Armed Guards Tighten Security At New York Custom House
New York reports the customs house placed under heavy guard after a warning of a second blast following the Wall Street explosion. Coast guards and U S troops patrolled entrances as clerks were kept from daily duties and workers limited to public doors while officials prepared for possible emergencies.
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New York
New York Custom House
Wall Street
Cellen- Edwards
Custom House
United States
Ment of Justice
Manly
Fme
Lower Manhattan
Thomas Lawlor
Customs House
Ascher Once in Middletown
The report notes a patient at the Connecticut Hospital who stayed two days under Superintendent C Floyd. Fischer arrived December 16 after custody in Durham for disturbances and was later moved to New York City in custody.
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Howard P. 5
Wall Street
Exprc
Connecticut Hospital
Acto
C. Floyd
Fischer
Durham
York City
Women Vote Early in Stratford Primary
In Stratford on September 21 special report shows women among the first voters. About 608 registered women were urged to vote and many followed instructions, with many likely backing Katherine Wood Yarborough among six candidates for representative.
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F Bratford
Aimee Mill
Norwalk boy 9 drowns in river after fall from boat
Norwalk Connecticut September 21 Francis Moran nine years old drowned after falling from a boat into the Norwalk River. The body was recovered after companions reported the fall to police. In a separate note Henry Moran of 290 Harriet Street was arrested on non support charges and held on bonds of 500 awaiting Brockton police.
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Norwalk
Conn
Francis Moran
Henry Moran
Harriet Street
Heto
Brockton
Refused Papers to an Evader in Naturalization Court
Judge John W. Banks refused Harold Holden England born exemption from the draft, denying citizenship. Robert Forbes Ireland born, who served in Canada, won approval after wartime service. James de Martino Stamford youth was accepted after a sergeant testified to loyalty and armory ties. A blocker cites 559 cases on the docket as students observe how citizenship is granted.
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America
John W. Banks
Harold Holden
England
Holden
Robert Forbes
Ireland
Ace
Forbes
Canada
James de Martino
Marian
Stamford
Martino
Coroncut National Guard
56Th Coast Artillery
Lancashire
Fell Asleep, Thrown Out and Arrested
FX Martin of 506 Maple Street entered a Water Street restaurant under the influence around 1 30 this morning. He fell asleep while awaiting service and was ejected after an altercation with the staff. A police officer intervened and Martin was arrested. In City Court he claimed he was assaulted and was fined five dollars and costs for breach of the peace with execution suspended.
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FX Martin
Maple Street
Water Street
Martin
Bardlett
Costa
British coal strike looms after talks with trade chief
London report says Robert Imulia, head of the Federation of Miners, told the miners executive committee that a conference with Sir Robert Horne failed to produce hope of preventing the national coal strike. The strike set to begin Saturday.
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London
Robert Imulia
The
Federation of Miners
Robert Horne
Board of Trade
Reds mass for a new attack on Polish front
Telegram from Warsaw dated September 20 reports Russian forces in disorderly retreat along the Polish Galician front as Leon Trotsky plans two fresh armies of 100000 men each for a northern offensive.
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Warsaw
London
Athough
Leon Trotsky
Identification Rules Prompt From The Times
The text appears to discuss writing identifications under rules and mentions payment for first identations. It references a 3 cent fee and a publication called The Times. No clear event, person, or organization data beyond these terms.
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Beowe
Clark Gets Dollar On The Ballard Photo
P. A Clark of 169 Lewis street identified Frank E. Ballard county commissioner and promoter of storage schemes as the party in a photo. Only five recognitions were correct among many aliases including Ruth A. Hamilton M. J. OReilly Dorothy Trussell and Robert J. H. Emmons with addresses listed.
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P. A Clark
Lewis Street
Frank E. Ballard
Ballard
Ruth A. Hamilton
Bridgeport Land & Title Co
M. J. Oreilly
James Street
Dorothy Trussell
Grove Street
Robert J. H. Emmons
Noble Avenue
Priest Averts Lynchings In Chicago Riot
Chicago report describes police guarding the stock yards after a race riot that left one dead and several wounded. To protect about 2000 black workers, trains with police followed by cars carried them to the yards. Three black men accused of Barrett murder are jailed. mob forced them to seek refuge in St. Gabriel's church. Father Burke is credited with calming the crowd. Barrett had been involved in an earlier fatal altercation with black men. A 24-hour street car strike in Berlin protested a railway director appointment and began at midnight.
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Chicago
Stock Yards
South Side
Thomas F. Barrett
St. Gabriel's Church
Thomas Burke
Barrett
Berlin
Geise
Saloon Murder Suspects Held in New Haven Jail
James McDowl and Walter Hoydt, former city residents, are jailed in New Haven County charged with the murder of saloonkeeper Valentine Landa at 447 Main Street Ansonia. Police tie them to a recent armed robbery at the American Tube & Stamping Company yard and an earlier robbery at John Kajure’s saloon on Clinton Avenue. The men formerly lived on Lee Avenue and State Street and worked at local factories.
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James McDowl
Lee Avenue
Chapman & Bangs Company
Water Street
Walter Hoydt
State Street
American Tubs Stamping Company
New Haven County
Valentine Landa
Main Street
Ansonia
Landa
Bridgeport
Salnon
Pembroke Street
Lincoln Building
Cannon Street
McDowl
Hoyt
American Tube & Stamping Company
West End
John Kajure
Clinton Avenue
American Tube & 1 Stamping Company
Ingersoll to Operate Steeplechase Island Boats
The Ingersoll Engineering and Construction Co of New Haven wins a ten year lease to Steeplechase Island for 215000 and will run boats to the island starting next spring. Officers named Edward Saulsbury president Charles J. Martin vice president and Dr J E Gilmore director. The lease covers rent and plans to invest up to a half million in five years while government removal of a prior bridge to the island continues.
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Ingersoll Engineering and Construction Company of
New Haven
Bridgeport Board of Aldermen
Steeplechase Island
Stratford Avenue
McMahon & Wren
Martin
Gilmore
New Enterprise
Edward Saulsbury
Charles J. Martin
West Haven
Orange Town
J. E. Gilmore
George Tilyou
Coney Island
Shalessee
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association to decide on candidates
Hartford September 21 Delegates from local groups will meet September 24 to decide whether the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will take a stand on candidates in the fall election.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
Telegraph lineman falls to death near Round Hill
Oscar Hindblon age 35 of Georgetown, a Western Union lineman, was killed near the estate of I N Phelps Stokes at Round Hill when he fell about 15 feet while trimming a tree beside the telegraph pole. The accident occurred late yesterday in Greenwich Connecticut. Local authorities and company officials investigated the incident.
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Greenwich
Conn
Oscar Iindblon
Georgetown
Western Union Telegraph Company
I. N. Phelps Stokes
Round Hill
MacSwiney Enters Fortieth Hunger Strike Day
London reports Terence MacSwiney Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork remains in unchanged condition on the fortieth day of his hunger strike in Brixton jail infirmary.
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London
Terence MacSwiney
Sinn Fein
Cork
Brixton Jail
Scotch Soviet Ready to Strike
A Red Guard army has been secretly marshalled in Scotland for a coup linked to the coal strike. Communists allegedly told coal company cashiers at Blantyre they will seize and operate mines under a soviet system if the strike occurs.
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London
Red Guard
Scotland
Glasgow
Blantyre
Woman Need Not Tell Her Age in Voting Case
The Maine Supreme Court ordered Portland registration officials to enroll Mrs. Elizabeth Alden Holman without requiring her exact birth date. Judge Scott Wilson issued the writ mandating enrollment despite her description of age as over 21, with resisters free to oppose by October 6.
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Portland
Supreme Court
Scott Wilson
Board of Registration
Elizabeth Alden Holman
Davis & Savard Corner Leased To Riker Drug Co
The Main street and Fairfield avenue Davis & Savard corner in Bridgeport is leased by owner Dr. William P. Hall of Boston and re-leased to the Riker Drug Company after alterations. The Davis & Savard clothing store has occupied the corner for 27 years and will remain as other firms in the building continue to operate. The Riker Drug Store plans a modern drug corner after renovations at the site.
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Main Street
Fairfield Avenue
Davis & Savard Company
Bridgeport
Riker Drug Store
Davis & Savard
Ew Egeland
Riker
Savard
Stratford Rides Buses As Trolleys Go Empty In New Service
Bridgeport resumes trolley service with jitneys gaining momentum and buses set for routes expansion. Stratford Devon and Walnut Beach residents stick with jitneys while trolley patronage remains light. Connecticut company reports smooth operation with minor accidents and a re routing of the A cars to improve north south service. John Street sees a surge in bus commuters and merchants applaud the change.
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Bridgeport
Jitney
Stratford
Devon
Walnut Beach
Lake Torpedo Boat Plant
Graphophone Company
Connecticut Company
North
Main Street
North M. Street
Wentworth Street
Main
Gilbert
State Street
Water Street
Golden Hill Street
Plaza
Pasengers
John Street
Congress
Socialists in New York Assembly Sitters Fate Debated
Albany Sept 21 The fitness of the five New York City Socialists to sit in the state assembly will be determined today as legislative leaders note changes in the Socialist party constitution purge them of disloyalty that led to their expulsion last spring and plans proceed.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
State Assembly
Socialist Party
Deschanel Resignation Read in French Senate
Paris September 21 President Paul Deschanels resignation letter was read to the senate and the chamber of deputies stating ill health forced retirement. Noank Connecticut September 21 A 300 pound shark captured near Watch Hill by Captain Lawrence Ashcroft aboard the Katherine weighed over 300 pounds.
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Paris
Paul Deschanels
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Noank
Conn
Lawrence Ashcroft
Katherine
Watch Hill
Ballard declines comment on mayoral political clash
County Commissioner Frank Ballard refused to respond to Mayor Wilson's charge that he aided Democratic candidates while claiming Republican allegiance. Ballard said it is beneath his dignity to reply and that his stance is clear to Bridgeport residents.
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Frank E. Ballard
Wilson
Bridgeport
Lieutenant Haux Gets Private Office at City Police
Lieutenant George Haux, the Bertillon expert, has moved from the detective bureau to a new private office on the third floor of the police headquarters. The change elevates him within the department while keeping his rank as lieutenant.
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Police
Rube Goldberg
George Haux
Detective Bureau
George
Police Headquarters
Haux
Police Department
Colby Rejects Demand to Rescind Federal Suffrage Action
Secretary Colby refused to rescind his proclamation ratifying the Federal Suffrage Amendment despite anti-suffrage requests from Tennessee. He cited the Tennessee legislature's favorable action as the basis for upholding the ratification.
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Washington
Colby
Tennessee
Cox Tours Southern California in Presidential Campaign
Governor Cox of Ohio, the Democratic presidential candidate, wrapped up his Southern California swing with five speeches planned. The schedule included events at Long Beach, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino before he departed for Arizona later in the day.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Cox
Ohio
Ten Thousand Miners Idle in Pennsylvania Strike
In Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region the education strike widens as Shamokin district miners refuse to return until monthly workers are reinstated by operators. Most mines in the Philadelphia and Reading coal belt stay idle as the walkout continues.
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Shamokin
Philadelphia
Bomb explosion damages Swiss capital Schaffhausen
London dispatch reports a bomb damaged several houses in Schaffhausen, capital of its canton. During police fire a second bomb was fired. Frank Campo, a baker of 27 Lexington Avenue, was arrested for reckless driving and faces City Court tomorrow morning.
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London
Schaffhausen
Geneva
Iire
Tgation
Frank Campo
Lexington Avenue
Lake Finds Twelve Hulks Claims Them
Twelve sunken vessels seven with coal lie in Long Island Sound and have been claimed by the Argonaut Salvage Corporation by discovery. The company plans to raise the wrecks using a new salvaging boat demonstrated as an invaluable tool. Divers inspected all reachable ships noting coal types and general cargo aboard.
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Long Island Sound
Argonaut Salvage Corporation
James L. McGovern
McGovern
Connecticut Legislature Passes 21 Election Laws
Hartford September election measures cut to create women voters and expand voter rules. The session adjourned to reconvene on suffrage issues, with a referendum planned on a soldiers bonus and clashes over primary registration. Governor Holcomb threatened a veto on the bonus referendum.
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Times
Hartford
Capitol
Holcomb
Senate
House
Judiciary Committee
Walsh
Wihein
Ice
United States
William A. King
Mr. Kins
Lymanthi
Matthew Kenelly
Stamford
Windham
Weather forecast for New Haven and Connecticut
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday with warmer temperatures. Central New England shows cloudy spells and a warming trend, while a western disturbance brings scattered showers between the Rockies and areas west of the region. Pleasant conditions prevail in southern and eastern districts with a generally rising temperature trend.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Kote
Rocky Mountains
Northfield
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