Redding to Host Twofold Park Event and Local Affairs
Redding plans a Putnam Park gathering on August 8 marking a Welcome Home anniversary for returning soldiers and a Redding Day community solidarity observance. Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford will speak at 11, with clergy participation, music, and a basket picnic. Meanwhile Rogers & Peet camp incidents and town infrastructure notes fill a crowded local page.
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Redding
Putnam Park
Charles H. Ward
Rainsford
New York
Ridgefield
Rogers & Peet
Albert Williams
Williams
Duncan Gay
Gay
Frank R. Chambers
Rogers & Poot Co
Chambers
Rogers & Peet Clothing
C. Shaw
H. C. McCollum
E. P. Sanford
George Pattison
Charles W. Shelton
D. D
Episcopal Church
Sanford to Host Men’s Club Meeting at Community House
The Men’s club led by W. Sanford plans a meeting at the Community house on the evening of August 21. A four boy car near Putnam Park caught fire as a passenger crawled under to inspect the trouble with a lighter. Thomas and James Delaney helped extinguish the blaze after the car sustained heavy damage. A supper and dance for Evening Star lodge of Bethel is set for Thursday at the Sanford school grounds with Mrs. Mary Peterson as manager and caterer. Joseph Busser disassembled his Ford Monday to diagnose the failure and found the interior damaged by a deliberate wire loop. He seeks the culprit but notes it may be best to withhold until calm returns. Fire Company No. 1’s fundraising for new equipment nears $200. A. B. Frost and family moved to a new home near Five Points. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Walbridge visited Cape Cod for a week with Mrs. McWilliams. Countess Turczynowicz has returned to the Ridge after two months of Western lecture engagements.
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W. ©. Sanford
Putnam Park
Thomas
James Delaney
Evening Star Lodge
Bethel
Sanford
Mary Peterson
Joseph Busser
Fire Company No. 1
A. B. Frost
Five Points
R. R. Walbridge
Cape Cod
German Officers Wish for Return of Former Days
Berlin reports that former German army officers, forced off payroll by army cuts, face hard democratic lives with meager pensions and scarce work. An ex-officers association seeks land subsidies, as many compare their fate to a dead Indian. Civilians despise officers. veterans accept menial labor, some turning to engineering and starting at the bottom. Officers increasingly appear in public, marked by pale faces and swords from duels.
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Berlin
Germany
Democratic
United States
Belgium
Rhineland
Kapp
Government warns against fire risk in forest campaign
Washington notes the Department of Agriculture urges caution in fire safety. The circular says never gamble with fire and compares it to powder, warning that the biggest fires were started by those who underestimated danger and urging vigilance in woods and forests.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Romanian Queen Teaches Luxury Buyers Lesson
The Romanian queen and Princess Elizabeth visited an antique shop in Paris on a July day. The queen examined an amber statuette and the dealer quoted 120 pounds. She declined saying it was too expensive and quipped that dealers must think they are Americans.
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Paris
Rumania
Elizabeth
August fur sale offers scarce pelts and premium sets
Saturdays at 6 o'clock the store closes daily at 5 o'clock. AUGUST SALE FURS features fur coats and garments priced from $235 to $350. The shop highlights Bay Seal and Near-Seal pieces with shawl collars and cuffs, notes large stock, free storage, and that purchases will appear on the November bill. Market conditions have tightened pelts, but the selection remains large with unique pieces.
Read House Fur Sale Offers Wide Fur Coat Selection
Special and Exclusive skunk Plain Hudson Seal Coats with quality lining 650 dollars Hudson Seal Coats with beaver skunk or squirrel 750 dollars shawl collars and cuffs Raccoon and Marmot coats 36 inches 375 and 495 dollars Dark Raccoon es long 635 dollars Marmot coats 36 inches 195 dollars Marmot coats with raccoon collars and cuffs 250 to Pony coats 36 inches long 285 dollars Pony coats extra fine 36 inches 385 dollars Astrakhan coats with skunk collars 40 inches 395 dollars Silver Fox skins mounted to order Hudson Seal wraps long coats 975 950 1050 dollars Broad-tail and Caracal wraps 1750 dollars Alaska Seal coats 40 inches long 1550 dollars Second floor Cross Fox skins extra large mounted to order 450 675 dollars 210 315 dollars The Little Choker for early Autumn with tailored suits in Baum Marten Mink Hudson Kay Sable Kolinsky Hudson Seal and Skunk 22 50 to 185 dollars Natural Skunk priced 85 to 250 dollars watchword is choice The Read House has been famous for its Furs since 1857.
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Baum Marten
Mink
Hudson Kay Sable
Kolinsky
Hudson Seal
Marriage Strains and Child Testimony Reflected in Court
The piece contrasts a troubled marriage and a child's intrusion into divorce proceedings with a warning about parental duty. It recalls a mother who used a daughter to spy on her alcoholic husband, stressing that a child bears the burden of adult faults and that parental honesty protects a child's trust.
Oklahoma Senate Race Sees 16 Candidates Name List
Oklahoma City July 29 two democrats and fourteen republicans compete for the U S Senate seat held by Thomas P Gore. Gore faces Scott Ferris the lone Democrat. The Republicans list includes Bisbee Blake Powers McQuire Harreld Small Clark Cade Thompson Lindsley Cullison Welty Clark Perry and others. Campaigns note torchlight parades declining as voters dislike long walks to ballots.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
United States
Senate
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
Senator Gore
Statehood
S. T. Bisbee
E. E B. Blake
A. A. Small
Tulsa
E. M. Clark
Pawnee
C. M. Cade
Shawnee
Ben Thompson
Sapulpa
P. D. Lindsley
Hominy
J. B. Cullison
Enid
N. D. Welty
Bartlesville
W.T. Clark
Manchester
Edward Perry
Coalgate
Scott Ferris
Lawton
Congress
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Lonetown
Ranke
State Highway Department
Atoning
Pine ‘Tree Corner
Mise Blackwell
The
Ridge
Organ Fund
James Gregory
Eleanor Dayton
Skunk
Raccoon
Marmot
Read House
Uonal Crop Improvement Service
Board of Trade
Chicago
State Department
Che
Haddock
W. D. Cook & Son
Barnum
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