Waterbury mayor, 18 others convicted in graft conspiracy
A Waterbury jury convicted Mayor Frank Hayes and 18 associates of conspiring to defraud the city of over a million dollars in a long running graft scheme. The verdicts, delivered after six hours of deliberation, carry possible prison terms up to 15 years under updated conspiracy laws. The judge would set sentences after motions to set aside the verdicts are heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury
Conn
Frank Hayes
Hugh M. Alcorn
Connecticut
Ernest A. Inglis
Thomas P. Kelly
KruGon Promises Health From Toxic Impurity Elimination
Mrs. D. L. McKinsey of Hannibal Missouri reports her father recovered from months of biliousness constipation and headaches after using KruGon a remedy sold by Brandenberger Drug Co and local druggists. She says strength and sleep returned and the family is relieved and grateful for the results.
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KruGan Temedy
D. L. McKinsey
South 7Th St
Hannibal
Missouri
KruGon
Father
Mrs. McKinsey
Brandenberger Drug Co
E. High St
Crcupding Town
Weather Instrument Measures Water Temperature Mile High
The American Meteorological Society announced a new delicate instrument by Dr. C. H. Heck to measure upper air temperature a mile up. Using a cascade of mirrors to focus light on a thermocouple, it detects tiny heat changes and can predict weather within 24 hours. It works day or night and can indicate frost potential by cloud and humidity variations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen J. McDonough
Associated Press
Washington
American Meteorological Society
C. H. Heck
North Carolina State College
Heck
City Officials and Ex-Politicians Testify in Waterbury Case
City comptroller Daniel J. Leary and two ex state leaders Harry E. Mackenzie and Charles E. Williamson testified as witnesses that they were hired by Hayes to lobby at the capitol for Waterbury bills and split fees with Leary. Convicted also were George H. Kingsley and John W. Meany, New Jersey partners in a New York auditing firm charged with filing false reports on the city’s fiscal condition. Originally 27 accused. three freed and one fugitive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel J. Leary
Harry E. Mackenzie
Bethel
Charles E. Williamson
Darien
Mackenzie
State Abor
Williamson
Hayes
Capitol
Waterbury
Leary
George H. Kingsley
John W. Meany
Bogota
N. J
New York
Enoch Borgnees
Hallis, L. L
Worry Tied to Arthritis by Boston Doctors
Chicago August 17 Physicians from Boston report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that worry and stress, including poverty and grief, may be tied to the onset and flare ups of rheumatoid arthritis. They caution that proving the link requires more study.
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Chicago
Stanley
Cobb
Walter
Bauer
Isabel Whiting
Boston
Journal of the American Medical Association
George No Longer Drinks Whiskey
An advertisement for White Ribbon Treatment promises it helps stop drunkenness. It claims the remedy can be added secretly to coffee tea or milk and cites a long term drunkard cured with one box. Priced at $2.00 and sold at Tolson's and area drug stores.
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Tolson’s
Social stress linked to rheumatoid arthritis in study
A tailed psychiatric study of 50 rheumatoid arthritis patients found 31 with financial hardship and work insecurity showing arthritis flare ups aligned with social stress. Twelve more showed some timing relation, seven had no link, and the work pattern suggests a different type of person among those with varicose ulcers. The report notes arthritis affects women more, whites more, and the poor more than the rich.
Shoe Sales Rise in Eastern States in 1999 Half-Year
The New England Shoe and Leather Association reports five leading chains sold 44.38 million dollars in the first six months of 1999, up four percent from the prior year. Net profits reached 31.69 million, up 57 percent, with Melville Shoe Corp leading at 18 million gross and one million net. one firm declined in sales and profit.
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Boston
New England Shoe and Leather Association
Melville Shoe Corporation
No Trick At All To Meet Der Fuehrer Washington
Fritz Kuhn, German American band leader, testified before the Dies committee that in 1936 he could obtain an audience with Adolf Hitler without middlemen. He said he did not seek a conference, and after visiting Ambassador William E. Dodd he proceeded to Hitler’s headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Adolf Hitler
Fritz Kuhn
Kuhn
Dies Committee
Germany
der Fuehrer
William E. Dodd
Prize ribbons repurposed to decorate a quilt
Mexico Missouri August 17 AP Mrs Mary E Fish 70 uses prize winning ribbons from needlework contests in nine states over 39 years to adorn a quilt rather than dust collection. She has collected four hundred of the 570 ribbons won in contests and uses them as bright patchwork.
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Mexico
Mary E. Fish
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George
Phil A. Dallmeyer
Electric
Westminster
Dallmeyer
Hitler
der Fuerrer
Richie Flecar
Old Quaker
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OLD Quaker CO
Ind
Aldson
Mantel
Coles
Montgomery Ward
Eben
Jeeferson City
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