Surplus of 5 Million Aids State Finances in Fight Over Bonds
Hartford October report by expert accountants states the states surplus near 5 million is enough to fund all services and expand them plus finance highway construction. They argue no bonds needed this year and money can be used between sessions to meet demands, while debates raged over pay-as-you-go versus large bond issues for road building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
John H. Trumbull
Bridgeport
Abraham Lodge
Frederic C. Walcott
Norfolk
France
J. Edwin Brainard
Hartford
Florida
J. Henry Romiback
Trumbull
Department of State Finance and Control
Board Ofinance and Control
Hich
Board of Control
State Board of Finance
Edward F Hat
New Britain
Hall
Te Abinar
Pot Calling Kettle Black On Tariff Cobb
Cobb writes that the proverb pot calling the kettle black gains new life as the United States government scolds the French for a high tariff. The Oct 7 dispatch notes the shift in blame and the enduring image to describe tariff disputes.
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Pot
Cobb
Irvin
New York
United States
Bridgeport Man Hit by Auto as Driver Held
Bridgeport reports a 63 year old man struck by a hit and run driver. police hold suspect. Other notes include hospital director Klein pushing funds for a new hospital and various community events and local notices across pages 1 through 31.
Rebels Unite Under Gomez Banner In Mexico Action
Alliance announced between General Arnulfo Gomez and Adolfo De La Huerta against the Calles regime. Gomez directs thousands in Vera Cruz. De La Huerta, in Los Angeles, coordinates from exile. Rebels claim unity under Gomez as Huerta pledges support for freeing the Mexican people.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Arnulfo Gomez
Adolfo de la Huerta
Calles
Mexico
Alvaro Obregon
Gomez
Vera Cruz
de la Huerta
Los Angeles
Geranin Ugerte
Tlaxcala
Casaar Lopera de Lara
de la Muerta
Alfonso
Sonora
Callea
Southern Republic
United States
Huerta
Bhim
Man, 63, struck by car in Bridgeport. driver held
Peter McGrath 63 of 276 Congress street was hit at Boston avenue and Pembroke street yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Bridgeport hospital under observation for possible facial fracture and bruises. The driver August Volk 111 Ellington Street was arrested on reckless driving and held on $1,000 bond for city court. Volk claimed McGrath hesitated crossing and the rake McGrath carried struck the car. The case likely to be continued pending McGrath’s injuries.
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Bridgeport
Guto
College Club
Klein
Bridgeport Hospital
Tom Thumb
Bride
Read’s
Coon
St. Joan’s Church
Silane
Sanford
Kilpatrick
Atwater
Hall
Republican Club
Danish Society
Carnival Company
Good
Tanac W. Birdseye
Fairfield County Billadeia
Waterbury
White Hille
Huntington
Newtown
McLean
Rubber Works
Fairfield
Stratford
Connecticut
Hawley
Saya
Boston Avenue
Pembroke Street
Peter McGrath
Congress Street
Port Hospital
Volk
Ellington Street
McGrath
Bouton Avenue
Old Milligreen
Sweeney
Second Precinct
David Greenspun
Mrs Hawley Faces Prosecution Over False Oath Claim
Stratford residents await Stratford Town court actions after Raymond Hawley of Ocean Avenue Lordship is accused of illegally voting in the six month prior election. Everett B. Sniffen, defeated council candidate, swore the warrant and says he may present evidence of similar acts by Mrs Hawley. Bail plans and further arrests hinge on Hawley’s trial and ongoing voter investigations.
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Dee
Raymond Hawley
Ocean Avenue
Lordship
Stratford
Everett B. Sniffen
Hawley’srrest
Sniffen
Reymond Baicnth
Hawley
Lee
Stratford Town Court
People's General Committee
Baldwin speaks at Legion banquet on war end and peace
Premier Baldwin tells American Legion guests that Geneva armament talks could be settled by the people. He recalls 1917 American troops in London and warns war between Britain and the United States would ruin civilization, stressing peace is harder than war. Notable attendees include Earl Haig and other British officials.
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London
Associated Press
Baldwin
American Legion
Geneva
House of Lords Hall
Royal Galleries
Ambassador Houghton
Howard P. Savage
Legion
Houghton
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Meld Marshal Earl Haig
W. C. Bridgeman
Billadella murder trial testimony and paralyis notes
Four defense witnesses testified that John Billadella nineteen a state reform school inmate at Meriden and now held on murder charges differed in mental status from his victim Rose Bordino ten. Coroner examined and Billadella admitted a confession while the court considered its admissibility. In Haverhill Massachusetts the infantile paralysis outbreak grew with 12 known cases and 93 total, as serum treatment showed partial success but no cure yet. 13 deaths reported.
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Litchfield
Associated Presa
John Billadella
Rose Bordino
Billadella
State Reform School
Meriden
Frank H. Turkington
Leonard J. Nickerson
Edwin C. Dickenson
John R. Booth
Tormeys
Reform School
Ira W. Beecher
A Byrd
Edith Sawyer
Alice Edson
Billadela
Rose Bordini
Winsted
Superbey Court
Howard FP. Landon
Salisbury
Holcomb
Frank B. Munn
Haverhill
Mass
Associated Presse
Board of Health
Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission
Dempsey Breaks Mirror in Home Accident
Jack Dempsey, 50, of 75 Corredo Avenue, attempted to mimic his famed namesake and plunged into a mirror, injuring his hand. Ambulance and Dr. John Mayereik treated the cut at his home, with the patient later left at home. a brief struggle with the doctor occurred at entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Dempsey
Jack
John Mayereik
Dempsey
Police Storm Barricaded Room On Courtland Street
Francis Hughes barricaded himself on the third floor of a rooming house at 61 Courtland Street at midnight threatening police. He wrecked the rooms, kicked hinges, toppled plaster, and blocked stairs with furniture. After leaping from a third story window he was taken to St Vincent's hospital with a compound ankle fracture and possible internal injuries. Neighbors report Hughes had beaten his wife earlier after discovering she was with another man and then drank heavily. The page continues with further details on the incident.
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Courtland Street
Francis Hughes
Jorlock
Hughes
Onors
St Vincent's Hospital
Tarrytown
Yang Je
Beeo
Ube
Wausinkadeut
Connecticut milk regulation faces critique over infant safety
Dr. William Halt Coon of Bridgeport warns that current state and local milk rules fail to protect babies. He notes Connecticut allows sale of plain milk meeting only lax chemical and bacteriological standards, citing past and present infant death rates to argue for stronger licensing of producers and distributors. Local health authorities could gain powers to bar unsafe milk within cities.
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William Halt Coon
Pfncer
Bridgeport
Assiatant
E.G. Averill
Branley H. Ophorn
State
Commissioner of Health
Coon Bald
Coon
Ity
Acid attack shuts Superior Shirt plant in Derby
Damage from vandals splashed acid on shirts stock and materials at the Superior Shirt company causing an estimated loss of 16 000 to 90 000. Owner Edwid Abrams says the plant employed about a hundred people and will remain closed through Monday. He is uninsured and believes the act involved multiple unknown attackers possibly connected to labor troubles in the trade.
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Derby
Qet
Superior Shirt Company
Edwid Abrams
Abrams
New York
Mr. Abrams
Reward Offered for Capture of Motorist
Fairfield October 7 Special Correspondent The Board of Selectmen at its meeting offered a 200 cash reward for the capture of the hit and run driver responsible for striking Tax Assessor Clarence Bradley on the Post road in Southport. Bradley aged twenty five is in cast and resting comfortably. He has served as assessor in Fairfield for more than thirty years.
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Pairfield
Board of Sefect
Town Hall
Clarence Bradley
Post Road
Southport
British girl 24 swims English Channel in eighth attempt
Miss Mercedes Gietz, a 24 year old London typist, finally completed the English Channel swim on her eighth try. She paddled from Cape Gris Nez to Dover in 16 hours 15 minutes, reaching a low beach near Saint Margarets Bay north of Folkestone. Exhausted, she collapsed and was treated on shore. She described the sea as smooth despite dense fog and cold.
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Folkestone
England
Associated Press
Mercedes Ciets
London
English
Cape Girls Nez
France
Saint Margareth's Bay
South Foreland
Here
Miss Giletz
Amooth
Miss Gietz
Gertrude Ederle
New York
Cape Griz Nez
Dover
Clemington Corson
Mille Gade
Mids Gretz
Polling Places Arouse Insurgents In Republican Fight
Insurgent groups threaten injunctions to block polling sites seen as unsuitable by the Young Men's Republican club. Kilpatrick and Alfred W. Burdick clash over using district club rooms versus schools for the October 17 primaries. Polls open later with longer hours urged to help women with children vote, citing steep stairs and single entrances at clubrooms.
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Young Men's Republican Club
W. F. D. Kiipatrick
Kilpatrick
Wir. Burdick
Statia
Grant 3rd Bucks Police Official Casts Kindness Action
Washington Oct 7 Lieut Col A G Grant 3rd director of public buildings and parks upheld a park policeman J B Lawler who asked a married woman to lower her skirt on a park bench Mrs Ross W Keller 28 said she was greatly embarrassed Grant said Lawler acted with courtesy and duty and that circumstances govern such cases The incident involved a public admonition to a woman drawing attention in the park
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U. S. Grant
Bucks
Washington
Associated Press
Col. A. & Grant
Mra
Kel
Pennock Shuts Pirates in World Series Game Three
Babe Ruth belted his first series homer as Herb Pennock dominated the Pirates, holding them to three hits over seven innings. The Yankees prevailed 2 to 1 at Yankee Stadium, moving within three wins of the title as the Pirates struggled to solve Pennock's left arm and the Yankee defense sparkled.
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Remus
Grayson
Maine
Rhode Island
Bud- Tong
Beach
Haverhill
Fot
Kettle Black
Cobb
Self
Berlin
Baldwin
Legion
Gomez
Wiliem Lyon Phelps
Yankees
Pirates
Herb Pennock
Ruth
Homer Conroy
Harding
Bommy Loughran
Mike McTigue
Steve Smith
Pep O'Mien
Armory Card
Jess
Herbert Pennock
New York Yankees
Yankee Stadium
Pefinock
Yanks
Boston Red Sox
New York
Pereball Yard
Bronx
Ple
Traynor
Sherply
Pennock
Bes
Barnhart
Lloyd Waser
Kennett Square
Philadelphia
Herb
Pannogsk
George Herman
Babe Ruth
Koenig
Connie
HM Te
Pirate
Lee Meadows
Carmen Hill
Ed Barrow
Meadows
Geurig
Dugan
Mark Koenig
Baston Braves
Philadelphia Athletics
Giants
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Associated
State Board of Finance and Control Re
U. S
Dalles
E. F
Biladella
Samuel A. Herman
Munn
Iowa
Pittée
Hurgh
Seved
Damon Bunyon
Ooh
Pittburgh Pirates
Foxen
Tristes
Otii
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