West Haven Social Notes and Local Visitors
West Haven and nearby towns report a weekend of social visits with residents hosting relatives and friends. Guests include Mrs. Gilbert W. Wilson and relatives from Guilford and Hartford, while Alma Neidlinger celebrated a birthday with local and college guests at Stannard Beach. The Red Cross plans a relief drive with a large knitting supply and distribution effort for winter needs.
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West Haven
Sun and Daughter
Y Perkins
Nor
W. Blinn
Blinn
Darmstadt
Arthur Hostein
Hartford
West Beach
Weeser
Gilbert W. Wilson
Yoseph Miller
New Ha
Brainard Allin
C. M. Post
Hart- We
Charlotte Dibble
Joan
J. H. Cook Aioe N. BE. Wren
Miss Wren
Alma Neidlinger
Stannard Beach
East Berlin News Roundup May 21 1919
Walter McCrum of U S Navy visits home. Burton Hagen confined ill taken to Wallingford Sanitarium for X ray. Five Hundred club meets tonight. Young folks dance at Athletic hall. James McPherson of Hartford visits. Gas mains extension urged as town booms. Brick yards start annual output. Many local Italians leaving for Italy. Hopes rise amid gloomy times.
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East Berlin
Walter McCrum
U. S. Navy
Burton Hagen
Wallingford Sanitarium
Athletic Hall
James McPherson
Hartford
Italy
Rock Hill Family Notes and Local Shifts
May 21 updates show Mrs W Pierce returning from Scranton to resume running her home. Joseph Zeiser has recovered from recent illness. Mr and Mrs Justus Churchill return from four months in Miami Florida. Collins children celebrate new bicycles. Nellie Davis of Hockanum visits town. Mrs Walter Belden travels. Howard Saunders hosts weekend guests from Hartford. Marion Bunsmade visits. prayer meeting set for tomorrow night. E A Peck shows slight improvement at Hartford hospital. Many anticipate summer at Wangum Lodge Y M C A vacation house in town.
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Are Hill
W. Pierce
Scranton
Joseph Zeiser
Justus H. Churchill
Miami
Fila
Thomas H
Collins
Nellie Davis
Hockanam
Walter Belden
Howard Saunders
Havens
M. Turner
Hartford
Marion Bunsmade
Rockville
E. A. Peck
Hartford Hospital
Wangum Lodge
Earnest Workers plan Memorial Day service at Congregational Church
The Earnest Workers will meet next Friday at the Congregational church parlors. The first Sunday in June will host a Memorial Sunday service welcoming soldiers and sailors home. Fifteen or more young men on the church Honor Roll will receive home certificates. A Memorial Service honors the sole church member who died for the country with Col. Elliott and staff as guests. Friday afternoon bi monthly meeting follows. The prayer meeting Friday evening features a Bible reading on The Manhood of the Master.
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Congregational Church
Col. Elliott
Sixth Reg
Stow
Mansfield Post
G.A. R
Woman‘s Relief and Sons of Veterans
Browning as a Sedative in Boston Note
Boston columnist Rev. Samuel H. Crothers urges Browning reading as a balm for unsettled minds amid war news and international tension. Marking the 107th anniversary of the poet Robert Browning, the talk frames poetry as guiding humanity toward enduring aims despite rivalries and politics.
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Boston
Mass
Browning
Samuel H. Crothers
Cambridge
France
Wilson
Boston. Browning Society
Purdue Ambulance Company Returns with Awards
In Lafayette Indiana the Purdue University Ambulance Company of 559 volunteers returns after two years. All men wore the Italian Cross of Merit for bravery in Italy where they served a year in the war. General Ponzio, count of the Italian corps, decorated the unit on the battlefield.
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Gafayette
Ind
Purdue University Ambulance Company
Italy
Ponzio
Count of
A Corps
Local Socials and Obituary Notes from Clinton
May 21 events feature Chapman women hosting a noon dinner and social afternoon. The funeral of Mrs Frank Smith of Guilford occurred at the Methodist church with burial in Indian River cemetery. Mrs Wilson Lane honored with a birthday gathering hosted by Frank Gaylord, with friends invited for the celebration.
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Clinton
Frank Baldwin
Chapman
W. R. Ae
Branford
Frank Smith
Guilford
Methodist Church
Indian River
Smith
Seymour Chatfield
Frank Gaylord
Wilson Lane
Habit Proves Costly in Kansas City Speeding Case
Kansas City reader Ray Taylor, a former fireman, admits speeding at 35 mph while on patrol. A judge remarks on costs of habit, with Taylor pleading guilty and paying a $25 fine to break the habit as Clerk Fleming notes.
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Kansas City
Ray Taylor
Taylor
Fleming
Delinquency Faxes Highlight Avincennes Brief Notice
Fragmentary OCR notes from Avincennes Indiana report a police matter involving a man seeking a vacation and a remark about a delinquency faxes count. The readable line notes one item and references authorities.
Land Sale Ad Mentions Allendale and Vincennes Area
Fragmentary notice describes land advertised for sale in Illinois and mentions Allendale and Vincennes vicinity. Text indicates land under lease and affiliated with a local advertisement, but details are incomplete.
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Sun
Illinois
Allendale
Vincennes
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Chapman School
Old Grammar School
Dorothy Tyler
Malcolm Scott
Hertford
Alice
Marian ‘Connors
M. J. Wren
Rocky Hill
Purdue BbyYs
Foley
Renee Karst
Eze
Magee Furnace Co., Inc
Goston
T Stokes
Aieaes
Helmar
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