Meteor sighting noted over Chatham area
In Chatham and Middle Haddam on Jan 18 William Comstock returned to Longmeadow Mass after a visit with sister Mrs Elizabeth Peckham. Russe Dart of New York City spent Sunday at his summer home here. Cecil Taylor and family returned to New Haven after a visit with his parents Mr and Mrs F E Taylor. Several locals reported seeing a meteor fall last evening.
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Chatham and
Middle Haddam
Wm. Comstock
Elizabeth Peckham
Longmeadow
Mass
Russe Dart
New York City
Cecil Taylor
Dorothy
F. E. Taylor
New Haven
Fourth Liberty Loan installment due in Cromwell
The Cromwell installment of the Fourth Liberty Loan is 20 percent due and payable at Cromwell Dime Savings Bank on or before January 15. Adv. Dr. W. E. Babcock, dentist, College Street, Middletown, offers telephone service. Also ad promoting flour and staple supplies with ready ration for dairy production by Theodore Anderson.
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Liberty
Cromwell Dime Savings Bank
W. E. Babcock
College Street
Middletown
Theodore Anderson
Pioneer Captain Leander Vlor Dies at 70 in Cromwell
Captain Leander Vlor aged about 69 or 70 died at his Waverly avenue home after a long illness. A noted fur trader, river pilot and fisher, he was famed as a body-recovery expert and commanded a large motor launch for river trips. He leaves four daughters and two sons, including residents in Cromwell and Lawrence. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Leander H. Taylor
Leander Vlor
Waverly Avenue
Cromwell
Local items note births meetings and weather details
A collection of brief notices from North Guilford and surroundings includes a birth for Mr and Mrs William Coleman on a Saturday in January, multiple visits and gatherings such as Mr M Hull from Hartford at his mother’s home, Mrs Fanny Stone and Miss Jennie Hubbard visiting New Haven, a Red Cross meeting planned for Wednesday, and O U A M meeting tonight at eight. Also reported are frigid conditions with a zero thermometer, eight inch ice on the mill pond, and skating by youths. Construction progress at a mill company includes a completed paint room, beginning work, ready packing and shipping rooms, a boiler overbuild, and steam heating improvements for the ti and packing areas.
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Mooner i
M. M.,company
Faber Takes Five Day Christmas Furlough From Gamp Devens
George C. Faber now at Gamp Devens enjoyed a five day furlough over Christmas to visit his grandmother and mother in New York.
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George C. Faber
Gamp Devens
New York
Morning bath and limestone phosphate claims
An ornate ad extols a morning hot bath with limestone phosphate tea to cleanse stomach liver and bowels. It asserts brighter complexions, more energy, and fewer illnesses for men and women, urging readers to obtain a quarter pound of phosphate to test the health benefits.
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Bath
Former Czar’s Daughter Claims He Is Alive in Letter
Former Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Nicholas II, writes to Grand Duke Cyril alleging the former Empress and daughters survive and that the ex-Czar was not shot as a Bolshevik executioner claimed. The letter details a Soviet officer’s demand for a mutilated corpse, Count T offering to die, the Czar fleeing, and his current unknown whereabouts.
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Tatiana
Nicholas Romanoff
Russia
Cyril
Archangel
Count T
Higganum Community Notes From Jan 18 Thomas Ward
The Higganum column reports residents with illness visits and social events. Gordon Cody of East Hampton and Frank Fuller are mentioned, along with Regina Miller and Mrs. Carl Miller. Overseas news concerns Frank Santy and Michael Stanton. Local church services, missions meetings, and society gatherings are detailed, with skating at the reservoir and doctor hours listed.
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Higganum
Gordon
Cody
East Hampton
Frank Fuller
Regina Miller
Carl Miller
Alfred Neff
Beatrice
Bristol
Brainerd Family Thanks Friends For Support And Flowers
Mr and Mrs Albert N Brainerd and family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness during their daughters illness and passing Welby and for many beautiful floral tributes in this advance notice.
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Albert N. Brainerd
Welby
Adv
East Berlin Social News and Local Skating Notes
Grand Deputy William H. Morgan of Middletown will visit East Berlin officers of the K of P society Tuesday evening. Miss Ruby Nye and Miss Dorothy Sugenhime visited relatives and friends in Portland and Middletown respectively. Many locals went skating on Sharp's pond Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Holigan of Southington and the Derenthals of Springfield visited relatives here. Dancing class meets at Athletic hall tonight. Ice thickness ranged from five to six inches.
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East Berlin
William H. Morgan
Middletown
K. of P. Society
Ruby Nye
Portland
Dorothy Sugenhime
Sharp’s Pond
William Holigan
Southington
Derenthal
Springfield
William Brown
Athletic Hall
Local Notes From Rocky Hill And Surrounding Towns
Henry Austin of Hartford visits Rocky Hill. Mrs. W. R. Griswold visits her son Robbins in Indianapolis. Edward Nichols of New London visits friends here. Miss Grace Warner returns from New Jersey. Dr. C. A. Moser continues to improve from illness. Wesley Noble of Cromwell was in town yesterday.
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Rocky Hil
Henry Austin
U.S. A
Hartford
W. R. Griswold
Elm Street
Robbins
Indianapolis
Ind
Edward Nichols
New London
Grace Warner
New Jersey
C. A. Moser
Wesley Noble
Cromwell
Haddam Doctor Advertises Medical Services
Dr Taylor a physician and surgeon in Higganum offers evening hours from 6 30 to 8 p m and lists telephone 666 adv 131 Dr W E Babcock dentist Col BI Middletown also advertises with telephone m adv.
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Taylor
W.E. Babcock
Col BI Middletown
East Hampton Birthday Surprise for Rev G H Lamson
About 60 friends gathered Friday night at Rev G H Lamson’s Miller's Hill home in East Hampton to honor his eightieth birthday. His son Prof G H Lamson Jr of Storrs Agricultural College arrived as an added surprise. Rev Samuel Thatcher presented a silk umbrella and praised his long ministry followed by a social hour led by Prof Lamson with an oral exam for the Student Army Training Corps. A plentiful collation was served by church ladies.
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East Hampton
G. H. Lamson
Miller’s Hill
G. H. Lamson, Jr
Storrs
Mr. Lamson
Methodist Church
Lamson
Student Army Training Corps
Centerbrook Weekend Visits and Local Notes
Centerbrook residents report Miss May Schultz and Kenneth Ingraham spent the weekend with friends in Middletown. Mrs Laura Robinson takes a week’s vacation from W J Prann’s store. C L Jones has been ill at home. Children enjoyed skating on the mill pond yesterday. Neilson of Meriden visited Estelle Parker. Arthur Bushnell of the U S Navy stayed with his parents Sunday. Sunday was the coldest morning of the season. Just About. Marching into Metz would be thrilling to our dough boys.
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Centerbrook
May Schultz
Kenneth Ingraham
Middletown
Laura Robinson
W. J. Prann
C. L. Jones
Mill Pond
Neilson
Meriden
Estelle Parker
Arthur Bushnell
U. S. Navy
Albert Bushnell
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Chatham—Middle
Haddam
Wiley
Irst National Bank
W. Powers
United Sates Navy
His Powers
Main Street
Eeve
Bernadotte
Vasa
Molander
Deep
Company K
State Guard
Hdward J. Greene
Springd
East Main
Dorothy Meehan
Gilder
Pater Joseph
Amston
Maud West
Frank Santy
Harry Mller
John Anderson
Eugene Spencer
Haddam Road
Donatoni
King’s Heralds
M. E
Ladies’ Missionary Society of the Congregational Church
Jennie Gilbert
Rocky Hill
Red Cross
Albert Starr
Center Grammar School
Worthington White
U.S. N
G. K. White
Katherine Callahan
Loretta Cashion
Cecelia Reardon
John Reardon
James Reardon
Patrick ‘Fox
St. Patrick’s Church
Patrick A. Cavanaugh
Patrick Cavanaugh
France
Cavanaugh
Edith Collins
Willimantic
Edward Donnellan
Co. L
King’s Daughters
Mary Pelletti
Riverside
Theresa Pelletti
Stafford Springs
John Pelletti
Meadose la Bonte, Jr
Metz
Mackinaws
Barton Clothing Co
Nourse
Sherman
Main St
the Middlesex
Wrigleys
Goody Land
Torrington
U. S
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