Northrop Proposes Plaza Extension for Bridgeport Civic Center
J W Northrop of Bridgeport argues for extending the Plaza to Main Street to create a forward looking civic center facing City Hall. He envisions a park, improved approaches, and a one way Main Street corridor with Middle Street widened to spur downtown redevelopment and attract major city and bank buildings.
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Bank Streets
Main Street
City Hall
Bridgeport
America
Hartford
New Haven
Waterbury
Bank
First National
Bridgeport Savings
Bridgeport Trust
Connecticut National
Liberty Building
Providence
United Church
Eridzeper
Miuza
John Street
Bank Street
Middle Street
Plaza
Congress Street
Main
State
Congress
J. W. Northrop
Conn
Bridgeport Times
Frank L. Brundage
Richardson Street
Miss Peck Recital With Florence Levere-Hayes Assist
Miss Mary I Peck hosts an annual closing recital in Stratfield sun parlor with contralto Florence Levere-Hayes assisting. The program features a long list of titled pieces and composers including Mary Louise Wheeler Valso Lente Myrtle Loth Poldini Chaminade Mendelssohn Grieg and others performed by a lineup of artists and students.
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Mary I. Peck
Stratfield
Florence Levere-Hayes
Giants
Crosby Adams
Elf Land Horns
Mary Louise Wheeler
Turner
Myrtle Loth
Terry
Rose Kornblut
Mana Zucca
Letty Wheeler
Poldini
Laurence
Chaminade
Ethel Gerber
Paldi
Alice Smith
Mendelssohn
Katherine Owens
Birdsive Wheater
Grazt Schaeffer
Marion Beck
Rohde
Marie Keller
No Ostentation For Graduates Of St. Charles School
The St Charles Parochial School will hold a simple graduation mass at St Charles Church at 7 30 am with Holy Communion for the class. Diplomas will be distributed after a measured ceremony led by Rev P J McGivney. The school will close for summer and the list includes Margaret Burns Helen Brannick Frances Cassity Gertrude Curry Marie Geener Dorothy Tammel Marie Hennesser Helen Kelmannperger Frances Lee Anna Lilianduet Catherine McCloskey Helen McDonough Margaret McGinness Rose McGonald Julia Monaghan Marion Murphy Marguerite Norton Anna O'Brien Arline Short Marie Whelan Dorothy Woter McAvoy Francis Burnett James Burns Gerald Barrett John Brown Patrick Coughlin John Conlon Thomas Callery Thomas Flynn Peter Heron James Heron Charles Haggerty Edmund Murray Rutledge McKeon Irving McDonald John McCann Thomas Mulroney James Moriarty Patrick Neill Francis Nell Raymond O Connor John Safford Lawrence Ally John Tros George Whetstine Robert Weller Watercress and parsnips are good blood purifiers.
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Margaret Irene Burns
Helen Elimbeth Brannick
Frances Dorothy Cassity
Gertrude Elizebeth Curry
Marie’ Margaret Geener
Dorothy Eizabeth Tammel
Marie Lenore Hennesser
Helen Ruth Kelmannperger
Frances Eliabeth Lee
Anna Lilianduet
Catherine Veronica McCloskey
Helen Genevieve McDonough
Margaret Mary McGinness
Rose Genevieve McDonald
Julia Frances Monaghan
Loz
Read School Varied Program Showcases Graduates
Exercises at Read school on North Avenue mixed Class Day and commencement in a corridor venue. The program featured a drama Getting Heady for Graduation, solos, class history by Beatrice Wetherwax, class poet Mrs Mills, prophecy by Grace Quinn, and the class hymn. Graduates include Frances Casey Helen Day George Bonnell Edith Carey and many others.
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Read School
North Avenue
Helen Day
Mildred Ye Foour
Frances Casey
Anna Rubenseth
Saran Don
Dorothy Fowks
Grace Quinn
Gladys Sincerbeaux
George Bonnell
Edith Carey
Helen” Dey
Sarah Don
Margaret Downy
Tenjamin Dryer
Vincent Ford
Tsbn Teonke
Winnifret Tees
Teanstte Kreuter
Anes Krosky
Mary Kucky
Marcis Kusnitz
Mildred LeBoeuf
Thomas Lyons
Roland McCarty
Albert McMahon
Elfrieda Mu Ter
Katherine Malis
Hannah Mullane
Mary Mollan
Mma Ponelett
Maurice Toetel
Earl Quinn
Anna Rubenstein
Susan Shomsky
Gladys Sincerp
Sunday Trade Crackdown Urged by Business Group
Protests by the Business Men's Association prompt police to tighten Sunday trade laws. Stores opened on Sundays face possible arrests after the next Sunday inspections. Saturday opening allowed only with advance notice to prosecutors. Connecticut college plans a benefit dance June 25 at the Stratford hotel to support the endowment fund. Army Navy fliers at Norfolk expect easy marks against German U 117 in Chesapeake Bay. IWW leader Haywood praised by Moscow delegates. Close to four million dollars in peace securities funded by the U.S.
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Busines Men's Association
Saloay
Connecticut College
Owlock
Stmtfield
Miriam Cohen
Marion Lawson
Anita Greenbaum
Lillian Grumman
Catherine Shexon
Louise Lee
Marguerite Pact
Army and Navy
Norfolk
Chesapeake Bay
Relizion. Ag
Colton
Ministry of Religion
Mr. Cotten
Testimonial Honors W. S. Lacey For Years Of Service
The Teestees and Directors of the association fete W. Seymour Lacey with a silver three piece set in gratitude for his five year service. Colton urged a large volunteer base and broader YMCA influence, stressing Christianity as the remedy for postwar tensions.
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Goddard
George S. Hawley
Edward & Smith
W. Seymour Lacy
Hridreport Association
Gener
Lacy
Colton
Mr. Colton
America
Ilking
John £. Mott
Europe
Azevica
Aude
45 Graduates From City Normal
Continued from Page One list names 45 graduates including Krsinia Gale Gertrude Christine Hurley Margaret Hurley Dorothy Ivea Pauline Ella Jubb Dor Elizabeth Keep Elizabeth Katherine Kelly Margaret Kenny Catherine Helen Lee Dorothy Uipscher Dorothy Mahran Helen Jane McCarthy Helen Franklin Morgan Dorothea Agnes McElroy Eleanor Margaret McElroy Lois MacGovern Hazel Constance McLean Agnes Kathryn Moravek Anita Barbara Newman Mary Rita Niedermeier Dorothy Alice Ogden Viola May Parrish Caroline Theresa Pos Vizet Claire erozzoli Gertrude M. Reilty Dorothy Alice Rich Margaret Mary Rock Jeanne Romm Natalie Anna Salerno Helen Louise Schwerdtie Nelle Elizabeth Seeley Esther Sherman Viola Gretchen Warner Theresa Walko Helen Zennigh.
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Krsinia Gale
Gertrude Christinen
Margaret L. Hurley
Dorothy Ase Ivea
Pauline Ella Jubb
Dor
Elizabeth Keep
Elizabeth Kathrine Kelly
Margaret J. Kenny
Catherine ‘Helen Lee
Dorothy Uipscher
Dorothy Mahran
Helen Jane McCarthy
Helen Franklin Morgan
Dorothea Agnes McElroy
Eleanor Margaret McElroy
Lois MacGovern
Hazel Constance McLean
Agnes Kathryn Moravek
Anita Barbara Newman
Mary Rita Neidermeier
Dorothy Alace Ogden
Viola May Parrish
Caroline Theresa Pos- Vizet
Claire’ Erozzoli
Gertrude M. Reilty
Dorothy Alice Rich
Margaret Mary Rock
Jeanne Romm
Natalie
Anna Salerno
Helen Louise Schwerdtie
Nelle Elizabeth Seeley
Esther Sherman
Viola
Gretchen Warner
Theresa Walko
Helen Zennigh
Jitney Service Faces Route Expansion Debate in Bridgeport
Testimony favored adding two new jitney routes linking the Plaza with Beardsley Park and Stratfield with Seaview Avenue. Alpheus Winters urged retaining jitney service and new routes. Witnesses from industry, labor, and residents backed jitneys over trolleys citing faster trips, lower fares, and beach access from Stratford to Fairfield Beach.
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Plaza
Beardsley Park
Stratfield
Seaview Avenue
Alpheus Winters
Traffic Commission
Romeo ‘Y Miller
Crane Company
Raymond French
Columbia Graphophone Company
W. H. Pease
Bridgeport Brass’ Compan
Elmer B. Hayes
Union Metallic Cartridge Company
P. B. Brill
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Mr. Perry
Harvey Hubbell Company
James Riley
Joseph C. Ivers
Bridgeport Brass Company
Samuel Levit
Samuel Stemiaff
North End
Jitners
Bridgeport
Edward McManus
American Transit Co
McManus
Mitford
Hayes
U. M
Higgins
Stratford
Ash Creek
Fairfield Beach
Community Notices and Personal Announcements
Blas Howse Jr of Womens Relief Corps plans a Thursday afternoon meeting for a full attendance. Peter Hunt and wife return from Providence RT after a prominent wedding. Miamogue Yacht Club hosts a dance and moonlight sail to Stratford Light. Carts organize a Hebrew Orphan Asylum benefit dance on June 25 at Brook lawn pavilion with music by Black and White.
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Blas Howse
Miamogue Yacht Club
Stratford
George Griffen
Goaree Frost Axe
Afry
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Brooklawn
Fanny Pious
Charlotte Wintter
Augusta Mendel
Florence Nadel
Minerva Pious
Mrs. Patterson Dies At Home Of Her Daughter
Georgianna Moody Patterson a Bridgeport resident born January 15 1846 died at her daughter Mrs Frank D Bell’s Unquown Hill home. Survived by two sisters Anne Moody and Mrs Thomas Carpenter and no children. Funeral from the daughter’s home at 170 Unquown Hill tomorrow at 2 20 pm with interment in Mountain Grove cemetery.
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Frank D. Bell
Unquows Hill
Bridgeport
Georgianna Moody Patterson
New Rochelle
Thomas J. Moody
Ann Maria Underhill Moody
Moody's Pond
Silas H. Patterson
Patterson
Bridgeport Patent ‘Leather Company
Cannon Street
Stephen H. Patterson
Newark
N. J
Frank D. Bel
Velock
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Benefit Minstrel by Bowling League Promises Night of Dance
Industrial Girls Bowling League plans a minstrel show on Thursday June 2 at Tadus Service Center Barnum Avenue directed by Joseph Hafner of General Electric. Proceeds support a conference at Camp Altamont New York with performances by John Sullivan Stephen Ondeck and Miss Madeleine Thorpe plus many named soloists and a large chorus.
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Industrial Girl's Bowling League
Tadus
Barnum Avenue
Joseph Hafner
General Electric
Camp Altamont
New York State
John Sullivan
Stephen Ondeck
Buck
Madeleine Thorpe
Lillian Fomber
Anna Chismark
Marjorie Card
Ethel Scheibel
Helen Hilias
Mas Travis
Mamie Jackson
Jessie Schoenbers
Helen Gavasan
Rose Johnson
Alice Olinder
Marion Dawe
Grace Harriil
Ednad Trindor
Hilda Hebine
Margaret Ciaurro
Pertha Chismark
Loretta Dufcine
Helen Va Jnko
Irene Fieger
Mas Galazan
Kathleen Kelly
Julia Ober
Mary Hilly
Sadie Newton
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UDETY
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Jeanette Gerber
Rosetta Majerka
Krentsin
Mary Waensu
Hatch
Fiat
Marjorie Birnbaum
Clover Fields
Cecil Burleigh
MarcBaret Porter
A Glee
Frimi
Joan Fitzroy
Waltz
Minonne
Bernard
Albert Vers
Besthoff
Fanny Porras
Gavotte
Wright
Anna Booth
Avalanche
Heller
Rourree
Frances Wil Bert
Cecil Burnetch
Thel Tiffany
Gries
Torjussen
Dorothy Williams
Firefiks
Mra. H. Jr
A. Beach
Jessie Spencer Hawkins
Godard
Gertrude Leth
Graham
Marion Wilmon
Wrangell
Huth el
MacDowell
Sylvi JacDowell
Sylvia Schin
Little Poyo
Walter Nichols
St. Paul's Church
Hazel Nichols Dalton
Jillian Hartley
William Miller
Andrew McManus
Joseph T. Peabody
Sffsir
Marion McManus
Mary S. Hancott
St. Charles’ School
St. Charles’ Parochial School
St Charles’ Church
P. J. McGivney
Father McGivney
Wiliam D. Haywood
The
Russia
Moscow
W.S. Lacey
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Y. M. GA
Evangelical
City Normal
Peter Hunt
Houch Avenue
Howland Dry Goods Co
Pleasure Head
Charles Grahar
Edward Wenzel
Fidelity Sewing Circle
Charles Gerbich
Lafayette Street
Gerbich
Emma Hard
T. Wilder
Amanda Dean
Margaret Mills
French Street
Mra J. Walker Storey, Sr
Brooklyn
New York
Mra E Herdman
Hawthorne
New Jersey
United Congregational Church
William C. Smiffen
Clara Madden
EJ. Madden
Charleston
S.C
Joseph Sarto Gould
St. John’s Preparatory School
Danvers
Mass
Mr. Gould
Curtis Hotel
Lenox
Julian JL Sterling
Frederick Groves Lalley
Beatrice Sterling Lalley
Louise Peck “Thomas
Mary Frank
Junior Christian Endeavor Society
Pleasure Beach
Andrew R. Smith
Sachem Road
S. Howard Sweet
Trenton
Noble Avenue
Che
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