Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., February 9.--A policy almost 50 years old was abandoned tonight by the Yale News, when the staff of editors who assumed control today announced that the News for this year at least, will not cry out for campus reforms, but will content itself with making changes in the paper which will make it of more service to the students...
...Hartford, Conn., Rosa Ponselle gave a joint concert with her sister Carmela. Four thousand people applauded. Between the acts they gossiped. Only a few years ago these girls were unknown . . . common school education . . . vaudeville songsters. But Rosa came to Manhattan, took singing lessons from William Thorner. He, recognizing talent, visited Gatti-Casazza, announced a "find." "Let me hear her," answered the Director. He did, was impressed, advised her to work up one or two roles. She made her debut with Caruso, after six months of vocal instruction. Carmela is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Hartford concert...
...Haven, Conn., on Jan. 26, Richard Starr Untermeyer, 20, Yale sophomore, son of Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer, read a letter from his mother (Poetess Jean Starr Untermeyer) deploring the repeated overdraft of his bank balance and teling him he must improve or leave college-and hanged himself...
Died. Simeon Eben Baldwin, 87, twice governor of Connecticut (1911-13, 1913-15), great-grandson of Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; descendant of four Connecticut governors; in New Haven, Conn...
...confused with Farmington, Conn...