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...Ansonia, Conn., eight small boys astounded their parents when, after swimming in the Naugatuck River, they returned home with green hair, green eyebrows, green eyelashes. Cause: dyestuffs dumped in the river by woolen mills...
Died. Harry C. Stutz, 53, pioneer racing and pleasure-car tycoon; of complications following an appendectomy; at Indianapolis. Native of Ansonia, Ohio, he began his career in a Dayton machine shop, later sold Schebler carburetors, ran the Marion motor factory, designed the (long-since defunct) American car, built Stutz Motor Car Co. (with Henry Campbell) out of a motor parts company he founded in 1910, selling out in 1919. He and Campbell founded H. C. S. Co., last year rumored to be planning a merger with Commercial...
...Ansonia, Conn., Raymond C. Spang, maniac depressive, returned home to his wife and four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted...
...Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...
...last week there came from the Post Office Department an order withdrawing from the Berengaria, the Ansonia and the Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also...