Lawyer in Court for First Time in Quarter Century
Theodore Schroeder of Greenwich returns to court in a property dispute over a right of way from 36 acres in North Mianus. He cites historic deeds and colonial rights while Samuel W. Taylor and others contest his claim. judges consider long non usage to extinguish any old rights.
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Theodore Schroeder
Greenwich
John J. Walsh
Ely
I Court of Common Pleas
Schroader
Thomas 7. Ryto
Wisconsin
New York State
North
Mianus
Schroeder
Samuel W. Taylor
Mr. Schroeder
Addiion
John E. Knapp
Community Club Meetings List Across Bridgeport Venues
A rundown of tonight meetings across Bridgeport venues including Main Street locations and group names such as B P O H, State Armory, Zitherclub, Brotherhood of America chapters, F of A, IL of P, Mas Sonic Temple, I O O F, Morning Star, Pattern Makers, Metal Polishers, Ladies groups, and other fraternal and service organizations. Residents are urged to attend at 1 Bridgeport lodge and various halls along Broad Street Cannon Street and 181 State Street.
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Main Stream
Bridgeport Lodge
State Street
Bridgeport Rifle Club
State Armory
Bridgeport
Massonic Temple
Meensterberg Lodge
Fidelity Rebekah Lodge
Broad
Cannon Streets
Morning Star Lodge
O S&s
Main Street
Pattern Makers
Tas Howe Jr
Broad Street
Lincoln Circle
Ladies of the Grand Army
Blenda Lodge
O. of V
Cannon Street
Farren Lodgs
Broad Streat
Siznet Chapter
KR. A. M
Court
Walling Endorsed by Las Otlette Club Leader
Alderman Gerald A. Fitegerald, president of the Las Otlette club, announced last night that his group has endorsed William English Walling, Democratic congressional nominee.
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Gerald A. Fitegerald
Wiliam English
Walling
Stratford Democrats Organize Into Club
Stratford Democrats organize into a club with over 70 members enrolled at the initial meeting. Temporary officers were elected including John F. Lyon as vice chairman and Mrs. Harry Wilcoxson as secretary and treasurer. Plans call for at least three rallies before election day and a follow up meeting next Tuesday evening to complete the permanent organization.
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Stratford
Stratford Democratic Club
Democratic Town Committee
Organiz-Ion
John F. Lyon
Mra
Harry Wilcoxson
Timothy A. Ryan
Naval officer witness in oil lease case in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles United States District Court began testimony in the government suit to cancel the lease and contracts of naval air reserve properties to Pan American Petroleum and Transport. Commander H A Stuart, former naval officer in charge of naval fuel oil reserves, testified to Navy policy disagreements and his removal from office. Documentary evidence included Taft withdrawal orders and Harding executive action transferring administration of the navy oil reserves to the Interior Department.
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Los Angeles
United States District Court
Naval Air Reserve
Pan-American, Petroleum and Transport Company
Awhich E. L. Doheny
Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Interior
H. A. Stuart
U. S
Naval Tuel
Washington
Owen J. Roberts
Roberts
Stuart
Navy Department
Navy
Taft
Wile Hills Oi
Harding
Department of the Interior
Ghost of wife spurs police hunt for missing man and funds
A missing man named Zydron, reportedly wealthy with two thousand dollars, vanishes after a suspected foul play linked to a ghostly threat. His wife Mrs Zydron fears trouble from the late Mrs Zydron as police search for him and the cash, aided by brief help from their children.
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New York
Poland
Zydron
Campton
Mra
Mrs Zydron
Sue
Brand of Polish Banned After Explosion in Stamford
In Stamford Fire Chief Victor Veit banned sale of Black enn modern benzoin squid stove polish after a stove explosion. Mrs Vincenzo Mercadante and three children narrowly escaped injury when applying the product before lighting the fire. police tested the polish and found it highly inflammable. The chief ordered immediate prohibition of its sale in the city.
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Stamford
Teleeotam. Service
Victor Veit
Vincenzo Mercadante
Rose Park Avenue
Mercadante
Veit
West
Party leaders back Wen for Election Day
District moderators for section day and the aids for voting machines will be named today or tomorrow on Republican and Democratic recommendations. The first voting machine will be shipped to polling places tomorrow afternoon, per Town Clerk Joseph Wieler. New voters will learn machine use Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week.
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Joseph Wieler
Doumergue Commutes Shattuck Robbery Convict
Paris October 22 President Doumergue commuted the death sentence of Alphonse Gabriel Mourey to life imprisonment with hard labor. Mourey had been convicted of multiple crimes including participation in the Shattuck home robbery of the retired New York banker Albert R. Shattuck.
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Paris
Associated Press
Doumergue
Lfe
Alphonse Gabriel Mourey
Albert R. Shattuck
New York
Last tribute paid to Admiral Scott in London church
Hundreds braved a biting wind in Parliament Square to pay tribute to Admiral Sir Percy Scott at St Margaret's Westminster funeral services attended by the King and admiralty. The body will be cremated and ashes consigned to the sea tomorrow.
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London
Percy Scott
Parliament Square
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Admiralty
Failure in School Girl Takes Her Life at Caney Island
Vera Zickman a 16 year old girl, distressed by poor marks, walked into the surf off Caney Island and drowned. Earlier she attempted to swallow iodine in a crisis attempt but was revived. A witness reported her disappearance to police.
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New York
Vera Zickman
Caney Island
Baseball Tourists Arrive in Britain in Liverpool
Oct 22 The New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox arrive in Liverpool to begin a series of exhibition games in England. The teams, fresh from Montreal, kept to shipboard routines with space cleared for eight pitchers and regular arm loosening sessions.
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Liverpool
New York Gants
Cheago White Sox
England
Montrova
Montreal
Systematia
Storm Warning Advisory For Tropical Storm Near 29 30 N 76 W
Weather Bureau advisory reports a tropical storm near 29 30 North and 76 West moving east northeastward. Caution advised for vessels between 25 and 32 North and 65 and 73 West during the next six hours.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Flay
Queen Louise of Denmark Ill With Diminished Strength
Copenhagen Oct. 22 AP. Dowager Queen Louise of Denmark remains ill with weaker respiration and deteriorating general condition. Official statement confirms her health has not improved.
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Copenhagen
Associated Press
Neen Louise
Denmark
Overcrowding at Middletown Institution Cited by Director
The director reports 110 inmates from criminal courts while Middletown Institution operates at 3 695 capacity, seeking legislative funds for new buildings. He notes hospitals admit patients legally. many inmates are feigned sane by visitors, with habeas corpus cases filed daily. Seventy percent of admitted inmates are initially deemed incurable, but about 22 percent are sent home recovered and 21 percent show marked improvement.
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Middletown
Courta
Federal Court
Bankers and Businessmen Fund La Follette Opposition
Testimony shows C P Finages gave 6100 and 10000 to campaigns through committees while Samus L Vandlan of Baldwin Locomotive Works cited 6160 personal funds and 10900 from his firm to the American Economic League. Witnesses named other large donors as hearings probe campaign finance and tariff influence.
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Samus
L. Vandlan
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Aiso
Julius Kruttjchnitz
Southern Pacific Rairoad
Vauslain
Lafollette
Wisconsin
Congress
Coolidge
Full Dinner Pail Assured by G O P Col Wood
Col H R Wood of Hartford told 300 Polish attendees at a Republican rally in St Michael's Hall that victory for Coolidge and Dawes would bring a full dinner pail for four years. He cited Connecticut's debt decline under Republicans and warned of past panics and unemployment, comparing tariffs to dykes protecting American workers.
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Calvin Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
H, BR. Wood
Hartford
St. Michael's Genoal Hall
Wood
New “Connecticut
Cleveland
Holland
Prosperous whaling in the South Atlantic
The Falkland Islands whaling grounds lead global profits with floating factories at sea to process blubber. About twenty boats operated that year, yielding 2,000,000 barrels of oil from around 5,000 whales worth roughly 2 million dollars.
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Falkuand
South Atlantic Ocean
Kipling's Daughter Elsie Wed Diplomat in London
Miss Elsie Kipling daughter of Rudyard Kipling married Captain George Bambridge honorary attache of the British legation at Brussels at St Margaret's church Westminster A reception followed at Stanley Baldwin's Eaton Square home loaned for the occasion
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London
Elsie Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
St. Marsgaret’s Church
Westminster
Capt
George Bambridge
Brussels
Stanley Baldwin
Eaton Square
District Rallies Set by Town Committee in Republicans Meet
The Republican Town committee will meet tomorrow night at Republican headquarters in a Liberty building. Alfred W. Burdick says district rallies will be arranged with district chairmen. The Finance committee meets tonight to allocate funds if the campaign fund is adequate. German voters plan a rally October 31 in Schwabben hall. The next city-wide rally is set for next Tuesday with the state ticket expected to attend. Girly corps work at headquarters to prepare literature for mailing. In the Eleventh district Republicans meet tonight to plan the campaign.
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Republican
Liberty
Alfred W. Burdick
Finance Committee
Schwabben ‘Hall
French Street
Burdick
Acoins
Girly
City to study moving State Trade School site and school work projects
Mayor Behrens and Ebner Havens discuss moving the State Trade School to new quarters and evaluate factors for furnishing funds. They plan to inspect the Warren Harding High property and consider a two foot retaining wall for athletic use while postponing a stadium build. They will also review unissued school boards funds to ease future projects.
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F. William Behrens
Ebner H. T Havens
Hilu+ ent
Flexres
Amoun
Havens
Warren Harding High School
Behrens
Shelton
Beardley
Longfelow-Jefferson
Markets Rates for Counterfeit Money Quoted
Regular quotations appear for counterfeit paper money with the average price around $25 for $100 in bogus bills. Arthur Brisbane notes the market is driven by demand among bootleggers purchasing liquor from the rum fleet sent by British allies.
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Arthur Brisbane
New York American
Special election to cost New Haven over ten thousand dollars
New Haven at a glance: the board of finance will be asked tomorrow to finance a special December local election. Town Clerk Doughan estimates the cost at least ten thousand and six hundred dollars for the locality.
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New Haven
Board of Finance
Doughan
Low Standards of Living Invited by Migration Series
The Bridgeport Council of Social Agencies opened a ten part series on naturalization at Bridgeport High School. Robert Deming, director of Americanization for Connecticut, spoke about conflicting living standards and national immigration trends. He argued America must select immigrants by merit, noting crime statistics linked to younger men.
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Bridgeport Council of Social Agencies
Bridgeport
Robert Deming
Americaniaation
Connectcut
Demne
America
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National Committee
Grundy
Barger
Chester W. Tul
Grundy Committee
Joseph E. Widener
Philadephia
T. WH
the -Omunittee
Robert M. LaFollette
Coolidge-Dawny
Frank P. Walsh
Kansas City
Latollette
Samuel Untermeyer
Pennsylvania
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Retroad
George W. Simona
Mechanisa and Metala National Bank
Charles, D. Hilles
Repubican National Command
William Z. Knox
American Bankers Association
Toflay
Borah
Knox
Bankers
Chicago
Helot Lafallette
American Bankers ® Association
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G.O.P
Col. Wood
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