country Club
John C. Hawley
Algonquin Club
New York Orceat
Yale-Harvard
Stratford
Blew Wleanor Willey
University Club
Football Games Broadcast Today Across Multiple Radio Stations
Radio stations will carry live play by play for the Yale Harvard game from New Maven at 5 p.m. on WYZ and 1 p.m. on WGY and WAP and 2:40 p.m. on WEEI. Carnegie Tech versus Quantico Marines airs at 2:30 p.m. on EDICA. Rutgers versus Bucknell at 4 p.m. on WIP. Detroit WCAP will report the Iowa versus Michigan game results at 2 p.m.
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Yale-Farvard
New Maven
WYZ
WGY
WEEI
WPBH
WCAP
EDICA
Carnegie ~ Tech—Quantico Marines
Rutgers
Bucknell
WWJ
Detroit
Iowa
Michigan
Charity campaign press drives volunteers to canvass
Community Chest drive reports 47 791 90 in cash and pledges bringing total to 262 356 03 while $350 000 goal looms. Reinforcements urged as divisions face large targets including Public Service and Industrial. Major gifts from General Electric Amerfagh Bridgeport brands and local clubs cited. final push planned Monday night at 6 30 in Strat field.
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Raiiy
Tomorrony
Industr AL Ny
Public Service
Vimplove
Indivi
General’ Electric Company
Amerfagh Chain Company
Bridgeport Brags
Bridgeport
Bullard Machine Tool Company
Jenkins “Valve
Arthur
Watson
If. D Baker
Broad Street
Stratfield
Coxen
Roosevelt
Llman
Brooklawn Avenue
Delphian Society Plana
Ee ‘Misa Frances Baker
New York
Officials warn Syracuse pupils to avoid rides with strangers
Syracuse police chief Martin Catlin urged principals to warn girls after several kidnapping complaints. The note targets after school pedestrians who flag down cars, citing danger from predatory drivers and traffic risks.
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Syracuse
Martin, Catlin
Scher Catlin
Trath
Hartford Girl Killed in Midnight Canal Crash
Catherine Marble 18 of Wast ford was killed when the car she rode plunged through a fence into a Hartford reservoir canal near Hartford-Parmington road in West Hartford. Driver Charles A Hodgeman 19 of Wesleyan University Middletown broke a leg. Celia McCarty and Colewell Thomins, also in the car, were unharmed. The car slid on wet pavement as another vehicle approached, the canal containing only 14 inches of water. Marble was crushed beneath the car.
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Hartford
Catherine Marble
Wastford
Hartford-Parmington Road
West Hartford
Charles A. Hodgeman
Wesleyan University
Middle Town
Célia, McCarty
Colewell Thomin
Wesleyan
Ticket Speculator Held in New Haven
In New Haven on November 21, Samuel Lazarus was arrested for ticket speculation at the Yale Harvard football game. He allegedly sold two tickets for $30 to a patrolman, resisted arrest, and was captured after a pursuit. Bail was set at $300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NW Haven
Samuel Lazarus
Lagarus
Unsafe Stamford police quarters condemned as unsanitary
Health Commissioner Raymond Tear and city officials ordered the lower tier of the Stamford lockup closed after an inspection found the area unsanitary and a fire hazard. The investigation cited crowding and dangerous conditions, with a new police building expected as a result.
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Stamford
Tele
Raymond ‘D. Tear
Mm. D
Samuel, Youn
Victor Veit
Charles H. Martin
Walter Kreller
West
Health Commissioner
Inepetus
Police Department
Canadian Peer's Son Sentenced for Manslaughter
Leonard Reid, son of the late St William Reid, was found guilty of manslaughter by a Supreme Court jury in St John’s. He received a 12 month imprisonment for causing a September accident that killed six veterans, including Captain J. Withtty and Lieutenant W. King, as his car struck a line of Newfoundland veterans.
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JTOMN
N. Fy
Leonard Reid
St William Reid
Reid-Newfoundland Railroad
Supreme Court
First Newfoundland Regiment
Reid
G. J. Withtty
Great War Veterans’ Association
William King
St. Johnia
Held
Newfoundland
Pekari in Critical Condition at Milford Hospital
Charles J Pekari aged 80, on behalf of the Beneficial Loan Society of 946 Main Street, remains in critical condition after swallowing mercury tablets while en route to answer a charge of embezzlement. A guard has attended his bedside since Tuesday at Milford Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Pe 1Kari
Ansner
BeneGcial Loan Society
Main Street
Milford Hospital
Cremation Report Indicates Woman Died Before Fire
In Columbus the preliminary chemist report on Mrs Addie Shearsley 50 found in the furnace of Christ Lutheran church parsonage Bexley shows she was dead before cremation No carbon monoxide trace found in three ounces of lung blood tests and intense congestion noted in lungs, no gas poisoning detected.
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Columbus
Ohio
Addie Shearsley
Christ Lutheran Church
Bexley
John R. King
T.ac. Long
Mr.Long
Sheathley
Mr. Long
Bridgeport News Roundup Highlights Local Events
In Bridgeport local notices report fundraising target of 350000 for Community Chest with 38000 needed today. Other items note court actions, marriages, politics, and social events across Fairfield County and state pages.
Stratfield Chimney Fire Causes Over $100 Damage
A chimney fire at the home of Joseph Strolin on Melville Avenue in Melville caused more than 100 dollars in damage. Firefighters used chemicals in the chimney which leaked into rooms, damaging furniture. The blaze, attributed to a clogged chimney, took about an hour to control.
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Strayeleld
Joseph Strolin
Mel- Vile
Avenue
Ricker Seeks Head of Religion Education Post
Bridgeport High School physics chief Josaua M. Ricker is a candidate for the religious education superintendent role to be formed January 5. The Board of Education faces objections, with Havens denying Ricker remains director of research despite reports. A subcommittee reviews candidates led by Rev. William B. McDermott as officials weigh qualifications and the role’s $1,800 annual pay after an initial term.
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Everest Cortright
Toys
Ricker
Board of Education
Episcopal
William RB. McDermott
Washington Park M. E
First Methodist Church
Bieker
Lsst
Ehat He
Wilmer H.havans
Mgr. Ricker
Attrain
Red Catherine Denounced Plans Lecture Tour Overseas
Rolando Boecklin, former Italian communist official now in Litchfield, says the Hungarian countess nicknamed Red Catherine has gained entry to America to lecture and incite revolution among Hungarian Americans. The Sunday Post prints an exclusive interview revealing much of her past.
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Catherine
Frontier Natir
God Front
Italy
Bolsheviern
America
Rolando Boecklin
Wascist
Litchfield
Hoecklin
Mrs. Harding Dies at White Oak Farm After Illness
Mrs. Harding, widow of former President Warren G. Harding, died at 8:35 a.m. at the Sawyers home near Marion Ohio after several weeks of illness. A military guard will attend her interment beside her husband’s tomb at a future ceremony at Fort Thomas Kentucky. Funeral services are to be conducted by Rev. Jesse Swank at Epworth Methodist Church with Rev. George M. Landis assisting.
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Harding Aled
Carlie Sawye
G. Sh. Sawyent Harding
Josh Deen
Severa
White Oak ‘Farm
Sawye
United States
Todas
Athy
Attia
Walter Lee Sheffer
Fort
Thomas
Kentucky
Dent
Jesse Swank
Harding
Epworth Moist Episcopal Church
Swank
George’ M. Landis
Trinity Baptist Church
Iate
France approves American loan of 400 million dollars
Paris reports the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies pass a loan bill backed by American financiers led by J. P. Morgan and Company. The 10 billion franc loan runs for years at seven percent and aims to accelerate postwar recovery amid debate over urgency and repayment.
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France
Paris
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Tonighky Yatsey
American Finenerial
Chambal of Deputies
Mous
Herriot
Tamuru
Clement
Morgan Teresa
Parliamen
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Chase Companies and
Rome
N.Y
Brass Co
Western ‘Lines
Bridgeport Brass
Amistican Brass Company
Waterpury
Bridgeport Brass Company
Carl H. Dietz
Furre
Jack Maher
Awreert Reed
Fale
Crimson Eleven
Manchester
Pekari
Millford
Fairfield
Woeburgh
Norwalk
Marion
Sing Sing
Page
Mogic
Ohgerveds Schwab
Stewe Sauron
Eise
Rum “Gatp
Mner
Ince
Arnuserme
Haysett Tor
Bagbag Colony
Aitesia
Prizven Terme
Canadien Paer
Yrance
Zeppelin
Germany
Antions
London
Washington
Pace
Fage
Lle
Beavigh
Chicago
Jamie Steady
Yale Wmbde
Warvard
Kalu
Page Jy
Bridgeport High
Holy Rosary High
Holyoky
Danny Karmer
Kid Kaplan
Louhardy
Religion Glasses
Havens
Sunday Post
Education Board
Bridge
Associated Press
Plac
Warren G Ing
Sens
Elmer H. Havens
Fadue Iter
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