Passengers Saved Comanche Fire Hearings Hear
Survivors testifying at the United States Steamboat Inspection board described chaotic scenes aboard the Clyde Hner Comanche after it burned off Florida on October 17. Some passengers claimed crew drinking while others said the passengers and crew acted seamanlike. witnesses reported lifeboat chaos and attempted crew substitution during the abandonment.
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New York
United States Steamboat Inspection Board
Customs House
Florida
John C. Moore
St. Petersburg
Fla
Thomas F. Fanning
Harry C Colgin
A. I. Chapman
Willam W. Mitchell
James C. Wilkey
West New Brighton
Charles Tobey
Clyde and Mallory Lines
Curry
Comanche
Moore
Fanning
Htener
Stamford High School Girl Dies Suddenly
Stamford Oct 22 Special Jean McCloskey fifteen a Stamford High School sophomore was found dead Thursday afternoon in the kitchen of her brother Thomas McCloskey home in Glenbrook. Death pronounced from natural causes by the medical examiner. The girl had been alone at home and was preparing for a trip to New York where she planned to enter a school of designing. Funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o clock from her former home.
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Stamford
Jean McCloskey
Stamford High School
Thomas McCloskey
Glenbrook
New York
School of Designing
Funeral Services of Murdered Boys Held in Norwich
In Norwich on October 22 AP reports the double funeral for six year old Eugene Berry and four year old Joseph Berry. Their father Eugene J. Berry 31 admitted harming the boys and then attempted suicide. He lies in hospital facing murder charges as his wife Mrs Helen McKenna Serry sobbed at the cemetery.
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Norwich
Eugene
Joseph Berry
Eugene J. Berry
W A. Keefe
St. Mary's Memorial Church
Helen McKenna Serry
Jewett City
Berry
Pastor Maurice Duncklee Accepts Lebanon Call
Rev. Maurice J Duncklee resigns from Bethany Congregational Church and accepts a call to Lebanon Congregational Church in West Lebanon New Hampshire. He will begin November 1 after six years at the local church and prior service as YMCA secretary during the war. He formerly led the Bath Maine Congregational Church and held roles with Bridgeport Pastor's Association and the Council of Churches. His daughter Dorothy studied abroad last year, and he has two sons Richard and John C Duncklee. The Lebanon post succeeds Rev J Chase who resigned to become chaplain at the Vermont State penitentiary.
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Maurice J Duncklee
Bethany Congregational Church
Lebanon Congregational Church
West Lebanon
N. H
Duncklee
Congregational Church
Bath
Bridgeport Pastor's Association
Council of Churches
Dorothy Duncklee
Richard
John C Duncklee
New Hampshire
J. C. Chase
Vermont State Penitentiary
Prohibition Prosecution Aims at Five Railroads
Chicago district attorney plans indictments against five railroad corporations in a large dry enforcement case. He also targets about fifty individuals and several eastern breweries after an inquiry into a beer shipment from Taft to Morton Grove, a Chicago suburb.
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Cricago
Taft
Morton Grove
Chicago
Supreme Court 10 Open Tuesday in Bridgeport
The October term of the Supreme Court of Errors will open in Bridgeport next Tuesday. Twenty five Fairfield county cases will be argued, thirty three from New Haven county, two from Hartford county and one from New London county.
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Supreme Court of Errors
Bridgeport
Fairfield County
New Haven County
Hartford County
New London County
Stamford Court Case Watched Keenly
A Stamford court will hear J. J. Peuguet of Shippan Point on charges of operating without proper Connecticut markers. The arrest followed a complaint by zoning expert J Van Schack, who says Peugnet ran a car in the state without required markers. Peugnet, a statistician who commutes to New York, promised to name Van Schaick in a suit if acquitted.
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New York City
van Schaick
Eight Women Seek Decrees in Superior Court Divorce Petitions
Eight women and two men will petition judges for divorce decrees in Superior Court this morning. Names include Rita Burna Dougherty of Stamford from John J. Dougherty for desertion. Elizabeth Capes Hoenig from Frank L. Hoenig for intolerable cruelty. Pauline Lockwood Barthelmy from Himil Barthelmy for intolerable cruelty. and several other couples listed with marriage dates and grounds such as desertion, infidelity, or cruelty.
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Superior Court
Rita Burna Dougherty
Stamford
John J. Dougherty
Eilizabeth Capes Hoenig
Greenwich
Frank L. Hoenig
Pauline Lockwood Barthelmy
Himil Barthelmy
Parte
Henry Cormier
Bridgeport
Annie Rener Cormier
Westbrook
Mass
Esther Bosley Duplease
Edward Duplease
Winchendon
June Cary Collins
Jonn FB. Collins
New York City
Deszo Markus
Anna Dohanyos Markus
Gertrude Snelling Potts
William G. Potts
Mary Odice Gatti
Rudolph Gatti
David Shefter
Ida Sandler Sheftel
Gizzi Murder Trial Adjourned Over Defense Counsel Clash
In Waterbury on October 22, the Gizzi murder trial was adjourned after a dispute over admissibility of testimony and finessed defense counsel Edward Mascolo. Gizzi, charged with first degree murder for the June 8 Lakewood killing of Donato Gaudiosi, testified Gaudiosi aimed a revolver at him and described police interrogation pressures including alleged coercion by Captain Thomas Colasanto to admit gun ownership.
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Waterbury
Edward Mascolo
Gizzi
Tames Gizzi
Donato Gaudiosi
Lakewood
Gaudiosi
Thomas Colasanto
Retective Bureau
Earle Installed as WPS Head at Wor cester Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute inaugurated Captain Ralph Earle as its sixth president in Worchester Mass with officials from colleges and engineering schools present. Rear Admiral William V. Pratt led the principal address, followed by Charles G Washburn presenting the insignia. Earle said today youth face greater challenges and the technical college must train leaders to rescue the country.
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Technical College
Foot and mouth disease worries British herds in England
British cattle raisers fear a renewed outbreak of foot and mouth disease across England. Despite the agriculture minister lifting the last restrictions, isolated cases have prompted reimposition in places like Manchester where hundreds of cattle and sheep from Wales and Westmoreland were slaughtered.
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London
England
Manchester
Wales
Westmoreland
German Ambassador Returns to Paris Amid Disarmament Talks
Herr von Hoensch, German ambassador to France, arrives in Paris from Berlin after talks with the foreign office. He did not bring Germanys reply to the allied note on disarmament, which is expected in Paris within days along with data to satisfy the Allies and speed evacuation of the Cologne area.
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Paris
Herr von Hoench
Berlin
Foreign Office
Germany
Cologne
Eighth District G O P Clubs Set Tonight Meeting
A combined gathering of the Eighth District Men's and Women's Republican clubs will convene this evening at the district clubhouse located at 2368 Main Street. The event starts at 7 30 PM.
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District
Main Street
Engineer Saves Child From Impending Train Death
H. Be. Sutton, a Burlington railroad fireman, snatched a two year old child from in front of a moving train. The child slipped from his gloved hand and fell between the rails as the train stopped. He was picked up unharmed from the rails in Beaver City Nebraska.
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H. BE. Sutton
Burlington
Beaver City
Nebraska
David C. Wills 83 Dies in Cleveland After Abdominal Abscess
David C. Wills, 83, chairman of the Fourth Federal Reserve spa in Cleveland, died today after undergoing an operation Friday for an abdominal abscess and peritonitis. He had previously survived the procedure.
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Cleveland, Gut
David C. Wills
Fourth Federal Reserve Spa
Cleveland
Dave's Mentha Pepsin Stomach Remedy Ad
A bold advertisement promotes Dave's Mentha Pepsin as the quick fix for stomach distress gas bloating acidity belching and dyspepsia with a money back guarantee. It claims rapid relief within minutes and cites large local sales in New Jersey as a testimonial to its efficacy. The pitch ties stomach health to reduced headaches dizziness and nervousness.
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Dave
New Jersey
Hindle
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