Stratford News Roundup Shows Fires, paving and civic notes
Early yesterday Stratford fire damaged a home at 161 White Street with $500 in damages caused by an overheated furnace pipe. Ground is being broken for a new residence at 3130 Main Street. Visitors flock to Poll's theatre to see Waite Hoyt of the Yankees, while ushers and staff wore Bridgeport club uniforms. Residents hope for Eva Tanguay appearance. paving on Farnum Avenue and West Broad Street to Main Street is planned next spring with an estimated $12,000 and tar seal, to divert traffic from Stratford center. Unpaid sewerage bills total about $250,000 and a bond issue may be needed. council meeting set for Dec. 12. Burglars are active with recent targets including Armeno Rossi and Thomas Malarky, with cash and jewelry missing. Debtors list shows American Lacquer Co. as top arrears at $221.65. several others owe smaller sums. Mrs. Florence Allen supports the council-manager plan, noting voters favored it and Stratford leads in female registrar appointments.
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Farnum Avenue
Paul Goodell
West Broad Street
Barnum Avenue
Tarvia
Warrentine
Main Street
Stratford Center
Bridgeport
New Haven
Late Mrs Candee Well Known Here
Mrs Sarah Candee, died yesterday morning at the home of her daughter in New Haven. Funeral services will be in Read Memorial chapel at 11 30 and interment at Mountain Grove cemetery. She was born Oct 18 1838 in Waterville Maine and was long associated with Bridgeport papers. She leaves three daughters Almira Louise Stevens Harriet White and Mary White Smith who died in infancy. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist church of Bridgeport and had lived with her daughter for five years.
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Frederick H Stevens
Lawrence Street
New Haven
Sarah Bryant Candee
Read Memorial Chapel
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Candes
Waterville
Maine
Samuel F
Mary White Smith
Newton Center
Mass
Harriet Kate
Daniel Appleton White
Chicago
Ford proposes rail cost cuts and benzol powered trains
A Ford interview outlines plans to reduce railcar weight by two thirds using alloy steel, cut locomotive coal use by 70 percent, and even burn benzol from coal to power engines. He envisions private ownership adopting his methods, with government ownership for overall reform, and notes ongoing experiments to burn coal more efficiently and possibly eliminate coal burning locomotives.
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Springfield
Detroit
Rush Holiday Mail Uses School Houses As Centers
Holiday mail service will be speeded by using school houses as centers for first class mail from the 24th to the 26th, avoiding trips back to branch offices. Board of Education gave permission to Postmaster Greene. Extra staff will come from substitutes, many ex soldiers. Mrs Arthur M Comley recovers at home after Appendicitis operation at Roosevelt Hospital.
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C. F. Greene
Boord of Education
Martinez Death Hangs Self in Ansonia Store
Charles Martinez manager of a cigar store at Main and Hank streets Ansonia is believed to have committed suicide by hanging. His body was found by his son shortly before noon yesterday. He is survived by his wife and a son.
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Charles Martinez
Main
Hank Streets
Ansonia
Charles J
Masuire and Mascroni Marry in Harbor and Brooklawn Homes
Neil E. Masuire a 54 year old artist of Harbor Avenue and Pearl Harbor Street married Pearl Harbor a 55 year old stenographer. Frank Mascroni of Brooklawn Avenue a mechanic wed Julia Parker of Roselle Street a clerk.
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Neil E. Masuire
Harbor Avenue
Pearl Harbor
Harbor Street
Frank Mascroni
Brooklawn Avenue
Julia Parker
Roselle Street
Births Report From Local Parents in City Listings
A son was born to Victor BE and Sara McNamara Peterson of 145 Logan Street. A daughter was born to Rudolph B and Hertha Bassett Simko of 200 Capitol Avenue on November 29.
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Victor BE
Sara McNamara Peterson
Logan Street
Rudolph B
Hertha Bassett Simko
Capitol Avenue
Y W C A group to meet for holiday plans
The Industrial Service Center executive committee of the Y W C A will meet at 7 o clock on Monday evening at the Service Center to plan holiday activities. The Fuller Brush Company Bridgeport unit holds its third annual banquet tonight at Harry Taylor s restaurant on Wall street with George W Warn presiding and guests of honor Alfred C Puller Frank S Hever edge George H Abricombi and EB Smith all Hartford based. Mrs H C Bradley of 98 Sanford avenue left today for Hawthorne Fla to join her husband who is there for the winter stay.
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Industrial Service Center of
The
Bridgeport
Fuller Brush Company
Harry Taylor
Wall Street
George W. Warn
Alfred C. Puller
Frank S. Heveredge
George H. Abricombi
EB. R. Smith
Hartford
H. C. Bradley
Sanford Avenue
Hawthorne, Fla
Alban Head Clinic Surgeon Appointed at Welfare Building
Dr Emil J Alban of 1205 North avenue was named head surgeon at the Welfare Building after a board meeting. He will assume duties January 1 and succeeds Dr Seymour I Iona. Dr Maxwell returns as ambulance surgeon, joining Dr Margolis replacing Dr O Grea. Dr Walsh remains afternoon surgeon.
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Emil J. Alban
North Avenue
Seymour I. Iona
Converently
Boston
Alban
St. Vincent’s Hospital
John A. Maxwell
Alfred Xornblut
A. B. Margolis
F. J.o'grea
J. W. Walsh
Local High School Teams Clash After Streaks End
SPORT SNAPSHOTS shows Haverhill Mass St James High, unbeaten in 17 games including a win over DePaul Chicago, facing Catholic High today. Syracuse club officials in the New International League reveal talks with Newark for manager Jim Walsh, ex Boston outfielder.
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Haverhill
DePaul High
Chicago
Syracuse
Newark
Jim Walsh
Walsh
Outielder
Unclear Scheduling Shifts Highlight Yale Princeton Dates
Fragmentary notes indicate October 14 as a likely date and November 11 as the scheduled frame for a Yale Princeton clash and a Maryland game, with one date held open for flexibility. The text outlines tentative scheduling without firm confirmations for these matchups.
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Maryland
Generalissimo Foch's 25000 Mile, 60 Day American Tour
Marshal Foch tours the United States on a record setting 25000 miles in sixty days, visiting New York, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, and more. He receives grand welcomes from the American Legion and plans a Western leg ending with a December 13 New York return before sailing home. He calls the trip exhilarating and says it honors comrades from the World War era.
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