Railroads in 1920 Campaign Open Ownership Debate
Kingstown Feb 24 Government ownership of railroads to be a chief 1920 campaign issue. Public desire to decide at the polls as Congress considers extending or ending private control. Director General Hines argues for continued government operation only for a fair test under normal conditions.
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Ikington
Congress
D. Hines
Hines
Interstate Commerce Commission
McAdoo
Westion
Senate Commerce
Wail Jstreet
America
Destroy German Fleet at Scapa Flow Likely By Peace Talks
London reports the British plan to scuttle 74 German warships at Scapa Flow may be approved by Paris peace delegates. The ships total 500000 tons and are valued at 200 million dollars. Submarines’ fate to be decided separately with options to sink or preserve as relics.
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London
Scapa Flow
Paris
Atlantic
Labor Party Elects Connecticut Executive Board
Meriden February 24 At the first state convention of the American Labor Party of Connecticut T M Crowley of Hartford was elected state chairman and state organizer Charles B E Haines of Bridgeport was chosen state secretary and treasurer Seventeen delegates attended representing Hartford Bridgeport New Britain Derby and Meriden The executive committee includes E J Foley Hartford George J Stanley Meriden and Jesse T Gardner Bridgeport
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Meriden
American Labor Party of Connecticut
T. M. Crowley
Hartford
Charles BE. Haines
Bridgeport
New Britain
Derby
E. J. Foley
George J. Stanley
Jesse T. Gardner
Letter Carriers Elect Officers at Conn convention
Waterbury February 24 The Connecticut Letter Carriers Association elected officers for its twenty fifth annual convention William W Merrill of Bristol was named president Samuel R of Bridgeport was vice president Charles A White Wallingford secretary Joseph B Kenney New Haven treasurer Grover Monahan Ansonia William R C Norwalk and E S Smith Torrington named to the executive committee Past President Peter Fox Waterbury was chosen as a delegate to the national convention to be held in Philadelphia The next state convention will be in Bristol. The officers were T S McNabb New Lieutenant A D Pillsbury Hart id and Mayor Sandland of Waterbury
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Waterbury
Connecticut Letter Carriers’ Association
William W. Merrill
Bristol
Samuel R
Bridgeport
Charles A. White
Wallingford
Joseph B. Kenney
New Haven
Grover
Monahan
Ansonia
William R. C
Norwalk
E. S. Smith
Torrington
Peter Fox
Philadelphia
T. S. McNabb
A. D. Pillsbury
Hartid
Sandland
Water
Daring New York Girl Makes Moving Pictures of War
Miss Josephine Hernon of New York led a moving picture party with French permission and filmed front line battle scenes. Dressed in khaki with a steel helmet she moved through shell torn villages and trenches, twice forced to retreat to save her equipment. Her World War I footage shown in England was praised as the finest yet produced.
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New York
Josephine Hernon
Hernon
England
Duel to Death Over Girl in Brooklyn Dance Hall
New York February 24 A duel over a pretty Italian girl named Marie was fought in a Brooklyn dance hall. Anthony De Andria 24 and Anthony Napolitano 26 confronted each other after Napolitano escorted the girl. A shot was fired wounding Napolitano in the head and De Andria in the arm.
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New York
Marie
Dance Hall
Brooklyn
Anthony de Ania
Anthony Napolitano
Napolitano
de Andria
Editor Ordered Arrested for Inciting Riot in Boston
A war rant was issued for Louis Fraina editor of the Revolutionary Age on a charge of inciting riot at a mass meeting of strikers in Lawrence. Boston inspectors aided searches but Fraina remained at large as of today. Other warrants for agitators were applied for with one arrest for intimidation, while life’s bittersweet notes framed the day.
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Boston
Lawrence
Mass
Louis Fraina
The
Revolutionary Age
Fraina
Kelleher
Murphy
O’brien
Three Held for Payroll Theft in Everett Robbery
Malden Mass February 24 police arrested Charles B Whittemore aged 68 an expert accountant for General Electric in Everett charged with highway robbery in the December payroll theft of Frank Rogers Brown Lynn paymaster for GE. Louis Bennett and Charles Celeste were also taken into custody. Brown shot but discharged from hospital days ago.
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Malden
Mass
Charles B. Whittemore
General Electric Co
Everett
Louis
Hoco) Bennett
Allston
Charles Celeste
Dorchester
Frank Rogers Brown
Lynn
New York
Whittemore
Paymaster Brown
Walpole
Norwood
Brown
Kebbe
Louis Bennett
Hoco
Harvard
New England
Ameer of Afghanistan Shot Dead in Kabul Camp
London reports the Ameer of Afghanistan has been assassinated. News says he was shot at a camp in Kabul with details unclear. Afghanistan is a landlocked nation in Southern Asia bordered by India, Persia and Russia.
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London
Ameer
Afghanistan
Kabul
Asia
India
Persia
Russia
Peace treaty targets by June 1 in Paris dispatch
London reports Paris peace delegates expect the preliminary agreement by May 1 and the final treaty by June 1 at the latest, per a Daily Mail dispatch.
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London
Paris
The
Daily Mail Today
Happenings In This Vicinity 25 Years Ago
A compact local recap notes May wheat at 60 cents in Chicago. C D Reed, class of 1897, dies in the North college baseball cage after illness. Walkeley Hill’s H A Huntington finds two cows dead. eight poisoned cows this week in Haddam. Wesleyan undergraduates total 273 with 47 women. A hospital organized in New Britain. Stony Creek granite cutters return after a 14 month strike. Aurora Borealis display lights the night for two hours. Richard Davis sells six Jersey cows to Stephen Hall of Portland. Ice houses filled with fine ice. Western birds bought by Portland gun club for next spring. James K Guy heads south for vacation. Railroad restricts dogs per passenger to two. A man released from Haddam jail breaks up housekeeping with an axe. 90 days jailed. Nourse & Co. pole rises 70 feet. Coldest morning of the season at 5 below on Maintree t. The road, softer, makes travel harder.
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Chicago
C. D. Reed
North College
H. A. Huntington
Walkeley Hill
Haddam
New Wesleyan
New Britain
Stony Creek
Richard Davis
Stephen Hall
Portland
Portland Gun Club
James K. Guy
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Labor Party
Crowley
First State Convention
Josephine Herndon
General Electric
American Committee For Relief In the
Middletown War Bureau
William H. Hall
Henry C. Ward
William H. Bouteiller
Publicity Committee
J. Vincent Dempsey Leo’b. Santangelo
William J. Kieft
George A. Tierney
Middletown
George Tierney
Committee For Relief In the
Near East
Armenia
Geo. A. Tierney
Central Bank Building
Housekeeping
Billy Burke
Warner Brothers Co
J. “Brewer Co
Wain and Court Streete
Brainard & Logan
Toggery
J. F. O’connell
W. T. Fields CO. Investment Brokers
Tel
Liberty
New Haven, Conn
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