First Sergeant Daly Placed on Marine Reserve Inactive List
First Sergeant Dan Daly, famed as a two time Medal of Honor recipient, moved from active duty to the Marine Corps Reserve inactive list last week. Daly earned the Medal of Honor for Boxer Rebellion and Fort Riviere Haiti, plus the Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre from France and the Distinguished Service Cross from Pershing. The step ends a storied career as a quintessential old school marine. The note adds that politicians should not view his business ability as an objection to candidacy.
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Dan Daly
York
Argonne
Marine Corps Reserve
Wek
Daly
Fort Riviere
Haiti
France
City work bills scrutinized over Meoplechase Bridge project
W. R. Shaughnessy, president of Eastern Engineering Construction, discusses a claimed 625 per month in the Meoplechase Bridge work contract. Bills totaling about 50,159 dollars plus an estimated 5,000 more are to be reviewed by a special board committee. The contract caps labor costs at 40,000, with a 7,500 annual general superintendent salary. He says 625 per month covers his services and office overhead. City funds were unavailable when the contract was made, and no payments have yet been made despite monthly presented bills awaiting verification.
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Eastern Engineering Construction Company
Board of Apportionment
Eastern Engineering Company
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Whitman House to Become Memorial Museum in Camden
The tiny Whitman house once home to the poet Walter Whitman was bought by Camden city from his three nieces and will be moved to Whitman Park or Forest Hill Park to form a memorial museum. It will hold relics and writings, honoring poems penned there. In Columbus, Ohio voters face a primary with former Gov Willis and Walter F. Brown among Republicans for Senate and other offices. In Constantinople, a New York trust company plans a Galata banking venture to serve American ships and merchants in Black Sea and Mediterranean trade.
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Walter Whitman
Whitman Park
Forest Hill Park
Whitman
Columbus
Ohio
Frank B. Willis
Harding
Walter F. Brown
Toledo
United States
Theodore F. Burton
Congress
Cleveland
BANK
Constantinople
New York Trust Company
Galata
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Which Is Better Jitney Or Trolley
Bridgeport residents are asked to choose between jitney and trolley services. The Bridgeport Times prints a coupon for readers to mark their preference and mail or deliver it to the paper at 179 Fairfield avenue to aid a tabulation of public opinion.
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Bridgeport Times
Times Office
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Fairfield Avenue
Italy Described As Land Of Drinking Places By 1911 Annual
Rome reports from July reveal Italy's 40 million people had 186 000 drinking venues per the Statistical Annual. Lombardy tops with 32 642 venues, Piedmont and Rome province follow. southern regions show fewer. Also notes high illegitimacy death rate, tuberculosis rise, and extensive charitable institutions.
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Rome
Italy
Europe
Lombardy
Piedmont
Sardinia
Umbria
Dean Porter Works In Worcester Office
Dean James P Porter of Clark College spends vacation in a Worcester manufacturing office doing clerical tasks to study the working man. He previously worked as a laborer at a shipyard and will continue observations until college reopens next fall.
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Worcester
Mass
James P Porter
Clark College
Dean Porter
Italy Plans Bee Hives on Rail Lines to Boost Sugar
Rome reports Italy seeks to ease beet sugar shortage by placing beehives at railway workers homes. The pilot on Rome province lines could expand nationwide if successful. The note adds commentary on press control and food prices, plus a remark that India imported 9,000 automobiles in 1919.
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Rome
Italy
Theational Institute For Agrarian Asistance
Pesky Bed Bugs Quietus Claims Health Safest Removal
An advertisement touts P. D. Q as a cure to bed bugs and roaches in hotels hospitals roads and public facilities. It promises rapid eradication of insects and mentions a full quart dose with juice agents. The notice claims safety and economy for public use and hints at a broad customer base including counties and companies.
Bridgeport Seeks Paris Information On City Expansion
Paris officials request a detailed set of Bridgeport materials including the city plan, proposed enlargement, charter amendments and committee reports, plus Dr Nolen’s city plan report. The exchange shows growing international interest in Bridgeport's harbor and limits expansion.
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Bridgeport
Atlantic
J. Alex Robinson
Secretaire Generale of Education, History and
City Economie of
Paris
Nolen
Hoover advertisement promises thorough cleaning and flexible payment
An old newspaper ad extols the Hoover cleaner's power to remove spills and dirt from rugs curtains and fabrics. It advertises Baby Hoover and Hoover Special models with attachments and states prices 67.50 71.00 80.00 and 84.50 with first payment 7.50 and ten months to pay. Delivery varies by schedule and a fourth floor address is noted.
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Hoover
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