27 Dec 1919
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Newspaper
Naugatuck Daily News
Location
Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1919
Page
1
Police report a wave of liquor poisonings in Chicopee and Holyoke with fourteen dead in Chicopee and five in Holyoke. Investigations focus on bootleg liquor from a downtown Champlain Street area and several hotels including the American House and lintel. Authorities seek the source, purchasers, and sellers of the whiskey blamed for the fatalities.
New York December 27 1919 Doctor William Vermilye of Unoolklye failed to appear for his Monson Massachusetts wedding to Miss Ruth Keeney Christmas Day. He was located early today at Gundaland Street Hospital Brooklyn with details of his ailment not released at his request. The wedding was postponed amid concern for his safety and reports suggest possible foul play connected to his alleged government secret service work.
National Geographic Society bulletin notes prior to 886 Mexico and the United States had roughly equal areas. Texas cession and Mexican War gains left Mexico about one fourth the continental US. Mexico's area and population, literacy, and demographics are described, with border geography and railroad development summarized.
Joli Brannigan reports a mass meeting in Columbus hall Sunday evening January 1 to feature Judge Collins of the New York City juvenile court as the principal speaker. The event aims to discuss the Irish question with a broad program and invites clergy borough officials and residents to attend.
Officers detained William Balkor and Charles Perry after victims identified Balkor as the whiskey seller the previous night. Perry was captured when fleeing a Chicopea factory, both men charged with manslaughter. Bail set at $10,000. threats against the accused noted among foreign residents.
About 91 people nationwide fall ill or die from wood alcohol tainted whiskey. In New England 32 deaths and 17 illnesses linked to a batch shipped for Christian trade. Reports list Chicago Boston Hartford New York as hardest hit with month end and recent fatal spikes. Arrests mounted as investigations extended.
Buenos Aires reports an American scientist William Alanson Bryan seeks a 6,000 mile prehistoric land ridge between South America and Fatwail long submerged. Bryan, zoology and geology professor at the College of Hawaii, left Honolulu last June and is about to board a ship for Juan Fernandez Island, 400 miles out, home to a small fishing community.
Mrs Bertha Sheriff of Holyoke Massachusetts writes from Gloucester City New Jersey asking her husband Samuel to return for Christmas to see their four month old baby, unaware he was murdered October 18 in a local restaurant and his body left unclaimed in Potter's Field. The letter shows the couple were separated and is signed Bertha with crosses for kisses, including a baby photo.
The National Geographic Society notes that Mexico boasted 20 000 miles of modern U.S. style railroads, with six frontier crossings. It carried 11 million passengers and 11 million tons of freight annually, earning about 14 million dollars in revenue. Mines covered 633 000 acres across 21 000 sites, employing half a million men, yet only a fraction of mineral potential had been exploited prior to the Madero uprising.
The article outlines the state led push for Americanization, led by Roberts Deming, stressing that making immigrants “Americans at heart” requires education in English, history, and U.S. ideals. It urges directing evenings schools, forming racial and ward committees, and using foreign language papers to counter pro soviet propaganda with practical civic integration.
Hartford officials prepare autopsies as thirteen deaths from wood alcohol poisonings mount. Police and federal agents pursue Frank Rose and associates tied to the alleged sale of the tainted liquor. New deaths and hospitalizations push totals to 23 in Hartford. brief notes from Chicago and Winsted accompany the story.
The piece argues for educational use of films and a nationwide policy on aliens. It calls for strict, clearly defined procedures to classify all newcomers and a time-limited path to assimilation, with returns home if goals are not met, and urges ready adoption of logical, legal standards for both newcomers and those already in the country.
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