Enormous Week End Fire Destroys Bristol Buildings
Fire swept Bristol Connecticut early Sunday, destroying seven wooden structures including a bank mill and two barns, with losses estimated at $100,000 and one firefighter injured. Volunteers guarded smouldering ruins as upper floors and blocks collapsed, origins traced to a rear barn near Main Street and the A B Milburn mill.
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Middlebury
Bristol
Mainstreet
A. B. Milbourn
Varn
Siece Salon
Quinlan and
N. PF. Dunephee
Quinlan and Wright
New England Telephone Company
Rioters Arrested After Worcester Klan Rally Disturbance
Police moved on a large crowd in Worcester Massachusetts after a Ku Klux Klan rally at the New England Fair Grounds last night. Three arrests were reported with several other potential arrests anticipated as officers investigated injuries, automobile damage and disturbances that followed.
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Worcester
Mass
New England Fair Grounds
Strangest Guest In Police Cell
The black wire haired Scotch terrier was picked up near Courtland Street and Fairfield Avenue by a unnamed kind woman. The dog hampered traffic with jumping and barking and was jailed for obstructing traffic. The animal faces charges of parading without a dog license. Lieutenant Arthur L. Prow puzzled over classifying the unusual prisoner.
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Courtland Street
Fairfled Avenue
Ale
Arthur L. Prow
Shenandoah Returns Across Continent From Camp Lewis
The Navy airship Shenandoah left its mooring mast at 12 10 p m on a return journey across the continent from Camp Lewis Washington. A dense fog delayed the start and Seattle was briefly considered before re routing south. Rear Admiral William A Moffett, who sailed on the ship, will not make the return flight.
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Camp Lewis
Washington
Associated Press
San Diego
Calit
Seattle
Willam A. Moffett
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics
Shenandoah
Bullet riddled body found in Canal near Long Beach
Casimiro Bennato, 45, a GQ factory worker, was found shot four times and weighted with iron on the tank of an abandoned canal near Long Beach Onondaga lake resort. He crawled to the bank and died. Police seek motive as investigation continues.
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Syracuse
Long Beach
Onondaga Lake
Casimiro Bennato
Bennato
Girl Parachutist Killed At Woosten Amusement Park
Miss Montia Le May of St Paul Alvin, a parachute jumper, died in Woosten Texas after she leaned from a palloon over a local amusement park and her parachute failed to open this afternoon.
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Woosten
Tex
Montia le May
St. Paul
Alvin
Three Men Held Charged in Textile Robbery Plots
Police hold Carlos Fratteullo Frank DeMarco and Fred Abbott on breach of peace charges after confessing to robbing Salt's Textile Manufacturing on Kossuth Street last Thursday night and two earlier raids. They admitted planning and executing the thefts and implicated four others as accomplices. Goods valued in the thousands were taken, then shipped to a fence in New York state for about fifty cents a yard. Police aim to recover most of the loot.
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Salt
Kossuth Street
Atock
Carlos Fratteullo
Nichola Street
Frank DeMarco
Steuben Street
Fred Abbott
Nichols Street
New York State
Piace
John A .Ragan
Detective Bureau
Stratford Seeks Health Officer Over Town Hall Heating Crisis
Stratford officials appeal to County Health Officer James A. Marr as the town hall suffers from a freezing 50 degree interior. Town Health Officer De Tuyter Howland notes corrosion in the boiler and ongoing installation of a replacement boiler will take time. Clerks and staff in offices, including Board of Education rooms, rely on electric heaters and stoves as temperature remains frigid. Health officials say closing the building is unlikely. steps will be taken to provide emergency heat until normal heat resumes.
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Slratford
Cby
Aome
Board of Education
Howland
County Hiealth
May Morehouse
Trains Collide Killing Two and Wounding Seventy Five
Two people are dead and 75 injured after a rear end collision on the Niagara Falls Buffalo High Speed Line at Ellicott Creek Tonawanda involving two interurban trains. Miss Florence Devery of Philadelphia died. most severe injuries were in the second section’s first car. Passengers from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, many from Philadelphia, were on five cars returning to Philadelphia from Niagara Falls.
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Buffalo
N. Ys
International Railway
Niagara Falls
Ellicott Creek
Tonawanda
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Florence Devery
North Tonawanda
Bridgeport Sees More Men Among First Voters in Novel Election Roll
Bridgeport adds 8 776 new voters for the forthcoming presidential election with 2 0 66 men and 1 7 16 women sworn in New voters by district show men dominating in most divisions eight districts list single numbers include 87 men 69 women in twelfth district 867 men 269 women four other districts report varying totals to date total applications 4 562 with 88 men and 404 women failing to appear for sworn eligibility.
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Bridgeport
Omcials
Firth
Thomas Flynn former Bridgeport gate man dies at 81
Thomas F Trynn longtime Bridgeport businessman and former owner of the Connecticut Cafe on Wall Street died yesterday at 81. He leaves wife two sons Joseph and Robert and two daughters Mrs William Mella and Margaret Flynn. He chaired local liquor dealer groups and belonged to several civic and fraternal organizations. Funeral Wednesday at 9 from his home and 9 from Blessed Sacrament Church with a high requiem mass. Burial in Michael's Cemetery.
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Thomas F. Trynn
Neaview Avenue
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Lodge
P.O. E
Emmet Club
John C. Tuthil Camp
Holy Name Society of the Blessed Sacrament Church
Connecticut Cafe
Wall Street
Bridgeport Liquor Dealers Association
Connecticut State, Liquor Dealers Association
Hospitals in Connecticut named by Surgeons' College survey
After surveying 88 Connecticut hospitals, the American College of Surgeons will announce that 20 meet the conference standards. The effort, led by Dr. Franklin H. Martin, covers hospitals with 50 to over 100 beds including Bridgeport Danbury Stamford Hartford New Haven and several others.
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New Haven
Clinical Congress of the
American College of Surgeons
Canada
Franklin H. Martin
General College
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Hospital
Danbury Hospital
Middletown
New Britain
Greenwich Hospital
Hertford Hospital
Hospital of St. Raphael
Lawrence and Memorial Association
New London
Meriden Hospital
Middlesex Hospital
Midletown
New Britain Hospital
New Haven Hospital
St. Francisospital
Hartford
St. Mary's Hospital
Waterbury
St. Winderit
Wospital
Stemford Hospital
Hunter Shot Wounding Youth Near Stratford Woods
Stratford Oct 19 Charles Sickler 16 of Bridgeport is recovering in Bridgeport Hospital after being struck by shot from an unidentified hunter in woods off Surf avenue. He walked to Patsy D Andrea’s Avon Park home for help. two hunters were seen nearby earlier. Doctors report 38 pellets lodged in his legs and groin but condition not dangerous.
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Stratford
Charles Sickler
Central Avysnue
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Hopital
Brunter
Surf Avenue
Robert EB. Phelan
Patsy D' Andrea
Avon Park
Avon Park District, Wherg Sickler Went For Assistance After Being Shot. Sickler
di Andrea'a
Sickler
Slickler
Theatre Panic Kills 25 in Athens Stampede
Twenty five persons were killed and eighteen injured in a stampede at a moving picture house in Athens caused by a false alarm of fire. Most victims were children. Authorities believe pickpockets raised the alarm.
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Alhens
Preas
Athens
Cice
Fourth R religion urged by city clergy for public schools
City pastors urged religious education as an optional study for public school children. The plan envisions Weekday Church Schools in five districts serving grades 1 through 8, with a trained supervisor and five-day sessions at the end of the school day. A budget of 7260 dollars is requested for this year, with hopes for 2000 in the next church year.
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C. C. Marshall
First Episcopal Church
The
United Church
William H. Day
Day
Council of Churches
Bridgeport
Northeast
Southeast
Central
Northend
West End
Lighted Match Beats Bandits in Riveting Hold-Up Escape
Ray J. Odetts of 3% Clinton Avenue reports two youths attempted a Saturday night hold-up at Railroad and Fairfield avenues. He lit a match to expose the thief, fooled the assailant, and escaped with his watch intact as the pair fled. Police acknowledge the unusual evasion puzzled veteran detectives.
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Ray J. Odetts
Clinton Avenue
Detective Bureau
Odetto
Railroad and
Fairfield Avenues
Shain
Odette
Rah
Alm
Suspect Held in Daring Gas Station Holdups
Charles Naple, 29, of 108 Wallace Street New Haven, is held on bonds and to be transported for charging as the alleged gas station hold-up man linked to multiple robberies in New Haven. Federal authorities offer a reward for capture amid drug smuggling probes, while police push for identification and case solvability.
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Charles Naple
Wallace Street
New Haven
Naple
North End
John Regan
Naaple
Motorman Arrested After Victim's Death
Stamford reports the death of John Haff age 77 after being struck by a Connecticut company Meycar car. Motorman Charles MacMunis was arrested on a technical manslaughter charge and held in $2,500 bond. Haff suffered severe scalp wounds from the impact while walking on Hope Street.
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Stamford
John Haff
Hope Street
Connecticut
Meycar
Charles MacMunis
Haff
Springdale
High Officials Revealed in Ku Klux Klan Black Book
A Connecticut chapter report discloses names ranks and addresses of Klan leaders in Connecticut and Rhode Island. The Black Book lists exalted cyclops kleagles and officials, with details of their residences and offices, including Stamford Middlesex Hartford and West Hartford. Details include names such as Eisagies, Geor Pike, Harry Baker and Samuel Merrin with addresses and post office boxes.
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Ku Klux Klan
Connecticut
Order
Rhode Island
G-1
Aden
Klan
Cyclops
Eisagies
Kleagles
Connecti
Stamford
Clint Georg Pike
Ous P
Slenbrook
Keagle
Harry Baker
Main Street
Baker
Samuel Merrin
Franklin Direct
Kieagle
Middlesex
Hartford
Hartford County
Ferris
Capitol City
RL Richards Street
West Hartford
Blanty Stanford
George W
Dennis Arrested on Three Motor Charges
Charles O Dennis of 68 Randall Avenue was arrested yesterday by Motorcycle Officer Sullivan of the Fourth Precinct on reckless driving evading responsibility and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor He figures in an automobile accident last Ros He was released on bonds of
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Charles O. Dennis
Randall Avenue
Sulivan
Fourth Precinct
Quer
Dennis
Bonds
Hisses Halt Attack at Democratic Rally Over Socialist Threats
The Democratic rally in the Em theatre was interrupted by 68 hisses as William English Walling, Democratic congressional candidate, labeled Schuyler Mi rit as a “thorough reactionary.” Walling defended his charges, claimed Socialist opposition is minimal, and warned against Labor Socialist influence while praising La Follette coalition partners. He condemned Reds and Pinks and asserted unity with Samuel Gompers on cooperation.
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Congressman Schuyler
Miritt
William English Walling
Congres
Prise
Ton
Walling
Bocholgt
la Follette
Hanaful'ok
Ena
Labor Union
Washington
LaFollette
LaFollete
Samuel W. Tator
Stata Latehlette
Jasper McLevy
Gok
Labor
Lavor Hay
Samdst
Gompers
Paign
Unidentified trolley victim dies after struck in Norwalk
An unidentified man about 80 years old was struck by a Norwalk trolley near Greens Farm and died at Norwalk hospital. Coroner to hold inquest at 10:15 AM in South Norwalk City Hall. Police and Connecticut Company seek victim identity. few personal items found.
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Westport
Tess' Gram Servier
Post Road
Norwalk Hospital
H. Huntington
de Ywras
John J. Phelan
South
Norwalk
Connecticut
Ingside Drive
Greens Farn
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N. Y
St. Windsor
Thompsonville
New York
St. Nicholas Avenue
Hallaway
Joseph B. Martin
Windsor
Vel
Shenandoar
Canal
Stratford Council
Marr
Niagara
Erie County Hospital
Thomas F. Flynn
Surgeons’ College
Week Day Church
Christ
Bandits
F. H. Johnson
Capitol Avenue
Merritt
Beatere
Claude
Trolley Victin
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