Coroner cites bicycle rear light failure in 1918 fatal crash
Middlesex County coroner Stephen B. Davis finds that Frank Michalski was killed on June 15 1918 while riding a bicycle on a Cromwell road by a motorcycle driven by Walter Thorell. The coroner holds Thorell responsible for death due to careless operation and insufficient lights. He calls for municipal regulation requiring lights on bicycles both front and rear to prevent similar accidents. A hearing before Justice Noble followed. Thorell was bound over on manslaughter charges to the superior court with $1000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen B. Davis
Public Today
Walterr Cromwell
Frank Michalski
Croma
Thorell di
Don
Cromwell
Walter ‘Thorell
Michalski
Walter Thorelis
Middlesex County
Carlson Larson Wedding At Swedish Lutheran Church
A fashionable wedding was solemnized yesterday at the Swedish Lutheran Church as Miss Alida Carlson became the bride of Gottfred Larson. The ceremony featured a wedding march, flower girls, bridesmaids in pale blue crepe, and a shower bouquet for the bride. A wedding supper followed at August’s Prospect street home, after which the couple departed for a wedding tour and will reside in a newly furnished Prospect street home.
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Alida
Gottfred
Organiste
N’s
Ethel Tere
Edith Larson
Ruth Ahlberg
Axel Larson
Spring Street
Ernest Peterson
Fountain Avenue
C. E. An
Lawence
Carl Ahlberg
Ower
Jelssohn
Ford
Prospect Street
Group Portrait of Cahill in Hospital Ward
In a posed image from the Associated Press News Service a Middletown soldier, Joseph E. Cahill of Company C, Middletown, sits in a chair at a base hospital in France. Cahill, formerly with the Woodford drug store, is shown smoking a cigarette and resting as wounded comrades lie nearby. his unit left for service last September and his location is Camp Devens.
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Middletown
Fance
Associatec “News Service
Joseph E. Cahill
Middlewny
Joe
Woodfd
Mpany
John
Camp Devens
Central Lodge Election at East Hampton Meeting
At the Central lodge No. E O. O. F. meeting last evening officers were elected N G St Phelps V G William J fb RS A H Griswold F S Ruggles treasurer R E Myl er and will be installed Thursday July 11 by District Carpenter of East Hampton.
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Central Lodge
N. G
St. Phelps
V. G
William J
Questionnaires Mailed for 1918 Registrants
The Middletown local board mailed the third and last instalment of 140 questionnaires for the 1918 registration. Registrants have seven days plus Sundays to return them, due by Friday July 5. A legal advisory board aids registrants daily 7 to 8 pm in the city court room. Governor Holcomb asked all members to help as in 1917. The Second Edition form requires detailed agricultural data and full status explanations. Do not use the old form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legal Advisory Board
Middletown
Special Room Needed for Defective Pupils at High School
The Board of Education met last night noting an incoming freshman class at M H S exceeding 200 and 95 graduates this week. Dr J A Campbell spoke on the urgent need for a dedicated room for defective pupils and outlined cases, with plans to arrange for a room for detectives next term. The session also covered physical exams, nurse reports, new text books, and a clear slate on tuition and back dues.
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Board of Education
J. A. Campbell
Charles L. Bliss
Spellacy and Wilson Wives Tie Middletown to Campaign
Spellacy head of the Democratic state ticket is well known in Middletown after marrying Nellie Walsh, daughter of the late Thomas Walsh. Lieutenant Governor Wilson, renominated by Republicans, also married a Middletown girl, Annie Dorsey. Mrs Spellacy and Mrs Wilson were childhood friends, a notable link between the two tickets.
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Thomas J. Spellacy
Middletown
Nellie Walsh
Thomas Walsh
Spellacy
Hartford
Wilson
Annie Dorsey
City Briefs and Local Notices Highlight Town Events
Almanac day mentions light vehicle lamps at 8.55 pm. Notes on Hotel Arrigoni shows singing each evening. Fresh fish at city dock with Boat Alden adv. A marriage license issued to Carl G. A. Carlson and Alicia Larson. St. Aloysius big dance tonight with admission 30c and 40c. Hastings visitors at 195 Court street. Baseball at Hanover Park Meriden, Fish Tops vs Schencks, 3:30 call. Potatoes bloom in home gardens. farmers haying as weather improves. State demonstrators teach peas and cherries. Connecticut dentists performed 8000 free operations for selective service men. 226 dentists involved. City court had no session. Middlesex vaudeville tonight with Pickford and West films. McCarthy’s store promotes wall paper and paint sale. St. Aloysius hall tonight dance with 30c and 40c admission. Modern Woodmen meeting at camp. Starr to attend Washington ordnance school after Pelham Bay. Slauters visiting Middletown by car. Catchy music and good time at St. Aloysius hall.
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Hotel Arrigoni
City Dock
Alden
Carl G. A. Carlson
Prospect Street
Alicia Larson
Washington Street
St. Aloysius
H. G. Balcom
Connecticut
United States
Middlesex
Jack Pickford
Bunker Bean
Billy West
Adventures of
Molly
Middletown
McCarthy
Main Street
William F. Lynch
St. Aloysius’ Hall
Robinhood
Samuel J. Starr
Pelham Bay Naval Station
Washington Ordnance and Gunnery School
George Slauter
Westfield
Mass
Slauter
Ancing
Adv
Middletown Wins Meeting Choice for Connecticut Church Conference
The Country Church conference of Connecticut met at Berkeley Divinity School in this city. About 80 attendees left impressed with Middletown and its surroundings and voted to host the gathering there in the future. Arrangements were led by Rev. G. R. Gilbert as chair, with Rev. A. P. Coats, Hartford, Rev. C. H. Beers, Washington, and Roscoe Nelson, Hartford, on the committee. Resolutions praised Berkeley Divinity School and those furnishing automobiles for a sight-seeing trip of the city, including a guided visit to the shipyards at Gildersleeve where large wooden ships were under construction.
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Gildersleeve
Bill for $6 million vehicle tunnel toward New York Jersey City
Washington reports an afternoon bill by Senator Calder and Representative Egan proposes a $6,000,000 vehicle tunnel linking New York City with Jersey City or Hoboken. Each side would add $3,000,000 within two years. The sponsors say the tunnel would aid mail service troop and freight transport nationwide.
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Washington
New York City
Jersey City
Hoboken
New York
Calder
Egan
New Jersey
Coles Co. Closing Saturdays Noon in Summer
At the request of our employer we will close our mill and office Saturdays at noon from June 29 to August 31 inclusive to give men time for home gardens. Customers are asked to place orders by Friday noon for delivery that week.
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Coles Co
Palmer sells No 100 William Street to Puglisis via Puglisi agency
Jacob Palmer transfers ownership of house and lot at No 100 William Street to Gaetano and Giuseppina Puglisi. The sale is conducted through the Stephen Puglisi agency, establishing the formal conveyance.
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Jacob Palmer
William Street
Gaetano and
Giuseppina Puglisi
Stephen Puglisi
Constitutional ruling upholds Indiana dry law
The Indiana Supreme Court today reversed a lower court ruling in a 4 to 1 decision, declaring the state's prohibition law constitutional beyond dispute. The ruling settles the dissents and confirms the validity of the dry law in Indiana.
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Constitutional
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Supreme Court
High School Notes and Local Court Actions
The article notes the first day of classes with a large entering class and freshmen registration, seniors attending an evening dance with chaperones, and a note that Miss Parker resigned. It reports Morris Murphy’s 30 day jail sentence for breach of peace with mental observation, and George Webber’s bound over for trial on alleged theft. Vincent J. Constantino fined for reckless driving after a collision injuring Mrs. Roberts.
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Bidwell
la Rouche
Stamford
Morris Murphy
Murphy
George Webber
Meriden
Vincent J. Constantino
874Nd Avenue
New Haven
Bert Roberts
Tracy
Cook Avenue
Constantino
Third District Convention Called for July 2 in New Haven
Meriden’s Thomas J. Moroney, chairman of the Third Congressional Democratic Committee, has issued a call for a district convention on Tuesday July 2 at 2 p.m. in Hayles Hall Crown Street New Haven to organize party affairs.
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Meriden
Thomas J. Moroney
Democratic
Hayles’ Hall
Crown Street
New Haven
Merchants Agree to 5 P.M Closures in July and August
A group of merchants agrees to close their places of business at 5 p.m. during July and August, excluding Saturdays and the night before the Fourth. The list includes Meech & Stoddard Spear Brothers James H. Bunce Co Barton Clothing Paris Brainard & Logan J A Broatch Hazens Book Store James Young Co Clark & True Pinsker R J Atwell E R Corey W A Snow E J Wilcox Co Wm Greaves Bacon Bros Brown Bros Lyman D Mills Hale & Kelsey Wrubels Leonard & Herrmann Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meech & Stoddard, Inc
Spear Brothers
James H. Bunce Co
Barton Clothing Co
Paris, Inc
Brainard & Logan
J. A. Broatch
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ER Davis
Carlson-Larson
Swedish Lutheran Church
Wngton
American University
War Department
Pressway
Bureau of ‘Department of the Interior
Cradie Notester
Gerard
Roccaprora
Spring_ street
Georgette Waists
Georgette
Spear Bros
Country Church Conference
Albert Johnson
Chief Geo
Pitt
Broatch’s Modern Book Shop
T. D. Sullivan Co. Fountain
Louis M. Schmidt
Agency
Witt Be In
Caulkins & Post Co
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