Club organization details in Middletown meeting notes
The text outlines committees for a club including election of officers and plans for future meetings. It lists chairpersons from various companies and organizations, their duties to prepare calendars of club classes, and constitution by-laws. Meetings are scheduled at the Red Cross rooms with dates in May and times in the evening, and the next meeting is open to potential members.
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M. Kidney
Bunce’s D
E. Willett
Herrman Co
Main Street
M. Red Cross
Lin
Carlson
Iklin Electric Co
Red Crossers
Ting
Beetlcaster
Red Cross Committee
Red Headquarters
Senator Harris Supports Suffrage Bill in Senate
Paris dispatch reports Senator Harris will vote for the suffrage bill after a White House conference with President Wilson. Harris told the press he is assured the amendment will pass and that the treaty will be ratified in whatever form the executive presents it.
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Paris
United States
Senate
William J. Harris
Wilson
White House
Harris
Press- Wilson
Liquor Dealers Elect National Leaders in New Jersey
Atlantic City May 9 George Carroll of Elizabeth New Jersey led the New Jersey Liquor Dealers association to elect president of the National Liquor Dealers annual convention J J Doherty of Boston named vice president Robert J Male of Chicago re elected treasurer The group resolved to mobilize 85000 license holders in the county to oppose the dry amendment enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
George Carroll
Elizabeth
New Jersey Liquor Dealers” Association
National
Liquor Dealers
J. J. Doherty
Boston
Robert J
Chicago
Postal Telegraph System adopts eight hour day for all employees
New York May 9 Charles P general manager of the Postal Telegraph system announced that, effective June 1, the eight hour day and time and a half for over time will be adopted for all employees in large and small cities across the United States. Balloon on trial flight at Point L. I. Navy dirigible C-5, after a flight from Mad. N. J., is in hangar at Auk Point completing 210 hours in five hours. Officers deny plans for a trans Atlantic voyage and say it will be equipped with special gear for such a journey.
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Postal Telegraph System
New York
Charles P
Postal Phc System
Yester
United States
Auk Point
L. L
Mad
N. J
Morals and loan quota report from wartime event
Bishop Hughes praised the character of boys at a Mothers and Sons event for the Woman's Baptist Social. He stated the boys were more thoughtful and disciplined than before. In Tennessee, Rogersville area quickly met a Liberty Loan quota within an hour as announced by Lee, a field representative of the zone.
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Bute
Bishop Hughes
United States Army
Mothers’ and Sons
Tenn
Rogersville
Lee
Boys Outwit Police In Narrow Escape In Ohio
MBUS Ohio two youths in an automobile evaded pursuing police by pulling to the curb pretending to stop then moving a few feet and escaping. The incident began with officers in pursuit as the suspects led them on a brief chase through MBUS.
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Mbus
Ohio
Yale Announces Tentative Commencement Schedule
New Haven May 9. Yale plans a week of ceremonies from June 14 to June 20. Highlights include the Yale Dramatic Association presenting Tamberlaine, President Hadley delivering the Baccalaureate address, Woolsey Hall commemorations for World War I fallen, Yale in China meeting, class day events, alumni reunions, and the Yale Harvard boat races at New London on June 20.
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New Haven
Yale
Yale Dramatic Association
China
Yale Law School
Yale Corporation
Yale-Harvard
Yale Field
New London
Gov Harrison's Intended Bride Diptheria Carrier
Washington health officials worry over a report that Elizabeth Wrentmore, 17, heiress and fiancée of Francis B. Harrison, may be a diphtheria carrier. A telegram from California purportedly confirms she and her mother broke quarantine at Berkeley and travel to Washington to wed the governor general of the Philippines. Health officers were stationed at Union Station ready to halt her arrival if needed.
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Washington
Elizabeth Wrentmore
Francis B. Harrison
Philippines
Wrentmore
California State Board of Health
Berkeley
Harrison
Union Station
Massacre in Perm District by Bolsheviks
Geneva report claims eighteen hundred people were killed in the Perm district as Bolshevik forces led by maniacs wrecked violence after asylum inmates were freed. One leader at Ossa ordered hostages shot and then killed himself in a cemetery. many bodies were buried alive and later exhumed for identification.
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Geneva
Perm
Ossa
Henry E Rees at Aetna Fire Insurance Dies in Hartford
Henry E Rees vice president of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company died at his Hartford home. A 62 year old long time industry figure, he had suffered paralysis of the throat since last November. Born in Macon Georgia, he joined the insurance business at 24 and with Aetna since 1889, rising to vice president in 1912.
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Henry E. Rees
Fire Insurance Company
Hartford
Aetna Fire Insurance Company
Mr. Rees
Macon
Aetna
Printer seeks West work with union preference
An advertisement in a Montgomery Alabama paper's want column offers a country printer willing to move west for a permanent job. The note says eight-hour days and no objection to tobacco or alcohol, with the applicant urged to write about capabilities. W. H. Feather, editor of the News in Broken Bow Oklahoma is listed.
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BOOZE
OKEY
Joe
Montgomery
Ala
W. H. Feather
Broken Bow
Okla
Local market shows strong demand across stocks and insurers
The market remains active with Billings & Spencer Eagle Lock Peck Stow and many others in demand. Life and fire stocks hold firm with Aetna Travelers Hartford and Connecticut General trading near recent highs while bank and utility shares stay supported. manufacturing names like Stanley Works and Colt’s Firearms show solid activity with multiple sales and prices across numerous issues.
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Billings & Spencer
Eagle Lock
Peck, Stow & Wilcox
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Travelers Insurance Company
Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
Hartford Steam-Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
Aetna Insurance Company
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
National Fire Insurance Company
Phoenix Insurance Company
Automobile Insurance Company
American Industrial Bank & Trust Company
Hartford-Aetna National Bank
Security Trust Company
Union Manufacturing Company
Landers, Frary & Clark
Traut & Hine Manufacturing Company
New Britain Machine Company
North & Judd Manufacturing Company
American Hardware Corporation
Stanley Works
American Brass Company
Niles Bement Pond
Scoville Manufacturing Company
Russell Manufacturing Company
Colt’s
Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
Bristol Brass
Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company
Aetna Nut Company
Bigelow Hartford Carpet
Public Opinion Opposes Government Rail Control
E G Buckland president of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad told a Boston transportation convention that public sentiment nationwide opposes government ownership or operation of railroads. The event was hosted by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Board of Trade.
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Boston
United States
E. G. Buckland
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Board of Trade
Happenings In This Vicinity 25 Years Ago
Summer weather brings barefoot boys to riverside scenes as the swimming season opens. Middletown plans growth yet lacks parks and asks for land to be set aside while affordable. The Plantation Songsters of the Universalist church entertained at Russell Library hall with Mrs. Chaffee as interlocutor and Harry Bernard and Robert Broatch as end men. A large eight pound shad was caught in Essex. Six pair of Fenns horses propelled Yalehea Wesleyan to a 13 12 ten inning victory at New Haven. Deep River peach orchards of 30 000 trees sold to New Jersey buyers for 22000. Catherine widow of David Lyman, died at Middlefield aged 68.
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Middletown
Universalist Church
Russell
F. B. Chaffee
Harry Bernard
Robert Broatch
Essex
Fenn
Yalehea Wesleyan
New Haven
Deep River
New Jersey
Catherine
David Lyman
Middlefield
The Woman Pays Row at the Bench
A courtroom quip from a judge as Coward jokes that his wife accepts his bridge games and takes every cent she has, highlighting a joking domestic moment during a legal setting.
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Howard
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National Biscuit Company
Brookfield Butter
William J. Trevithick
South Farms
Hickey-Freeman
Savard & Lyon
Men’s and Boys’ Outfitters
Acco
Sam
Navnssook
Nature
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