California prison road workers save on average
Sacramento rep ort details thrift records from California prison road camps under the convict labor law. Superintendent Milliken notes per capita savings, with Fred A Grace showing a $500 balance after a year and two months. Net earnings average about 75 cents daily, covering clothing, guards, and incidents. Milliken cites honor among thieves as inmates strive to live up to trust.
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Sacramento
Ben H. Milliken
California
Amcee
Uison
Prough
Califor
Ken
Fred A Grace
Grace
Milliken
Mill
Norwalk Darien Bus Line Extended for Another Month
Norwalk and Darien residents will keep the bus line operating for at least 30 days as announced by Thomas McLean, Norwalk superintendent for the company. The extension follows a directive from the Norwalk Board of Officials.
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Norwalk
Darien
Speciail
Nortwalk
Thomas McLean
Anap
Wife sues husband over land bank account and car coercion
Mary Forte of Meriden sues Michael Forte claiming coercion and intimidation forced her to sign over her half share in real estate valued at 62 000 a 5 000 bank account and a car worth 2 600. She seeks 35 96 in damages noting two coercive incidents August 3 and August 18.
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New Haven
Mary Forte
Grove Atreat
Meriden
Michael
Woman President for Democrats Lady Astor urges bid
Lady Nancy Astor, a Virginia born British MP, told 1500 at the Waldorf Astoria that the Democrats should nominate a woman for U S president in 1928. She argued women have progressed, praised American democracy, and compared World War I to the Civil War while noting U S politics remain wary of female candidates.
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New York
Nancy Astor
United States
League of Women Vetera
Waldorf Astoria
Lady Astor
Rhode Island
Ahe
Lady Aster
America
Virginia
Europe
Germany
Congress
Man Jailed for Carrying Beer in Greenwich
Charles Royce of Meriden road Waterbury received a 60 day jail term and a $260 fine plus costs after being found guilty of transporting 400 bottles of beer with 4.62 percent alcohol content. He was arrested on the Post road near Stamford at 2 35 am by officers FitzRoy Lipsett and Cullen. George Woods sixteen, a Waterbury high school student, accompanied him in the car.
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Greenwich
Charles Royce
Meriden Road
Waterbury
James R. Mead
Royce
Post Road
Stamford
Robert FitzRoy
James Lipsett
James Cullen
George Woods
Waterbury High School
New Organist Chosen for Stamford Church
Stamford Sept 10 Special James Frank Russell former student at Tusculon college Greenville Tenn has been appointed organist and choirmaster of the First Congregational church to succeed Verrian Shute Russell comes from Ashbury M church of Yonkers and previously served as assistant director of music in the Labor Temple N
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Stamford
James Frank Russell
Tusculon College
Greenville, Tenn
First Congregational Church
Berrian Shute
Russell
Ashbury M
Church of Yonkers
Labor Temple
Ox Ridge Hunt Club Horse Show Opens in Darien
The fifth annual Ox Ridge Hunt Club horse show opens tomorrow at the hunt club grounds in Darien with 13 classes scheduled. The event starts at 2 p.m. and features riders from the region competing for top honors.
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OX Ridge Hunt Club
Darien
Hunt Club
Americans in France spent over a thousand dollars each last year
Paris reports French National Tourist Office figures showing 220000 American visitors to France in 1925 with total spending of 226.16 million dollars. Average spend about 1000 dollars per person. Data cover by occupation class and wealth level, noting 4400 millionaires and 39600 wealthy travelers.
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Paris
French National Tourist Office
United States Department of Commerce
France
Regulation of Output Favored by Mine Owner
London Sept 10 British coal industry faces ongoing troubles unless output is regulated and production reduced. Sir Alfred Mond MP, director and owner of major coal, iron and steel firms, advocates amalgamating small producers into one large company to cut overhead. He supports stabilizing prices through production and sales control and notes coal will remain the dominant fuel despite alternatives.
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London
Alfred Mond
M. P
Sir Alfred
Britain
Lisbon Cork Plant Collapse Injures 85
Lisbon reporter AP says 85 injured after a cork factory collapsed across the Tagus opposite Lisbon. Fifty to sixty workers were buried under roof debris. Initial fears of quake deaths were ruled out as heat weakened the structure.
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Lisbon
Tagus River
Firet
Forfeiture Petition Seeks Ship Cretan and Liquor
A petition filed in federal court seeks forfeiture of the steam ship Cretan and a million dollar cargo of liquor seized in Boston on July 6 by federal prohibition officers. The cargo included high grade alcohol and choice liquors, described as the largest confiscation yet made in the nation by federal officers.
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Boston
U. S. District Attorney's Office
Girl Weds Disobeying Guardian Sentenced to Church Home
In Kansas City on September 10, fifteen year old Mabel Ousley was ordered to spend a year in the Interdenominational home after disobeying her guardian and marrying Clifton Humphrey. Judge E B Fotherfield presided in juvenile court. Humphrey argued for keeping the couple together and for proving capability to support. The guardian testified the girl was too young. the court ruled disobedience justified the sentence.
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Kansas City
Mabel Ousley
Clifton Humphrey
EB. &. Fotherfield
Humphrey
Democrats Name Sidney Marcuse for School Body
In Patrfeld on September 10 special report Democrat H R Elwood backs Sidney Marcuse for Town School committee citing Marcuse as taxpayer homeowner parent and Graemere district resident with school welfare at heart. Marcuse editor of Bridgeport Sunday Post and Fairfield correspondent for Bridgeport Poet and Telegram. nomination by acclamation. Other Caucus results list town roles and officials.
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Patrfield
Democratic
H. R. Elwood
Democratic Party Caucus
Sidney Marcuse
Snme
Marcuse
Graemere
Mares
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Fairfield
Bridgeport
Stoeckel to Speak on Safety Work
Hartford, Sept 10 AP Robbins B. Stoeckel commissioner at motor vehicles will address the fifteenth annual safety congress in Chicago October 27. He will describe the safety activities of the Connecticut department. The national safety council has pushed for uniform auto laws and reciprocal state driver license relations amid gaps in Midwest states' licenses.
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Hartford
Robbins B. Stoeckel
Chicago
Connecticut Department
National Safety Council
Church Convention Opens in Danbury Signaling 60th Year
The sixtieth annual convention of the Churches of Christ in New England will open at the Danbury Church of Christ on Friday September 7 and continue through September 9. Various district departments will conduct meetings over the three days and a program of entertainment is being arranged by local church members. Delegates will hear addresses from prominent clergy and laymen of the church.
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Danabury
Chuorehes of Christ
New England
Danbury Church
Car burns as child lights dripping gas near fire station
Stamford report says an automobile truck owned by Jacob Fine was damaged about 56 dollars yesterday when a child discarded a lighted match on gasoline leaking from beneath the vehicle. The truck was parked beside the South End fire station as firefighters used chemicals to put out the flames.
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Stamford
Jacob Fine
South End
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