Bank Street Bridge Talk In New Haven Meeting
B Biwell of New Haven and Mr Stark met with Commissioners Boully and Walker to discuss Connecticut Co concerns over the Bank street bridge over the Naugatuck river. The cost sharing is settled at half by each side, with an estimated $1,000 needed to restore safety until a longer span is installed.
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B. Biwell
New Haven
The
Connecticut Co
Stark
Boully
Walker
Department of Public Works
Naugatuck River
Bank Street
Keith
Bridgeport
Elwell
Mad River
Th Mattatuck Manufacturing Co
Waterville
Chained to Gallery Rail by Suffragettes in Commons
London reports renewed suffragette disturbances close galleries in the House of Commons during the Mcensing bill debate. Two women chained to the grill resisted removal, portions of ironwork were cut away, others were ejected, and fifteen demonstrators were arrested outside Parliament.
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London
House of Commons
Exposes Powder Trust Cut Prices to Crush Chattanooga Firm
In New York hearings on the powder trust, salesman F. J. Waddell admitted selling below cost to eliminate the Chattanooga Powder Company. He testified Eugene Du Pont directed price cutting to seize trade, locating Chattanooga's customers by rail lines and undercutting to about 79 cents per keg, roughly 30 cents under cost.
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New York
du Pont Powder Company
Chattanooga Powder Company
Powder Trust
F. J. Waddell
Binnamabouing Powder Company
Huntingdon
W. Va
Eugene du Pont
Chattanooga Company
Wadell
New Brand of Robbery Targets Tailor in York
On October 23 William Robinson and Degro, a theatrical man, paid $5 for two suits from tailor William Sussman. After three weeks Robinson threatened the tailor with a revolver demanding the suits or the money, was arrested for highway robbery, and sentenced to several years in state prison.
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New York
William Robinson
Degro
Wiliam Sussman
Sumemen
Lantern theft shocks Baldwin community
Mrs Margaret Preston of Baldwin found her well lantern stolen Monday night after she hosted visitors using a private well where townspeople gathered due to tasteless drinking water. Neighbors know the culprit among them, and Mrs Preston, widow of Civil War officer Captain Foley, laments the ingratitude.
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Margaret Preston
Baldwin
Preston
Captain Foley
Guilfoile Named Director for Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Rev M A Bullivan announces county directors for the Catholic Total Abstinence union of Connecticut. Appointees include Guilfoile in New Haven, Cassin in Waterbury, Resbott in Ai ford, Fitz Gerald in New London, Murphy in Tolland, Egan in Windham, Carey in Middlesex, Keyes in Fairfield, Blum in Litchfield, and more. Advisory board members include Win t ers and Mead with terms from one to five years. Judges named for parochial school prize include Shanley, Lonergan, and Wall.
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Hartford
M. A. Bullivan
Catholic Total Adv Nce Union of
Connecticut
New Haven
William P. Guilfoile
Waterbury
John F. Cassin
Wallingford
Ai ‘Tford
Lyle Resbott
W. F. Riley
Bristol
New London
Maurice P. Fitzgerald
Tolland
Cornelius J. Murphy
Rockville
Windham
Joseph Egan
Putnam
Middlesex
John C. Carey
Portland
Fairfield
M. J. Keyes
Bridgeport
Litchfeld
O. W. Blum
Terryville
John T. Winters
New Britain
John Mead
Ansonia
Michael J. Goode
James Newman
Naugatuck
Bernard Burns
Walter J. Shanley
Danbury
Augustin Lonergan
John Wall
Derby
Miss Agnes Flaherty Returns From Meriden Visit
City notes a brief return from Meriden, local sales at F De Feo’s store offer 30 percent off winter skirts and coats, masses and anniversaries for the dead, a forthcoming wedding at Immaculate Conception, and a dance by the Algonquin club. Court arrests include intoxication cases, theft arrests, and jail time. Voter interest in the voting machine grows as election day nears. New officers of the Waterbury Christian Endeavor union are announced with J How ard Adema as president.
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Agnes Flaherty
Meriden
F. de. Feo
Center Street
Sacred Heart Church
Annie Loughlin Kelly
Monsignor Slocum
Mortimer Heffernan
Church of the Immaculate Conception
E. P. Zimmer
National Cash Register Co
Tennessee
Mary L. Butler
Ansonia
John J. Donovan
Fitemaurice
Immaculate Conception Church
Algonquin Club
Buckingham Hall
Gallorchestra
Richard Sheehan
Charles Roper
Patrick Hayes
West Side
George Silverwall
William
Kennedy
Olive Colt
Spencer Avenue
Detectivesapeenn
Colesanto
City Hall
Waterbury Christian Endeavvor Union
J. Howard Adema
Arthur J. Thompson
Violet A. Williams
Fred Willetts
Lookout
W. H. Lamar
B. J. Calkins
Bessie White
J. F. Vought
Harry Jones
Miss Ida Ford
Idella Huxley
Civic duty and Lilley power spark town debate
A political dispatch notes Democrats wavering over Lilley and Waterbury, amid claims of civic duty rhetoric, liquor law hopes, and GOP maneuvers. It cites Contention over Taft influence, rumored cross-party voting schemes, and rally plans in Branford and Hartford with figures like Devine, Lake, King, Butlerworth, Reach, and Bloor.
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Lilley
Lilley & Waterbury
Edward G. Kilduff
Kilduff
Waterbury
William E. Thoms
Lake
Woodruff
Republican Organ
Robertson Wins in Torrington Town Vote Tale
A Torrington report says Robertson will win by a large majority in a town usually Republican. A Hendy Machine shop poll of 266 workers shows Lilley with 15 votes to Robertson’s rest. The piece also mocks Lilley campaign labels and notes Lilley’s buttons lack union labels while Lilly defends labor votes.
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Iday
Lilley
Taft
Ted
Newsleaven
Bryan
Robertson
Repub
Torrington
Hendy
Congressman Lilley
Committee of the Whole
Chrysanthemum plants to Chicago show spark large shipment plan
New Jersey grower H McKanwombly orders a car for each enormous chrysanthemum plant intended for the national flower show in Chicago. Some plants reach twenty feet in diameter and boast 500 blooms amid a roundup of other local notes including Woolworth’s reopening and Yale junior society initiations. A Harlem railroad boiler plug explosion in White Plains injures three aboard the train.
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New Jersey
Madison
N. J
H. McKanwombly
Chicago
Withdrawal of petition in Foster and Richards bankruptcy case
United States District Court District of Connecticut announces Frederick W. Foster has withdrawn his petition in the Foster and Richards bankruptcy matter No 1876. A hearing will occur in Hartford on November 11, 1908 at 2 30 p m. Creditors may appear.
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Gannon
Iowa
Elton
United States District Court District of
Connecticut
Foster & Richards
Frederick W. Foster
Hartford
Play Ball to Save Baby in Brooklyn Fire
A baby eight months old was saved by being tossed between two policemen from a burning building. Patrolman Charles Zerweck hurled Adolph Settele to Patrolman Francis Flynn, the Brooklyn police team catcher, who caught the child on a fire escape twenty feet below. Flynn was besieged by cheering women as he reached the sidewalk. Eight women and children were saved from the flames.
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Brooklyn
Ike
Adolph Settele
Charles Zerweck
Francis Flynn
Flynn
Police Department
Zerweck
President Stryker Injured In Runaway Carriage
Clinton New York October 29 Melancthon Woolsey Stryker D D LL D president of Hamilton College is in critical condition after a carriage runaway. A horse bolted forcing the carriage into a ditch where it overturned against a hedge. Doctors fear brain concussion and possible internal injuries.
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Clinton
Woolsey Stryker
Hawiiton College
Stryker
Cashier Convicted Again in Bank Embelssment Case
Pittsburg October 29 William Montgomery cashier of the Allegheny National Bank facing a second conviction this week for embezzlement and abstraction of funds linked to over 1.25 million shortage and risky speculation totaling 613000. News notes a large sale of property Friday and Saturday at the Frost tract Mill Plain priced around 5000.
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Pittsburg
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Frost
Mill Plain
Preseaia
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Charles T. Reach
Ella Reeve Bloor
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Democrat
Sherwood
Charley Fine
Mr Fine
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Norwich
John Aloysus Hurley, Jr
Robert Colt Johnson
Te Talmadge Messenger
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John McElligott
Tures
Ifenner
South Main
DR. Stryker
Knickerbock
R. R. Harder & Co
Frank
Shoeman
South Main Street
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L. Becker
Tay
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Bank St
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Twood
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