Where are they they are three and a half miles from the green
The fragment notes an approximate position described as three and a half miles from the green. It lacks clear subjects, events, or names to form a complete item.
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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1908
Page
4
The fragment notes an approximate position described as three and a half miles from the green. It lacks clear subjects, events, or names to form a complete item.
Waterbury officers will out in Hartford for the celebration. They will report to the station early, dine in the patrolmen’s parlors, and march to the reen with reserve escorts. Officers are urged to address Capitol officials as Mr and not by nicknames amid expectations of hard work.
A head on trolley crash near the Waterbury line injures four people, including Motorman Dunn with a badly lacerated hand. The accident occurred around 2 PM when the up and down running cars failed to pass at the Adt switch near the George Pritchard property, smashing the front sections and delaying cleanup for hours.
New York reports James P. English an expressman of Manhattan and Miss Katherine Murphy of Manhattan were struck and killed by an Amagansett express train at Borough avenue Winfield as they walked along the tracks. The engineer William Squires said he blew the whistle but they did not hear. English was to wed Murphy within three weeks.
Robert Murphy, about 50, of Stamford, driven by hip disease and long unemployment, prepared to shoot himself with a loaded 32 caliber pistol and use a razor. R. F. Lamb intervened after reading a letter Murphy gave him to mail. Murphy collapsed after intervention. he is now bedridden and near breakdown. His father in Stamford has been notified.
A car carrying five people to Gordon fell 30 feet into a cut near Ashland yesterday morning. Mrs Peter Young, 26, and Helen Young, 11, died on impact. Injured: Peter Young 40, jaw and internal injuries. Peter Young Jr 9, right thigh and chest injuries. Charles Clarke 41, multiple fractures and serious abdominal injuries. The driver was Mrs Young’s husband.
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices from Waterbury detail the deaths of John Joseph Fitzgerald William Webb Mrs Annie Schlag Grace Cosgrove Anna Loughlin Kelly Mary O Meara and John O Reilly with services at Immaculate Conception church St Josephs cemetery Riverside Pine Grove Sacred Heart and family plots. Masonic honors at Harmony lodge and various relatives and survivors listed. Interments and funeral times span yesterday to tomorrow with requests to omit flowers.
A newspaper listing highlights shop sales and promotions across multiple stores. Big bargains at A and P Tea Co with 60 stamps per pound of baking powder, fall dress goods at Grieve Bisset Holland, horse blankets at Miller Peck, and suits and coats at Ehrlich Rockwell Forester. Other notices include halibut at Fulton market 15¢ per pound, scallops 35¢ a quart, and a range display at Langley. Local merchants offer rolls of goods from house ranges to coal beds free with baking powder, half price children’s pants, pies from Woodruff Grocery, and raincoats from 10 dollars.
John F. Hammell, owner of a pool room at Cherry and North Bln, went hunting toward Cheshire this morning. A rifle cartridge exploded while he was aiming at birds, burning a line marks his face near the right eye. He returned home for treatment.
Manila experienced a twelve hour typhoon that battered the harbor as Atlantic fleet ships escaped ashore. Storms knocked down trees and power lines while battleships steamed for safety near Cavite and Pasig river breakwater.
A steered immigrant aboard the New York is identified as Frank Woodhull a middle aged man with a strong aquiline nose and mustache who later claims to be Mary Johnson. At Ellis Island a clerk questions his declared age and health then a doctor and another witness confirm the disguise. Woodhull says she was forced to dress as a woman to survive and faces limited work options due to the disguise.
City notices indicate Angeleno and Domenico Rage will appeal city awards and damages related to Jefferson street layout. Ansonia reports the marriage of Oliver Wilpury of Child-Heron Company to Miss Mary Clark Chathall of Ansonia on August 1. The groom suffered a brain hemorrhage yesterday, shocking parishioners and church staff.
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